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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">NASIG
is offering free memberships to students for a limited time! To take full advantage of all the many
benefits membership confers, please join before January 31, 2016.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">What is NASIG?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">NASIG is an independent
organization working to advance and transform the management of information
resources. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate and improve the distribution,
acquisition, and long-term accessibility of information resources in all
formats and business models.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">There are three key
components to NASIG's mission: </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">NASIG supports a dynamic community of professionals including,
but not limited to, librarians, publishers, and vendors engaging in
understanding one another’s perspectives and improving functionality throughout
the information resources lifecycle with an emphasis on scholarly
communications, serials, and electronic resources. </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">NASIG provides a rich variety of conference and continuing
education programming to encourage knowledge sharing among its members and to
support their professional and career development. </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">NASIG promotes the development and implementation of best
practices and standards for the distribution, acquisition and long-term
accessibility of information resources in all formats and business models
throughout their lifecycle. In addition to developing best practices, NASIG
supports the development of standards by NISO, an affiliated organization.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Why join NASIG? What’s in it for me as a
student member? </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Networking
with library professionals and vendors throughout the continuing resources
and/or scholarly communication community</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Reduced
rate for attendance at our annual conference (one of the best events for
networking and learning!), webinars, and regional events</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Access
to the NASIG blog and NASIG-L listserv</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Member
rates for NASIG-sponsored events and NISO webinars</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Access
to the online membership directory</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Access
to presenters’ handouts from the Annual conference and the Proceedings archive</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Access
to the quarterly NASIG Newsletter that covers the organization’s activities and
provides reports for regional, national, and international conferences</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Industry
news from the biweekly UKSG eNews</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Network
with librarians, publishers, vendors, educators, database providers, fellow
students, and others in the information resources environment</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Participate
(it is easy to get involved!) in committees, working groups, and other
volunteer opportunities in order to share NASIG’s vision and help shape the
future of the organization</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Special
subscription rate to the Serials Librarian. </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/q4motez" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">http://tinyurl.com/q4motez</span></b></a><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">Join today! For more details, please see: </span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/qa35ggt" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/qa35ggt</a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:120%"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif">For more information about NASIG, please
visit <a href="http://www.nasig.org/" target="_blank">http://www.nasig.org/</a>.</span></p></div>