You are invited to a NISO workshop exclusively for information professionals. Due to the interactive nature of the sessions on Managing Electronic Collections, only 120 attendees will be able to participate. We urge you to register no later than August 10 to secure your position.

National Information Standards Organization

September 28-30, 2006

The Magnolia Hotel

Denver, CO

Featuring:  best practices, case studies, and sessions to answer your how-to questions about managing today’s increasingly complex collections—including guidance on communicating with your vendors to ensure you get the systems and services you want.

Topics include usage statistics, repository architecture, copyright and licenses, journal versions, and web services. Visit http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/Collections-06-wkshp.html for a complete agenda and to register.

Day 1: Understanding users and usage

Day 2: Practical collection and repository management

Day 3: Gluing systems together to make your collections accessible

Among the keynoters and session leaders are the following experts (in order of appearance):

Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University

Denise M. Davis, Director, Office for Research & Statistics

American Library Association

            Peter Shepherd, Project Director,

            Project COUNTER

            Adam Chandler, Information Technology Librarian

            Cornell University Library

            Oliver Pesch, Chief Architect and Senior Vice President

            EBSCO Information Services

            Herbert von de Sompel, Digital Library Research & Prototyping

            Los Alamos National Laboratory; Research Library

            Karen Coyle, Digital Library Consultant

            Mike Teets, Vice President, OCLC Global Product Architecture