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Pamela Bluh

President, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
(ALCTS) a division of the American Library Association

and

Associate Director for Technical
Services & Administration
Thurgood Marshall Law Library
University of Maryland
School of Law
501 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1768

410-706-2736
410-706-2372 FAX
pbluh@umaryland.edu

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Tina Feick <TINHOW@comcast.net>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:39:12 +0000
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Free NISO/BISG Information Standards Forum to
Precede ALA Conference

> Cynthia:
>
> The link below to the Niso website does not work --
>
> Sorry,
>
> TINA
>
> Original message --------------
> From: Cynthia Hodgson <chodgson@NISO.ORG>
>
> > *Please join us for the second annual NISO/BISG Forum: *“The Changing
> > Standards Landscape: Creative Solutions to Your Information Problems.”
> > The forum, a partnership between the National Information Standards
> > Organization (NISO) and the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) will
> > immediately precede the American Library Association conference in
> > Anaheim, CA
> >
> > The half-day event – to be held on Friday, June 27^th , from 12:30 pm -
> > 4:00 pm in the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 304 A/B – will provide a
> > big-picture look at the development and impact of common solutions-based
> > standards for librarians and publishers. Explaining why standards are
> > important for your organization and how you can get involved, the
> > program will focus on the preparations under way to build standards for
> > tomorrow's digital supply chain.
> >
> > NISO’s Managing Director, Todd Carpenter, and BISG’s Executive Director,
> > Michael Healy, will lead the forum through three main areas of standards
> > development:
> >
> > -- Identify & Describe
> > -- Discover & Retrieve
> > -- Comply & Use
> >
> > To discuss these ever-changing and growing areas of standardization will
be
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Brian Green, Executive Director, EDItEUR
> > -- Annie Callanan, President & CEO, Bowker
> > -- Tina Feick, Consultant and Co-Chair, NISO I2 (Institutional
> > Identifiers) Working Group
> > -- Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked
> > Information (CNI)
> >
> > Additional speakers are being confirmed, and topics will include
> > identifiers for digital publications, authors, and institutions;
> > standards for delivering online book content and knowledge bases; and an
> > update on ACAP and ONIX-PL.
> >
> > For more information on this free forum, visit
> > http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/ala08/nisobisg08/or contact Karen
> > Wetzel, NISO Standards Program Manager, at kwetzel@niso.org
> > .
> >
> >
> > Cynthia Hodgson
> > NISO Technical Editor Consultant
> > National Information Standards Organization
> > Email: chodgson@niso.org
> > Phone: 301-654-2512
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