WEBINAR: What to Expect When You're Expecting a Platform Change:
Perspectives from a Publisher and a Librarian
DATE: April 11, 2012
TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/nisowebinars/platforms_for_eresources/
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In recent months, information providers have released a range of
modifications to many abstracting and full text journal platforms. Whether
an update to its look and feel or a radical restructuring of its search,
browse, and full text features, any successful change to a familiar
interface requires communication, tolerance, and understanding among the
affected information provider, publisher(s), and library customers.

Join NISO on April 11, 2012 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern for the webinar
What to Expect When You're Expecting a Platform Change, where a publisher
and a librarian will share their own experiences with determining
priorities, learning lessons, and improving practices related to changed and
changing information platforms.

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway: How to Manage a Platform Migration - Gillian
Howcroft (Director, E-Projects, Taylor & Francis)
The journal industry has invested a huge amount ($3.2+ Billion) since 2000
in digitization initiatives and many publishers launched new platforms in
2006/7 and again in 2010/11. How can we keep up with rapidly evolving web
technologies and achieve this in an interoperable fashion keeping disruption
to a minimum for the librarian and their users? Howcroft shares her
experiences in moving interfaces ahead.

Dream a Little Dream: A Librarian Envisions the Ideal Platform Migration -
Kelly Smith (Interim Coordinator of Collection Services, Eastern Kentucky
University Libraries)
Librarians spend a great deal of time working with electronic resource
platforms and helping their users navigate them. What can publishers do to
mitigate the interruptions of a migration and maximize the potential time
savings, increased usage, and improved user experience that can result from
improving a platform? Smith shares lessons learned during previous
migrations to help librarians and vendors determine priorities and improve
practices related to changing information platforms.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 p.m.
Eastern on April 11, 2012. Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG
members and students. Register now and gain access to the recorded archive
for one year. To register and for more information, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/nisowebinars/platforms_for_eresources/.

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson@niso.org
301-654-2512