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 This NISO Virtual Conference Is Only One Week Away!

Wednesday, August 15, 11am – 5pm (Eastern Daylight)

The Computer Campus: Integrating Information Systems and Services

 

We’re at the beginning of a new academic year. Think about how many of your online systems interact with other online systems at your institution. Consider the computing activities that you are asked to support on behalf of faculty and students. What are the practical implications? That’s what this virtual NISO conference is all about!

Here’s a sample of what our speakers will be covering:

 

A Collaborative Approach to Supporting Research and High Performance Computing

Marcy Vana, Senior Support Scientist, Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St Louis;

 

Biomedical researchers increasingly need basic programming skills and access to shared computing resources to conduct their research. In response to this evolving research environment, Becker Medical Library and the Center for High Performance Computing at Washington University in St. Louis formed a partnership to support the use of biomedical data analysis software designed for a cluster environment and to develop a series of introductory research computing workshops aimed at researchers new to programming and cluster computing. Demand for the introductory research computing workshops, in particular, has been very high, suggesting that there is a significant need for support in this area on campus. In order to meet this need, we have extended this successful collaboration to include the recently created Institute for Informatics, allowing us to begin to cover additional topics and further support the research community on campus.

 

Web Privacy and Web Analytics

Scott W.H. Young, User Experience & Assessment Librarian, Montana State University;

 

Privacy is a long-held value of libraries. Today’s networked technologies—including social media, web analytics, and cloud computing—present new challenges for achieving privacy. Google Analytics offers an instructive use case. This leading third-party analytics tracker is widely implemented on library websites, yet its privacy incursions are not widely understood by librarians or library users. How can we realize our values and achieve privacy in the age of analytics? This presentation will provide an overview of the main issues associated with this question, and discuss practical and strategic responses that libraries can implement to enhance our analytics practices with a view towards privacy.  

 

The lock to the safe has been tampered with: Why FERPA & IRB aren’t enough to protect student data in higher education

M. Brooke Robertshaw, Assistant Professor & Assessment Librarian, Oregon State University;

 

This presentation will discuss why the Federal Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA), and Institutional Review Boards (IRB), are not effective safe guards for protecting student data in this time of big data and learning analytics, even in the library. It will then touch on how the methodologies used in assessment and learning analytics are unintentionally, or intentionally, misused. The presentation will end with a list of practical actions that people can take in response to what they will learn from this presentation.

 

Curious about what the other speakers will be addressing?  Review additional abstracts here.

Ready now to register and pay by credit card? Use this form.

 

NISO LSA & Voting Members; NASIG Members

$190.00 (US and Canada)

$230.00 (International)

Non-Member

$255.00 (US and Canada)

$295.00 (International)

Student

$85.00

 

Purchase of a single registration entitles you to gather an unlimited number of staff from your organization/institution in a conference room setting to view the event on the day of the live broadcast. It also includes access to an archived recording of the event to allow those with conflicting obligations to still benefit from the day’s content.

 

Got questions? Get in touch:

 

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