NASIG Newsletter

CALL FOR PROCEEDINGS RECORDERS
Allyson Zellner, Proceedings Co-Editor

NASIG is seeking conference recorders for the preconference, vision, and tactics sessions at this year’s annual conference in Phoenix. Recorders are asked to attend specific sessions, take notes and then synthesize the notes into a readable, comprehensive report of the session for the conference Proceedings. For vision sessions, recorders may be asked to listen to recordings of a presentation and work with the speaker to create a report for publication in the Proceedings.

Reporters will work under the general direction of the Proceedings editors. Editors for the 2008 Proceedings are Buddy Pennington, Allyson Zellner, and Carol Ann Borchert.

If you are a NASIG member with the ability to write clear, organized prose, and who is able to submit a report by Friday, July 18, 2008, please consider this opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the organization.

To apply, submit a letter of application by e-mail to:

Allyson A. Zellner, MLIS
E-mail : azellner@ebsco.com
Phone: (205) 981-4074

Include in your application your complete contact information (including your snail mail address, e-mail, and phone number!), sessions you plan to attend, and a writing sample. Please include the writing sample as an attachment or as a link. The writing sample can be on any topic; it does not have to be related to librarianship. The purpose of the writing sample is to illustrate your writing ability. Suggested samples include: reports on a process, event, or meeting; book reviews; excerpts from essays or academic papers. Do not include minutes of meetings.

The deadline for applications is Friday, April 18, 2008.

[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.

[Ed. note: Highlights from the fall committee report to the Executive Board.]

PROCEEDINGS
Carol Ann Borchert and Buddy Pennington, 2007 Editors

Gary Ives resigned as co-editor in July 2007.

2007 Vision sessions were not audio-recorded as they had been in past years, but the need for that has already been communicated to the CPC co-chairs for the 2008 conference.

The co-editors worked on collecting and editing papers submitted over the summer. Some presenters were surprised by the paper requirement, despite the notation in the speaker contract. PPC and the co-editors need to work together in future to minimize this confusion. We have managed to collect papers for all 35 sessions presented at NASIG.

Carol Ann contacted Haworth about the possibility of the new co-editor, Buddy Pennington, making a site visit to Haworth as previous co-editors have done. Because Haworth has recently been acquired by Taylor & Francis, the status of that is uncertain.

NEW EDITORS NAMED TO NASIG PUBLICATIONS

Allyson Zellner has been appointed as editor of the NASIG conference Proceedings. She will join the current editorial team of Carol Ann Borchert and Buddy Pennington in January 2008. In an announcement posted on NASIG-L, Proceedings board liaison Bob Schatz remarked:

“With this appointment, the continuity of this important team is assured. Allyson is currently a trainer for Ebsco, and comes to the editor’s work with experience in both editing and writing. We welcome her, and extend thanks to all those who applied for the position.”

Jennifer Duncan has joined the Newsletter Editorial Board as blog editor. Jennifer is electronic resources librarian at Utah State University. She has prior experience with blogs, including primary responsibility for Utah State’s LiBlog USU. She previously served on the Electronic Communications Committee, where she helped migrate the NASIG Jobslist from HTML to a blog format. The Newsletter Editorial Board looks forward to working with her.

2006 NASIG CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS NOW AVAILABLE AS A MONOGRAPH!
Carol Ann Borchert, Proceedings Editor

Mile-High Views: Surveying the Serials Vista has been published by Haworth as a separate monograph for purchase. Also published as volume 52, no. 1-4 of the Serials Librarian, the 2006 Proceedings were edited by Carol Ann Borchert and Gary Ives. The NASIG Conference Proceedings provide in-depth reporting of the various sessions at the conference which took place May 4-7, 2006, in Denver. For more information, please see http://www.haworthpressinc.com/store/product.asp?sku=6058.

The current co-editors have requested files for the 2006 Proceedings to be added to the NASIG Web pages, so stay tuned!

2006 NASIG CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS NOW AVAILABLE IN JOURNAL FORMAT!
Carol Ann Borchert and Gary Ives, Co-Editors

Mile-High Views: Surveying the Serials Vista has been published by Haworth as volume 52, no. 1-4 of the Serials Librarian.   Edited by Carol Ann Borchert and Gary Ives, the Proceedings provide in-depth reporting of the various sessions at the conference which took place May 4-7, 2006, in Denver.  The Proceedings include summaries of all sessions, plus transcripts of some of the vision sessions.  For those of you who could not attend, or who regret missing certain valuable programs, check out what you missed!  The monograph version of the Proceedings has not yet been published, but is expected in the fall. 

The co-editors wish to thank all speakers and recorders who made this published version of the 2006 NASIG Conference Proceedings possible.  Your hard work is appreciated!

PROCEEDINGS
Carol Ann Borchert and Gary Ives, Co-editors

ANNUAL REPORT, April 23

Board liaison:  Rick Anderson

NARRATIVE OF ACTIVITIES SINCE LAST REPORT

• Gary and Carol Ann visited Haworth Press July 16-18.
• The 2005 Proceedings was published in summer 2006, and the monograph version was released in the fall.  We anticipate a similar schedule for the publication of the 2006 Proceedings.
• The manuscript for the 2006 Proceedings was sent to Haworth early in November, a few days past Haworth’s October 31 deadline.  We received papers from all speakers and recorders.  Many thanks to all for their contributions to this publication!
• The co-editors received the final draft copies of the 2006 Proceedings at the end of February.  Haworth received the document March 21.
• Because the Proceedings time schedule has altered from what was originally in the editors’ manual, our original indexer for the monograph version, Melissa Beck, stepped down for 2006.  Gary contacted Smita Joshipura, and she graciously agreed to be our indexer for the 2006 Conference Proceedings.  The manual’s timeline has been updated.
• Carol Ann sent .pdf files of the 2005 Proceedings to the ECC Chair, but they are not yet on the NASIG website.  Carol Ann will ask about this when she sends the updated editors’ manual to ECC.
• Gary and Carol Ann have both agreed to continue as co-editors for the 2007 Proceedings.  A call has gone out for a third co-editor to join them this year, hopefully to continue in 2008 as an experienced editor with a new co-editor to train.
• The call for recorders was sent for inclusion in the March 2007 NASIG Newsletter and later sent to the NASIG-L listserv.  Because we only received 15 applications in our first batch, we have sent out an extended call.  We are especially having a hard time finding people who will be able to record for the preconferences.
• Gary contacted the speakers to give them information about submitting papers to us and to give them the copyright forms.  Papers from recorders and speakers are due July 2.

STATISTICAL INFORMATION (IF APPLICABLE)
None

ACTIONS(S) REQUIRED BY BOARD (IF APPLICABLE)
None

QUESTIONS FOR BOARD (IF APPLICABLE)
None

RECOMMENDATIONS TO BOARD (IF APPLICABLE)
None

Name of persons submitting report:  Carol Ann Borchert & Gary Ives

CALLING ALL CONFERENCE RECORDERS!
Gary Ives and Carol Anne Borchert, 2006 Proceedings Editors

NASIG is seeking conference recorders for the preconference, vision, strategy, and tactics sessions at the 2007 NASIG Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Recorders are asked to attend specific sessions, take notes and then synthesize the notes into a readable, comprehensive report of the session for the Conference Proceedings.  

In some cases, recorders may be asked to listen to recordings of a presentation and work with the speaker to create a report for publication in the Proceedings.  

Reporters will work under the general direction of the Proceedings editors.  

If you are a NASIG member with the ability to write clear, organized prose, and who is able to submit a report by Monday, July 2, 2007, please consider this opportunity to make a valuable contribution to the organization. 

To apply, submit a letter of application by e-mail to:  

Gary Ives
Email:  gives@lib-gw.tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 458-0726 

Include in your application your complete contact information (including your snail mail address, email, and phone number), sessions you plan to attend, and a writing sample.  Please include the writing sample as an attachment or as a link.  The writing sample can be on any topic; it does not have to be related to librarianship. The purpose of the writing sample is to illustrate your writing ability. Suggested samples include: reports on a process, event, or meeting; book reviews; excerpts from essays or academic papers. Do not include minutes of meetings. 

Deadline for Applications: Monday, April 2, 2007  

If you have questions, please contact the 2006 Proceedings editors: 

Gary Ives
Phone: (979) 458-0726
Email:  gives@lib-gw.tamu.edu 

Carol Ann Borchert
Phone:  (813) 974-3901
Email:  borchert@lib.usf.edu

2005 NASIG CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS NOW AVAILABLE!
Carol Ann Borchert, 2006 Co-Editor 

Roaring into Our 20’s:  NASIG 2005 has been published by Haworth as volume 50, no. 1-4 of the Serials Librarian and as a separate monograph.   Edited by Meg Mering and Elna Saxton, the Proceedings provide an in-depth reporting of the various sessions at the conference which took place May 19-22, 2005, in Minneapolis.  This includes transcripts of the vision sessions, so for those of you who missed the presentations by Leif Utne and Marshall Keys, along with our fabulous preconference, strategy session, and tactics session speakers, now is your chance to read up on what happened!

PROCEEDINGS
2005 Co-editors: Meg Mering and Elna Saxton
2006 Co-editors: Carol Ann Borchert and Gary Ives 

ACTIVITIES OF THE YEAR 

1. September 21-22, M. Mering visited the Haworth Press. 

2. Articles in Haworth journals are typically assigned keywords. Papers and reports by recorders for the NASIG Proceedings have never been assigned keywords. The Board agreed at its fall meeting that keywords would be assigned starting with the 2006 Proceedings. 

3. The 2005 Proceedings’ manuscript was submitted to Haworth the first full week in November, about ten days past Haworth’s suggested deadline of Oct 31. We did not receive a paper from Ted Kopple. 

4. The 2005 Proceedings were dedictated to Marla Schwartz. M. Schwartz was a charter member of NASIG and served on several committees and task forces. 

5. Editing the 2005 Proceedings’ galleys occurred in late February, early March.  

6. Kathryn Wesley served as the indexer. A Web editor was not assigned for the 2005. Haworth has agreed to supply a PDF version of the 2005 Proceedings.  

7. In late February, Gary Ives and Carol Ann Borchert were appointed co-editors for the 2006 Proceedings. 

8. In early March, C. Borchert sent out the call for recorders. 30 people responded to the call. All of the presenters for the strategy sessions and two of the vision session presenters are provided papers and will not require recorders.   

9. In early March, G. Ives sent out the call for an indexer. Four people applied for the position. One of them has been tentatively selected. G. Ives will contact this candidate on April 28. The applicant pool is very strong, even though it is small. 

10. The deadline for recorder papers is June 20. The deadline for presenter papers is June 6. 

ISSUES FOR THE BOARD
Please select the editors earlier in the year. The timeline in the manual is designed for a conference in mid-June, and even that assumed the editors were selected in January. With the conference beginning in the first week of May this year, the appointment starting at the end of February, March and April have been extremely hectic.  

In early January, Haworth’s Bill Cohen asked if the Board would allow Haworth to pay a free-lance fee of $250 to the indexer. This issue was discussed at the Board’s Midwinter meeting. What is the status of this request? Has B. Cohen contacted?