**Apologies for cross posting**

Welcome to 2022, and another year of NISO events! Our first monthly webinar of the year, Building and Ensuring Long-term Resilience (free for NISO members), takes place on January 12. It will be followed by a free webinar, ODI Conformance Statement for Libraries Workshop on January 19. And we close out the month with our first virtual conference, The User Experience: Just Fix It, on January 26. Please help us spread the word at your organization — we hope that you and your colleagues will join us for one or more of these virtual events!

Building and Ensuring Long-term Resilience (free for NISO members)

Wednesday, January 12, 11.00am - 12.30pm Eastern Standard Time (Canada/US)

This roundtable will bring together industry professionals and observers representing a range of stakeholder groups, to offer their insights on the impact of disruption, and to share their success stories for negotiating change. Speakers include: Roger Schonfeld, ITHAKA; Denise Stephens, University of Oklahoma; Alix Vance, AIP Publishing; and Jaime Wittenberg, University of Colorado - Boulder.

Register here (includes an unlimited number of attendees from your organization) 

ODI Conformance Statement for Libraries Workshop (free to all)

Wednesday, January 19, 3.00 - 4.00pm Eastern Standard Time (Canada/US)

Join NISO Open Discovery Initiative Steering Committee Library Representatives for a one-hour workshop to learn more about ODI (Open Discovery Initiative) and library conformance, get tips on how to approach each area of conformance, and create an action plan for next steps in preparing and publishing your institution’s conformance statement. Speakers include: Teresa Hazen, University of Arizona; Geoff Morse, Northwestern University; Laura Morse, Harvard University; and Ken Varnum, University of Michigan.

Register for free to receive joining instructions

The User Experience: Just Fix It (discounts for NISO members)

Wednesday, January 26, 12.00pm - 4.00pm Eastern Standard Time (Canada/US)

The user experience can be viewed through a variety of lenses. What makes sense to the developer may be baffling to the user. How can we ensure that users find the functionality or content they expect? That some useful resource hasn’t inadvertently been hidden? Are there small tweaks that could make a world of difference? Are they easy to make or will they require a significant overhaul of the user interface? We’ll hear from a group of industry professionals, with experience of enhancing the user experience in various ways while keeping an eye on technical debt, costs, and time. Speakers will include Lettie Conrad, LYC Consulting and Jessica Smith, JSTOR Labs.

Register here (includes an unlimited number of attendees from your organization)

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Happy New Year from all of us at NISO!

PS Looking ahead to February, don’t forget to register for NISO Plus 2022 (February 15-17) — the early bird discount is good through the end of this week (January 7)

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