SWAN Library Directors & Administrators,

As promised, I am providing you preliminary pricing on the year-2 renewal of the EBSCO database group purchase. We have 90 public libraries participating, with 5 electing to opt-out. See the attached preliminary pricing to this email.

Should your library decide to opt-out of the group-purchase, you will need to notify SWAN using the form:

https://support.swanlibraries.net/forms/80756

The deadline to opt-out is end of the day Sunday, February 28^th. I will send out a second preliminary pricing on Friday this week should we have additional libraries opt-out, and then next week I will post the final EBSCO pricing along with SWAN’s FY22 budget. That budget, membership fees, and EBSCO pricing will be approved via the electronic ballot system recently used for the EBSCO year-2 renewal decision.

The details of the EBSCO year-2 renewal were shared at the membership meeting on January 12^th. That meeting presentation and Q&A is archived on SWAN Support:

https://support.swanlibraries.net/meeting/84220

If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to me directly, or to SWAN Electronic Resources Consultant Robin Hofstetter at robin@swalibraries.net or 630-326-7823.

Aaron Skog

Executive Director

aaron@swanlibraries.net • 630-326-7022

My pronouns: he/him/his

SWAN Library Services

800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559

swanlibraries.net • catalog.swanlibraries.net