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Purchasing Power: A Legal Resources Purchasing Consortium?

As Ruth Bird posted on the Academic Law Librarian mail list:

'Yesterday a focus group of academic law librarians met with representatives of Eduserv, a body that evolved from CHEST, which now undertakes Licence Negotiation Services in the Higher Education sector. Eduserv were keen to get our input in relation to which resources are of most use to us, and thus would be most suitable for them to follow up, to see whether consortium arrangements could be achieved.

The focus group wanted to let you know that this meeting has taken place, and that there will be more to report at a later stage, including, we hope, an update from Nikki Green of Eduserv at the BIALL Conference in Brighton.'

Eduserv has negotiated successfully with companies such as Microsoft and Adobe and have a good track record of getting good value for money for Higher Education Insitututions. With many institutions trying to cope with shrinking budgets, a purchasing consortium couldn't have come at a better time!

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on October 29, 2009 (boomark / email).