The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will host a two–day meeting to take place in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 5 and 6, 2015 on The Future of Library Discovery. In February 2015, NISO published a white paper commissioned from library consultant Marshall Breeding by NISO's Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee.
The in–person meeting will be an extension of the white paper with a series of presenters and panels offering an overview of the current resource discovery environment. Attendees will then participate in several conversations that will examine possibilities regarding how these technologies, methodologies, and products might be able to adapt to changes in the evolving information landscape in scholarly communications and to take advantage of new technologies, metadata models, or linking environments to better accomplish the needs of libraries to provide access to resources.
Marshall Breeding, Independent Library Consultant, www.librarytechnology.org, will present the opening keynote. Other confirmed speakers include Scott Bernier, Senior Vice President, Marketing, EBSCO; Michael Levine-Clark, Professor / Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver Libraries; Gregg Gordon, President & CEO, Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN); Neil Grindley, Head of Resource Discovery, Jisc; Karen Resch McKeown, Director, Product Discovery, Usage and Analytics, Gale | Cengage Learning; Dr. Jason S. Price, Director of Licensing Operations, SCELC Library Consortium; Mike Showalter, Executive Director, End-User Services, OCLC; Christine Stohn, Product Manager, ExLibris Group; and Julie Zhu, Manager, Discovery Service Relations, Marketing, Sales & Design, IEEE. The closing keynote will be presented by Peter Murray, Library Technologist and blogger at the Disruptive Library Technology Jester.
Early Bird rates are applicable until September. The cost to attend the two-day seminar in person for NISO Members (Voting or LSA) is $250.00; Non-member: $300.00; and for Students: $150.00. Interested parties may visit the event page for the most up-to-date information on the agenda, speakers and registration information.
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