Abbie Brown is Head of Consortial Resources for the University of Missouri System. She negotiates consortial e-resource licenses and contracts for a group of Missouri academic research libraries, and also manages the purchase of individual e-resources on behalf of two UM System campuses. She has been working in consortial acquisitions since 2006. She has presented on the topic of negotiation and vendor relations for ALCTS as well as at statewide conferences. Abbie graduated with an MLS from University of Maryland College Park in 2005.