NISO Update

Abstract

NISO projects are numerous, diverse in output, coverage, and participation, and ACTIVE!

Event

89 Videos

NISO Plus 2021

Global

February 22-25, 2021

NISO Plus 2021 was our first virtual conference, held in February of 2021. A global undertaking, NISO Plus 2021 had over 800 participants from 26 countries come together to have a conversation about the state of the information ecosystem. Here you'll find both the presentations and discussions from that event.

Speaker

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Andrée Rathemacher

Professor Librarian - University of Rhode Island

Andrée Rathemacher is Head of Acquisitions at the University of Rhode Island, where she administers the materials budget and is responsible for the purchase and licensing of library materials in all formats and the management of electronic resources. She is currently the co-Chair of the NISO KBART Standing Committee. An advocate of open access and scholarly communication reform, she advocates for the University Libraries’ support of open access initiatives.

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5 Videos

Athena Hoeppner

Discovery Services Librarian - University of Central Florida

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3 Videos

Noah Levin

Co-Chair NISO KBART Standing Committee - Independent Professional

Noah Levin is the Co-Chair of the NISO KBART Standing Committee and a member of the KBART Automation Working Group. Noah has spent the last 19 years designing and creating metadata workflows for large Academic and Trade Publishers; managing their Link Resolver/Discovery data, MARC Records, ONIX Feeds and internal metadata practices.

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3 Videos

Noah Levin

Co-chair, NISO KBART Standing Committee - Independent Professional

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3 Videos

Robert Heaton

Collection Management Librarian, Utah State University Libraries

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3 Videos

Robert Heaton

Collection Management Librarian - Utah State University - Merrill-Cazier Library

Looking for answers: How will we keep paying for all this stuff? How are we going to archive all this digital stuff? How can we align author incentives, the publishing marketplace, and the future of the scholarly record? When will libraries benefit from well-designed free software? How much should we be telling users what they want versus asking? How does anyone manage information overload? Oh, and how will we keep paying for all this stuff?

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1 Video

Stephanie Doellinger

Senior Metadata Operations Manager CI & KB - OCLC

Stephanie Doellinger is a Senior Metadata Operations Manager at OCLC. Over her 10-year tenure, she and her team have worked with both publishers and libraries to manage the processing and validation of e-resource metadata which make up the WorldCat knowledge base and Central Index. She currently serves as co-chair of the KBART automation group and recently joined the KBART Standing group where she is able to share her experience and knowledge from daily work problems and examples.

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1 Video

Tony Alves

Scholarly Publishing Free Agent - @OccupySTM

Thirty years of scholarly publishing experience including product development, software design, content acquisition, international client management, organization building and business development. In depth understanding of all aspects of the publishing process, particularly related to scientific journals and scholarly communications, professional textbooks, social media, educational programing, bibliographic database design and workflow systems development.