<font face="georgia" size="3"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">NFAIS members should be aware that registration will be closing at noon on Tuesday, October 21, for the upcoming NFAIS Webinar, <strong><em>Improving Discovery and Access: Recommendations from the E-Data Quality Working Group.</em></strong>  I provided some of the context surrounding this working group initiative on the Scholarly Kitchen Blog at: <a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/10/14/finding-stuff-discovery-and-data-quality/">http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/10/14/finding-stuff-discovery-and-data-quality/</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">The webinar on Thursday, October 23, features <strong>Noah Levin</strong>, Metadata Manager, Springer, <strong>Suzanne Kemperman</strong>, Director, Business Development, OCLC and <strong>Carlen Ruschoff</strong>, Director, Technical Services, University of Maryland.  These three speakers are representatives of a cross-industry working group and contributors to a white paper, the subject of which is the topic for this 90-minute webinar.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">The E-Data Quality Working Group—a cross-industry collaboration of academic libraries, publishers, aggregators, and knowledge-based providers—has been addressing these workflow concerns in an effort to improve discovery and access.  In this 90-minute webinar, Kemperman, Levin and Ruschoff explain the nature of the challenge, and share recommendations from the working group to bridge the gaps.</p>
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<li>The identified source of the problem.</li>
<li>How this problem impedes the success of the user in discovering and accessing desired content.</li>
<li>Gaps that must be bridged between suppliers of bibliographic and holdings data, and libraries and service providers.</li>
<li>The benefits of stakeholders collaborating more closely to resolve issues.</li>
<li>Recommendations for improving data quality.</li>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">The NFAIS webinar is scheduled to run between 11:00am (EDST) and 12:30pm. As always, should you find you have a conflict with that timing, registered participants are granted access to the recording of the event.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">If you or your staff want to learn more about this critical aspect of discovery in the academic library environment, you’ll want to register now by visiting <a href="https://nfais.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=443572&orgId=nfais">https://nfais.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=443572&orgId=nfais</a> .</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Questions or Concerns? Please contact Jill O’Neill, Director, Professional Development at NFAIS: Email: jilloneill@nfais.org or Voice: 443-221-2980</p>
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