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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)"><b style=""><i style="">There’s still time to register for NISO’s Two Part Webinar in January 2020!<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style=""> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)"><br></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Scheduled for two consecutive Wednesdays, January 15 and 22, 1:00pm - 2:30pm, (Eastern, US & Canada)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>This virtual event -- part of NISO’s regular monthly series -- will be addressing the complexities associated with authentication of users and tips and techniques for communicating with your IT group to minimize problems. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">A single registration allows you to gather an unlimited number of staff in a conference or classroom setting to listen in to leaders in the profession. <b>Remember that NISO Library Standards Alliance members will automatically receive sign-in credentials for this event. There is no need to register separately.</b> <a href="https://www.niso.org/what-we-do/directory/member-organizations">Check your library’s membership status here.</a></p>
<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Even if staff is unable to attend the live broadcast due to scheduling conflicts or travel, links to the archived recording are sent within 24-48 hours of the event to maximize the value of your training dollars.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)"><b>Identity Management and Authentication Strategies, Part One:</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Organizations and institutions holding licensed content or other sensitive forms of data -- regardless of whether the data may be hosted in a library or in a proprietary service or platform setting -- must do so with the intent of minimizing any risk of leakage or unauthorized incursion by third parties. One solution consistently put forward in recent years is the use of federated identity management systems. An application verifies the user’s right to interact with a particular system by engaging with another system storing individual credentials and the various access rights associated with those credentials.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">However, depending upon the institution’s role and resources, hesitation may arise about the trustworthiness of such federated identity systems. This <b>roundtable </b>will feature discussion by a variety of stakeholders (chief technology officers, information professionals, producers of content and service providers) to talk about available system options, their reliability and the benefits gained in their use.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Confirmed participants in this initial roundtable discussion include: <b>Mark Bilby</b>, Scholarly Communications Librarian, California State University - Fullerton; <b>Tim Lloyd</b>, CEO, Liblynx; <b>Amy Pawlowski</b>, Deputy Director and eResource Licensing Coordinator, OHIO Link; <b>Mark A. Beadles</b>, Chief Information Security Officer, OARnet; <b>Laura Paglione</b>, Partner, Spherical Cow Group; <b>Todd Digby</b>, Chair, Library Technology, University of Florida.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)"><b>Talking to Your Organization’s IT Group When You’re Not an IT Person, Part Two:</b></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Libraries may not always be blessed with their own dedicated information technology unit. Those lucky enough to have such internal access are in a better position to discuss complex issues, such as those surrounding identity management and authentication. But what if you or your colleagues are dependent upon an external IT group, one that has different professional priorities? What might be the best tips and tricks for communicating library needs and concerns to those IT groups? They may be using the same vocabulary but associating a different definition with the terminology. This event will be a <b>roundtable discussion</b> between professionals with the intent of easing those exchanges in order to reach shared goals.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Confirmed participants in this second roundtable discussion include: <b>Tim Lloyd</b>, CEO, Liblynx; <b>Tracey Tolliver</b>, Director, Library IT, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; <b>Todd Digby</b>, Chair Library Technology, University of Florida; Other Names TBA</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Register for one or both of these sessions. (Register for both and get a 25% Discount on the cost of registration. <b><a href="https://www.niso.org/events/2020/01/two-part-webinar-identity-management-and-talking-your-organizations-it-group">See this page for details.</a></b>)</p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Part 1 of this Webinar, <a href="https://www.niso.org/events/2020/01/identity-management-and-authentication-strategies-part-one"><span class="gmail-s1" style="color:rgb(51,121,171)"><b>Identity Management and Authentication Strategies</b></span></a>, will be held on Wednesday January 15, 2020.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px 0px 14px 35px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(66,66,60)">Part 2 of this Webinar, <a href="https://www.niso.org/events/2020/01/talking-your-organizations-it-group-when-youre-not-it-person-part-two"><span class="gmail-s1" style="color:rgb(51,121,171)"><b>Talking to Your Organization’s IT Group When You’re Not an IT Person</b></span></a>, will be held on Wednesday, January 22, 2020.</p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:6px 0px 10px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Have questions? Get in touch:</p>
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