NASIG 23rd Annual Conference: announcement

[Denise Novak <publicist@nasig.org>]

2nd Call for Papers: North American Serial Interest Group
23rd Annual Conference "Taking the Sting Out of Serials"
Date: June 5-8, 2008
Location: Tapatio Cliffs Hilton Resort, Phoenix, Arizona

The 2008 NASIG Annual Conference will be held June 5-8, 2008, at
Tapatio Cliffs Hilton Resort, Phoenix, Arizona.  The conference
program will feature ideas and issues that relate to electronic
resources, scholarly communication, serials, and publishing.
Conference presenters will include publishers, librarians,
subscription agents, and library systems vendors.

In order to prepare a comprehensive program, the Program Planning
Committee is issuing a second and final call for program
proposals.  PPC welcomes submissions related to the following
topics:

* Vendor/library relationships -- vendor responses to customers'
suggestions

* E-resources -- licensing and perpetual access, e-books, print
on demand, ERMS

* Collection management -- serials preservation
(binding/reformatting/offsite storage)

* Digital collections -- institutional repositories, digital
preservation, metadata outside the library.

* Cataloging -- rda and serials cataloging, MARC local holdings,
government publications issues (batchloading, minimal records)

* Technology -- federated searching, OPACs =96 display issues and
alternatives from the traditional systems, information seeking
behaviors in electronic environments, practical applications for
current and emerging technology

* Needs and practices of non-academic libraries

* Personnel management -- supervision, workflow, training and
retraining in libraries

* Serials and e-resources in the reference department

* Career development in serials

The Program Planning Committee will review all submitted
proposals for their content, timeliness, and relevance to the
conference theme and reserves the right to combine, blend, or
refocus proposals to maximize their relevance and to avoid
duplication.  In addition, the Committee will treat all
submissions as suggestions and guideposts.  Time management
issues and reimbursement guidelines generally limit each session
to two speakers.  Also note that proposals may be suggested as
one type of session and/or format and ultimately be accepted as
any one of the other types of sessions or formats; this decision
is the purview of the Program Planning Committee.  Vision and
Strategy speakers are required to produce a written paper for the
conference proceedings.  ALL presentations must be original and
not previously presented at other conferences.

For more information about the North American Serials Interest
Group, please see: http://www.nasig.org.  NASIG has a
reimbursement policy for conference speakers whose organizations
do not cover expenses.  For more information about this policy,
please see: http://www.nasig.org/public/reimbursement_policy.htm.

For complete program information, please see the original Call
for Proposals and Program Ideas Suggestions at
<http://nasig.org/conferences/2008proposals.html>

To suggest a proposal or an idea, please fill out the submission
form: http://www.nasig.org/public/forms/idea.htm.  The deadline
for this call for proposals and ideas is October 15, 2007.

Inquiries may be sent to the PPC co-chairs, Erika Ripley or Sarah
Wessel at: prog-plan@nasig.org.

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Denise D. Novak
Publicist and Past President, NASIG, Inc.
dn22@andrew.cmu.edu