NISO Two-Part Webinar, Enabling Discovery, Part One: Publishers and Libraries Talk Metadata & Monographs

Helping people gain a greater understanding of the information community — our issues and concerns, challenges and opportunities — is core to NISO's mission. Our events are a key element of this, with our popular webinar program at their heart. And, following the NISO/NFAIS merger earlier this year, all NISO members can now attend all 14 webinars in 2020 completely free of charge! This includes an unlimited number of places and full access to a recording of each webinar for anyone who is unable to attend the event itself.

Jon Elwell is the Director of Content Strategies for EBSCO Books. Jon leads a team of collection development librarians responsible for the creation and maintenance of eBook subscription products, Subject Sets and other collections, publisher targeting, content evaluation, and content strategy. Since 2015, Jon and his team have worked closely with GOBI librarians to grow the existing Spotlight Lists and standing order collections. Jon received his MLIS and MA in American History from Simmons College and has been with EBSCO eBooks since 2011. Prior to EBSCO, Jon worked in academic libraries as a reference librarian.

Michael Roberts joined Emerald Group Publishing as the Content Discovery Manager in early 2017. Prior to that, Mike spent eleven years at IOP Publishing, working on content discovery and semantic enrichment. He is interested in exploring how publishers can smooth the entire discovery-to-delivery research workflow, including the use of analytics to help identify & fix problems before they start to cause real pain for users.

Susan Doerr is Assistant Director, Digital Publishing and Operations Director at the University of Minnesota Press. Before joining Minnesota, Susan was marketing director for a book publishing distributor, where she worked with independent and literary publishers on their trade and library marketing efforts. Susan recently completed a three-year term as treasurer on the board of directors of the Association of University Presses (AUP). With a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Susan is leading the team at Minnesota in collaboration with the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at CUNY and the digital development agency, Cast Iron Coding, to build Manifold Scholarship (manifold.umn.edu), a free, open-source publishing platform designed for scholarly content.