[caption id="attachment_KkOCeAtKHIc" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Me and my Jester's Cap"] Closing out #nisoforum w Peter Murray as disruptive te...
Helping patrons find the information they need is an important part of the library profession, and in the past decade the profession has seen the rise of ded...
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One of the things discussed in the NISO patron privacy conference calls has been the need for transparency with patrons about what information is being gathe...
<img src="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/368912557_2fc44d3709_m.jpg" alt=""Privacy Please" by Josh Hallett" width="240" height="161" class="alignright size-f...
As you are planning your trip to the 2013 LITA Forum in Louisville in mid-November, plan to stay a few hours longer to attend the ResourceSync Tutorial happe...
At the American Library Association meeting in Chicago last month I gave a 20 minute presentation that was a combination of an overview of interoperability a...
My employer (LYRASIS) is a member of NISO (the accredited standards organization for information and documentation in the U.S.), and as the primary contact I...
ResourceSync -- a joint effort of NISO and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) team with work funded by the Sloan Foundation -- has published a draft specific...
In September, Carl Grant wrote a blog post on the ownership of library data ("We have a problem... another vendor appearing to need education about exactly W...
My employer recently became a member of NISO and I was made the primary representative. This is my first formal interaction with the standards organization...
I'm pleased to announce that the Fall 2010 issue of NISO's International Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is done and available online to NISO members and ISQ subsc...
NISO voting members are currently considering two new work items: a statement of best practices for the physical delivery of library resources and formalizi...
In March, I gave a presentation at the NISO forum on Next Generation Discovery Tools: New Tools, Aging Standards. For those that were there, you may remembe...
Below are the supplemental links for the presentation at the NISO workshop on discovery layers in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 28, 2008. Update 20080404T1124 : ...
NISO is conducting a workshop later this month called Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards. The workshop is described this way: "Discoveri...
What's the deal with NCIP? For those that don't know, NCIP is the NISO protocol that attempts to "define the various transactions needed to support circulat...
On Monday, I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at the NISO workshop "Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository" on the topic of The Third Wa...
[Aside: I'm not quite sure what the procedure is for posting on LITAblog.org. This report was posted there last night to appear at something like http://ww...
This is a report of the presentations from the LITA Standards Interest Group at the ALA Annual Conference, 24-Jul-2006, in New Orleans. Pat Stevens, interim...
Mike Teets of OCLC and I teamed up to write an article on Metasearch Authentication and Access Management for this month's D-Lib Magazine. The first part of...