[Asis-l] NISO January 14Webinar: Net Neutrality: Will Library Resources Be Stuck in the Slow Lane?

[NISO]

NISO January 14Webinar: Net Neutrality: Will Library Resources Be Stuck in
the Slow Lane?

Date: January 14, 2015

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/net_neutrality/

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Net Neutrality is an issue that has been increasingly in the news, but it is
something that has affected libraries for a lot longer. Many public
libraries are in underserved communities where patrons may not have personal
access to the internet, so the use of the public libraries' resources is
critical for them. Without net neutrality, those public libraries may not be
able to cost-effectively provide such Internet service. For the scholarly
and academic communities, scholarly resources could be resigned to the slow
lane of the net, if content providers and libraries don't have the resources
to pay for the "fast lane." As resources increasingly go multimedia,
requiring greater bandwidth, will libraries and content platform providers
be saddled with taking on added costs to ensure reliable access?

In this webinar, presenters will help define Net Neutrality, what could
happen without it, and how it can impact public and academic libraries, and
the wider information community.

Topics and speakers are:

*	Network Neutrality Principles and Policy for Libraries & Higher
Education - Larra Clark, Deputy Director, Office for Information Technology
Policy, American Library Association
*	Network Neutrality: The Public Library Perspective - Holly Carroll,
Executive Director, Poudre River Public Library District
*	Academic Libraries and Net Neutrality - Jonathan Miller, Library
Director, Olin Library of Rollins College

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on January 14, 2015 (the day of the webinar). Discounts are
available for NISO and NASIG members and students. NISO Library Standards
Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as part of membership and
do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar contact will automatically
receive the login information. Members are listed here:
http://www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance
<http://www.niso.org/about/roster/%23library_standards_alliance> . If you
would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year's webinars as
part of membership, information on joining is listed here:
http://www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.) All webinar registrants and LSA
webinar contacts receive access to the recorded version for one year.

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/net_neutrality/

 

Be sure to check out NISO's discounted subscription packages for webinars
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/#packages) and virtual
conferences
(http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/#subscription
<http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/%23subscription> )
for 2015. 

New in 2015: NISO Training Thursdays. Three technical webinar training
sessions directly related to the previous weeks' virtual conference.
Registrants to the related virtual conference receive a free login to the
Training Thursday. You can also register separately for just the training
session. More information is available at:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/training_Thursdays/ 



 

Cynthia Hodgson

Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

chodgson at niso.org

301-654-2512

 

 

 

 

 

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