Mary Beth Barilla

Preliminary Program Now Available for NISO Plus Global/Online

July 19, 2024July 10, 2024 No Comment

The 2024 NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 17–18) is just over two months away! As with all NISO Plus events, the focus is on identifying problems in the scholarly ecosystem that the community can solve together, and the format will foster conversation during the sessions, empowering attendees to be a part of any solutions that might emerge. And as the early bird registration deadline (August 9) approaches, we are excited to announce that our preliminary program is now available. Proposed by members of the community and reviewed and selected by the NISO Plus 2024–25 Planning Committee, sessions for the two-day, …

Ginny Barbour to Deliver Keynote at NISO Plus Global/Online

June 27, 2024June 26, 2024 No Comment

We are delighted to announce that Professor Virginia (Ginny) Barbour, Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), will deliver one of two keynote addresses at the NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online conference. An early champion of open research, Professor Barbour was trained in the UK in medicine at Cambridge University and University College and Middlesex Hospital medical schools, specializing in hematology. She went on to do a DPhil at Oxford University and post-doctoral research in the US on globin gene regulation. She joined The Lancet in 1999, leaving in 2004 to be …

What I Learned at NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore (Part Two)

May 10, 2024May 10, 2024 No Comment

With a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, NISO funded travel for 12 NISO Plus Scholarship winners (as well as a few alums) to our February conference in Baltimore. In their last post, four of the awardees told us about their experience attending the meeting. This month, four additional members of the cohort shared with us as well, touching on lessons learned and how their experience changed their approach to their work. Sunny Chung, Health Sciences Librarian, Stony Brook University During the 2024 NISO Plus Conference in Baltimore, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend through a scholarship …

Answer the Call! Propose a Session for the 2024 NISO Plus Global/Online Conference

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 No Comment

What are the top priorities and concerns facing your organization? What are the biggest opportunities or risks, and how should the information community address them? If you have ideas to share, then we encourage you to submit a proposal for the 2024 NISO Plus Global/Online conference, to be held virtually September 17–18, 2024. It’s a great opportunity to meet and collaborate with professionals from across the information community and around the world to address the most pressing issues in scholarly communications. And as with any NISO Plus conference, ideas emerging from the meeting will help to shape discussions about future …

What Attendees Told us about NISO Plus Baltimore

April 11, 2024April 11, 2024 No Comment

The NISO Plus event in Baltimore was much anticipated, as it was our fifth anniversary NISO Plus conference and the first to be held in person since our February 2020 inaugural meeting. We are pleased now to report on the event and share some of the feedback we received. The conference hosted 225 attendees, a slightly higher number than our first NISO Plus in Baltimore, representing organizations from across the information community. Thirty-one percent of attendees were from libraries and 24% from suppliers or scholarly infrastructure providers, and an additional 24% were from publishing organizations. Registrants also included those working …

What I Learned at NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore

April 9, 2024April 9, 2024 No Comment

The NISO Plus Scholarships are awarded every year to a group of early-career and emerging professionals who feel that their views are underrepresented in the information community. The scholarship program plays an important role in supporting NISO’s strategic goals, which include connecting diverse stakeholders and inspiring collaboration among them. This year, thanks to a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we were able to bring our 2024 awardees (as well as a few alums) to Baltimore for our February 13–14 NISO Plus conference. Four members of the 2024 cohort recently agreed to share some thoughts on what they learned …

It’s Time to Register for NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore!

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 No Comment

If you haven’t yet registered for our NISO Plus 2024 conference in Baltimore (February 13–14), now is the time! Our fifth anniversary Plus conference is just two weeks away. Hosted in person for the first time since 2020, the NISO Plus Conference will feature expert panel discussions developed by a planning committee of information professionals from around the world. Our program also includes inspiring keynotes from industry leaders, including Thomas Padilla’s opening address on “States of Open AI” and the annual Miles Conrad lecture, to be delivered this year by Ed Pentz. As always, the conference will emphasize discussion and …

Announcing Our 2024 NISO Plus Scholarship Winners

February 5, 2024January 18, 2024 No Comment

Each year, the NISO Plus conference brings people together in a dynamic forum to explore and tackle trends and challenges in the global information community. In alignment with NISO’s strategic plan and steadfast commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, we invite all members of that community to participate in these discussions and work with us to produce solutions with the widest possible impact. To that end, the NISO Plus Scholarship program extends a unique opportunity for a group of emerging and mid-career professionals to contribute their perspectives and make their voices heard. We are pleased to announce that this year, …

Our Early Bird Registration Deadline Is Just Days Away!

January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 No Comment

NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore is just a few short weeks away, and if you haven’t yet registered, now’s the time! Early bird discounts are available through January 8, with additional discounts for NISO members and groups. Now in its fifth year—and in person for the first time since 2020—the NISO Plus Conference will feature expert panel discussions developed by a planning committee of information professionals from around the world. Our program also includes inspiring keynotes from industry leaders, including Thomas Padilla’s opening address on “States of Open AI” and the annual Miles Conrad lecture, to be delivered this year …

Thomas Padilla to Deliver Opening Keynote at NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore

December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 No Comment

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Padilla, Deputy Director, Archiving and Data Services at the Internet Archive, will deliver the opening keynote address at the NISO Plus 2024 conference in Baltimore on Tuesday, February 13, at 9:30 am. Internationally recognized for his leadership in promoting responsible stewardship and computational use of memory organization collections as data, Thomas earned his MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has held positions at Michigan State University; the University of California, Santa Barbara (where he served as the UC system’s first humanities data curator), and the University …