NISO Webinar, Reset - What Are Our New Priorities?

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.

Clifford Lynch is Executive Director at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint program of the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. He served as co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) from 2011-16, and he is active on numerous advisory boards and visiting committees. His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award. In 2017, Lynch was selected as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow.

Hilary Seo is an Associate Professor and Interim Dean of the Iowa State University Library since June 2019. She also serves as Associate Dean for Curation Services overseeing Digital Scholarship and Initiatives, Preservation and Stacks, and Special Collections and University Archives departments. She was also part of the 2018-19 ARL Leadership Fellows cohort. Before these appointments, she served as the Head of Preservation and Digital Initiatives for the ISU library, and Preservation Librarian at the Georgetown University Law Library. Her master’s degree in library science is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with advanced training in preservation from the University of Texas at Austin, and her bachelor’s degree is from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to her Certificate of Advanced Study in Preservation Administration, she interned at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in the book conservation lab.

Stephen has 30 years’ experience in electronic publishing and libraries with leadership roles at SilverPlatter Information, Chadwyck-Healey, Gale, and ProQuest. He’s served on the boards of CLIR, the Digital Library Federation, Enwoven and the University of California Press. In 2000 he co-founded and led Alexander Street Press to become an internationally recognized publisher and the largest vendor of streaming media into libraries. In 2019 he co-founded Coherent Digital.