The old NASIG Jobs blog (http://jobs.nasig.org) will only list jobs posted prior to July 2010 and will continue to be maintained for several more months.
If you have a job that you would like to see posted on the NASIG Jobs blog, email us.
Call for Reporters - Serials Review September 30, 2010
Call for Reporters:
The fall conference season is gearing up and the “Serials Spoken Here” column in Serials Review is seeking reporters to cover select elements of the following conferences:
Attendees who are interested in reporting on conferences are encouraged to contact Kurt Blythe, column editor, at kcblythe@email.unc.edu for further details. Those of you attending conferences occurring close on the heels of those named in this message may wait to see a call for those conferences or contact me preemptively.
Best, Kurt
2011 Call for Proposals: NASIG 26th Annual Conference September 17, 2010
NASIG 26th Annual Conference Gateway to Collaboration June 2-5, 2011 St. Louis, Missouri
The 2011 Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites proposals for preconference, vision, strategy, and tactics sessions. The program planners are interested in hearing from publishers, vendors, librarians, and others in the field of serials and electronic resources about issues relating to scholarly communication, publishing, and resource acquisition, management, and discovery. Proposals based on emerging trends, case studies, and descriptive and experimental research findings are encouraged.
To propose a program or idea, please use the online form. This Call for Proposals will close on September 17, 2010.
Please note the following:
* The Program Planning Committee reviews all submitted proposals and hopes to notify applicants of the status of their proposals in December 2010. * The Program Planning Committee welcomes proposals that are still in the formative stages, and may work with potential presenters to focus their proposals further. * Proposals should name any particular products or services that are integral to the content of the presentation. However, as a matter of NASIG policy, programs should not be used as a venue to promote or attack any product, service, or institution. * Time management issues generally limit each session to two speakers for Tactics sessions or three speakers for Strategy sessions. Panels of four (4) or more speakers must be discussed in advance with the Program Planning Committee (prog-plan@nasig.org) * Proposals may be accepted as a different type of session than was originally suggested; this decision is the purview of the Program Planning Committee. * NASIG has a reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations do not cover expenses.
Inquiries may be sent to the PPC co-chairs, Anne Mitchell and Michael Hanson, at: prog-plan@nasig.org.
We look forward to seeing you in St. Louis!
- Anne Mitchell and Michael Hanson NASIG PPC Co-Chairs
Call for NASIG Board Nominations September 30, 2010
The Nominations & Elections Committee invites nominations for vice president/president-elect and three member-at-large board positions. Information on each office is found at:
You will need to login using your NASIG login and password. All nominations are anonymous even though you are logged in. You may submit multiple nominations for one office. If you have trouble with the online form, please send nominations to Eleanor Cook, N&E co-chair at cooke@ecu.edu.
The deadline for nominations is Monday, October 11, 2010.
Please contact the Nominations & Elections Committee chairs if you have any questions: Eleanor Cook - cooke@ecu.edu, or Pam Cipkowski, pcipkowski@luc.edu
Newsletter seeking additional copy editor September 20, 2010
Dear NASIG Members,
We are seeking an additional copy editor to assist with the publication of the NASIG Newsletter.
Position Description:
The Copy Editor works closely with the Editor-in-Chief and other Newsletter Editorial Board members to ensure timely and effective production of the NASIG Newsletter, and to develop and implement improvements for its process, policies, content, structure, and appearance.
Production of individual Newsletter issues often requires short periods of intensive work within short turn-around times. Members of the Newsletter Editorial Board routinely find this commitment requires occasional evening and/or weekend hours.
Specific, Routine Tasks:
* Download and copy edit all submissions from the Digital Commons site, including review of conference reports, approved by the Editor-in-Chief
* Following the established style sheet, input basic style and formatting details
* Upload all articles to the Digital Commons site and assign the PDF Editor by each issue's copy editing target date
Required Qualities and Skills: reliability; flexibility; initiative; creativity; dedication to producing a high quality and timely product; effective communication and organization skills; ability to maintain good working relationships with others, esp. within in a geographically dispersed team; convenient internet access for upload/download from the Digital Commons site; excellent copy editing skills; ability to complete all copy editing for an issue within the designated time frame (normally this is a maximum of 1 week); excellent skills with recent version of MS Word
To apply: Send a letter of interest outlining your qualifications and a writing sample to angela.dresselhaus@usu.edu by Sept. 20th.
Regards,
Angela Dresselhaus Newsletter Editor-in-Chief
Conference Reports/Calendar editor position available September 20, 2010
Dear NASIG Members,
We are seeking a Conference Report/Calendar editor to assist with the publication of the NASIG Newsletter.
Position Description:
The Conference Editor works closely with the Editor-in-Chief and other Newsletter Editorial Board members to ensure timely and effective production of the NASIG Newsletter, and to develop and implement improvements for its process, policies, content, structure, and appearance.
Production of the September issue of the Newsletter requires a period of very intensive work within short turn-around times in the 2-3 weeks pre-conference and in the 4 weeks post-conference. The editor will routinely find this commitment requires occasional evening and/or weekend hours.
Specific, routine tasks:
* Coordinate assignment of reporters for all conference sessions * Meet and/or communicate with reporters at the conference to ensure coverage * Coordinate submission of all conference reports * Edit all submissions and route them for final approval to the Copy Editor and Editor-in-Chief by the September issue's copy editing target date * Follow the established Style Sheet, input basic style and formatting details * Search for and submit appropriate entries for the dynamic calendar in NASIGWeb, including additions submitted by NASIG members. Submits updates to the Digital Commons site on a monthly basis.
Required qualities and skills: reliability; flexibility; initiative; creativity; dedication to producing a high quality and timely product; effective communication and organization skills; ability to maintain good working relationships with others, esp. within in a geographically dispersed team; convenient internet access for upload/download from the Digital Commons site; excellent copy editing skills; ability to complete all copy editing for the September issue within the designated time frame; ability to meet monthly deadlines for updates to the NASIG Calendar.
Desired qualities and skills: basic skills with a recent Windows version of Microsoft Word.
Deadline: September 20th
To apply: Send a letter of interest outlining your qualifications and a writing sample to angela.dresselhaus@usu.edu by Sept. 20th.
Regards,
Angela Dresselhaus Newsletter Editor-in-Chief
Newsletter Conference Reports Published September 30, 2010
Hello NASIG Members,
We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2010 Newsletter Conference Reports.
NISO Webinar: Measuring Use, Assessing Success September 15, 2010
Two Part September Webinar on Library Performance Metrics - Get the Latest on Measuring Use, Assessing Success
NISO (National Information Standards Organization) will be holding a two-part webinar on September 8 and 15 (at 1:-00-2:30 p.m. eastern time) on Measuring Use, Assessing Success. Although related, each part is independent so you can attend either webinar or both. If you register for both events at the same time, you will receive a 20% discount.
September 8, Part 1: Measure, Assess, Improve, Repeat: Using Library Performance Metrics
Practitioners of evidence-based librarianship will discuss and demonstrate evaluations of library collections and services using a variety of performance metrics. Metrics, when utilized creatively, offer many far-reaching applications and opportunities for demonstration of return-on-investment and proof of a library's value to its parent institution, as well as new responsibilities to continue to show relevance.
Speakers are: -- Steve Hiller, Director, Assessment and Planning, University of Washington Libraries
-- Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Director, Statistics and Service Quality Programs, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
September 15, Part 2: Count Me In: Measuring Individual Item Usage
Libraries' growing awareness of performance measures has created an increased interest in and desire for fine-grained usage data. Now that electronic versions of books, journals, and other media inhabit a much greater percentage of many libraries' collections, usage data about individual book chapters, journal articles, sound recordings, motion picture scenes, etc. is within reach.
Authors and funding agencies, in addition to library collection managers, are interested in better understanding the impact this usage tracking can provide. What are further practical applications for the analysis of this information?
Speakers are:
-- Peter Shepherd, Project Director, Project COUNTER (Update on PIRUS 2: Developing practical standards for recording and reporting online usage at the individual article level)
-- Johan Bollen, Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University (Applying usage metrics to assess scholarly content quality)
REGISTRATION
Registration is per site (defined as access for one computer). NISO and NASIG members may register at a discounted rate. A student discount is also available. If you register for both parts at the same time, there is a 20% discount. Can't make it on the scheduled date or time? Registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year, which can be viewed at your convenience. For more information or to register, visit the event webpage: www.niso.org/news/events/2010/performancemetrics/ This webinar is sponsored by PubGet (corporate.pubget.com).
Society for Scholarly Publishing's IN Conference-Early-Bird Registration Deadline Extended to 09/10 September 10, 2010
The Society for Scholarly Publishing's 2010 IN Conference - Early-Bird Registration Deadline Extended to September 10, 2010!!!
The early-bird registration deadline has been extended to 11:59 p.m. on September 10th, leaving you just a few more days to receive a discounted registration for the SSP 2010 IN Conference on September 21-23, 2010 in Philadelphia.
By acting soon, you'll join innovative and creative colleagues as you consider ways to imagine the "Dream E-Tool" for education and training.
Named for the first letters of INteract, INspire, and INnovate, this year's IN Conference focuses on the impact of scholarly content in the classroom, allowing publishers and other industry stakeholders to develop a current knowledge of the latest teaching technologies in a series of interactive sessions. Over three days, attendees will interact with colleagues, think critically how their content can be highly valued by the e-learner, and return home with cutting-edge ideas and strategies that can be applied in the context of their organizations.
To kick off our collective creativity, our keynote speaker for this year's conference will be Kathy Hurley, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, Pearson Education & Pearson Foundation, a global leader in education services and education technology. Ms Hurley has served in senior executive positions with PLATO Learning, The Learning Company, Skillsbank, and IBM and currently serves on several key industry and education advisory boards including the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21).
In addition to Ms. Hurley, participants will also hear presentations from key leaders in the e-learning space including Paul Bergen, Director of iCommons at Harvard University, Ariella Lehrer, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Legacy Interactive, and Kara Malenfant, Scholarly Communications and Government Relations Specialist, Association of College and Research Libraries/American Library Association, and co-author of the Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 report.
Click here for a description of the IN conference, discussion topics, and speaker bios.
The conference's intended audience mid-to senior-level management, as well as creative individuals new to scholarly publishing.
The early-bird discount ends at 11:59 p.m. September 10th, but with limited availability, we expect the event to sell out before the deadline. Don't delay, REGISTER NOW for the SSP IN Conference!
Special room rates of $185/night for single or double occupancy have been secured at the Sofitel Philadelphia Hotel. Call (215) 569-8300 today to book your room, and be sure to mention the Society for Scholarly Publishing IN Conference.
