Selling Stuff: LibraryCommerce.com
Channel: Empire State Library Network
Date: 2015-08-26

Interested in selling… something… to create a new revenue stream? Wondering how it might work within a library mission? Dan Lopata and Alice Carli will describe their experience with creating Library Commerce, a business that allows the Eastman School of Music to sell on demand printouts of digitized scores without risking compromise to the integrity of the library’s mission or negative exposure (e.g., credit card data, trademark issues) of the larger school institution. They will discuss their business plan, how institutional challenges have been met, what they are learning about marketing, and how the gateway could be used by other libraries.

Host: Kathy Miller, RRLC/NY3Rs

Guests: Alice Carli, Eastman School of Music, Univ. of Rochester; Dan Lopata, Sibley Music Library & Owner/Sole Proprietor of Library Commerce.