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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">NISO Educational
Programs, February 2018!<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Library Standards Alliance Members receive access to the February
7th <span></span></span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">webinar as an automatic benefit of membership; however, the
virtual conference on The Preprint requires a separate registration fee (unless
your institution has purchased a 2018 subscription package for those events).
Mark your calendars so as not to miss these informative events!<span></span></span></i></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">NISO Webinar</span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Wednesday, February 7, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.</span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><a href="http://www.niso.org/events/2018/02/evolving-natures-reference-work-and-reference-product" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">The
Evolving Natures of Reference Work and Reference Product<span></span></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">In an age when rapid reference inquiries
may be handled through a mobile phone and a search engine, reference work in
the library must change and expand. How is that unfolding? What are the new
expectations of the information products once referred to as major reference
works – those comprehensive or subject-specific encyclopedias and indexes that
served library professional and patron? How are librarians combining free and
subscription resources? This webinar will examine a variety of approaches to
enhanced service.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Confirmed Speakers <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Lenny Allen, </span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Global
Sales + Marketing Director, Bloomsbury Digital Resources<b>;<span></span></b></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Chris Strauber, </span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Senior
Research Librarian/Bibliographer for Philosophy and Theology, Boston
College<b>; <span></span></b></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Damon Zucca, </span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Publisher,
Scholarly Reference, Oxford University Press<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">To review the speaker abstracts, please visit the </span><a href="http://www.niso.org/events/2018/02/evolving-natures-reference-work-and-reference-product" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">NISO event page</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">NISO Virtual Conference</span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Wednesday, February 14, 11:00am - 5:00pm</span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><a href="http://www.niso.org/events/2018/02/preprint-integrating-form-scholarly-ecosystem" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">The
Preprint: Integrating the Form into the Scholarly Ecosystem<span></span></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">According to Wikipedia, the preprint is a “version of a
scholarly or scientific paper that precedes publication in
a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal”. Preprint archives,
such as arXiv and SSRN, rapidly achieved prominence in both the hard and social
sciences as rapid access to new work became a priority. It’s wonderful to have
those platforms, but what are best practices for libraries and other content
providers in working with them? Should preprints be assigned DOIs? What
relationship should exist between pre-prints and discovery services? What is
the interoperability with link resolvers like? What are the implications for
citation practices?<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Agenda<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">11:00 am – 11:15 am  Welcome and Introduction<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">11:15 am - 11:45 am  Preprints:
A Journey Through Time <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">11:45 am - 12:15 pm  Preprints and Publication Ethics <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">12:15 pm - 12:45 pm  Preprints in the Research/Academic
Institution <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">1:45 pm - 2:15 pm   Preprints
and Interoperability <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">2:15 pm - 2:45 pm   Preprints
and the Scholarly Society <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">2:45 pm - 3:15 pm   Preprints
and the Content Provider <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">3:30 pm - 4:30 pm   Case
Studies</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">4:30 pm – 5:00 pm   Wrap-Up
Discussion<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">To review the day's agenda, please visit the </span><a href="http://www.niso.org/events/2018/02/preprint-integrating-form-scholarly-ecosystem" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">NISO event page</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">And don’t miss </span><a href="http://www.niso.org/node/18821" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">NISO on the Road at ALA</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">:<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><a href="https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/ALA-Midwinter/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=332700" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">NISO Update</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Saturday, Feb 10; 1:00pm – 2:30pm<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Colorado Convention Center, Room 106<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><a href="https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/ALA-Midwinter/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=350143" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS"">Resource Access for the 21st Century:
Towards A Modern Access Architecture</span></a><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:black">Sunday, Feb 11, 10:30am – 11:30am<span></span></span></p>

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Denver Downtown Hotel<span></span></span></p>

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