[Neasis-l] Work with Vendors & Contracts? Sharpen Your Skills at the "Managing the Cycle" Workshop

[GSLIS CE2]

Managing the Cycle: Contracting with Vendors from Budgeting to 
Negotiation and Deployment to Measuring Return on Investment (ROI)
Saturday, August 2, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Simmons College Campus
One Palace Road Bldg. Room P-207
Cost: $160

Whether in an academic, public, or special library, you or someone on 
your team inevitably has to deal with vendors and contracting for 
resources to meet the needs of your customers. You need to find the best 
ways to select, acquire, pay for, deploy, and measure the ROI of these 
resource investments. This workshop will focus on basic processes and 
ways to think about managing the resource acquisition cycle from 
budgeting to negotiating with vendors and deploying content, to 
measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) and methods for recovering 
costs when appropriate. The session will be highly participatory and 
attendees are encouraged to share their current processes and challenges 
to enhance the take-aways. Participants who are new to the resource 
acquisition process and others who are seeking alternatives to their 
current methods will develop new ways to think about and implement 
contracting for resources.

Faculty: Dr. Toby Pearlstein, GSLIS Alum, Retired Director, Global IS 
Bain & Company, Inc.; toby.pearlstein at comcast.net. and Dr. Mary Ann 
Tricarico, GSLIS Alum, Library Director, New England Institute of Art; 
mtricarico at aii.edu

To register or for more information see 
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/workshops/ or contact 
gslisce at simmons.edu

-- 
Kris Liberman '87LS
Program Manager
Simmons GSLIS CE
T - 617-521-2803
F - 617-521-3192
gslisce at simmons.edu
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/