Concurrent 2C: The Vale of Tiers: Promises and Pitfalls of Tier Pricing

Douglas LaFrenier is Director of Publication Sales & Market Development at the American Institute of Physics. He has held previous positions at Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, the Scientific American Library, and Robert Ubell Associates, a publishing consulting firm in New York City. He is a member of the Special Libraries Association, the North American Serials Interest Group, and SSP, where he is a past member of the Board of Directors. He is on the PSP Journals Committee and the STM marketing advisory committee. He has been a frequent speaker at meetings of SSP, PSP, CESSE, and the Charleston Conference.

Ezra T. Ernst – Chief Executive Officer, Swets North America
Ezra Ernst joined Swets as Chief Executive Officer, North America in September 2005. A leading innovator of electronic media and business models, Ezra most recently served as Vice President, Business Development of Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research Division, where he successfully developed and executed the print to electronic migration strategy, leveraging the full range of medical research content, tools and services from Ovid Technologies and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. Previously, Ezra was the Director of Business Development for WK International Health & Science, and has held positions at Internet Partnership Group, Aspen Publishers, Little, Brown and Company, and John Wiley and Sons.

Tracy L. Thompson currently serves as the Executive Director of the New England Law Library Consortium, Inc. (NELLCO). In that capacity she negotiates on behalf of 101 law libraries throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. for access to electronic resources. Prior to joining NELLCO in 2001 Ms. Thompson was International Reference Librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School. She is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries, having served as Treasurer and then Chair of the Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section, Chair of the Special Committee on Licensing Principles for Electronic Resources, and currently serves as incoming Chair of the Committee on Relationships with Information Vendors (CRIV). Ms. Thompson is a graduate of the University of South Florida and the Yale Law School. She resides in Keene, New Hampshire with 3 busy boys, a demanding dog, a songbird and some nice quiet fish.