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Session Types

Pre-conferences are in-depth programs that focus on practical aspects of our work and skills we need on a daily basis. In general, these programs are several hours in duration, have limited attendance, and may include hands-on training.

Vision Sessions are offered at no-conflict times to allow all conference attendees to participate. These programs generally deal with the larger universe of ideas and issues that may influence the serials world.

Strategy Sessions generally deal with all or, at least, several segments of the serials world including, but not limited to publishers, vendors, service providers, and librarians.

Tactics Sessions are designed to address day-to-day issues and generally deal with one or two practical aspects of the serials world.
Poster sessions provide an opportunity to share innovative ideas and new applications of technology. 

PPC UPDATE 2/19/09
GEOFFREY BILDER TO BE THE FINAL VISION SPEAKER

The Program Planning Committee is pleased to announce that Geoffrey Bilder will be the final Vision speaker at the NASIG 2009 Annual Conference in Asheville, North Carolina.

Geoffrey Bilder is Director of Strategic Initiatives at CrossRef, and has over 16 years experience as a technical leader in scholarly technology. He co-founded Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group in 1993, providing the Brown academic community with advanced technology consulting in support of their research, teaching and scholarly communication. He was subsequently head of IT R&D at Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2002 to 2005, Geoffrey was Chief Technology Officer of scholarly publishing firm Ingenta, and just prior to joining CrossRef, he was a Publishing Technology Consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies, where he consulted extensively with publishers and librarians on emerging social software technologies and how they may affect scholarly and professional researchers.

In his talk “What Color is Your Paratext?”, Geoffrey will pose the question “How do we judge authority in a world where content is protean, provenance is vague and identity is cheap? and propose some concrete steps that librarians and publishers can take in order to create a new epistemic infrastructure for identifying trustworthy content on the web.”

We look forward to this dynamic and though-provoking presentation, and hope to see you in Asheville.

The Program Planning Committee is pleased to announce that Carol Tenopir will deliver a Vision session at the NASIG 2009 Conference in Asheville NC.

Carol Tenopir is Chancellor’s Professor, University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences and Director of Center for Information and Communication Studies at the University of Tennessee. Carol is an award-winning teacher and researcher in library and information science. Her areas of teaching and research include: information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, the information industry, online resources, and the impact of technology on reference librarians and scientists. She is the author of five books and over 200 journal articles.

Carol’s talk “Measuring the Value of the Academic Library: Return on Investment and Other Value Measures” will draw on her recent work on measures of cost and the multiple values of library collections and services, in the United States and other countries. Carol says “In the past, the value of the library to the institution was assumed. Today, libraries of all types are asked to demonstrate the value of the library to its constituents and the return that is realized from funders’ investment in the library. Several prominent return on investment (ROI) studies have been conducted in special libraries and public libraries, but both the investments and returns are different for academic libraries. Academic libraries bring direct monetary return in helping faculty attract grant funding, in addition to many downstream returns in terms of faculty and student success and loyalty. This talk will describe a three-phase project that brings together library researchers, organizations that work with libraries, and university libraries in 8 countries to explore ROI in academic libraries.”

Erika Ripley and Morag Boyd, Co-Chairs

The Program Planning Committee is hard at work on the program, and we’re thrilled to announce one of the Vision speakers for 2009 will be Peter Morville.

Peter Morville is widely recognized as a founding father of information architecture, and he serves as a passionate advocate for the critical roles that search and findability play in defining the user experience. Peter’s latest book, Ambient Findability, was published in 2005, and he’s currently working on a new book about the future of search. He blogs at findability.org.

Peter will be sharing his thoughts on “Ambient Findability: Libraries, Serials, and the Internet of Things.” According to Peter, “At the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet, the user experience is out of control, and findability is the real story. Access changes the game. We can select our sources and choose our news. We can find who and what we need, when and where we want. Search is the new interface of culture and commerce. As society shifts from push to pull, findability shapes who we trust, how we learn, where we go, and what we buy. It also radically changes our relationships to magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals.”

  (Last updated 6/02/09)