SWAN Directors & Administrators—

The meeting agenda and packet for the January 12 10am – 12 noon is now posted. This meeting will review the upcoming renewal of the EBSCO database group-purchase. The packet contains two documents outlining the renewal options, and a second document showing the database usage overall for the 92 public libraries.

https://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/21_01_12/84220/packet2021-01-12.pdf

The SWAN Board decided to hold this meeting to review the EBSCO year-2 renewal. We announced the date of the Committee of the Whole Meeting after its regular December meeting via the December 22^nd SWAN newsletter.

As noted at the December 3^rd Quarterly meeting and within the SWAN Community Directors Forum, some library directors have expressed a year-2 renewal of the EBSCO group purchase with the option for libraries to opt-out. The meeting packet documents outline what that option means for the shared group purchase cost. This will be a membership decision with a vote, as it was last year in March.

For those that wish to attend, this meeting will be hosted online via the SWAN GoToWebinar platform. You will need to register in advance:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5407912069148381453

This meeting will be recorded and posted for those unable to attend. I would also encourage use of the Directors Forum under the topic started about EBSCO Group Purchase: https://forums.swanlibraries.net/

Regards,

Aaron Skog

Executive Director

aaron@swanlibraries.net • 630-326-7022

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