23:1 (2008:03) President’s Corner
March 13, 2008 at 3:06 pm | In President's Corner | 1 CommentPRESIDENT’S CORNER
Char Simser, NASIG President
Vote, Volunteer, and Vision!
ONLINE VOTING
It’s here! Some might say “big deal” or “it’s about time,” but that does not diminish this historic moment one iota. We talked about online voting for several years. Paper balloting was time-consuming and expensive. The move to online balloting hasn’t come with blood, sweat and tears, but it has been a lot of work behind the scenes. Donnice Cochenour’s technology updates do not describe the hours that she and Lisa Blackwell, Database & Directory (D&D) Committee chair, have put into verifying that the new membership database is working the way we expect. It does not count the hours that Gail Julian and her Nominations & Elections (N&E) Committee members tested the balloting. Online voting is open! We have an excellent group of NASIGers on the ballot this year. Please cast your vote. Participate in the process that elects your leaders, the individuals who will guide NASIG in the coming years!
VOLUNTEER FOR A NASIG COMMITTEE
The call has gone out! NASIG needs you! This organization thrives on the spirit of volunteerism. I sincerely hope you will consider putting your name forward. I jumped in with both feet a few months after first joining NASIG when my (now former) boss and I applied to be Proceedings editors in 1997. That experience allowed me to meet so many NASIGers. Volunteering opens some great networking opportunities and wonderful friendships! Do it! You won’t regret the decision to get involved.
VISION: STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS UPDATE
The weather, the primaries and caucuses, and the stock market have been wild these last few months. But nothing exemplifies “wild” like NASIG’s new strategic directions. Okay. Maybe they aren’t that wild but they will chart some new directions for our organization. I kicked off the discussion about our plans in the December Newsletter. I promised we would have documents from our October strategic planning retreat available on NASIGWeb by January. Because of the transition to the new website, I am making the documents available via this column until we can move them to their permanent home. Do take a look at the summary from consultant Betty Kjellberg of Association Solutions, LLC, which includes our action plans outlined for one year, October 2007-October 2008. I will highlight the progress we have made, which is reflected on the revised action plan:
- Appointed and charged the Administrative Support Task Force, chaired by Katy Ginanni
- Appointments underway for the Financial Advisory Committee
- New membership database and online voting in place; new website set to debut soon
- Publicized our volunteer program and the petition process for elections via the Newsletter
- Institutional membership report presented to the board; MDC will prepare a formal proposal to go to the Bylaws Committee with a ballot to go to the membership later this year
IN OTHER NEWS…
Site selection for our 2009 conference has been finalized. Asheville, North Carolina, here we come! Those dates are June 4-7, 2009. We will begin the review process for the 2010 location this spring.
In the meantime, I do hope to see you in Phoenix for NASIG’s 23rd Annual Conference. Check out the Conference Planning (CPC) and Program Planning Committees reports in this issue of the Newsletter and watch your inbox for updates from CPC in the next 3 months. This conference has the potential to be the best NASIG annual meeting yet!
23:1 (2008:03) Thanks to Our Donors!
March 13, 2008 at 1:45 pm | In Donors | Leave a CommentTHANKS TO OUR DONORS!
NASIG received donations from the following members in the period of November 2007-January 2008. Donations are used to support NASIG scholarships and awards. Thanks to all for their support of these important programs!
Miriam Allman
Mary Bailey
Chris Brady
Joan Cohen
Susan Davis (in honor of Rose Robischon)
Christie Degener
Tina Feick
Tonia Graves
Diane Grover
Lola Halpin
Michaelyn Haslam
Mary Page (in honor of Rose Robischon)
Char Simser
Joyce Tenney
Kathryn Wesley (in honor of Rose Robischon)
Sharon Wiles-Young
Kyle Winward
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23:1 (2008:03) Committee Update: PubPR
March 13, 2008 at 1:41 pm | In Publications/PR | Leave a Comment[Ed. note: Highlights from the January committee report to the Executive Board.]
PUBLICATIONS/PUBLIC RELATIONS
Marit Taylor, Chair
Kathryn Johns-Masten, our committee’s web liaison, made changes to the Speakers and Consultants Directory as outlined in our October report. This included reworking the submission form, changing the order and naming of the profile fields, in the name of ensuring more consistency. They quickly resolved some problems reported with the revised form. Susan Banoun and Sandy Folsom sent out a message to people currently in the Directory asking them to update their entries. Kathryn received twelve updated profiles and five members asked to be removed or are no longer NASIG members. These changes have been made and the new profiles are much more consistent and attractive as well as more up to date. We will send out a second reminder to those who didn’t respond, and at some point will remove entries for those who don’t respond. I am planning also to send out a general request for participants through NASIG-L and perhaps also particular ones to people who expressed interest in the Directory while answering my last year’s NASIG-L survey of opinions on the Directory.
Linda Pitts reports that we still have several NASIGuides pending; these are on MARC fields for serials, serials and institutional repositories, and FRBR for serials. One possibility on working with subscription vendors many not be written by the original people because of the board’s concern about naming individual vendors, although that topic is still open. We have recently received an email from someone interested in writing a new guide on electronic resources workflow; we responded and plan to discuss his proposal after ALA Midwinter.
23:1 (2008:03) Committee Update: Proceedings
March 13, 2008 at 1:08 pm | In Proceedings | Leave a Comment[Ed. note: Highlights from the January committee report to the Executive Board.]
PROCEEDINGS
Carol Ann Borchert and Buddy Pennington, 2007 Co-Editors
- The manuscript for the 2007 NASIG Conference Proceedings, Placing Your Bets in Kentucky: The Serials Gamble, was sent to Haworth on October 30, 2007. Our eleven pounds of glory included thirty-five papers. Many, many thanks to all of our authors and recorders for their hard work and cooperation!
- The editors notified Haworth that we plan to go without an index for the 2008 Conference Proceedings.
- The monograph version of the 2006 NASIG Conference Proceedings, Mile-High Views: Surveying the Serials Vista, was published in October 2007. The 2006 proceedings have also been posted on NASIG’s Web site.
- Our call for editors was successful, and Allyson Zellner will be joining us in January 2008.
- The longtime editor that has been proofreading the NASIG Conference Proceedings since 1992, Nancy Deisroth, will no longer be working with us. We will miss her guidance and input! This year, the editors are going through a transitional process as the Haworth and Taylor & Francis merge operations, so, like our publishers, we are in uncharted territory.
23:1 (2008:03) Committee Update: N&E
March 13, 2008 at 1:05 pm | In Nominations & Elections | Leave a Comment[Ed. note: Highlights from the January committee report to the Executive Board.]
NOMINATIONS & ELECTIONS
Gail Julian, Chair
Nominations were due by October 12, 2007. A total of 65 names were submitted.
Vice President/President-Elect: 38 nominations for 19 individuals
Member at Large: 100 nominations for 55 individuals
Some persons received multiple nominations, and some were nominated for both VP/PE and MAL. Five persons could not be considered because they are members of the N&E Committee or were not current NASIG members. Continue reading 23:1 (2008:03) Committee Update: N&E…
23:1 (2008:03) Committee Update: LSO
March 13, 2008 at 1:02 pm | In Library School Outreach | Leave a Comment[Ed. note: Highlights from the January committee report to the Executive Board.]
LIBRARY SCHOOL OUTREACH COMMITTEE
Sarah Sutton, Chair
We have made the following progress on our goals for 2007-08:
- Kara Killough volunteered for and was appointed to the Committee
- Developed information pages within our Google Group detailing contact information, previous award winners, and NASIG alumni for “ambassador” schools:
- LSU School of Library and Information Science
- Dominican Graduate School of Library and Information Science
- Indiana University School of Library and Information Science
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science
- Shared our contact information for “ambassador” schools with A&R in order to facilitate their efforts to promote NASIG 2008 Awards
- Begun outreach to these schools by promoting NASIG 2008 Awards
- Begun the process of recruiting ambassadors to:
- Texas Woman’s University School of Library and Information Studies
- University of North Texas School of Library and Information Science
- University of Texas School of Information
- University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science
- San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science Continue reading 23:1 (2008:03) Committee Update: LSO…
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