NISO Webinars

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Upcoming NISO events for March - April 2019

All 2019 NISO events will be held in the Minitex River Room, Room 60 Wilson Library.  These offer an opportunity to enjoy some light refreshments and the chance to chat with colleagues. 

NISO Webinar: Maker Spaces: Things that Go Bop, Whizz, and Clank!

Have 3D printers become commonplace? Is someone in your library using pizza boxes to create their next-generation VR viewer? Perhaps you’re wondering just how sophisticated (and how spacious) a Maker Space needs to be these days. What are the expectations from students and faculty?

NISO Webinar: Part Two, Finding the Funding: Strategic Approaches to Funding Scholarly Initiatives

Aside from funding libraries themselves, there are many innovative projects that might never be accomplished without the support of grants from foundations of various sizes and sorts. What are the current trends?

NISO Webinar: Part One, Finding the Funding: Library Funding & Successful Advocacy

This event will look at messaging, media platforms, policy-making, agency and tensions involved in librarians-as-advocates, social media and effective practices of navigating participatory networks. 

NISO Webinar: Part Two, Using Analytics to Extract Value From the Library's Data

We have the data and the report. Looking beyond the simple statistical report (how many individuals attended a program or searched a database), what might be best practices in using that data in support of long-term planning and decision making?

NISO Webinar: Part One, Using Analytics to Extract Value from the Library's Data

Faced with a highly diverse combination of externally and internally collected data (web visits, gate counter, collection usage, subject analysis, budgets, space use, reference help interactions, etc.), academic libraries have rapidly mastered the value and use of analytics.

NISO Webinar: Discovery: Where Researchers Start

If the discovery resources available via the library don’t necessarily serve as the faculty’s starting line for launching cutting-edge research, then what’s the next step?

NISO Webinar: Engineering Access Under The Hood, Part Two – Enhancing & Harmonizing Metadata for Discovery & Use

The second half of this session (scheduled for November 15) will provide an overview of the issues associated with delivering quality metadata by and to various stakeholders. Based on comments made, it’s an old issue. But what are the existing barriers? What improvements might be made?

NISO Virtual Conference: Research Networks: The Connections Enabling Collaboration

Many in the community have heard about the Research Information Systems (RIS); the next phase of development for the RIS is to network researchers in the interest of building strategic research initiatives and effective collaborations.

NISO Webinar: Spotlight on Supporting Access to the Internet in Under-Served Communities

This session will look at current activities by public library systems in attempting to extend Internet access to underserved communities and households. Systems such as the Chicago Public Library are experimenting with the loan of Wi-Fi hotspots. What have been the outcomes of such initiatives?