ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Cloud computing, a concept that has leapt onto the scene in the last few years, is available to libraries in the form of hosted systems for an ILS or for e-resource access. These systems take advantage of cheaper computing power, increased availability of services such as Amazon Web Services, and new development strategies from library vendors. What does moving library information to a networked environment do to improve the overall management of the system? How can libraries leverage cloud-hosted and managed collections? Are there tradeoffs in terms of local control? Learn the answers to these and related issues at this webinar where speakers will discuss actual cloud implementations in library environments.

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

The Cloud and Libraries
Erik Mitchell, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Maryland College Park

Pepperdine University Libraries’ Move to the Cloud Michael Dula, Director for Digital Initiatives & Technology Strategy, Pepperdine University Libraries

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on February 8, 2012. Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students.

1. has a new job title (due to a change in position at your institution or company, a new position, promotion, retirement, etc.);

2. is new to NASIG (what brings you to serials librarianship/publishing/etc. and NASIG?);

3. has published an article, an essay, a book; written a review; led a workshop; presented a paper or poster.

Let me know!

Kurt
columns editor, NASIG Newsletter
kcblythe@email.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 962-2050, ext. 324

John Riddick Student Grant

Grants for qualifying students to attend the NASIG annual conference, covering cost of registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.  For more details, please visit the following page: http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_studentgrant.cfm

Serials Specialist Award

Awards for promising paraprofessionals, covering cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.
For more details, please visit the following page: http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_specialist.cfm

Marcia Tuttle International Award

A $3,000 grant for an individual working in the serials information chain to fund appropriate activities in fostering international communication and education.  For more details, please visit the following page: http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_tuttle.cfm

Horizon Award

Awards for promising new serials professionals, covering cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America.  Recipients will also be invited to serve on a NASIG committee. For more details, please visit the following page: http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_horizon.cfm

Fritz Schwartz Education Scholarship

A $3,000 scholarship and conference travel grant for a graduate student demonstrating excellence in scholarship and the potential for accomplishments in a serials career.  For more details, please visit the following page:  http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_schwartz.cfm

Rose Robischon Scholarship, underwritten by Swets Information Services

A scholarship awarded to a serials professional lacking funds for travel. The scholarship covers the cost of conference registration, three nights lodging, and travel within North America. For more details, please visit the following page: http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_robischon2.cfm

John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG Award, UK delegate underwritten by Taylor & Francis

A $6,000 award supports two people, one from each association, and consists of travel to the sister conference, and accommodations for the duration of the conference. The purpose of this conference-swap is for people working at a practical level in e-resource management to learn and share experience at the UKSG and NASIG annual conferences. For more details, please visit the following page:
http://www.nasig.org/about_awards_merriman.cfm

The application deadline for the above-listed awards, except the John Merriman Joint NASIG/UKSG Award, is February 20, 2012; the deadline for the John Merriman Award is January 30, 2012.  For details about the awards offered by NASIG, please visit http://www.nasig.org/about_awards.cfm

The best reports are informal, hitting the main points and piquing interest to know more. We will edit to NASIG style; just present the material as if you were informing a colleague about an interesting event — because that is just what you will be doing.

We are currently seeking reports for the following events:

• 2011 Charleston Conference
• ALA Midwinter Meeting @ Dallas
• UKSG 35th Annual Conference and Exhibition
• 21st Annual North Carolina Serials Conference
• Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L)

Please send your submission directly to Ning Han at nhan@library.msstate.edu by Mar. 15th, 2012 to be included in the next issue of the NASIG Newsletter. Word, OpenOffice, .rtf and plain text submissions are acceptable.

http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/conference-info/registration

ER&L has sold out for the past six years, so register now to take advantage of the discounted price and to insure your attendance at the
conference!

If you’re unable to attend ER&L in person this year, you can take advantage of an online conference option. ER&L Online will offer
access to over 30 sessions including interaction by ER&L presenters in our simple online tools. To learn more about the online option, click
here: http://www.electroniclibrarian.com/conference-info/online-conference

The editors work under the general direction of the NASIG Executive Board Liaison. Specific qualifications include, but are not limited to, the following:

• NASIG membership and previous conference attendance
• Attendance at the NASIG conference for each conference year editing
• Prior editing/publishing experience
• Demonstrated writing ability
• Expertise with standard word processing programs
• Ability to send and receive attachments via e-mail
• Ability to complete editorial work between July and January

Preference will be given to those applicants who address the specific qualifications listed above. Appointment is subject to approval by the NASIG Executive Board. To apply, send an e-mail outlining your specific qualifications and experience by Friday, January 27, 2012 to Allyson Zellner, Proceedings Board Liaison at: azellner@ebsco.com. Please include as attachments and/or links your current résumé and writing samples.

For further information, contact:

Allyson A. Zellner
azellner@ebsco.com
205-981-4074 phone
205-981-4087 fax

An informative, thought-provoking, and educational experience for everyone attending, “Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Invent It” features presentations from information industry leaders who are serving the knowledge community by inventing new ways to transfer knowledge to a growing audience globally and sustain the knowledge economy.  Covering the hottest topics from publishing, intermediary, library, consortia, and emerging technologies, the conference is set to continue its unique and respected tradition of debating and shaping the future of our industry. 

Featuring 17 speakers, the programme is organised around five session themes:

Context Not Containers
Context First(Brian O’Leary,Principal at Magellan Media Consulting Partners)
Begin with the Customer: Context Not Containers (Tim Babbitt, Sr. Vice President, Platform Management, ProQuest, and Kevin Sayar, President & GM, ebrary)
Publishing Without Borders (Timo Hannay,Managing Director, Digital Science, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.)

The Semantic Web
The Future of Academic Content Discovery(Victor Henning, Co-founder and CEO, Mendeley)
Triple Bypass: The Death of the Semantic Web?(Richard Padley,Managing Director, Semantico Limited)
From Discovery to Delivery: Publishing Opportunities on the Semantic Web (Daniel Mayer, Vice President, TEMIS)

Libraries–What Next
Spaces and Clouds: The Library as Destination and Launch Pad(Chris Banks, University Librarian and Director, Library and Historic Collections, University of Aberdeen)
Get It. Got It. Good? (Bruce Heterick,Vice President, Outreach & Participation Services at Portico & JStor)
Analytics in Library Management: Are You Ready for the Next Generation?(Dvir Hoffman, Director, Product Management & Marketing, Ex Libris Group)

eBooks–Onwards & Upwards
Inventing the Future, and Prevailing(Kari Paulson, President, eBook Library)
eBooks: Sales Models to Please Everyone? (Ken Breen, Sr. Director, eBook Products, EBSCO Publishing)

New Roles for the Modern Intermediary
Redefining the Role of an Agent(David Main, CEO, Swets)
Thriving in Chaos – Intermediaries Delivering Value in A Changing Landscape(Ann Lawson,EU Publisher Sales & Marketing Director, EBSCO Information Services)
The Role of the Modern Intermediary and What Constitutes Value in the Library of 2012(Jill Emery,Collections Librarian at Portland State University and Social Media Specialist at Electronic Resources and Libraries, LLC)
Adding Value in Publishers’ Business(Pinar Erzin, Managing Director, Accucoms)
New Roles or New Needs: Just Being Flexible in This Ever-Changing Environment (Emilie Delquie, Vice President, Publishers Communication Group)

Visit ASA website for more information about the programme:

http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences/asa-annual-conference-2012

REGISTER NOW
Registration is now open via the ASA website. Special rates are available for ASA members and an early-bird discount is available for non-members. We are pleased to again offer a 30% discount for librarians working in higher education. To register, visit:

http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences/conference-2012-online-booking

SPONSORSHIP
A range of sponsorship opportunities are available for the ASA Conference.  Visit:

http://www.subscription-agents.org/conferences/sponsorship-opportunities

Please contact Nawin Gupta (asa@nawingupta.com) for full details.

The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting (SUSHI) Protocol was issued as a standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93) in 2007 to simplify and automate the harvesting of COUNTER usage reports by libraries from the growing number of information providers they work with. COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is an international initiative that published their first Code of Practice in 2003 and issued Draft Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources in October 2011. The comment period for the COUNTER-SUSHI Implementation Profile and COUNTER Release 4 end on the same date. XML schemas supporting the draft Implementation Profile and draft Release 4 of the Counter Code of Practice have also been published by NISO for review during the comment period.  

The new draft Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice is a single, integrated Code of Practice covering journals, databases and books, as well as multimedia content. This COUNTER-SUSHI Implementation Profile supports the changes in Release 4 and was developed with the intention that it could be used by COUNTER auditors to verify compliance of a content provider’s SUSHI server. 

The NISO SUSHI Protocol: COUNTER-SUSHI Implementation Profile, the referenced schemas and additional implementation guidance for SUSHI can be found on the SUSHI webpages at: www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/. The draft Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice is available on the COUNTER website at: www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html.

This compelling webinar will explore the benefits and recommended methods for doing business in international markets, specifically
Latin America and Asia. From the comfort of your office, you will gain valuable insight from publishers that have established international
business models in these new markets.

Join us for a 90-minute discussion on this important topic and gain valuable insight on the recommended methods and significant benefits
to be gained by doing business in selected international markets.

Our speakers are leading experts from major STM publishers and firms with extensive experience in international publishing. They will offer
you a roadmap to exploring new global markets as well as suggest strategies and opportunities for publishers with an existing presence
in these high growth, high revenue-generating regions.

Consider attending if you want to learn more about:
* Which international markets are getting the most attention from publishers
* How to assess particular market opportunities and challenges
* How to select partners who can best help you develop and implement an international strategy

Presenters will welcome contributions and questions from participants both before and after the webinar.

Presenters:
* Adrian Stanley, CEO, The Charlesworth Group
* Mauricio Rocha de Silva, Editor in Chief, Clinics journal, Brazil
* Bas Straub, Publishing Director, Journals, Elsevier

Organizers/Moderators:
* Gurvinder Batra, Founder & CTO of KiwiTech and former co-founder of Aptara
* Mary Anne Baynes, Director of Sales and Marketing, The Charlesworth Group
* Bill Silberg, Editor-at-Large, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and Principal, Silberg Consulting

REGISTER today! http://bit.ly/v467zr

SSP Members: $99
Non-Members: $149

ALSO COMING SOON!

* 2012 Librarian Focus Group, January 31, 2012, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC
* SSP 34rd Annual Meeting, “Social, Mobile, Agile, Global: Are You Ready?” May 30 – June 1, 2012 at the Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, VA.

The reconstitution of the NASIG-L discussion list several months back also came with additional spam. Spam filtering has been enhanced though a few things manage to seep in now and then. ECC monitors the lists more frequently now in an attempt to catch those items.

The Committee has been reviewing the entire website for outdated information and broken links. Did you notice we added links to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and LinkedIn on the NASIG homepage, too? NASIGers have multiple options for getting their NASIG fix!

Other notable items: our site stats are looking good! The NASIG homepage had almost 2,000 page views between October 7 and November 6. The Annual Conference page, with 828 views, is the second most popular page. The NASIG Blog has had 7,144 views since January 2011.