The North American Serials Interest Group is gathering for its 35th annual conference. Notably, on 12 June 2020, Steve Shadle will explain how to catalogue electronic serials with RDA. It will cover RDA and CONSER standards, core elements, and terminology with special attention paid to the differences in practice in the cataloging of print and electronic serials.
The full schedule is online.
UK Research and Innovation is seeking views on its proposed open access policy and related considerations via a consultation, which opens on 13 February 2020 and closes at noon on 17 April 2020. Responses must be submitted by noon on 17 April 2020, using the online response form.
On this occasion, UKRI is holding an information event for the consultation.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is organising its 42nd Annual Meeting.
Topic: Rethink, Reimagine, & Revolutionize the Future of Scholarly Communication
Tracks and meeting highlights are announced.
The 2020 annual Council of Voting Members Meeting will be held in Chicago on Thursday, April 23, 2020. The meeting will be followed on April 23-24 by a Global Resources Collections Forum, where librarians, specialists and researchers from CRL libraries will share information and thinking on major collection development and preservation topics, and help shape CRL collections and programs.
See the presentations for 2019.
COAR 2020 Annual Meeting & General Assembly will take place in Lima (Peru) hosted by CONCYTEC in collaboration with LA Referencia.
Topic: Fostering Diversity in Scholarly Communication
More information to come very soon.
The Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) is dedicated to advancing the practice of digital preservation and archiving. It brings together practitioners, industry experts and researchers to share experience in a vendor-neutral forum on how to put preservation and archiving into practice.
The Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access will meet during ALA 2020 Midwinter Meeting.
The agenda is online.
Please find all ALCTS Midwinter 2020 events schedule.
Within an Open Science framework, implementing Responsible Research practices requires knowledge and skills. LIBER’s Digital skills for Library staff and researchers Working Group and FIT4RRI are presenting this webinar to help foster skills development in Academia throughout Europe.
Join fellow library leaders and members of the OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) to discuss and discover how we can build not only future-forward libraries but also future-ready communities.
The agenda is online.
Look at the full schedule!
A symposium on the Future of Libraries is also organised from 25 to 27 January 2020.
