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Don’t Sign Before Reading! Licensing Fundamentals

March 4 – 6, 2025

11:00 am – 1:00 pm Central Time

This workshop is hosted over three consecutive days. Course Instructors asks that you reserve the listed hours for both live instruction and group work.

Ticket Cost: $190/ single ticket, $170/ group ticket 

This three-day workshop will cover the fundamentals of eresource licensing for academic libraries. We will cover the landscape of library licensing, basic contract law, common license terms and common problems that face licensing librarians.

Following the workshop, participants will be able to: 

  • understand the importance of negotiating library licenses;
  • understand basic contract principles as they apply to library licenses;
  • practice negotiating difficult license terms.

AUDIENCE LEVEL: Beginner

PARTICIPATION: This will be a hands-on workshop. Participants should expect hands-on interpretation and negotiation activities in small groups.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: Ability to participate in small group discussions over zoom (audio and video preferred).

Meet Your Course Instructors

Eugenia Beh

Scholarly Communications & Licensing Librarian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Eugenia Beh is the Scholarly Communications and Licensing Librarian at the MIT Libraries, where she reviews and negotiates licenses for content licensed for use by MIT patrons as part of the Libraries’ Licensing Team. She joined MIT in 2013 as an Electronic Resources Librarian before transitioning into scholarly communications in 2021. She holds an MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also began her library career at the UT Libraries.

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Katie Zimmerman

Director of Copyright Strategy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Katie Zimmerman is the Director of Copyright Strategy for the MIT Libraries, where her role is to guide copyright decisions for use of library materials, negotiate content licenses, and help the Libraries and MIT community create and use copyrightable works to the fullest extent of the law. She has been with the MIT Libraries since 2016, and holds an MLIS degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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