NISO Annual Meeting at ALA Midwinter Conference
Join NISO for events at ALA Midwinter in Boston! NISO's booth is #1035 in the Exhibits area.
A presentation on NISO's Consensus Framework for Patron Privacy in Library and Information Systems will take place on Saturday, January 9 (1:00 - 2:30 pm in Westin Waterfront, Room Commonwealth A & B).NISO launched a project in 2015 to develop a consensus framework for privacy of patron data in library, publisher, and vendor systems, with input from stakeholders and leaders within the information systems community. This talk will provide an overview and next steps for the now-published framework, a set of principles for how suppliers of end-user systems for content or services should address concerns around privacy.
The NISO Annual Meeting & Update will take place on Sunday, January 10 (1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 257A), where you can hear the latest news about NISO's current efforts, including standards, recommended practices, and community meetings covering many areas of interest to the library community.
NISO Annual Meeting1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.Join us for our Annual Meeting to learn about the status of the organization, all the work that has taken place in 2015, and what's coming in 2016. The meeting is open to the public and all are welcome to participate.
NISO Update1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.The NISO Update provides the latest news about NISO's current efforts. Working group members and staff will provide updates on projects, some newly under way:
- Project Transfer Jennifer Bazeley, Miami University Libraries
- Open Discovery Initiative Ken Varnum, University of Michigan
- NISO Bibliographic Roadmap Diane Hillmann, Metadata Management Associates
- NISO Altmetrics Initiative Nettie Lagace, NISO
- NISO Privacy Initiatives Todd Carpenter, NISO