Join the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) for our Annual Update at the ALA Conference in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 29 (1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in LVCC - N113), where you can hear the latest news about NISO's current efforts, including standards, recommended practices and community meetings covering many areas of interest to the library community.

NISO Working group members will provide updates on these projects that are newly underway or recently completed.

• Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART), Noah Levin, Product and Metadata Manager, Global Marketing Services, Springer
• Open Discovery Initiative (ODI), Laura Morse, Director, Library Systems, Harvard University
• Presentation and Identification of E-Journals (PIE-J), Regina Reynolds, Coordinator, U.S. ISSN Center, Library of Congress
• Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) and 'SUSHI Lite' initiative, Nettie Lagace, Associate Director for Programs, NISO
• ResourceSync, Herbert Van de Sompel, Digital Library Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• NISO Altmetrics Initiative, Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO

FREE Pre-Conference Forum

And don’t forget the NISO/BISG 8th Annual Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape: Managing an Increasingly Complex and Interconnected World of Content, to be held Friday, June 27 from 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in LVCC - N231-233. This year's event will cover the THEMA classification systems, the Linked Content Coalition, Open Discovery and demand-driven acquisitions, EPUB developments, and digital content assessment. For details see the event webpage at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/alaannual/2014nisobisgforum/

Attendance is free but we ask that you RSVP (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S7CVTZ3) for logistics purposes.

Visit NISO at Booth #1829 in the Exhibits area.

Cynthia Hodgson

Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

chodgson@niso.org

301-654-2512