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Deal or No Deal – Licensing & Acquiring Digital Resources: License Negotiations Reprise

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Kara Phillips' chart documents practical references and resources for licensing negotiations that appear in the library literature covers: researching vendors, seeking input from patrons and usesrs, negotiating pricing, setting contract goals, and establishing effective communications strategies.

Librarianship - Promoting Public Service and Philanthropy

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800

Kara Phillips shares examples of diverse personal volunteer efforts within the law library community, gleaned from an informal survey, that include service on the local, national and international level.

Deal or No Deal – Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources: License Negotiations

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:00:33 -0800

Kara Phillips describes how to apply the techniques and theories that are the foundation of a classic book on negotiation to the process of developing electronic licensing agreements that satisfy the requirements of all parties involved.

Law Librarian One of Top Ten Finalists for Animal Planet Hero of the Year Award

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:45:51 -0800

Law Librarian One of Top Ten Finalists for Animal Planet Hero of the Year Award

By Kara Phillips

Kara Phillips, Collection Development Librarian/Associate Director at Seattle University Law Library since 1997, has worked for various state agencies in Washington as a contract librarian as well as the Gallagher Law Library East Asian Law Department and Lane Powell Spears Lubersky. Recipient of a Blakemore Fellowship, she studied Mandarin Chinese at the Stanford Center in Taipei, Taiwan in 1996 and during her sabbatical in 2007 will work in China, setting up an American legal collection at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Law.

Deal or No Deal: Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:22:46 -0800

This new column by Kara Phillips launches with a review of resources and techniques to help get you up to speed on licensing and put you on a level playing field with the vendor reps on the other side of the licensing table.

Deal or No Deal – Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources - Deal Breaking License Clauses

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:01:24 -0800

Kara Phillips reviews the top ten deal breaking components in license agreements, including: authorized users, damages, indemnification, perpetual access, pricing, privacy, multi-site licensing, and remote access.

Shanghai Express: Donating and Shipping Law Books Overseas

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:26:15 -0800

Kara Phillips was recently a visiting scholar at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) Law School in China. This article describes the project she undertook to collect and ship 300 English-language law books to the SJTU Law Library, as well as her experience as a law librarian in China.