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Invitation for Industry Pros to Managing Electronic Collections Workshop

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cynthia Hodgson)
Sat Jul 15 16:31:56 2006

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From: Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson@NISO.ORG>
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You are invited to a NISO workshop exclusively for information
professionals. Due to the interactive nature of the sessions on Managing
Electronic Collections, only 120 attendees will be able to participate. We
urge you to register no later than August 10 to secure your position.

 

National Information Standards Organization

September 28-30, 2006

The Magnolia Hotel

Denver, CO

 

Featuring:  best practices, case studies, and sessions to answer your how-to
questions about managing today's increasingly complex collections-including
guidance on communicating with your vendors to ensure you get the systems
and services you want.

 

Topics include usage statistics, repository architecture, copyright and
licenses, journal versions, and web services. Visit
<http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/Collections-06-wkshp.html>
http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/Collections-06-wkshp.html for a
complete agenda and to register.

 

Day 1: Understanding users and usage

Day 2: Practical collection and repository management

Day 3: Gluing systems together to make your collections accessible

 

Among the keynoters and session leaders are the following experts (in order
of appearance):

 

Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the
Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University

 

Denise M. Davis, Director, Office for Research & Statistics

American Library Association

 

            Peter Shepherd, Project Director,

            Project COUNTER

            

            Adam Chandler, Information Technology Librarian

            Cornell University Library

 

            Oliver Pesch, Chief Architect and Senior Vice President

            EBSCO Information Services

 

            Herbert von de Sompel, Digital Library Research & Prototyping

            Los Alamos National Laboratory; Research Library

 

            Karen Coyle, Digital Library Consultant

 

            Mike Teets, Vice President, OCLC Global Product Architecture

 
 
 
 
Cynthia Hodgson
National Information Standards Organization
Email:  <mailto:chodgson@niso.org> chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512

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