NASIG's Continuing Education Committee will host three exciting webinars this spring!

1. Library Law School
When:  2:00 ET March 22, 2023
Via Zoom
How to Register: https://nasig.org/event-5183203

DESCRIPTION:
You’re not a lawyer, so why are you reading and signing legal documents? The likely answer: because there is no one else to do it! But, regardless of how it happened, if you’ve found yourself responsible for understanding, negotiating, and signing license agreements, then this session is for you. License agreements protect both the customer and provider, and this session highlights the most important clauses of license agreements and presents strategies for navigating these dense documents.

SPEAKER BIOS
Joe Marciniak is an Electronic Resources Librarian at Princeton University, involved in managing all aspects of the e-resources lifecycle. Joe received an MLIS from the University of Alabama, an MFA from UCLA, and a BA from Earlham College.

2. You’re hired! Best practices of applying and interviewing for library jobs
When:  2:00 ET April 6, 2023
Via Zoom
How to Register: https://nasig.org/event-5189317

DESCRIPTION
Would you like advice on how to read job ads and find the next opportunity in your library career? In this webinar, you will have a chance to hear from and talk to a group of experienced librarians about reading job ads, preparing applications, applying for jobs, and interviewing. The panel will provide tips on decoding job ads, understanding how applications are evaluated by search committees, and leveraging experiences both inside and outside of libraries in applications and interviews. Join us, bring your questions, and share your experiences.


SPEAKER BIOS
Moderator: Juliya Borie, Librarian - Serials Cataloguer, University of Toronto Libraries

Panelists:
Betsy Appleton, Associate Law Library Director for Technical Services,  The University of Texas School of Law
Matt Jabaily, Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian & Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Dawn Rapoza, Librarian, U.S. Serials and Government Documents, Library of Congress
Wendy Robertson, Institutional Repository and Metadata Librarian, The University of Iowa Libraries

3. Digital Preservation: why libraries need a policy for the stuff they publish and the stuff they collect
When: 11:00 ET May 4,
Via Zoom
How to Register: coming soon, save the date!

DESCRIPTION:
When digital content vanishes the first warning could be an irreparable broken link. Perhaps a librarian deletes that catalog record. Perhaps a scholar no longer cites that work. Quietly, invisibly the scholarly record erodes away.
A reliable means of preserving, safeguarding and making accessible important digital content for the future, especially those objects that comprise the record of advances in human knowledge, is an essential foundation for human progress. But we are far, far away from realizing this vision.

As the digital scholarly record grows in size, volume, and complexity, the ecosystem of stakeholders responsible for stewarding this information into the future grows. Together each of us must take responsibility to develop plans, strategies, and activities to ensure that these materials remain available and usable for as long as they are needed.
NASIG’s Model Digital Preservation Policy is a tool designed to help library publishers (and other publishers!) measure, grow, and publicize their organization’s commitment to preserving the scholarship entrusted to it.

In this session, we will explore:
The NASIG Model Digital Preservation Policy
Case study in digital preservation policy development by SciFree, focusing on library and researcher needs in the Open Access publishing environment
Collection risk assessment conducted by University of California, Davis and optimizing digital preservation language in library license agreements to ensure content in all formats remains available to future users.

SPEAKERS::
Alicia Wise is Co-Chair of NASIG’s Digital Preservation Committee and Executive Director of the CLOCKSS Archive. She has been active in increasing access to research information for 20 years in roles within our publishing community (e.g. with Elsevier, the Publishers Association, the Publishers Licensing Service) and also within the library community (e.g. Jisc, a range of universities). Her Ph.D. is in Anthropology where her research focussed on the Roman invasion of Scotland and resistance to this.

Abeni Wickham, PhD. Serves on NASIG’s Digital Preservation Committee and  is founder/CEO at SciFree with a mission to democratize the academic publishing system, working together with libraries around the world to help make 100% Open Access and Open Science sustainable and equitable.

Michelle Polchow, Electronic Resources Librarian, University of California, Davis. Serves with Alicia as Co-Chair of  NASIG’s Digital Preservation Committee and also on the ISSN International Centre Technical Advisory Committee in a project development collaboration. She is involved in beta-testing the new ISSN+ tool in support of electronic resource and collections librarians to have the ability to upload localized collection data and retrieve information about the extent of preservation for these titles, based on the ISSN Keepers Registry data.

Webinar Rates:

NASIG members: $35

NASIG student members: $15

NISO members *: $35

SSP members*: $35

NASIG non-member: $50

Group registration: $95

NASIG members should login for member rate.

* NISO and SSP members should contact the NASIG Continuing Education Committee ([log in to unmask]) prior to registering in order to receive a priority code used for getting the listed rates.

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NASIG is an independent, non-profit organization working to advance and transform the management of information resources. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate and improve the distribution, acquisition, and long-term accessibility of information resources in all formats and business models.