August 04, 2006
BCR Sponsors Discount to NISO E-resources Workshop
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is hosting a 2.5 day workshop:
Managing Electronic Resources. BCR is cosponsoring the workshop, which will be held at the Magnolia Hotel, Denver, Colorado, September 28-30. Because of BCR's sponsorship, all BCR members are eligible to attend this workshop at the
NISO member price of $569 for the full 2.5 days. Single-day registration fee is $219 for members. Nonmember registration fees are $799 for the full workshop or $299 for a single day.
The workshop topics to be covered are as follows:
- Day 1: Understanding users and usage
- Day 2: Practical collection and repository management
- Day 3: Gluing systems together to make your collections accessible
For more information on the sessions to be held each day, go to www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/Collections-06-wkshp.html. You will also find a link to the registration form there.
Scheduled speakers include:
- Marshall Breeding, director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University
- Denise M. Davis, director, Office for Research & Statistics, American Library Association
- Peter Shepherd, project director, Project COUNTER
- Adam Chandler, information technology librvice president, EBSCO Information Services
- Herbert von de Sompel, Digital Library Research & Prototyping, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
- Karen Coyle, Digital Library Consultant
- Mike Teets, vice president, OCLC Global Product Architecture
This will be an interactive workshop and attendance is limited to 120 participants. Early registration is encouraged.
