November 2020
Free Informational Webinar
Your Role in the NISO Open Discovery Initiative
Monday, November 16, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Eastern Time)
NISO recently updated the Open Discovery Initiative Recommended Practice, which outlines data exchange including data formats, method of delivery, usage reporting, frequency of updates and rights of use between discovery service providers, content providers and libraries. The recommendations in this document, created by members of the Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committee, enable libraries, discovery service providers, and content providers to work together to the full extent of their abilities -- providing the most effective and rich experience to end users.
Join ODI Standing Committee members Ken Varnum and Geoff Morse at 11 am (Eastern Standard, US & Canada) on Monday, November 16, for a 60-minute webinar highlighting the recommended practice and the benefits to all parties who participate.
NISO Webinar Series
Change Management Webinar Series - Team Building
Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Over the past few months, everyone has had to become accustomed to meeting in virtual environments, as well as mastering other technologies that allow us to continue to work together collaboratively — within and outside our organizations. This roundtable discussion will address both the fun side of learning new ways of working together and the deeper issues of setting expectations, accommodating different requirements, and identifying the constraints that made clear where boundaries would be needed.
Confirmed speakers in this segment include:
- Jennifer Diffin, Head, Library Technical Services Section, National Library of Medicine
- Adam Blackwell, Lead Product Manager, Proquest
- Christopher Rennie, MLIS – Lead Platform Manager, Proquest
- Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President, Coherent Digital
- Rhonda Ross, Manager, Agile Marketing Team, CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society
NOTE: ALL members of NISO automatically receive sign-on credentials for all events in this Change Management Webinar series as a member benefit. There is no need to register separately. Check your institutional membership status here.
December 2020
NISO Webinar Series (Continued)
Change Management Webinar Series - Rethinking Spaces
Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (Eastern Time)
Some organizations and institutions in the information community have now started to return to a form of face-to-face operations, requiring even more planning and adaptation on their part in order to safely bring their workforce back to an office setting. How can available spaces be re-allocated in order to accommodate social distancing? Where are plexiglass shields needed? How many workers could or should continue to work remotely and how many will only be in the office part-time? This discussion will look beyond narrow issues such as managing shelving or foot traffic, to focus on how we need to rethink the functional space and shared environments of 21st century knowledge workers.
Change Management Webinar Series - Moving into the Future
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (Eastern Time)
The impact felt by institutions and organizations in this pandemic — past, present, and future — is impossible to evaluate. In less than a year, the information community has already seen both their budgets and their workforce cut. How do we move forward? How do we plan ahead for the short and longer time frames? All information organizations must re-evaluate their mission, their offerings, and their strategies in order to continue to thrive. In this final webinar of the series, roundtable participants will look to the future. They will discuss how they and their organizations are navigating the changes, and the additional adaptations that may be required or made possible as we start to think about a post-COVID world. We’re living through a pandemic, one that has caused acceleration in community shifts that were already unfolding. How do NISO members and the broader information community navigate those changes and make the most of this opportunity to shape a better future?
NOTE: ALL members of NISO automatically receive sign-on credentials for all events in this Change Management Webinar series as a member benefit. There is no need to register separately. Check your institutional membership status here.