[Eril-l] Amigos NISO Consortium Agreement Announced

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Amigos NISO Consortium Agreement Announced

Agreement Extends LSA Benefits to All Amigos Members

Addison, TX and Baltimore, MD –  March 2023 – Amigos Library Services and
the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced a
consortium agreement to provide NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA)
membership to all Amigos members.



The agreement will provide over 500 Amigos member libraries with full LSA
membership benefits, including free access to NISO’s educational webinar
program, unlimited participation in NISO Working Groups/Standing
Committees, and discounted registration for all non-webinar events,
including the annual NISO Plus conference.



Amigos also joins NISO as a Voting Member, which gives the lead consortium
organization the opportunity to influence the direction of technological
advances in information management through driving standards and best
practice in the information community. As a Voting Member, Amigos may
comment and vote on proposed standards and recommended practice projects as
well as vote in NISO Board elections.

"This NISO partnership helps expand some of the key benefits of membership
in Amigos, including access to continuing education and collective action
on issues of importance to libraries' futures," noted Miguel Figueroa,
President and CEO of Amigos Library Services. "We look forward to our
member libraries' leadership and engagement with NISO."



“We are excited to welcome Amigos Library Services, one of the largest
library consortia in the US, to the NISO community,” says NISO Executive
Director Todd Carpenter. “Their history as a member-led organization
specializing in cooperation and resource sharing is well aligned with
NISO’s mission of collaborating to advance standards and best practices.
Amigos’ many member institutions will also add to the diverse range of
libraries represented in our programs and committees.”



For more information about this announcement, please contact
membership at amigos.org or nisohq at niso.org.



About Amigos Library Services

Amigos is one of the largest consortia of libraries and cultural heritage
institutions in the United States. For more than 40 years, Amigos members
have collaborated to obtain affordable services and shared library
resources and knowledge. Through membership in Amigos, libraries
collectively gain access to the latest innovations and services in the
library community; pursue opportunities for continuing professional
education; and leverage their buying power. Collaboration strengthens each
member's ability to serve and lead its community in the creative and
effective use of information resources. www.amigos.org.



About NISO

Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). niso.org


NISO

3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302

Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: 301.654.2512

E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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