NISO @ ALA Annual 2025
What You'll Want to Know!
American Library Association Annual Meeting 2025
Dates: June 26 - June 30, 2025
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19107
NISO Conference Table #1468
NISO looks forward to seeing you in person at our scheduled ALA sessions. Please see the specific event session below for further details.
Event Sessions
Friday, June 27, 12:00pm Noon - 4:00pm, Room 123: The Changing Standards Landscape: 18th Annual NISO/BISG Forum: Accessibility Futures
The 18th annual NISO-BISG Forum, The Changing Standards Landscape, will take place on Friday, June 27, 2025, in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference in Philadelphia. This year’s program, Accessibility Standards and the Future of Inclusive Publishing, examines how evolving standards are shaping the development, distribution, and discoverability of accessible content. Through a series of panel discussions and focused talks, the forum will explore the current state of accessibility in publishing, the technical and organizational infrastructure required to support inclusive practices at scale, and the strategic role of libraries in advancing equitable access. By convening stakeholders from publishing, libraries, standards organizations, and technology service providers, the program aims to surface shared challenges, highlight innovative solutions, and identify pathways for greater alignment across the ecosystem. The forum provides a structured setting to assess progress, examine practical approaches, and consider the future of accessibility through the lens of standards development and implementation.
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Saturday, June 28, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Room 201C: The NISO Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP)
Networks of libraries have a long tradition of working together to expand their resources and provide more comprehensive coverage across all subjects through sharing of resources. As one of these strategies, larger networks of institutions have recently explored wider adoption of cooperative collections management, a process by which networks of institutions work collaboratively to acquire, manage, circulate, and preserve collections across the network. The NISO Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) seeks to overcome serious barriers to wider implementations, including the lack of available vendor-neutral interoperable systems, adequate governance and decision-making frameworks, and assessment tools. The infrastructure will create a suite of best practices, improved standards, and middleware for the development and management of collective collections and will support varied implementation models, data interoperability, and sharing of expertise across a range of institutions and consortia.
Sunday June 29, 1:00pm - 2:00pm, Room 121 A: NISO Standards Update
Join us for an update on NISO’s latest developments and projects. This session will cover new standards, recommended practices, and community meetings relevant to the library community. Working group members will provide insights into recently completed and ongoing projects, showcasing our collaborative efforts to advance library services. Don’t miss the chance to stay connected with NISO!
Additional Information
This is an in-person event only. Streaming will not be available to those not attending on site.