Webinar on Library Systems & Interoperablity

["Cynthia Hodgson" <chodgson@niso.org>]

There's still time to register for NISO's webinar on Library 
Systems and Interoperability: Breaking Down Silos, to be held 
Wednesday, June 10, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time).

**Note especially the update on the presentation from Andrew Pace 
at OCLC who will be discussing OCLC's new cloud-based, web-scale 
management services and how interoperability is being addressed 
in this project. Take this opportunity to hear first-hand about 
the newly announced plans "to release Web-scale delivery and 
circulation, print and electronic acquisitions, and license 
management components to WorldCat Local." There will be 
opportunity to ask questions as well.

In today's information environment, libraries work with a slew of 
systems from different vendors to manage, develop, distribute, 
and track their resources, and to provide rich navigational and 
discovery tools to the end users. Data needs to be re-used in 
multiple places and continually synchronized. Records from one 
system must link seamlessly to records in another. Key to making 
this work effectively is interoperability. And standards are 
critical to successful, cost effective, and vendor-neutral 
interoperability. This webinar provides a sampling of new work 
that is taking place to enable information about library 
resources to be shared between systems.

Topics to be covered include:

CORE: Exchanging Cost Information Between Library Systems --- Ted 
Koppel (AGent Verso (ILS) Product Manager, Auto-Graphics, Inc) 
and Ed Riding, (Technical Product Manager, SirsiDynix), co-chairs 
of the NISO CORE working group will explain how the CORE protocol 
(now in trial use) provides a solution to sharing financial 
information between an ILS and ERM or between a library's system 
and a vendor's.

Interoperability via Web-based Services -- Working with multiple 
libraries, providing networked services to improve the management 
of various services, is just one way to help address the issue of 
interoperability in this environment. Andrew Pace (OCLC) will 
discuss OCLC's new cloud-based, web-scale management services and 
how interoperability is being addressed in this project. (See 
http://www.oclc.org/productworks/webscale.htm)

DLF's ILS Discovery Interfaces Project -- In 2007-2008, the 
Digital Library Federation (DLF) convened a Task Group to 
recommend standard interfaces for integrating the data and 
services of the Integrated Library System (ILS) with new 
applications supporting user discovery, and to create a technical 
proposal for how such integration should be accomplished. John 
Mark Ockerbloom (Digital Library Architect and Planner, 
University of Pennsylvania) will review the Task Group's official 
recommendation (revision 1.1) that was released in December 2008.

Webinar fees are $79.00 for NISO and NASIG members in the U.S. 
and Canada and $99.00 for non-members. Separate rates exist for 
international access. A student discount is also available. 
Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes 
access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. If you are 
unable to participate in person, registering will still provide 
you with access to the recorded version of the webinar to watch 
at your own convenience. (International registrants who are not 
participating live may register at the domestic rate.) For more 
information and to register, visit the event webpage: 
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/interop09

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512