January 2023

Congratulations to Our NISO Plus 2023 Scholarship Winners!

February 28, 2023January 25, 2023 No Comment

Now in its fourth year, the NISO Plus 2023 conference is swiftly approaching, and as in prior years, a highlight of the event is the NISO Plus scholarship awards ceremony. Supporting NISO’s strategic goal to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the scholarship awards are intended for anyone who feels that their voice and views are currently under-represented in the information community. Many thanks to Digital Science, who supported this year’s scholarships, and to our Review Committee,* which included several past and present scholarship winners. The Committee took on the challenging task of selecting awardees from a group of strong candidates. We are …

Libraries Take Center Stage at NISO Plus

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 No Comment

Ensuring that we include a librarian perspective in as many sessions as possible is key to NISO Plus’s success as a conference for the information community. This year, you can look forward to hearing from librarians across a broad range of organizations (academic, industry, and public libraries, as well as library service providers) and countries (from Australia to Canada to Sweden), on a wide variety of topics. Librarians and librarianship will be featured across the NISO Plus program: Collaborating to implement Seamless Access (Julie Zhu, IEEE; Heather Staines, Delta Think; and John Felts, Coastal Carolina University with Peter Murray, Index Data) …

NISO Plus 2023 Highlights Asia Pacific Perspectives on the Information Community

February 28, 2023January 5, 2023 No Comment

Thanks to the APAC representatives on our global planning committee, we have a great program lined up for anyone based in the Asia Pacific region or interested in getting an Asia Pacific perspective on information community issues. As in previous years, NISO Plus 2023 is divided into two blocks of time, one of which takes place during Asia Pacific office hours, making it easy for attendees there to participate. The APAC time block will feature discussions on a range of topics: Jesse Xiao (The University of Hong Kong) in conversation with Christopher Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) on the value proposition …

NISO Plus 2023 Is All About … Metadata!

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 No Comment

Thanks to the enthusiasm of our global planning committee and many of those who submitted session proposals, as well as the participants in the first NISO Plus Forum in September 2022, metadata is THE hot topic at NISO Plus 2023—which is great for NISO, since so much of our work is about developing standardized metadata and/or using it in a standardized way. This year’s conference features an entire track dedicated to the topic, including sessions on metadata in the creative industries, communicating the value of metadata, multi-language metadata — not to mention, Metadata Greatest Hits: Music Through the Ages! There …

NISO Plus 2023 Early Bird Registration Ends January 9!

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 No Comment

NISO Plus 2023 is just a few short weeks away and, if you haven’t booked your place at this year’s virtual conference, now’s the time! Our generous early bird discounts are available through January 9, with group tickets for five or more attendees starting at just $99 each for NISO members/$149 each for non-members. Individual tickets are $139 for NISO members, $179 for non-members. And, if you’re a student, early career professional, unemployed, or retired, or if you’re from outside the top 30 countries by GDP, you’ll pay just $30 (irrespective of when you register). So don’t delay, book your …