3:30 – 4:45: Introduction to the License Information Module (LIM)

Hosted by Allison Kelley, Member Services Officer, CRKN, this session is intended for library management and other staff who work with CRKN licensed products. Gain familiarity with the features of this new web-based license information management tool including its contact directory (vendor & member), license reports generator (participation, license terms, product features) and license agreement and title list repository.

Allison serves as the principal contact with members to assure ongoing members’ needs are met. This requires assessing and mediating the needs of the community and marketplace; actively assisting with content development and expansion projects; ensuring successful license implementation including financial commitment from the members, monitoring license performance and resolving license and access issues. The Member Services Officer is also responsible for the specification, collection, analysis and distribution of content usage data.

Dave Kisly works under contract with CRKN on IT and web-related projects, serving as the technical lead in the migration of the organization's website to a more flexible platform, and in the concurrent development of two associated modules to manage and provide membership access to licensing information (LIM) and contact information.

Dave has also contributed to a number of other library projects familiar to CRKN partner institutions, including SFU's "Multicultural Canada" website; the AlouetteCanada project; several historical and research-oriented web sites and applications hosted by UPEI Library; the "Manitobia" site (a historical site involving U. Manitoba, U. Winnipeg); as lead developer / application architect in the OpenILL project (U. Winnipeg and other partner libraries); and as a Project Coordinator and as a developer with the BC Electronic Library Network.

Dave has also maintained a long-term engagement in the educational and non-profit sectors. Examples include content development for, and delivery of, a series of workshops addressing Internet usage in libraries (offered through Langara College and UBC), and as a co-instructor in several for-credit courses at the School of Library and Information Studies at UBC, including that program's first graduate-level online course. More recent and ongoing projects involve web application development with the Canadian Human Rights Reporter, the National Aboriginal Health Organization, and Down Syndrome International, among others.

Dave holds an M.L.I.S., in addition to degrees in Anthropology (M.A.) and Psychology (B.A.).

Yves is responsible for the oversight of CRKN’s primary program of licensing electronic content by working closely with member institutions and content suppliers. This requires assessing and mediating the needs of the community and marketplace; actively coordinating content development and expansion projects; leading and managing the procurement process, and guiding negotiations to the execution of contracts.

Yves is a Certified Professional Purchaser (C.P.P.). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Université du Québec à Rimouski in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts with major in Communication from the University of Ottawa. Yves brings more than 20 years of experience in purchasing and has been involved in many purchasing Consortia.