State Library Sponsors MLA Teleconference September 22, 2004

The State Library of Iowa will host the Medical Library Association's Teleconference "The Art and Practice of Electronic Journal, Book, and Database Licenses: Practical Tips for Health Care Organizations" on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. The teleconference will be held in room 310 on the third floor in the Ola Babcock Miller Building located on the corner of East 12th and Grand in Des Moines.

The goals of this teleconference are to:

1. Provide practical tips to those who deal with licensing agreements for electronic books, journals, and databases.
2. Enhance the knowledge of information professionals about the pros and cons of electronic licensing agreements
3. Provide useful negotiation tips for health information professionals, legal counsel, purchasing departments, and those dealing with consortium licensing agreements Objectives

At the end of this teleconference, attendees will be able to:

1. Identify important elements, clauses, and language in a license agreement
2. Understand issues related to "access" including site licensing limitations (campus-wide, satellite, concurrent users), IP versus password validation, rights when a journal switches publisher, and use of proxy servers
3. Be aware of interlibrary loan and archival rights to be included in licensing agreements
4. Discuss the need for specificity about usage statistics, payment terms, renewal clauses, authorized users, full time equivalent (FTE) counts, and format requirements such as portable document format (PDF)

There is no charge for attending the teleconference and participants will receive 3 MLA CE contact hours of credit.For further information, go to http://www.mlanet.org/education/telecon/licenses/index.html

The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa in Iowa City is also hosting this conference in the Seebohm Conference Room, Eckstein Medical Research Building, University of Iowa. Details on how to get to the Seebohm Conference Room will be sent out later. For those wishing to attend the Hardin showing, please e-mail the Hardin Library secretary, Deanna Redlinger, deanna-redlinger@uiowa.edu to register.

Our thanks to the GMR Office for hosting these Iowa sites!