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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Have you seen the
roster of NISO’s upcoming educational programs in December? Register now!<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>NISO Webinar<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Wednesday, December
6, 2017, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.</b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/webinars/dec6_webinar/">Tracing
Discovery & Subsequent Use: Harvesting and Analyzing the Data</a><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In 2016, NISO announced an initiative aimed at development
of best practices for documenting and understanding users’ paths between
discovery of content and accessing the content. Did users come in from a discovery
service, Google Scholar or some other available channel? What should that
signify to service providers? What does that mean for libraries? This session
will spotlight the size and scope of the issue as well as the progress that may
be made towards its resolution.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Confirmed Speakers: <span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b>Allison
Belan</b>, Associate Director, Digital Strategy & Systems, Duke University
Press; <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b>Peter Vlahakis</b>, Product Manager, Ithaka
and <b>Dan Paskett</b>, Director, Shared Shelf Outreach
Coordinator, Ithaka; <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b>Ken Varnum</b>, Senior Program
Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Library Analytics, University of
Michigan</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To review the speaker abstracts, please visit the <a href="http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/webinars/dec6_webinar/">NISO event
page</a>.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To register online for this NISO webinar, you can use <a href="https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1915201">this
form</a>.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>NISO Virtual
Conference<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Wednesday, December
13, 2017, 11:00am – 5:00pm</b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/2017_virtconf/dec13_virtconf/">Advancing
Altmetrics: Best Practices and Emerging Ideas</a><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is an active area for a variety of reasons. There is an
ongoing need to justify the work, space and resources invested in the library.
How best to appropriately generate, synthesize, interpret, and deliver the most
useful data to demonstrate the return on investment made by the institution is
a pressing concern. What do we know to be best practices for using altmetrics
in assessment? How comfortable are faculty with the use of altmetrics in the
context of tenure and promotion activities? <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NISO’s related working group has built a better
understanding of use cases for existing altmetrics, but already there are
discussions on whether new metrics might be usefully framed for measuring
research impact outside of the academic environment or for capturing the value
of unconventional outputs of research.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will views and downloads usage indicators be sufficient to evaluate
the usefulness of data sets? What examples might be provided by studies of
COUNTER, SUSHI, and SUSHI Lite? What alternative approaches might be needed or
fostered in order to ensure the discoverability, usability, and reproducibility
of scientific data sets?<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Registering for this event automatically includes access to
a Training Thursday webinar, scheduled for December 14, 2017 (1:00 p.m. – 2:30
p.m.) <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Confirmed Speakers:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b>Mike
Taylor</b>, <i>Head of Metric Development, Digital Science;</i> <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b>Stacy
Konkiel</b>, <i>Director of Research
and Education, Altmetric;</i> <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b>Andy Herzog</b>, <i>Faculty Services and Online
Engagement, Department Head, University of Texas at Arlington</i>; <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b>Patty Smith</b>, <i>Impact and Dissemination
Librarian, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University;</i> <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b>Daniella Lowenberg</b>, <i>Research Data Specialist &
Product Manager, California Digital Library; <span></span></i></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b>William Gunn, </b><i>Director of Academic Outreach, Mendeley<span></span></i></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><b>Martha Kyrillidou</b><i>, PhD., Principal,
QualityMetrics, LLC<span></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To review the day’s agenda, please visit the <a href="http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/2017_virtconf/dec13_virtconf/">NISO
event page</a>.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To register online for this event, please use <a href="https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1918040">this
form</a>. <br>
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<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Note</u></b>:
Registration for this virtual conference includes a Training Thursday session,
scheduled for December 14, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern). The segment
consists of three case studies from professionals who have successfully
leveraged metrics for their organizations and clients.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Confirmed Speakers:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b>Anne
Stone</b>, <i>Senior Manager, Client
Services, TBI Communications</i><span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=""><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b>Richard
Hulser</b>, <i>Chief Librarian, Research
Library and Archives, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County</i><span></span></p>
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