I am so thankful to have friend Sarah Morris as a partner in our upcoming NASIG presentation. She is always on top of things, always upbeat, always prepared. She has done the lion’s share of moving this whole project forward. Sarah was a 2006 NASIG Student Grant winner and like me is [...]

This afternoon after months of volunteer effort NASIG unveiled a completely new website. Go to www.nasig.org and check it out. I think it is a huge improvement and does NASIG proud. Congratulations to those who labored for so long to make this a reality, especially Donnice Cochenour!

I’m not sure why this is true but every year around this time life speeds up to hyperspeed and I wonder how on earth I will ever make it through. That’s the main reason why I haven’t posted much lately; I am rather overwhelmed.
One thing I’ve spent time on this weekend is preparing for [...]

The results for this year’s NASIG elections were announced a day or two ago:
Vice-President/President-Elect: Rick Anderson
Members at Large:
Bob Boissy
Virginia Taffurelli
Sarah George Wessel
Congratulations to everyone, including those who didn’t win this year and whom I hope will reapply again in the future:
June Garner
Kay Johnson
Meg Mering
Paoshan Yue
[Sorry, I forgot to include Jonathan David Makepeace, [...]

Good news to hear: Today, the NASIG 2008 award winners were announced. Here they are!
Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship
Alena Jewel Rucker, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Information Science
Marcia Tuttle International Grant
Stephanie Schmitt, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
NASIG Conference Student Grant
···Eugenia Beh, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information
···Barbara Birenbaum, UCLA, Department of [...]

Yesterday I received word that the 2009 annual conference for NASIG will be held in Asheville, NC. I am really happy to hear this because it’s a place I’ve always wanted to visit! Plus, two people I know quite well are on board as co-chairs for the conference planning committee.

Last week, Valerie Bross, co-chair of this year’s NASIG Continuing Education Committee (CEC), asked for proposals for CEC funding for the coming year.  I decided to submit a proposal for creating a pilot online course focusing on best practices and case studies for e-resources management.  I don’t know yet if it will be accepted or if [...]

Chicago is a beautiful city and the following photo shows it.  Yesterday we were at the lakefront to visit the Shedd Aquarium for the first time since March.  It was a beautiful day, sunny and warm but not too warm.  Lots of people were out and about enjoying the day, including lots of people out [...]

Almost every post Meredith Farkas writes provides plentiful food for thought.  She has a real talent for expressing her views and thoughts and for digging deeper into “big issues” than many others.  Recently she wrote about all of the success she has already had professionally and identifies some of the factors that have helped her [...]

This afternoon, Kathryn Wesley, NASIG Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, announced the availability of results of a site selection survey of NASIG members.  Check it out here.
Some initial thoughts:

I am happy to see a lot of interest in having NASIG return to Vancouver as a conference site.  The last time NASIG was in Vancouver was in the mid-1990s [...]