<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Final 24 Hours to
Register! </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>NISO Webinar,
Wednesday, March 13, 1:00 – 2:30 (Eastern Daylight, US & Canada)</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Confirmed Speakers
include:</b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Patti Brennan</b>,
Director, National Library of Medicine</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Stanley J. Wilder</b>,
Dean of the Library, Louisiana State University</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Roger Macdonald</b>,
Director, Television Archive, Internet Archive</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Webinar: <b><a href="https://www.niso.org/events/2019/03/defining-library-mission-role-and-community" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Defining
The Library: The Mission, Role and Community<span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;text-decoration-line:none"></span></a></b></p>
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Nearly twenty years into the 21st century, how exactly do we define the word, <i>library</i>?
This is hardly a frivolous question. Neither is it a settled one. If a library
is less defined by its information resources or access services than by foot
traffic or usage stats, then appropriate assessment of its contribution to the
institution -- through either quantitative or qualitative metrics -- becomes
demonstrably more difficult. The question has implications for administrators
with budgetary concerns as much as for educators in the field. Should libraries
be focused on decentralization in order to better serve specialized research
communities? Or should they be more centralized as the central organ of an
educational organism?<b></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Here’s what the three speakers will be addressing during the
event</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Title</b>: The
National Library of Medicine – Anticipating our third century</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">The National Library of Medicine is not your typical library
– we rarely lend books, we undertake and invest in research, and we’re actually
one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health. Yet
NLM, as the world’s largest biomedical library, performs very typical library
functions—we acquire, organize, preserve and disseminate materials pertinent to
medicine, curate and make available globally enormous genomic databases
and conduct outreach efforts to ensure that our resources are
well-used by the general public. We reach over 5M people a day, ingest over 15
TBs export over 100 TBs of data per day. We’ve played a role in every biomedical
discovery for the past 50 years! As we approach our third century we renew our
commitment to our mission, recognizing that we’ll be using new strategies and
approaches to fulfill our roles and reaching new communities of users in new
ways. Our impact on the future won’t be counted in visits or web hits, but
through the influence we have in accelerating discovery, enabling insights
and fostering access to the knowledge of health through innovative
human-computer mechanisms.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Title:</b> The Urgent
Necessity of Identity for an Academic Library</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">The widespread assumption that academic libraries must be
obsolete has moved consideration of library identity from a theoretical level
to one of day-to-day urgency. This presentation will describe how I approach
formulating and conveying library identity in a variety of situations. I
conclude with a short case study of how I’ve adapted my generalized “vision”
for the local environment (LSU) I now inhabit.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b>Title:</b> Prospects
for Digital Libraries Serving Human Readers and Web-scale Computational Insight</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">The Internet Archive’s mission is <i>Universal Access
To All Knowledge</i>. I will share some practical models for how that
exceedingly ambitious goal might be approached. I’ll offer some examples
of how uncommon insight might be derived when media are treated as data and are
available for public interest oriented computational research. In this
era when disinformation is poisoning our information commons, I’d like to
encourage webinar participants to consider how significant public interest
could be served by library resources being available to digital services for
dynamic contextualization.</p>
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