NISO will be hosting several programs at ALA, which are listed below. Please
join us for these and stop by the NISO booth (#931). This announcement also
includes a list of several other sessions at ALA that are featuring
standards-related information. For full details, visit:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ala09

NISO HOSTED SESSIONS

1) NISO/BISG Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape for Ebooks
Friday, July 10, 12:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Chicago, Columbus Hall E/F
Gold Level, East Tower

For agenda, see: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/ala09/bisg/
Free but please RSVP at www.niso.org/contact

2) NISO AVIAC Meeting
Friday, July 10, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago, Mississippi Room

Meeting of NISO's Automation Vendors Information Advisory Committee. This is
an open meeting; no registration is required. Agenda topics include
discussions of the future of bibliographic control and library systems
interoperability. Library vendors are especially encouraged to attend.

3) NISO Update
Sunday, July 12, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
McCormick Place West 193b

Hear about 2009 planning, news from the NISO Board and emerging initiatives
to look forward to from NISO's Architecture Committee and the three Topic
Committees: Business Information, Content & Collection Management, and
Discovery to Delivery.

4) Z39.7 Standing Committee Meeting
Monday, July 13. 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 4G
This is an open meeting of the Standing Committee to review any proposed
changes to ANSI/NISO Z39.7-2004: Information Services and Use: Metrics &
statistics for libraries and information providers -- Data Dictionary. Visit
http://www.niso.org/dictionary/comments/ to view previous comments and to
add your own suggestions.

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OTHER STANDARDS-RELATED SESSIONS

1) LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management (ERM) Interest Group
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/litamembership/litaigs/erm/index.cfm
Friday, July 10, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Palmer House, Chicago Room
Includes: Results of OpenURL Quality Investigation (Adam Chandler, Cornell
University Library and Serials Solutions Open Source SUSHI-COUNTER Client
(Tae Kim, Serials Solutions, and member of the NISO SUSHI maintenance
committee)

2) Moving Mountains: Latest Trends in the Physical Delivery of Library
Materials
Sponsored by ASCLA ICAN and RUSA
Saturday, July 11, 8 a.m. - 10 a.m.
McCormick Place South, W-196a
How do you move 5, 10, or even 20 million items a year between libraries? A
panel will present highlights from The 2008 Moving Mountains Symposium in
Cincinnati including best practices in current delivery, future trends, home
delivery, automated material handling systems, and ways to collaborate.

3) LITA RFID Interest Group
Saturday, July 11, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Palmer House, Chicago Room

4) Accentuating the "e-": Electronic resources in the public catalog
ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group
Saturday, 11 July, 10:30-12:00 a.m.
Chicago Hilton: Continental C
Libraries are increasingly looking for ways to draw attention to their
growing local and consortial investments in e-resources by flagging these
titles in the catalog, adding URLs to print and e-versions, adding search
filters or facets for "Online", "Internet", "e-book", and "e-journal"
offerings, creating external lists, RSS feeds, and so on. We will look at
some of these methods and see if they are really serving the need they were
intended to serve.

5) LITA Standards Interest Group
Saturday, July 11, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Palmer House, Chicago Room
Includes a presentation from Clinton Chamberlain, on NISO's Shared
E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Recommended Practice and a Standards Update
from NISO's Managing Director, Todd Carpenter.

6) ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Update Forum: The changing landscape of
serials holdings information
Saturday, July 11
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Hilton, Continental B
Among other presentations, this forum will showcase a successful
implementation of ONIX Serials Online Holdings (SOH) version 1.1 which
provides a level of holdings detail comparable to the MARC holdings
standard.

7) ASCLA ICANS Physical Delivery Discussion Group
Sunday, July 12
8:00 am - 10:00 am
Chicago Hilton, Conference Room 4C

8) LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group Meeting: Post-Integrated
Library Systems?
The Open Library Environment (OLE) and the Unified Resource Management (URM)
Projects
Monday, July 13. 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Palmer House, Chicago Room
Presentations and discussion about two projects that are on the cutting-edge
of "redefining"  the ILS.

This announcement was cross-posted.

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