ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 10, Number 90 January 14, 2002 In this issue: Please forgive cross-posting... Here's a new educational service from ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy. Read on! It's FREE. "Signing on the Dotted Line: Licensing Essentials for Library Professionals" Beginning February 25th through April 5th, OITP will host an online e-mail tutorial on licensing. Similar in format to the successful copyright and UCITA tutorials offered in 2000 and 2001, the licensing tutorial will cover licensing basics in 25-30 brief, but informative messages written by Lesley Ellen Harris (http://www.copyrightlaws.com/index2.html), a recognized expert in copyright law and the author of Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians. The tutorial will help librarians negotiate and interpret licensing agreements with confidence. Highlights include: frequently asked questions, licensing lingo tips, how to develop a licensing policy, how to be a better negotiator, and MORE. The licensing tutorial course is FREE to ALA members, and only $25 for non-ALA members. For those librarians engaged in licensing activities, this is a MUST DO! Signing up is easy. 1. Send an e-mail message to: listproc@ala.org 2. Leave the subject line blank. 3. In the body of the email type: subscribe licensing YourFirstName YourLastName (example: subscribe licensing John Doe) After subscribing, you should receive an automated message. On February 25th, you will receive your first e-mail tutorial message on licensing. You can read your messages when they arrive, save them for later, or print them out, but we recommend reading the messages in the order that they are received. Non-ALA members can also receive the tutorial by sending a $25 check or money order made out to the American Library Association. Please include your e-mail address with your check so we can subscribe you. Send the check to: American Library Association Office for InformationTechnology Policy 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Suite 403 Washington, DC 20004 Attn: Chiffonya For more information, contact Chiffonya Brown or Carrie Russell at ALA's Washington Office, (800)941-8478 or write to Chiffonya at cbrown@alawash.org. ****** ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. To subscribe to ALAWON, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc@ala.org or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. To unsubscribe to ALAWON, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478 toll-free; fax: 202.628.8419; e-mail: alawash@alawash.org; Web site: http://www.ala.org/washoff. Executive Director: Emily Sheketoff. Office of Government Relations: Lynne Bradley, Director; Camille Bowman, Mary Costabile, Don Essex, Miriam Nisbet and Claudette Tennant. Office for Information Technology Policy: Rick Weingarten, Director; Jennifer Hendrix, Carrie Russell. ALAWON Editor: Bernadette Murphy.