Managing Electronic Collections: Workshop for Information Industry Pros

Features best practices, case studies, and sessions to answer your operational questions about managing today’s increasingly complex collections

Managing Electronic Collections: Workshop for Information Industry Pros

Bethesda, MD, July 17, 2006 -- The National Information Standards Organization (NISO)is hosting a practical workshop for librarians, publishers, content providers, and other professionals in the information industry.

Event:         Managing Electronic Collections

Audience:    Professionals in the Information Community

Date:        September 28-30, 2006 (2 ½ days)

Location:    The Magnolia Hotel

        Denver, CO

Format:    Keynotes, Tutorials, and Solutions Forums (how-to panels)

Registration:    Due to the interactive nature of the sessions on, only 120 attendees will be able to participate. Early registration is encouraged.

•    Early bird rates until August 28.

•    NISO member rates apply to NISO Voting Members, Library Standards Alliance Members, and PALINET members (PALINET is a co-sponsor.)

Description:     Best practices, case studies, and sessions to answer your operational questions about managing today’s increasingly complex collections

Topics include collection usage, repository architecture, copyright and licenses, journal versions, and web services. Visit http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/Collections-06-wkshp.html for a complete agenda.

Day 1: Understanding users and usage

Day 2: Practical collection and repository management

Day 3: Gluing systems together to make your collections accessible

Among the keynoters and session leaders are the following experts (in order of appearance):

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 Librarian

Cornell University Library

Oliver Pesch, Chief Architect and Senior Vice 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

Contact: Maryann Karinch, 970-577-8500

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