Illinois Academic Librarians Presenting at NASIG 2017 Annual Conference

A number of Illinois academic librarians will give presentations at the NASIG (formerly North American Serials Interest Group, Inc.) 2017 Annual Conference. This year’s event, the 32^nd gathering, will take place from Thursday, June 8, to Sunday, June 11, in Indianapolis, with preconference sessions on Wednesday, June 7. More information about the Conference is available here.

The sessions that Illinois academic librarians will give are listed below. For those including at least one presenter not from an Illinois library, just the Illinois speakers are listed.

Wednesday, June 7

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Preconference: Extending Library Services to Research Data: Practical Strategies for RDMS Design

Cheryl Thompson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, June 9

1:15-2:15 PM

Concurrent Session B1: Capturing and Analyzing Publication and Citation Data for Contextual Collection Development

Joelen Pastva and Jonathan Shank, Northwestern University

2:30-3:30 PM

Concurrent Session C5: Evaluating User Experience and Access Data to Reveal Patrons: Print and Digital Serials Preferences

Stephanie Blue Fletcher and Karen Stafford, Art Institute of Chicago

Saturday, June 10

10:45-11:45 AM

Concurrent Session D5: Turning the Corner at High Speed: How Collections Metrics Are Changing in a Highly Dynamic Environment

Steve Oberg, Wheaton College

Sunday, June 11

10:15-11:30 AM

Vision III: Dr. Carol Tilley

Dr. Carol Tilley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (School of Information Sciences)

To see the full schedule, go here.