The NISO/BISG Changing Standards Landscape fourth annual forum will be held in conjunction with ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC on June 25th from 12:30 - 4:00 p.m., in the Washington Convention Center, Room 150B. This free, open event is organized jointly by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). Both organizations support, promote and maintain standards and best practices in the information community. This year's program will focus on standards as experienced by readers and other content consumers. RSVPs should be sent to [log in to unmask] The forum will again be organized into three programmatic themes: Identify and Describe -- 101 Primer on the Roadmap of Identifiers (Scott Lubeck, Executive Director, BISG) -- Identification of E-books - One Year Later (Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR) Format, Discover, and Retrieve -- Discovery Tools - Changing the Nature of Collections in an Item-centered World (Jane Burke, Senior Vice President, ProQuest and Serials Solutions) -- Ontologies & User Needs in Publishing (Jabin White, Director of Strategic Content, Wolters Kluwer Health - Professional & Education) Purchase and Use -- Mashing Data for New Discovery (Jeremy York, Assistant Librarian, University of Michigan Library, & Project Librarian, HathiTrust) -- MESUR: MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources (Johan Bollen, Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Center for Complex Networks and System Research, Indiana University) For more information about The Changing Standards Landscape, visit http://www.niso.org/news/events/2010/ala2010/ or http://www.bisg.org/events-0-511-bisg-niso-at-ala-annual-conference-2010.php . Cynthia Hodgson NISO Technical Editor Consultant National Information Standards Organization Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: 301-654-2512