March 2017 Full Issue
Election Slate
Call for Volunteers
Upcoming Conference News
CPC Update
PPC Update
Profiles
Scholarly Communication Core Competencies
Task Force
April Hathcock
Columns
Citations: Required Reading by NASIG Members
Title Changes
Executive Board Minutes
October
Table of Contents
The board met for our winter meeting in Austin this year, in part because few of us were going to Midwinter, and in part because we didn't want to keep Betsy Appleton away from her new baby for that long! I was particularly excited about the location because I can never get enough Torchy's Tacos. Especially the barbacoa - I'm drooling just thinking about it right now. How is it past the midyear already? When I think back at how much we've done and how much we still need to do, I get simultaneously overwhelmed and excited.
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Earlier this year, we asked the Evaluations &
Assessment Committee to survey the current
committees and see if there are structural changes we
could make to improve the effectiveness of the
committees, from ensuring that they have a sufficient
number of members to assessing where
workflows/responsibilities might overlap with other
committees. We will be taking their recommendations
and making adjustments accordingly over the next year,
and we plan to do this committee function review in
another three to five years to make sure committee
responsibilities and charges don’t drift too much.
overdue. Our website is our business card, and we want
to make sure ours is conveying the right message.
Related to this, we asked Non-Profit Help to draft a
marketing action plan, and the website was among
several areas covered. The board has shared the plan
with the Strategic Planning Task Force so that we can
cover the recommendations where that makes sense. I
dream of a day when I mention NASIG to a colleague
and they know exactly who we are and what we do (not
just print serials)!
Last June in Albuquerque, I closed the conference with a
brief introduction to our idea/plan for shifting to
rotating among several regional locations for the
conference. The board has had many long discussions
about this, stemming from our strategic planning
retreat last year when we brainstormed ways to relieve
the heft of the work that Conference Planning and
other committees do for the organization.
There are many good reasons to move in this direction,
and while I have enjoyed visiting new cities every year,
this is a business decision to help sustain the conference
and NASIG. We need predictability for budgeting. We
need to develop stable relationships with hotel staff
and Convention and Visitor’s Bureau to accommodate
our particular needs. Additionally, knowing we’ll be
back in that location in a few years might encourage
regional first-time attendees to become full-time
members, regardless of whether or not they’ll be able
to travel to the conference every year.
After going on the site visits for an East Coast location, I
am ever more aware of how hard it is to find the right
place for us, and how much time, effort, and expense
goes into that process. I think by settling into a handful
of locations, we’ll be better able to thrive as an
organization. That being said, we’re not locking
ourselves into long-term contracts right away, and how
this rotation plan will look and work is yet to be seen.
The Site Selection Team invites feedback on whether a
particular location works for us or not, and suggestions
for how it might be improved.
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2017 Election Slate
Patrick Carr, Chair,
NASIG Nominations & Elections Committee
The following individuals are slated to appear on the
ballot for the 2017 NASIG election:
Vice President/President-Elect
(3-year term beginning 2017/18)
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Angela Dresselhaus, East Carolina University
Danielle Williams, University of Evansville
Treasurer
(3-year term beginning 2017/18)
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Jessica Ireland, Radford University
Lisa Martincik, University of Iowa
Member-at-Large
(3 to be elected; 2-year terms beginning 2017/18)
Karen Davidson, Mississippi State University
Katy DiVittorio, University of Colorado Denver
Maria Hatfield, WT Cox Subscription Services
Leigh Ann DePope, University of Maryland, College
Park
Andrew Wesolek, Clemson University
Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress
The Nominations & Elections Committee is also
soliciting petition candidates for the 2017 election for
the following open positions on the Executive Board:
Vice President/President-Elect
Treasurer
Member-at-Large
Instructions for petition candidates can be found on the
NASIG website on the Elections Process page:
http://www.nasig.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_w
ebpage_menu=308&pk_association_webpage=1175.
Petitioners must fulfill the requirements listed on the
Petition Candidate Profile form and agree in writing to
run for the desired office. Petition candidates must be
members in good standing as noted in the NASIG
Bylaws.
Petition candidates will appear on the final ballot once
the requirements are met. Please note that no (...truncated)