ALA MIDWINTER MEETING

Sunday, February 1

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
McCormick Place West - W475b
 

NISO Annual Meeting & Standards Update
 

• NISO Annual Meeting
1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Join us for our Annual Meeting to learn about the status of the organization, all the work that has taken place in 2014 and what's coming in 2015. The meeting is open to the public and all are welcome to participate.

• NISO Update
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The NISO Update provides the latest news about NISO's current efforts. Working group members will provide updates on projects, some newly underway or recently completed standards projects:

• NISO Strategic Directions (Todd Carpenter, NISO) [no slides]
• Open Discovery Initiative (Laura Morse, Harvard University)
• Access & Licensing Indicators (Nettie Lagace, NISO)
• SUSHI and SUSHI Lite (Oliver Pesch, EBSCO Information Services)
• Z39.7 Data Dictionary (Martha Kyrillidou, Association of Research Libraries) [no slides]
• NISO Altmetrics Initiative (Todd Carpenter, NISO) [no slides]
• NISO Bibliographic Roadmap (Nettie Lagace, NISO)

Additional Standards-Related Sessions of Interest

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30

8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Mississippi Room
Bibliographic Standards Committee – Descriptive Cataloging for Rare Materials Task Force Meeting (ACRL RBMS)
Meeting of the RBMS-BSC Task Force charged with creating an initial version of a consolidated Descriptive Cataloging for Rare Materials (DCRM) standard based on RDA (Resource Description and Access)

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
McCormick Place West – W176a
FRBR Interest Group

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 
Hyatt Regency Chicago – Columbus CD
All Committee Meeting (RUSA STARS)
Open meeting for the following STARS committees:
Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards; Education and Training; ILL; International ILL; Legislation and Licensing; Membership; Organization; Research & Assessment; and Vendor Relations.

8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Chicago Ballroom 07
Bibliographic Standards Committee Meeting (ACRL RBMS)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Sheraton Ballroom 1
Task Force on the Development of Standardized Statistical Measures for the Public Services of Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries (ACRL RBMS)
Meeting of the ACRL/RBMS-SAA Task Force on the Development of Standardized Statistical Measures for the Public Services of Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries.

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Parlor G
Bibliographic Standards Committee - Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group Meeting II (ACRL RBMS)

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Parlor G
Bibliographic Standards Committee - Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group Meeting III (ACRL RBMS)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 
McCormick Place West – W176c
Metadata Interest Group

10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
McCormick Place West – W474b
Continuing Resources Standards Forum

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Hyatt Regency McCormick – Clark/CC 22C
Standards and Guidelines Committee Meeting (RUSA)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Parlor G
Bibliographic Standards Committee - Standard Citations Group Meeting I (ACRL RBMS)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
McCormick Place West – W194a
Matadata Standards Committee

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Missouri Room
Standards Committee Meeting (ACRL)

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Mississippi Room
Task Force on the Development of Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries (ACRL RBMS)
Meeting of the ACRL/RBMS-SAA Task Force on the Development of Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries.

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Columbus A
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force I (ACRL)

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Parlor G
Bibliographic Standards Committee - Standard Citations Group Meeting II (ACRL RBMS)

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Missouri Room
Information Literacy Standards Committee Meeting (Part of the Standards Committee Meeting) (ACRL)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Ohio
Bibliographic Standards Committee - DCRM MSS Meeting I (ACRL RBMS)

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Mississippi Room
Bibliographic Standards Committee - DCRM MSS Meeting II (ACRL RBMS)

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Sheraton Chicago – Mississippi Room
Bibliographic Standards Committee - DCRM MSS Meeting III (ACRL RBMS)