LACASIS Workshop 2000
The New Basics: Tools You Can Use

Name: Pamela Cibbarelli

Title: Automation Consultant, Cibbarelli's

Title of Presentation: Negotiating Licenses for Software or Systems for Information Centers

Abstract of Presentation:
Ms Cibbarelli will focus on the negotiation of licenses with library automation vendo's with particular emphasis on the negotiation of contracts for integrated online systems. DoÕs Don'ts and pointers for success will be provided.

About the Speaker:
Pamela Cibbarelli has been a member of ASIS since 1973 and has held many positions both locally and nationally.

Currently she is the Library Services Supervisor for the City of Commerce Public Library.

She also is an independent consultant specializing in library automation. For more than twenty-five years Pamela and her staff at Cibbarelli's have assisted many of those present with decisions regarding implementation of library automation decisions and with introducing the Internet into our work environments.

Pamela has taught automation and computer science classes at CSU Fullerton, CSU San Bernardino, CSU San Jose, and UCLA.

She is the author of the Directory of Library Automation Software, on the Organizing Committees for the National Online Meeting/IOLS, Internet Librarian, and Computers in Libraries, and has written many articles including a series on User Ratings of Library Automation Software which began in the early 1990s in OASIS. An updated version of the User Ratings articles are about to be repeated. So watch for an opportunity to participate.

She began her career at the University of Chicago as the Business & Economic Reference Librarian after graduating from Indiana University with her MLIS in 1981. With her switch to special libraries to manage the library at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., a general management consulting firm, she went on to establish 2 corporate libraries and their teams at other companies. In 1998, Carla was awarded the Business & Finance Division SLA Disclosure Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business Librarianship for innovative management and use of technology over time.