Mark your calendars now for these two NISO events in December!  

Speaker Abstracts have been posted for this upcoming NISO Webinar, Maker Spaces: Things that Go Bop! Whizz! and Clank!
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern, US & Canada)

Have 3D printers become commonplace? Is someone in your library using pizza boxes to create their next-generation VR viewer? Perhaps you're wondering just how sophisticated (and how spacious) a Maker Space needs to be these days. What are the expectations from students and faculty? What tools and services need to be part of a library's maker space?

Confirmed speakers for this event include: 

• Angi Faiks, Associate Library Director, Macalester College, 
• Grover Saunders, Head of Innovation Spaces for JMU's Libraries and Educational Technology, James Madison University; 
• Jenny Wong-Welch, STEM Librarian and Keven Jeffery, Digital Technologies Librarian, San Diego State University.

 

NISO Virtual Conference, The Library of the Future: Inside and Out
Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 

As libraries re-evaluate and redesign the services offered to their communities, the ripples of change can be felt across the institution. New job titles and functions appear in university employment postings-clinical information specialist, data scientist, assessment librarian. Space previously given over to stacks is reallocated. Information resources and tools reshape the library's budget. Whether the process is visible or invisible to the library patron, the functions of the library are being re-engineered at a core level. What are the implications for library directors? And for content and platform providers?

 

Confirmed speakers for this event include:

• Gail Clement, Head of Research Services, California Institute of Technology
• Nancy Davenport, University Librarian, American University
• Karen Diaz, Dean of Libraries, West Virginia University
• Judy Luther, President, Informed Strategies
• Carl Grant, Interim Dean of Libraries, University of Oklahoma
• Jacob Nadal, Director of Preservation, Library of Congress
• Matthew Sheehy, University Librarian, Brandeis University
• Steven Smith, Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee - Knoxville 

 

A preliminary outline of the day’s agenda is on the NISO web site!

 

Begin Planning for the New Year!

 

The 2019 Calendar of dates and topics for NISO's 2019 educational events has just been released (in PDF form) on our web site. Registration is now open! Save by subscribing to one or more of these event packages: Buy 3, Get 3 (includes all six Virtual Conferences), Buy 9, Get 5 (includes all 14 NISO webinars), or the customizable Buy 5, Get 4  package (select 9 of the 14 NISO webinars offered in 2019).

 

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