New NISO Proposal on the Physical Delivery of Library Resources

August 3, 2009 - Baltimore, MD - A ballot has been opened to NISO Voting Members to approve a new work item on the Physical Delivery of Library Resources. This proposal, submitted by Valerie Horton, Executive Director, Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) and subsequently approved by NISO's Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee (www.niso.org/topics/d2d), aims to develop a statement of best practices related to the delivery of library materials. This project will build on the efforts of three recent projects: Moving Mountains, Rethinking Resource Sharing's Physical Delivery Committee, and the American Library Association's ASCLA ICANS' Physical Delivery Discussion Group.
In order for this item to be approved so that a Working Group can be formed to pursue this work, a minimum of 10% of NISO's Voting Members must express interest in this new work item. A full list of NISO Voting Members can be found at www.niso.org/about/roster.

The proposal can be viewed on the NISO website at www.niso.org/standards/ballots. Public comments are welcome. Assuming the project is approved, if you would like to be a member of the working group or join the affiliated interest group, please send a note to:

Karen A. Wetzel
NISO Standards Program Manager
kwetzel@niso.org/

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About NISO
NISO fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries, publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization, management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of an information standard. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). More information about NISO is available on its website: www.niso.org. For more information please contact NISO on (301) 654-2512 or via email on nisohq@niso.org.