Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have announced an agreement to provide NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) membership to all BLC members.
Membership in NISO gives BLC a voice in developing the standards and recommended practices that ensure the free exchange of information across the scholarly communications community.
“BLC is delighted to join the NISO community,” said Charlie Barlow, BLC’s executive director. “LSA membership empowers colleagues across our entire membership network to benefit from a robust suite of professional development offerings and influence future directions in library practice.”
The agreement will extend full NISO LSA membership benefits to BLC’s member libraries, including:
BLC also joins NISO as a Voting Member, which gives BLC the opportunity to influence the direction of technological advances in information management by driving standards and best practices in the information community.
As a Voting Member, BLC may comment and vote on proposed standards and recommended practice projects as well as vote in NISO Board elections.
To learn more about NISO member benefits, NISO and BLC are hosting an informational session on Tuesday, January 30, at 11 a.m. Register here!
Sign-on information for the monthly webinars will be sent by BLC roughly two business days before the event. Registration through NISO’s site is not required, but you are welcome to register if you’d like to receive this information directly from NISO. You can access a list of all upcoming events (with registration links) on the NISO event page.
You can sign up to get announcements and news directly from NISO. You can select the type(s) of announcements you’re interested in (choose one or as many as you’d like):
Finally, NISO would like to extend its early bird registration discount for NISO Plus 2024 (February 13–14, 2024) in Baltimore, MD. When registering, enter NP24_LSACons in the promotional code box and select the “NISO LSA Consortia member special rate” ticket type that appears to get the best rate.
Note that NISO is also hosting a pre-conference, a 101-style introduction to AI and machine learning in scholarly communications, on February 12. Tickets for this four-hour event, sold separately, are $100.
“I’m so pleased to welcome the Boston Library Consortium and its member libraries to NISO,” added Todd Carpenter, NISO’s executive director. “BLC has been a leading innovator in resource sharing, collective collection management, and preservation across its community. Many of these efforts are based upon consistent, standards-based business processes among BLC member libraries. We’re looking forward to benefiting from their perspectives as we work to develop authoritative standards for the information community.”
Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with 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 life cycle of information standards. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). niso.org