May 2013 Full Issue

NASIG Newsletter, Jul 2013

Published on 05/01/13

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May 2013 Full Issue

President's Corner Report Committee Reports Archivist Awards 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. - 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 Art of Information, Architecture of Knowledge (...truncated)


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