May 2013 Full Issue
President's Corner
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President's Corner
Bob Boissy
President of NASIG
It's finally warming up in most NASIG member backyards. Late spring is time for graduations, weddings, and of course zombie night at the baseball park. In case you have not heard, Friday night June 7 at 7:05 the league leading Buffalo Bisons AAA team (affiliated with Toronto) will be playing the Lehigh Valley IronPigs (affiliated with Philadelphia) in a park filled with zombie fans. Many of you have signed up already, and I hope you all come through it in one piece! I have arranged to keep the NASIG business meeting fairly short so you will all have time to get to the park and have them decorate you.
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I have some personal notes to share. It was my
pleasure to represent you at the annual UKSG meeting
in Bournemouth in early April. The meeting was quite a
success with over 900 participants. If you would like to
review some of the sessions, please plug in UKSGLIVE to
youtube.com and enjoy. Yes, you can even find my
greeting from NASIG in there if you look hard. I will say
that a medical student from Warwick who had traded in
all paper and print for an iPad really stole the
conference. He explained how he could do literally
everything pertaining to his medical studies, clinical
work, and related activities on his tablet. He was a little
worried we would not be interested. Suffice it to say,
we were interested.
As for NASIG business, thanks to continuing education
for keeping up the drumbeat with webinars, and plans
for additional programs. On a related note, your Board
is thinking of doing a trial period where we add
members from the Publications Committee to CEC, and
add the Publicist position to Electronic
Communications. We might just modernize the ECC to
something like Marketing Communications. Just a trial,
but let me know what you think. If it works after six
months or so, we can start doing all those things that
will make it more formal. My thanks to Bob Persing of
PubPR for his willingness to work with the Board on this
idea. My thanks to Tim Hagan and others for their
contributions to this idea.
It has come to my attention that some of our
conference presenters are either unclear on their
options for how their materials are published in our
proceedings, or are not happy with their options. I have
been in contact with our publisher Taylor & Francis and
our Proceedings staff, and we will continue to be both
cheerful and flexible, (as my boss Fritz Schwartz always
said), and do our best to accommodate all the
intellectual property issues that arise. Let me put out a
special thanks to all who volunteer to introduce
conference presentations, record these sessions, and
keep the communication flowing in our Proceedings
document. It is our professional duty to lead and to
communicate.
In the coming weeks I will be invading upstate New York
for a conference in Albany, then returning for my oldest
daughter’s graduation from Hartwick College in
Oneonta, and finally heading to our Conference in
Buffalo. If you want to track me down, you’ll need a
good GPS and a FastLane box to get you through the
tolls. Please travel safely to Buffalo and get yourself
ready for a really excellent few days. And remember,
just say you want “wings.” It is not “Bu_____ wings.”
When you are already in Bu_____ you just need to say
“wings.”
Wings,
Bob Boissy, President of NASIG
2013 Election Results
The Nominations & Elections Committee is pleased to
announce the results
of the 2013
election. Those
elected to office are as follows:
Vice-President/President Elect:
Steve Kelley, Wake Forest University
Treasurer:
Beverly Geckle, Middle Tennessee State University
Members-At-Large:
Clint Chamberlain, University of Texas at Arlington
Sarah Sutton, Emporia State University
Peter Whiting, University of Southern Indiana
On behalf of the committee, we would like to extend
warm congratulations to the elected candidates, as well
as sincere thanks to all the candidates who were willing
to stand for office.
Upcoming Conference News
PPC Update: There is still time to register!
There is still time to register for one of our three
exciting pre-conferences! Kevin Smith, keynote
presenter at the 2012 NASIG Annual Conference, will
discuss the rules and principles of copyright law, focus
on library specific situations, and help attendees learn
how to make informed copyright decisions at their
library. Come learn from Timothy S. Deliyannides and
Lauren Collister about how a library can become their
own publisher supporting their institution’s research
and teaching faculty while transforming today’s
inflationary cost model for serials. Need hands-on
exercises in creating serials RDA records and making the
transition to RDA? Les Hawkins and Hein Nguyen will
conduct a full day workshop split between two days.
CPC Update:
NASIG Conference – June 6-9 2013
Hyatt Regency Buffalo Hotel, Buffalo, NY
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