Demystifying Library Standards: a NISO/ALCTS webinar
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (EDT)
The National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) and the Association for Library Collections & Technical
Services (ALCTS) has announced the first in a series of webinars on
standards in the library environment.
“Demystifying Library Standards,” will focus on
placing standards in context. It will be presented by Trisha Davis,
Ohio State University, Julia Gammon, University of Akron, Karen Wetzel,
NISO, and Pamela Bluh, University of Maryland Law School and current
ALCTS President.
The speakers will address why standards are important
to libraries and not just in the traditional technical services areas.
As libraries are changing and evolving in an increasingly digital
world, so are standards. This webinar will explain how standards are
critical to the developments in such areas as e resources, user access,
description and metadata, licensing and preservation. Some specific
standards, both published and forthcoming, will be touched on as
examples. Future webinars in the series will discuss those and other
standards in more depth. Participants will learn how they can become
actively involved in standards development.
If you want to learn how standards can provide
benefits to organizations, their users, and yourself and are involved
with library technical services, the acquisition and management of
e-resources, library systems implementation including ILS, ERMS, link
resolvers, and Web interfaces, cooperative electronic arrangements with
other libraries, consortia, content providers or long-term preservation
activities, then this webinar is for you.
Cost: $20 for NISO and ALCTS members; $25 for non-members.
To register online go to: http://www.regonline.com/ALCTS08.
For questions, email nisohq@niso.org.
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