Baltimore, MD – November 1, 2019 – The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce its calendar of professional development programs scheduled for 2020. The NISO Education Committee, with input from the NISO membership, has pulled together a program with relevance to professionals working across all sectors of the information community. As a member benefit, in 2020, automatic access to all 14 webinars will be provided to all organizational members of NISO.
The 2020 calendar of these 90-minute webinars is shown below:
Wednesday, January 15
Identity Management and Authentication Strategies
Wednesday, January 22
Talking to Your Organization’s IT Group When You’re Not an IT Person
Wednesday, February 12
NFAIS Forethought: Cybersecurity
Wednesday, March 11
Labor and Capacity for Research Data Management
Wednesday, March 18
Wednesday, April 8
NFAIS Forethought: Artificial Intelligence: Planning for Implementation
Wednesday, May 20
NFAIS Forethought: Artificial Intelligence: Processes for Media Analysis and Extraction
Wednesday, June 10
No More Big Deal? Picking and Choosing Titles for Use
Wednesday, August 12
By Faculty, For Students: Supporting OER
Wednesday, August 19
Open Access Monographs: What You Need to Know
Wednesday, September 9
Demonstrating the Return on Investment: The Library’s Role and Contribution
Wednesday, October 14
NFAIS Forethought: Artificial Intelligence: Implications and Impact on Content Discovery
Wednesday, November 18
How Libraries Should Prepare Their Communities for Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, December 9
Libraries and Publishing Operations
For non-member organizations, subscription packages make it possible to buy a customized package of events or the full set of 14 webinars.
In response to feedback from attendees, all NISO virtual conferences are scheduled to be 4 hours in length in 2020, beginning at 12:00 Noon and ending at 4:00 pm (Eastern Time).
These six virtual events address complex issues of importance facing the entire information community and feature expert speakers from a variety of sectors.
The 2020 calendar of these 4-hour virtual conferences is shown below:
Wednesday, March 25
Researcher Behaviors and the Impact of Technology
Wednesday, April 15
Making Content Accessible: How Can Publishers and Libraries Better Satisfy the Obligation?
Wednesday, June 17
Changes in Higher Education and the Information Marketplace
Wednesday, August 26
Transforming Search: What the Information Community Can and Should Build
Wednesday, September 16
Privacy in an Age of Surveillance: Everyone’s Concern
Wednesday, October 21
https://www.niso.org/events/2020/10/community-owned-infrastructure-partnerships-and-collaboration
“These programs reflect the diverse concerns and perspectives of NISO’s cross-sector membership. NISO educational programs are formulated to include that spectrum of organizations that collaborate in serving the global research community,” says Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO. “In 2020, our objective is to ensure that members are provided with substantive discussions of current issues and trends as well as those that may just be emerging.”
For those interested in maximizing their training dollars, subscription options are available. For webinars, NISO offers the Buy 9, Get 5 Free package that will ensure access to all 14 of the scheduled 90-minute webinars. Alternatively, NISO offers a more limited, customizable Buy 5, Get 4 Free package; subscribers select just nine webinars to satisfy their professional development needs. Similarly, those wishing to pay for the full set of virtual conferences being offered in 2020 may do by subscribing to the Buy 3, Get 3 Free package.
Organizations pay a single fee to enable viewing access for multiple team members in a collaborative group setting. (Note that webinar registration is priced per site, through use of a single computer.) Webinar registrants hold access to the recorded version for a full year, allowing even greater opportunity for staff to benefit from that single registration.
Additional details about the 2020 programs are available on the NISO web site and registration is now open.
