From: NISO <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:25:04 -0400

Join the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) for our
Annual Update at the ALA Conference in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 29
(1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in LVCC - N113), where you can hear the latest news
about NISO's current efforts, including standards, recommended
practices and community meetings covering many areas of interest to
the library community.

NISO Working group members will provide updates on these projects that
are newly underway or recently completed.

* Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART), Noah Levin, Product and
Metadata Manager, Global Marketing Services, Springer

* Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), Laura Morse, Director, Library
Systems, Harvard University

* Presentation and Identification of E-Journals (PIE-J), Regina
Reynolds, Coordinator, U.S. ISSN Center, Library of Congress

* Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) and
'SUSHI Lite' initiative, Nettie Lagace, Associate Director for
Programs, NISO

* ResourceSync, Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Researcher, Los
Alamos National Laboratory

* NISO Altmetrics Initiative, Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO

FREE Pre-Conference Forum

And don’t forget the NISO/BISG 8th Annual Forum: The Changing
Standards Landscape: Managing an Increasingly Complex and
Interconnected World of Content, to be held Friday, June 27 from 12:00
p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in LVCC - N231-233. This year's event will cover the
THEMA classification systems, the Linked Content Coalition, Open
Discovery and demand-driven acquisitions, EPUB developments, and
digital content assessment. For details see the event webpage at:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/alaannual/2014nisobisgforum/

Attendance is free but we ask that you RSVP
(https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S7CVTZ3) for logistics purposes.

Visit NISO at Booth #1829 in the Exhibits area.

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
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