NISO Professional Development Events, May and June 2025
May 2025
NISO Open Teleconference
Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART)
Monday, May 12, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
Join NISO's Keondra Bailey on Monday, May 12th, 2025 at 3 PM Eastern for the second Open Teleconference of the year. Keondra will be joined by KBART Standing Committee co-chairs Robert Heaton and Noah Levin to discuss progress on Phase III.
KBART is a NISO Recommended Practice that facilitates the transfer of holdings metadata from content providers to knowledge base suppliers and libraries. The first iteration of the KBART Recommended Practice, which focused on journal holdings, was published in 2010; a 2014 "Phase II" revision extended support to metadata for e-books, conference proceedings, consortial subscriptions, and some open access publications. Starting in early 2020, the KBART Standing Committee has been hard at work on research and actions around elements of its Phase III work with subgroups addressing areas of work such as clarifying the recommendations, revamping the mission statement, determining new fields, and creating a new file guide.
NISO Webinar
Managing Risk in the Information Community
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Noon (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
Information professionals face increasing risks, from cybersecurity threats to ethical dilemmas. This webinar will address key challenges and provide practical strategies for mitigating risks in the management, sharing, and preservation of data. Join us to gain valuable insights on protecting your organization and ensuring the integrity of your information practices.
Confirmed speakers (others TBA) include Rick Anderson, University Librarian, Brigham Young University, Amy Pawlowski, Executive Director, OhioLINK; and Tim Lloyd, CEO, Liblynx.
June 2025
New! NISO Training Series
Secrets to Changing Behavior in Scholarly Communication: A 2025 NISO Training Series
Thursdays, June 5–June 26, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
Getting the attention of faculty, students, decision-makers, and others and convincing them to break out of long-established habits to try something new is a defining aspect working in scholarly communications.
Putting compelling messages in front of the right audiences at the right time, and moving them to action is a well-honed science in especially consumer marketing. The world’s biggest brands are masters at using marketing to convince us to use their particular shampoo, to eat things with little if any nutritional value, and to do what they say we should with our physical appearances.
We can borrow the secret sauce from consumer marketing to advance scholarly communication – and nudge researchers toward other choices, more effectively promote new services and solutions on campus, and gain more powerful traction for our work.
“Social marketing” is the key. First coined as a term in the public health sector in the 1990s, social marketing specifically refers to the application of commercial marketing principles and practices to effect social and behavioral change. In public health, this has meant promoting seatbelts, bicycle helmets, vaccines, and much, much more.
Social marketing is the framework for us to convert strategies and tactics from the commercial sector that can be off-putting in the world of research (such as sales) to be effective in realizing the types of behaviour change we aim to realize – whether that’s for researchers to publish in a new journal, share their work in a new way or at a different time, or for campus administrators to make different investment decisions, etc.
This course will introduce social marketing and the importance of combining strategic interventions with effective marketing to influence behaviour change.
Each session will be recorded and links to that archived recording will be disseminated to course registrants within 2 business days of the close of the specific session.
Through a combination of presentations, invited speakers, readings, exercises, breakout groups and lots of discussion time, participants will learn how to:
- Identify opportunities to redirect behaviour.
- Communicate powerfully by separating audiences according to their different perspectives.
- Get the most out of an outreach program by prioritizing specific audiences.
- Build a compelling offering by aligning the service with the audience’s needs and available choices.
- Cut through the noise by creating messages in the audience’s voice.
- Develop a comprehensive, impactful outreach program that gets attention from the right people.
- Monitor the program and make regular improvements to try to increase impact.
The series consists of four (4) weekly segments, each lasting 90 minutes. Specific dates are June 5, 12, 18, 26. Be sure to check the event page for updates! Early bird registration is open through May 12th, and discounts are available for groups as well as NISO members.
NISO on the Road
NISO @ ALA Annual 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - Monday, June 30, 2025, Pennsylvania Convention Center
NISO looks forward to seeing you in-person at our 2025 ALA Annual sessions and at this year's NISO-BISG Changing Standards Landscape Forum, held on Friday, June 27, 2025 (12:00pm - 4:00pm)
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.
More details to come! Please visit the event page for the latest updates.
NISO Webinar
AI & the Research Cycle (Phase II: Data Collection & Analysis)
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm Noon (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming every stage of the research cycle, from discovery to dissemination. This series will explore the evolving role of AI in shaping research workflows, addressing both the opportunities and challenges it presents. Join experts across various fields as they delve into how AI is enhancing research processes, improving efficiency, and raising new questions about ethics, transparency, and the future of knowledge creation. Join us as we build on our AI & the Research Cycle series with Phase II.
NISO Meeting
NISO Annual Members Meeting
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
The NISO Annual Members Meeting will take place online on Tuesday, June 17, from 12:00–1:00 pm EDT/5:00–6:00 pm BST. This program is open to the public, and all (members as well as nonmembers) are welcome to participate. You will hear from our Executive Director, Todd Carpenter, and other NISO staff about important organizational issues, including the NISO Plus conference, our organizational finances, NISO’s international engagement, and our standards program. It’s also a chance for you to ask us any questions you have about our organization and how we operate as well as to share your own feedback about NISO and our work.