[Sigdl-l] NISO January Webinar: Behave Like a Startup: Adapting Your Organization to Rapid Change

[Cynthia Hodgson]

NISO Webinar: Behave Like a Startup: Adapting Your Organization to Rapid
Change

Date: January 9, 2013

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (EST)

Event Webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/webinars/startup

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

During a recent BookExpo meeting, a publishing company executive asserted,
"Any company that isn't behaving like a start-up is doomed." What does this
mean in the context of service organizations such as libraries, as well as
businesses that serve the library industry such as publishers and vendors?
How can large institutions be more nimble, act more quickly, adopt new tech
more easily? What can be learned from startups and what can be avoided?

NISO's January 9 webinar Behave Like a Startup: Adapting Your Organization
to Rapid Change will answer these questions and more.

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

. Thinking like a Startup, Behaving like an R&D Shop: Pathways to Innovation
for Libraries - Brian Mathews, Associate Dean for Research and Learning,
Virginia Tech University Libraries will focus on understanding the user
experience as a way to develop more entrepreneurial libraries; he authors
The Ubiquitous Librarian blog and tweets at @brianmathews.

. Kuali OLE and Agile Development Practices - Michael Winkler, Director for
Information Technologies and Digital Development, University of Pennsylvania
Libraries, will describe how Agile software development-an iterative and
incremental approach that adopts quickly to change-is being used for the
Kuali Open Library Environment project.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on January 9, 2013 (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 contact will
automatically receive the login information the Monday before the webinar.
Current LSA members are listed here: http://www.niso.org/about/roster/). 

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/2013/webinars/startup


Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson at niso.org
301-654-2512