About NASIG

I certainly am working in a serials-related area. I have continued to work with serials since I attended my first NASIG in 1988 -- in fact, I have worked with serials in every position since then! After library school, I worked at the University of Chicago, as a serials cataloger. Then I went to work in a private law firm library, and cataloged EVERYTHING, including of course the serials! Currently, I am working as a serials cataloger at the University of Michigan, doing CONSER cataloging.

Sad to say, I was a firmly committed serialist before NASIG, so getting the grant didn't really affect my career that much, at least not that I know of! I had been a serials cataloging assistant for six years before getting the grant, and knew that I enjoyed working with serials and that was what I wanted to do with my career.

Since my Title Change was just announced in the April Newsletter, I believe that you have the latest on me and my job. (He is Acquisitions Librarian at Northern Arizona University). Unfortunately, money is tight and I won't be able to get to this year's conference. I do wish to participate in the 1996 conference in Albuquerque, and have made my intentions known to the 96 program committee.

My name is William Ted Rogers and I was the 1990 student grant recipient from Louisiana State University. I am currently the Serials Librarian at Old Dominion University. The NASIG conference played a strong role in my decision to pursue a career in serials librarianship. From discussions in workshops, presentations, and off-the-record amongst NASIG attendees, I gathered that serials librarianship would always be full of challenges, changes, frustrations, satisfactions, and that it would NEVER be boring.

I was working in a serials cataloging unit when I received the NASIG grant in 1991. The NASIG conference helped me decide to keep serials the main focus of my career and exposed me to the rest of the serials chain (acquisitions, publishers) as well as to new technologies (NASIG was the first place I heard about e-journals). I was hired as a monographs cataloger at New York University in Sept. 1991, but because of my interest in serials, I was given primary responsibility for them, and now I am the serials cataloger. Recently, my job has expanded a little as we bring up a new, integrated system, and I handle some acquisitions and serials control duties as well. Attending my 1st NASIG conference also made me sure I wanted to attend every year and get more involved with NASIG, and I was lucky enough to get on the Student Grant Committee in 1993. I'm biased, of course, but I think the student grant is one of the best and most unique things NASIG does!