Molly W Rainard

Capstone: "Who cares about library privacy: An account of stakeholder points of view"

Spanish Language Immersion program / Instituto de Cultura y Lengua Costarricense

Responsible for review, negotiation, maintenance, and strategy of the library's e-resource license agreements, as well as CU System and firm order acquisitions processes, in alignment with the library's mission, vision, and values.  

• In new role as direct negotiator of all of Auraria's e-resource licenses, prioritized renegotiating high-dollar licenses with problematic terms, achieving more favorable terms more often than not, and achieving at least a few concessions in each negotiation.
• Led SPARC's pilot of newly-developed model library privacy language addendum. Held office hours for pilot participants to share strategies and ask questions.
• As Chair of CU Libraries Electronic Resources Team (CLERT), provided direction on group's acquisitions strategies and priorities for the 2024 calendar year. Led investigation of best methods of calculating cost savings and efficiencies obtained by the System at request of CU Board of Regents.
• Engaged Collection Development Librarians as subject matter experts in license review process, in order to better understand needs of faculty and students using a given resource.
• Developed comprehensive glossary of contract terms, alternative clauses, commentary on how and when to deploy what language, and talking points to respond to important issues.
• Collaborated with departmental colleagues on an effort to divest from Amazon; advocated with our main book jobber GOBI to add suppliers from the Global South.
• Co-authored Faculty Resolution in Support of Library Licensing Priorities & Principles.

Brought on in newly-created role to review and improve Auraria Library's licensing processes and procedures, to represent Auraria Library on CU System acquisitions team, and to oversee library's firm ordering processes and vendor relationships.

• Collected, reviewed, and analyzed all available model contract language in order to draft an official model license for Auraria Library, as well as a companion model license for the CU System that incorporated and balanced different needs of each campus.
• Presented to Deans & Directors of all CU System libraries on ROI, cost savings, and accomplishments as 2021 CLERT Chair.
• Conducted usability review and spearheaded subsequent improvement of licensing module of Electronic Resources Management (ERM) system. Worked with Systems Librarian to implement improvements to workflow, and drafted new best practices for updating contract records.
• Hired, trained, and oversaw work of Firm Order Acquisitions Specialist. Provided direction in investigating alternative purchasing options to maximize the library's purchasing power. 

Served as Teaching Assistant in new course offering on managing copyright issues in publishing.

• Gave students guidance on strategic application of Fair Use Doctrine.
• Researched and answered copyright questions posed by students in publishing course.
• Developed a “tips & feedback” module to share with future students of Licensing Digital Content course.

Graduate Student Assistant assigned to focus on maintenance and upkeep of library's license agreements.

• Orchestrated the reorganization of Auraria’s license and subscription agreements with more than 200 vendors.
• Developed a set of instructions and best practices pertaining to the future organization and upkeep of the library’s license agreements.
• Reviewed all license agreements for resources that allow alumni access, and worked with Associate Director to make these resources available to alumni.

Graduate student assistant assigned to copy cataloging special projects.

• Conducted specialized cataloging projects, such as correcting misplaced diacritics in foreign records, updating authority records, and converting AACR2 records to RDA.
• Assisted cataloging department in transition from Sierra to Alma Integrated Library System. 
• Cataloged and processed rare archival and art books, and performed gift book processing and assessment.

Provides direction to the Working Group in determining best practices and new ideas in privacy contract language and patron privacy protection in libraries. Leading pilot of newly developed privacy protection language and corresponding explainer document.

Led special project to audit VPATs of library resources; brought perspective of contractual language to dealing with accessibility issues that arose to further understand accessibility protections needed, in addition to introducing the possibility of pursuing remedies with vendors.

Served as Chair in 2021 and 2024; worked to orchestrate joint deals; created shared licensing documents, workflows, and procedures which took into account each institution’s individual needs and priorities.

With SPARC working group co-lead, received SOAR (Support for Outstanding Academic Research) Grant to use freedom of information laws to request NDA-protected contracts governing library resources at academic institutions.

Awarded grant funding to pursue research project on the various layers of usage rights that apply to OER materials, and potential overlap in subscribed content.

Invited to develop curriculum for module on privacy & surveillance contract language negotiations with  colleagues from SPARC Privacy & Surveillance working group, which is scheduled to be published summer of 2025.

Served as volunteer scorer to evaluate journal publishers using the LPR Rubric before project launch, helping assign publishers their initial rating.

Chosen for inclusion in curriculum planning workshop & case study interviews for IMLS-funded ONEAL Project during development of the initial project curriculum.