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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, 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.
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 nasigppc@gmail.com
Michelle, PPC co-chair
Michelle Turvey-Welch (she/her)
Associate Professor
Head of Content Development
Kansas State University Libraries
Manhattan, KS
mturvey@ksu.edu