About this Event
Click here to access the agenda, which contains links to important documents for review. Included are the Spring 2026 Meeting Minutes and Treasurer's Report, which we will ask members to approve during the business meeting. Please note lunch is on your own; a 1.5 hour lunch break is provided.
NOTSL is pleased to sponsor the following speakers and presentations:
Hannah Rosen, Director of Strategic and Professional Development at OhioNet, will present our keynote "Library Licensing ABCs: Accessibility, Bots, and Consolidation." Libraries are constantly navigating a shifting licensing landscape. This presentation will discuss some of the most pressing issues to affect library licensing this year: accessibility expectations, AI bots, and consolidation, both within libraries and publishers/service providers. This session explores how AI-driven tools are influencing vendor offerings, workflows, and decision-making; how vendors and libraries are reacting to an accessibility compliance deadline; and how consolidation is redefining platforms, pricing models, and collection strategies. Through practical examples and emerging trends, we’ll examine how these dynamics intersect, where risks and opportunities lie, and how libraries can respond strategically.
Hannah Rosen, MLIS is the Director of Strategic Purchasing and Professional Development at OhioNet. She has worked in library consortia for over ten years, first at Lyrasis and now at OhioNet, on a wide range of library focused services. These include pricing negotiations for paywalled content, negotiating licensing agreements across library types, organizing and promoting open access initiatives, developing in-person and virtual professional development programs, and publishing member focused research publications. Before working in consortia Hannah assisted various libraries, archives, and museums with audiovisual digitization projects at The MediaPreserve.
Kevin Bauer, Acquisitions Librarian at The Ohio State University, will present “Direct from the Director: Licensing Films from Directors and Small Distributors." Video streaming platforms, distributor websites and social media allow students, faculty and librarians to discover films from every continent, including titles not available from the vendors academic libraries typically work with. Acquiring access to these films provides breadth to the collection and support for teaching and learning, but the process be more complicated than working with an established distributor. This presentation will cover how to successfully license, purchase and provide access to films acquired directly from creators or small distributors. Strategies discussed include: how to modify the acquisition process to work depending on the vendor; developing and managing the workflow; evaluating the resource commitment of acquiring films directly from creators and distributors.
Louise Kidder, Head of Acquisitions & Resource Sharing at University of Houston, will present “Farewell & Welcome: A Challenging Change in Subscription Services.” In 2025, the University of Houston Libraries Acquisitions & Resource Sharing Department embarked on a project to transfer the management of the bulk of our subscriptions from one subscription service agent to another. This was complicated by a concurrent financial records cleanup project, internal leadership changes, and communication challenges with one of the vendors. The project relied on close collaboration among staff members and assistance from the vendor representatives. This program describes steps taken, the impacts of the project on the work of the department, and lessons learned.
Louise provides leadership for the Acquisitions & Resource Sharing department within the Collections Strategy & Discovery portfolio of the University of Houston Libraries. Previously, she served as Head of Technical Services for the University of Texas Medical Branch and Acquisitions & Adult Services Manager at the public library in Galveston, Texas. Louise has presented and published on the topics of accessibility, collections budget management, discovery, e-resource management, and website usability. She earned her MLIS from the University of North Texas.
Robin Buser, Supervisor of Acquisitions & Metadata Services at Columbus State Community College, will moderate a panel “Public Libraries and Vendor Partnerships.” The panel includes Emily Keller, Reference Librarian at Parkersburg and Wood County Public Library, Megan Villano, Library Collections Director at Stark Library, Sandy Jelar Elwell, Acquisitions Manager at Cleveland Public Library, and Wendy Bartlett, Collection Development and Acquisitions Manager at Cuyahoga County Public Library.
Robin Buser has worked in technical services in academic, public, and special libraries, and at OCLC for over 40 years. In addition to an MLS, Robin earned an MBA and has a Project Management Professional Certification. Robin is currently the Supervisor of Acquisitions & Metadata Services at Columbus State and the editor of the journal College & Undergraduate Libraries.
Claire Eichmann, Senior Collection Development Manager at GOBI Library Solutions, will present “How to Buy Books – Because You’d Be Surprised How Difficult It Can Be.” A book vendor's perspective on the current ebook and print landscape, collection development tools for new title discovery, and the future of book buying.
Claire has worked with GOBI for 9 years. Prior to joining the dark side, she worked as an Adult Services Librarian at a public library in central Ohio.
At the Business Meeting (open to all attendees!), officer election results will be announced. The candidate statements will be distributed to attendees one week prior to the meeting. The elections will occur electronically on the morning of the meeting.
The registration fee, which includes coffee and snacks, is $35, or $15 for students and retirees. For all registrations, please be aware Eventbrite charges a non-refundable processing fee that will affect the total purchase price.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
CCPL Parma-Snow Branch, 2121 Snow Road, Parma, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 39.19
