Welcoming the Society for Disability Studies to the Twin Cities!!

This week the Society for Disability Studies (the premier DS organization internationally), is meeting here in the Twin Cities!

I was honored to be selected as one of the workshop leaders and wanted to share my workshop handouts with others.

In regular typeface: herther_m5G.pdf

In 24-point typeface: herther_m5G.24pt.pdf

Playing the Numbers: NISO/NASIG Focus On Best Practices for Library Usage Statistics

In the past, libraries - and other institutions - had limited information on which to base decisions about their services, collections and users. Today, things have changed. A week ago, NISO and NASIG - two standards/best practices groups for information professionals - held a webinair in which they looked at issues and best practices as well as evolving standards. I was asked to write up a brief overview of the session for Information Today's NewsBreaks and you might want to give it a look.
In a time of declining budget, inflated pricing for information content and evolving information needs and growing knowledge bases, these issues are critical for any institution: How can we best use our limited budgets to serve critical needs of our users and institutions?

COUNTER is one wonderful set of standards helping to give better data for decision making - however, issues of value/worth/mission remain.

Believe me, if you have ideas on this, information professionals would love to hear from you!

Take a look at the article if this is a new issue to you. Hopefully these efforts will help to better allocate limited funds to the most critical needs - for today (Just in Time) as well as for the future.