April Events
NISO Open Teleconference, April 8
KBART Automation
Monday, April 8, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
On April 8, we'll be discussing the NISO KBART Automation Working Group (long name: "Enhancing KBART for Automated Exchange of Title Lists and Library Holdings"). Participants will discuss the work from a variety of stakeholder perspectives and update callers on the latest activities of the working group.
This project, begun in early 2017, is creating a NISO Recommended Practice to support individual library holdings of electronic products and to automate the request and retrieval of KBART reports for title lists and library holdings. With further automation, the customer's holdings in link resolvers and discovery services can be kept up-to-date and accurate, thus improving access to the content subscribed to through that publisher.
All NISO Open Teleconferences are open to everyone!
Joining Nettie Lagace for this conversation are Working Group members:
- Abigail Wickes (Oxford University Press),
- C. Derrik Hiatt (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
- Stephanie Doellinger (OCLC)
Dial-in instructions for the April 8 Open Teleconference appear on the NISO event page.
NISO Webinar, April 17
The Power of Library Consortia: How Publishers and Libraries Can Successfully Negotiate
A Joint NISO / NASIG Webinar, Wednesday, April 17, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
This session will examine the role and powers of the modern library consortium. Content and systems providers are aware of the need to successfully address consortia demands, but may not be as aware of the importance of collaboration with such groups. Consortia may be set up to satisfy different needs or achieve specific goals in areas such as licensing of content or technological support. Regional or statewide consortia can offer publishers significant insights into what may be expected in a forthcoming fiscal year or the flaws in a proposed business model. The session is intended to foster engagement as well as understanding between supplier and buyer.
Confirmed Speakers include:
- Emily Farrell, Library Sales Executive, MIT Press
- Jill Grogg, Licensing Program Strategist, LYRASIS
- Jill Morris, Executive Director, PALCI
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NOTE: Library Standards Alliance Members of NISO automatically receive sign-on credentials for the April 17 webinar as a member benefit. There is no need to register separately. Check your institutional membership status here.
May Events
NISO Webinar, May 15
Libraries and The Move to Transparency
Wednesday, May 15, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
So much of library workflow and usage is shrouded from public view, sometimes due to the interest of protecting patron privacy, sometimes due to the assumption that the patron or the public would have no interest in knowing the process. At the same time, trust is most easily generated in the context of transparency. For example, the public needs to understand and trust the weeding process and/or the rationale behind off-site storage. What does your community understand or need to learn about the ways in which libraries operate in order to trust the library more fully? How can vendors and service providers support more transparency to users?
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NOTE: Library Standards Alliance Members of NISO automatically receive sign-on credentials for this event as a member benefit. There is no need to register separately. Check your institutional membership status here.
NISO Virtual Conference, May 22
Blurred Boundaries: Intellectual Property and Networked Sharing of Content
Wednesday, May 22, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
What’s currently simmering in the realm of intellectual property? There’s been talk of filtering technologies, making the Internet less hospitable to re-use of content and images. There’s been talk of a “link tax”. In an age when digital media collections may quickly be threatened by obsolescence, what protections may be extended to an archive’s specialized focus on a particular format (such as televised news) or delivery via a particular social media platform?
Researchers seeking to disseminate their work to colleagues have adopted a variety of academic networks as well as well-branded, subject-specific archives to house their preprints. Here too there may be a bit of unease in knowing where the boundaries of appropriate sharing lie. Will this platform or that demonstrate compliance with a funder’s mandate? Is the work adequately discoverable? Sometimes the appropriate avenue for sharing is obvious and without pitfalls; other times, the sharing creates prickling unease.
This session will bring together expert voices with a variety of perspectives to discuss the challenges, the signposts for appropriate handling and perhaps even concessions encountered in the usage, protection, and preservation of digital content.
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