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NASIG is soliciting proposals for its 40th Annual Conference, to be held
online May 19-21, 2025, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. EDT.

NASIG seeks proposals for sessions on topics related to the areas defined
in NASIG’s Core Competencies
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including, but not limited to:

   - Standards and systems of cataloging and classification, metadata,
   linked data, and indexing
   - Electronic resource life cycle and management
   - Collection analysis, assessment, and development
   - Licensing and legal framework of library content
   - Ethical Issues in technical services
   - Standards, initiatives, and best practices for library content
   - Scholarly communication, including copyright, data management, and
   assessment and impact metrics
   - Institutional repositories, publishing, digital preservation, open
   educational resources, and open access
   - Life cycle and workflow of print continuing resources
   - Relationship building between libraries, vendors, publishers,
   standards bodies, and others involved in the information community
   - Supervision and management of staff working in areas relevant to NASIG
   - Management of projects related to electronic and/or print resources or
   scholarly communication
   - Initiatives and best practices in areas included in the core
   competencies and awareness of trends and ongoing developments in those areas
   - Diversity, equity, and inclusion in relation to libraries

Presentations are selected by the Program Planning Committee (PPC) based on
their relevance to NASIG member interests. Co-presenters are welcomed, but
we ask that you limit submissions to no more than three presenters.
Presenters may be asked to combine sessions with other presenters on
similar topics.

Programming will be offered via Zoom and will feature predominantly live
sessions with some pre-recorded sessions also available. If specific
circumstances such as time zones means you would prefer to present via
pre-recording, please let the PPC know in your proposal submission.

Presenters should include approximately 45 minutes of content including
questions and discussion.

Presenters will have the option of publishing a conference report in the NASIG
Conference Proceedings
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.

More information about the conference including preliminary registration
rates is available at https://nasig.org/NASIG-2025-FAQ. Accepted
presentations will be offered a 50% discount off the qualified registration
for the conference.

Please submit all proposals using the online form at
https://proposalspace.com/calls/d/1758.

The submission deadline is December 15th 2024.

Questions? Please email [log in to unmask]

CJ Garcia
NASIG Social Media Coordinator-in-training