There's still time to register for NISO's webinar on Library Systems and
Interoperability: Breaking Down Silos, to be held Wednesday, June 10, from
1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time).

**Note especially the update on the presentation from Andrew Pace at OCLC
who will be discussing OCLC's new cloud-based, web-scale management services
and how interoperability is being addressed in this project. Take this
opportunity to hear first-hand about the newly announced plans "to release
Web-scale delivery and circulation, print and electronic acquisitions, and
license management components to WorldCat Local." There will be opportunity
to ask questions as well.

In today's information environment, libraries work with a slew of systems
from different vendors to manage, develop, distribute, and track their
resources, and to provide rich navigational and discovery tools to the end
users. Data needs to be re-used in multiple places and continually
synchronized. Records from one system must link seamlessly to records in
another. Key to making this work effectively is interoperability. And
standards are critical to successful, cost effective, and vendor-neutral
interoperability. This webinar provides a sampling of new work that is
taking place to enable information about library resources to be shared
between systems.

Topics to be covered include:

CORE: Exchanging Cost Information Between Library Systems --- Ted Koppel
(AGent Verso (ILS) Product Manager, Auto-Graphics, Inc) and Ed Riding,
(Technical Product Manager, SirsiDynix), co-chairs of the NISO CORE working
group will explain how the CORE protocol (now in trial use) provides a
solution to sharing financial information between an ILS and ERM or between
a library's system and a vendor's.

Interoperability via Web-based Services -- Working with multiple libraries,
providing networked services to improve the management of various services,
is just one way to help address the issue of interoperability in this
environment. Andrew Pace (OCLC) will discuss OCLC's new cloud-based,
web-scale management services and how interoperability is being addressed in
this project. (See http://www.oclc.org/productworks/webscale.htm)

DLF's ILS Discovery Interfaces Project -- In 2007-2008, the Digital Library
Federation (DLF) convened a Task Group to recommend standard interfaces for
integrating the data and services of the Integrated Library System (ILS)
with new applications supporting user discovery, and to create a technical
proposal for how such integration should be accomplished. John Mark
Ockerbloom (Digital Library Architect and Planner, University of
Pennsylvania) will review the Task Group's official recommendation (revision
1.1) that was released in December 2008.

Webinar fees are $79.00 for NISO and NASIG members in the U.S. and Canada
and $99.00 for non-members. Separate rates exist for international access. A
student discount is also available. Registration is per site (access for one
computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar.
If you are unable to participate in person, registering will still provide
you with access to the recorded version of the webinar to watch at your own
convenience. (International registrants who are not participating live may
register at the domestic rate.) For more information and to register, visit
the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/interop09

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512