We hope you can join us for an hour on Sun. July 19 at 5:30pm! We will meet in Salon A of the Grand Ballroom at the Marriott. We have a lot of news to share and will give updates on PALMPrint, our enhanced collaboration with the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA) and the Mid-America Law Library Consortium (MALLCO), a new benchmarking project, plans for NELLCO Symposium 2015, and more.  We'll have refreshments to tide you over until you head off for the evening's entertainment. It would be great if you could RSVP so we know you're coming, but feel free to drop in if you find the time! 

Also, be sure to stop by and see us in the Exhibit Hall. NELLCO will be at Booth 715.

The Board voted unanimously to approve this statement and adopt the policy that it sets forth.

NELLCO Statement on Transparency in Pricing

 

July 1, 2015

 

Librarians are fiscal stewards of their institution's resources. As such, they have a responsibility to make informed acquisition decisions with respect to electronic resources. Without transparent pricing practices, truly informed decision-making cannot be realized. Transparency in pricing requires that information providers (1) share the pricing model employed to arrive at the price and (2) not prohibit procurers, through the use of nondisclosure agreements or license clauses, from sharing that information with others. In an effort to support our member libraries in meeting their duty to their institutions, NELLCO will require that all information providers with whom we negotiate from this date forward meet these minimum standards of transparency.