[Eril-l] Boston Library Consortium and NISO Announce Membership Agreement

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Library Standards Alliance Benefits Extended to All BLC Members



*Boston, MA, and Baltimore, MD –  January 23, 2024*  – The Boston Library
Consortium (BLC) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
have announced an agreement to provide NISO Library Standards Alliance
(LSA) membership to all BLC members through December 31, 2026.



The agreement will extend full LSA membership benefits to BLC’s 25 member
libraries, granting them free access to NISO’s educational webinars
program, unlimited participation in NISO Working Groups and Standing
Committees, and discounted registration for all non-webinar events,
including the annual NISO Plus conference.



BLC 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
practices in the information community. As a Voting Member, BLC may comment
and vote on proposed standards and recommended practice projects as well as
vote in NISO Board elections.



“BLC is delighted to join the NISO community,” said Charlie Barlow, BLC’s
executive director. “LSA membership empowers colleagues across our entire
membership network to benefit from a robust suite of professional
development offerings and influence future directions in library practice.”



“I’m so pleased to welcome the Boston Library Consortium and its member
libraries to NISO,” added Todd Carpenter, NISO’s executive director. “BLC
has been a leading innovator in resource sharing, collective collection
management, and preservation across its community. Many of these efforts
are based upon consistent, standards-based business processes among BLC
member libraries. We’re looking forward to benefiting from their
perspectives as we work to develop authoritative standards for the
information community.”



For more information about this announcement, please contact admin at blc.org
or nisohq at niso.org.



About Boston Library Consortium

Boston Library Consortium empowers a coalition of libraries in the
northeastern United States to share knowledge, infrastructure, and
resources at scale.

Founded in 1970, BLC’s strength lies in its diverse membership network of
public and private universities, liberal arts colleges, state libraries,
public libraries, and special libraries united by a commitment to champion
innovation through collaboration. For more information, visit blc.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 life cycle 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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