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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:53:23 -0500

NISO January 14Webinar: Net Neutrality: Will Library Resources Be
Stuck in the Slow Lane?

Date: January 14, 2015

Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/net_neutrality/

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Net Neutrality is an issue that has been increasingly in the news, but
it is something that has affected libraries for a lot longer. Many
public libraries are in underserved communities where patrons may not
have personal access to the internet, so the use of the public
libraries' resources is critical for them. Without net neutrality,
those public libraries may not be able to cost-effectively provide
such Internet service. For the scholarly and academic communities,
scholarly resources could be resigned to the slow lane of the net, if
content providers and libraries don't have the resources to pay for
the "fast lane.” As resources increasingly go multimedia, requiring
greater bandwidth, will libraries and content platform providers be
saddled with taking on added costs to ensure reliable access?

In this webinar, presenters will help define Net Neutrality, what
could happen without it, and how it can impact public and academic
libraries, and the wider information community.

Topics and speakers are:

Network Neutrality Principles and Policy for Libraries & Higher
Education – Larra Clark, Deputy Director, Office for Information
Technology Policy, American Library Association

Network Neutrality: The Public Library Perspective – Holly Carroll,
Executive Director, Poudre River Public Library District

Academic Libraries and Net Neutrality – Jonathan Miller, Library
Director, Olin Library of Rollins College

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00
pm Eastern on January 14, 2015 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are
available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library
Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part
of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar
contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are
listed here:

http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance.

If you would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire
year’s webinars as part of membership, information on joining is
listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/

All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the
recorded version for one year.

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/net_neutrality/

Be sure to check out NISO’s discounted subscription packages for webinars:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/#packages

and virtual conferences for 2015:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription

New in 2015: NISO Training Thursdays. Three technical webinar training
sessions directly related to the previous weeks’ virtual conference.
Registrants to the related virtual conference receive a free login to
the Training Thursday. You can also register separately for just the
training session. More information is available at:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/training_Thursdays/

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
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