Coverage of NASIG's Annual Conference in Information Today and ATG!

ATG Article of the Week: NASIG Races to the Crossroads

Posted: 14 Jul 2017 05:00 AM PDT

NASIG Races to the Crossroads

This article was posted by Marydee Ojala on the Information Today website and focuses on  NASIG’s  annual conference held in Indianapolis June 8–11, 2017. She reports that “capitalizing on the city’s racing heritage and its “crossroads of America” motto, NASIG chose a conference theme of “Racing to the Crossroads”. Touching on both concepts, presenters positioned their talks around either what librarians are racing toward or which crossroads concern them.”  

Ms Ojala also reminds us that NASIG has “expanded its interests beyond serials … to encompass e-resources of all types, scholarly communication, and academic publishing” and her report reflects this change.

Sessions covered include Sarah W. Sutton (Emporia State University), and her research assistant Rachel Collinge, identifying core competencies for e-resource librarians and NASIG Vision keynotes by Michel Dumontier, a data science professor at Maastricht University, April Hathcock, a New York University librarian, and Carol Tilley, who teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign’s School of Information Sciences.  Ms Ojala also recounts numerous breakout sessions on the nuts and bolts of collection assessment and ends her report by offering a brief list of conference takeaways.

Overall, Ms Ojala’s coverage provides those of us who couldn’t be at NASIG 2017 a firm sense of the scope of what was discussed as well as some insights into the key issues.