2018 Call for Proposals – Transforming the Information Community | NASIG Blog

"Publishers, vendors, librarians, and others in the fields of electronic resources, serials, library publishing and scholarly communication are encouraged to submit proposals relating to scholarly communication, publishing, resource acquisition, management, and discovery. Proposals based on emerging trends, case studies, and descriptive and experimental research findings are encouraged.  Proposals reflecting the conference theme will be especially valued."

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"Program topics inspired by the Core Competencies include:

• Electronic resource life cycle and management
• Collection analysis and development
• Standards and systems of cataloging and classification, metadata, and indexing
• Licensing and legal framework
• Standards, initiatives, and best practices
• Personal qualities of electronic and/or print serials resources librarians as defined in the NASIG Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians and Print Serials Management.
• Scholarly communication (copyright, institutional repositories, publishing, data management) [ ... ] "