Posts Tagged ‘Best practices’
Learning Opportunity Around Data Governance
Earley Information Science is offering a learning opportunity for professionals. Data Governance: Achieving Sustainability Among Whiners is scheduled for August 28 at 11:00 a.m. (ET). Data governance enables an organization to ensure that high data quality exists throughout the complete life cycle of the data. It includes establishing processes to ensure effective data management throughout the enterprise, such as accountability for…
Read MoreRoad Trip Symposium: What Makes Special Libraries Special
There is no substitute for face-to-face networking. This particular opportunity takes advantage of knowledgeable professionals at an amazing venue. Join these information professionals at the Road Trip Symposium : What Makes Special Libraries Special? The only in-person event of the Route 66 Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in 2018. In these rapidly changing…
Read MoreWorkshop on the Changing Discovery Landscape
Following their success last year, the Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) is offering “The Changing Discovery Landscape – Part 2: Products, Tools, and Services from Vendors and Publishers” workshop again this fall. Creating enhanced tools and services can be very expensive and require a large amount of resources. This session…
Read MorePeer Review Week
Peer Review Week is scheduled for September 10-15, 2018. This year’s theme is Diversity in Peer Review. The Scholarly Kitchen reminded us of this unique event in their post, “#PeerReviewWeek18 Is Coming!” Reviewers play a pivotal role in scholarly publishing. The peer review system exists to validate academic work, helps to improve the quality of…
Read MoreLibrary Shark Tank Weekend
Mark your calendars today for October 12-14, 2018 for Library Shark Tank Weekend in Monterey, California. Are you curious by nature? Do you love collaborating with diverse colleagues, relish provocative thinking and the interchange of ideas? The Library Shark Tank Weekend gives you an opportunity to kickstart your ideas—or help work on other big ideas—at this…
Read MoreBack to School
It is that time of year again when students are buying uniforms or new clothes, completing the lists of class supplies, and school buses are part of the morning commute again. I don’t know about you, but it feels like it starts earlier every year. In the information management world, there is no designated time…
Read MoreNavigating the Taxonomy Webinar – Tomorrow
While taxonomy development and management may seem like a niche area, there is actually a robust choice of tools to choose from if you’re looking for technological support. They range from simple, inexpensive standalone tools to robust suites with lots of bells and whistles like text analytics and search enhancement modules. But how do you…
Read MoreSSP Seminar Addresses New Technologies
Plan your fall educational events now. The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is hosting the New Directions in Strategy, Technology, and Community seminar on September 25-26, 2018 in Washington D.C. This seminar will offer speaker presentations, panel sessions, round tables, and a debate session to explore new ways in which publishers are combining new strategies, new…
Read MoreWorkshops Focus on Library-Based Publishing
The Library Publishing Coalition and the Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the Digital Library Federation (DLF), is hosting a pair of in-person workshops at the 2018 DLF Forum based on the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded series of pilot workshops called “Developing a Curriculum to Advance Library-Based Publishing”. Both full-day workshops (descriptions below) will take place on Sunday,…
Read MoreFree Webinar This Week: The Disappearing Data Scientist
This week offers a learning opportunity. Plan to join the webinar, “The Disappearing Data Scientist“, on July 12th at 2:00 p.m. EST. As the shortage of trained data scientists threatens to prevent firms from reaching their analytical potential, a new class of products and services is emerging that promises to relieve the stress on enterprise…
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