From: NISO Announce <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:44:23 -0500

Baltimore, MD - January 19, 2017 - The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) announces a strong series of educational programs
for 2017, encompassing fourteen 90-minute webinars and six virtual
conferences. All of these rich offerings are tailored to allow live
viewing as well as archive use and viewing by individuals as well as
groups, making them suitable for a wide variety of organizations. The
2017 programs focus on information-workforce training needs and on
current and emerging issues of concern to the academic, library, and
tech communities.

"Education is a critical component of NISO's work," says NISO
Executive Director Todd Carpenter. "Our mission involves not only
creating standards and best practices, but also informing our
community about technological change and other issues facing them."

Webinar topics include:
- What can I do with this? Making it easy for scholars and researchers
to utilize content
- Providing Access: Making Sure What Libraries Have Licensed is What
Users Can Reach
- Two Part Webinar: Understanding the Marketplace
- Trends in Presentation and Delivery: Publishing Experts Speak
- Spotlight on Mobile: Devices, Interface, and Content
- Enabling Discovery and Retrieval of Nontraditional and Granular Output
- Spotlight: Supporting Access to the Internet in Underserved Communities
- Two Part Webinar: Digital and Data Literacy
- Strategic Directions: Strategic Thinking, Five Years Ahead
- Two Part Webinar: Engineering Access Under the Hood
- Tracing Discovery and Subsequent Use: Harvesting and Analyzing the Data

Virtual conferences, each a six-hour event, address:
- Institutional Repositories
- Opening Up Education: Textbooks, Resources, Courseware, and More
- Images: Digitization and Preservation of Special Collections in Libraries
- Convergence: The Web and Publishing onto the Web
- Research Networks: The Connections Enabling Collaboration
- Advancing Altmetrics: Best Practices and Emerging Ideas

About NISO
NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and
maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent
management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be
trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission,
NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other
organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through
the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge.
NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the
entire lifecycle of information standards. NISO is a not-for-profit
association accredited by the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO website.