[Eril-l] Which Conference?

[Steve Oberg]

Just a quick clarification. NASIG is not specifically serials focused, and hasn’t been for some time. As an example, it released the well-regarded Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians document a few years ago. More recently, it underwent a name change and updated (expanded) its mission and vision to make that clearer to the broader library community. If you look at recent conference programs, you’ll see that a wide range of e-resources issues has been covered, including institutional repositories, library as publisher, and other things. Serials issues are still part of the whole, including print serials management. (By the way, more recently, NASIG adopted a similar core competencies document for print serials management. Each of these documents can be found on the NASIG website by clicking on Publications > Core Competencies.)

Like Todd, I have heard great things about ER&L and someday I hope to attend it. I also think The Charleston Conference is great. But I think NASIG is also worth considering in addition to others that have been mentioned.

Steve

Steve Oberg<http://www.wheaton.edu/Academics/Faculty/O/Steve-Oberg>
Assistant Professor of Library Science
Electronic Resources and Serials
Wheaton College (IL)
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NASIG Executive Board Member-At-Large
[NASIG - http://www.nasig.org]

From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org>> on behalf of Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca<mailto:mbelvadi at upei.ca>>
Date: Friday, December 4, 2015 at 12:41 PM
To: Kathleen Juliano <kjuliano at drew.edu<mailto:kjuliano at drew.edu>>
Cc: eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>>
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Which Conference?

ER&L is excellent. NASIG is specifically serials, so it might not give you enough coverage on other things, like ebooks and other e-services - I don't go to it so I don't know for sure.

Another excellent one, but a little more expensive, is Computers in Libraries. It's hosted by a for-profit though, so if your funding requires non-profit conferences only, that one would be out.  But I've been blown away with ideasx every time I've gone.

Every other year is the LITA conference too.  Depending on what scope "electronic resources librarian" has for you, if it includes for instance a big role for content on your website, you might find the LITA conferences very helpful.

Fortunately pretty much everyone keeps past conference info online nowadays so you can look around and compare.

Melissa Belvadi


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