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Have you ever wondered how standards are developed? Do you have ideas that you think would improve workflows and processes inside your organization? Would you like to get these ideas in front of vendors and software developers so that they can be implemented in the products that you use to do your job every day?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then we invite you to participate in a session at ALA Midwinter 2012 co-hosted by the LITA Standards Interest Group and NISO. In this session, NISO representatives will explain how standards are developed as well as what other deliverables (like Recommended Practices) NISO working groups produce. Following that presentation, an open forum will be held to give participants a chance to identify and discuss pressing issues they face in their workplaces and how new standards might help streamline their operations. The organizers of this session hope to walk away with new ideas for potential NISO work items around which working groups can be formed and real progress can be made.
The session will be held Saturday, January 21, from 4-5:30 pm in Room D226 of the Dallas Convention Center. Come armed with your ideas and be ready to engage as an active participant. Also, ideas for discussion are being accepted in advance. This is particularly important if you will not be able to attend in person. Simply send a brief description of the problem you want to see solved, how it impacts your particular situation, and any thoughts you may have for how it should be addressed to the LITA Standards Interest Group list (lita-stand@ala.org<mailto:lita-stand@ala.org>). This is an open list, and you may subscribe at http://lists.ala.org/wws/info/lita-stand. Please include your name and the name of your organization.
Marliese Thomas
Chair, LITA Standards Interest Group
User Engagement and Reference Librarian
Samford University Library
205.726.2770
msthomas_at_samford.edu<mailto:msthomas_at_samford.edu>
800 Lakeshore Drive
Birmingham, Alabama 35229
Received on Fri Jan 13 2012 - 10:17:36 EST