niso-l: NISO/Standards Events at ALA Midwinter

Subject: NISO/Standards Events at ALA Midwinter
Pat Harris (pharris@niso.org)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:09:55 -0500

The ALA Midwinter Conference is a good time to catch up with
standards. Be sure to put these events on your Midwinter calendar:

… NISO and the LAMA Building and Equipment Section: Putting our ideas to work
Saturday, January 19th from 3 PM - 4:30p.m., Hotel Monteleone, Cabildo Room

NISO and the Building and Equipment Section of LAMA, invite you to an
ideas forum
to identify the best topics for development into standards,
guidelines, and best practices in the area of library building and
equipment. To register contact Shawn Tonner
(stonner@mindspring.com), Chair of the LAMA Building & Equipment
Section and member of the NISO Standards Development Committee.

… ACRL Publisher/Vendor Relations Discussion Group: Open URL and SFX
- Implications for Science Libraries
Sunday, January 20 from 9:30-11:00 a.m., Morial Convention Center, 278

Eric Van de Velde, the chair of the NISO Open URL Committee, will
report on the work
of this NISO committee, expected results, and implications for
libraries and content providers. Jenny Walker, Director of Sales and
Marketing of the Information Services Division, Ex-Libris, will speak
about their application of the Open URL standard as a product called
SFX, which delivers linking services and allows libraries to
customize their links that integrate their information resources.

… NISO/BISG Program: Archiving Electronic Publications
Sunday, January 20 from 4:30-6:00p.m., Hotel Monteleone, Iberville room.

Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President, Strategy for Elsevier Science
will report on
the Yale Library/Elsevier Science Digital Preservation Collaboration.

Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard
University Library will present an overview of Harvard University's
Mellon-funded planning grant to study archiving electronic journals.

George Barnum, Electronic Collection Manager from the United States
Government Printing Office's Library Programs Service (SL) will
report on OCLC's Web Document Digital Archive, a collaboration with
the GPO to archive electronic government publications.

NISO and the Building and Equipment Section of LAMA, invite you to an ideas forum
to identify the best topics for development into standards, guidelines, and best practices in the area of library building and equipment. To register contact Shawn Tonner (stonner@mindspring.com), Chair of the LAMA Building & Equipment Section and member of the NISO Standards Development Committee.

Maintaining a clear path to electronic resources isn't easy. . Too often users experience the frustration of having a dead link to a resource that they do not have the right to access. Fortunately there is the new Open URL standard and an application of that standard, SFX, that can help to ease this process.

Eric Van de Velde, the chair of the NISO Open URL Committee, will report on the work
of this NISO committee, expected results, and implications for libraries and content providers. Jenny Walker, Director of Sales and Marketing of the Information Services Division, Ex-Libris, will speak about their application of the Open URL standard as a product called SFX, which delivers linking services and allows libraries to customize their links that integrate their information resources.

How to ensure long-term access to publications issued solely in electronic formats is a challenge. Can cost-effective models for archiving be developed? How can rights of publishers, responsibilities of libraries and needs of scholars be balanced? What new standards will be needed to support digital archival repositories? This program will highlight three recent initiatives in archiving electronic publications:

Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President, Strategy for Elsevier Science will report on
the Yale Library/Elsevier Science Digital Preservation Collaboration.

Dale Flecker, Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard University Library will present an overview of Harvard University's Mellon-funded planning grant to study archiving electronic journals.

George Barnum, Electronic Collection Manager from the United States Government Printing Office's Library Programs Service (SL) will report on OCLC's Web Document Digital Archive, a collaboration with the GPO to archive electronic government publications.

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Pat Harris
Executive Director
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814 USA
T: 301-654-2512
Mobile: 202-258-3296
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Email: pharris@niso.org
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