Presenters: The 30th Anniversary Task Force of NASIG

1. A History Timeline 1986 - 2015

2. Our inaugural conference!

3. SERIAL CONNECTIONS: PEOPLE, INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION
At the Conference…
Discriminatory Pricing of British
Scholarly Journals for the North
American Market
Online Public Access Catalogs
and Serials
The “Instructions to Authors”
Section as an Aid in Serials
Collection Development

4. The Serials Information Chain:
Discussion, Debate & Dialog
June 14-17, 1987
Denison University
Granville, Ohio
AT THE CONFERENCE . . .
Responsive Librarianship: Looking Toward the 21st Century
Serials Costs and the Carrying Ability of Serials Budgets 1987
An Editor's Experiences with a New Magazine
First National Coming Out Day is held
Margaret Thatcher wins 3rd term
Ben & Jerry's introduces Cherry Garcia

5. At the Conference . . .
Economics of Journal Publishing
Copyright & the Scowling Publisher/Library Interface
Accessing Electronic Journals: A Survey of Canadian and
American Libraries
Serials Information from Publisher to User:
Practice, Programs & Progress
June 4-7, 1988
Oglethorpe University, Atlanta

6. June 3-6, 1989, Scripps College, Claremont CA
Serials Partnership: Teamwork, Technology and Trends
The Process of
Scholarly
Communication
CD-ROM in
Libraries:
Revolution or
Revolt?
Department
Stores to
Boutiques: How
Many Serials
Vendors?
Loma Prieta
earthquake
occurs during
World Series
Tienanmen Square
crackdown
1st Global Positioning
System satellites are
placed into orbit

7. The Future of Serials
June 2-5, 1990
Brock University
St. Catharine’s
Ontario, Canada
AT THE CONFERENCE:
The Crisis of Rising Serial Prices in a Canadian Context
Potential Bias in Editorial Peer Review: A study of U.S. medical journals
Beyond Journals: There’s Going to Be a Better Way
Nelson Mandela released after 27 years
Reunification of Germany
Launch of the Hubble Telescope

8. A Changing World
June 14-17, 1991
Trinity University, San Antonio
At the Conference . . .

9. Marketing to Libraries:
What Works and What
Doesn’t
Document
Delivery
Vendors
Joint Plenary
Session, NASIG
and SSP (Society
for Scholarly
Publishing
June 18-21, 1992
University of Illinois at Chicago
If We Build It: Scholarly Communications and
Networking Technologies
G.H.W. Bush and Boris
Yeltsin meet at Camp
David; together, they
declare the Cold War is
over.
The Tonight Show starring
Johnny Carson airs its final
show.
Compact discs outsell
audiocassettes for the first
time.

10. New Scholarship, New
Serials
June 10-13, 1993
Brown University
Providence, RI
At the Conference:
CREATING THE LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE: Incrementalism
Won’t Get Us There!
SCHOLARLY JOURNALS IN 2020
CONTROLLING E-JOURNALS: The Internet Resources Project,
Cataloging Guidelines, and USMARC
In Washington D.C., the Holocaust
Memorial Museum is dedicated.
Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History
of Time (1988) becomes the longest-
running book on the Times Best Seller
list ever.

11. June 2-5, 1994
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
A Kaleidoscope of Choices: Reshaping
Roles and Opportunities for Serialists
At the 1994 Conference . . .
Technological Change and Its
Influence on the Practice and Role of
Information Management…
Managing Organizational Change:
The Harvard College Library
Experience…
Standardized Generalized Markup
Language (SGML) and the
Transformation of Cataloging . . .

12. At the Conference:
APPROACHING THE PRECIPICE – Re-engineering the
Structure of the Scholarly Information Universe
COPYRIGHT CAMPS – Electronic Fair Use in the Crossfires
SECURITY and The Uses of the Internet

13. June 20-23, 1996
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Pioneering New Serials Frontiers: From Petroglyphs to
Cyberserials
Risktaking for
Library
Pioneers
Winners and
Losers in the
Global
Research
Village
Navigating the
Electronic River:
Electronic Product
Licensing and
Contracts
Hoover Institution releases
an optimistic report that
global warming will provide
Americans with valuable
benefits. . .
Beanie Babies catch on. So
does “Tickle Me! Elmo.

14. May 29-June 1, 1997
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Experimentation and Collaboration:
Creating Serials for a New Millennium
NASIG in ‘97 . . .
The Evolving Market for Libraries:
Lessons from the Cereal Industry
Cataloging Internet Resources: An
Assessment and Prospectus
Electronic Publishing: The Library View

15. Pricing Models: Past, Present, and Future?
Coping with the Digital Shift: Four of the
Thorniest Issues
HTML From the Ground Up: Spinning
Webs in The Clouds
June 18-21, 1998 University of Colorado, Boulder
News in 1998 . . .
US has first budget surplus in 30 years
Belfast Agreement

16. June 10-13. 1999
Carnegie Mellon
University

17. At the conference . . .
The Impact of Publisher Mergers on
Journal Prices: Theory and Evidence
In an Emergency: Salvaging Library
Collections
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Key
Issues for Serialists

18. 9/11: Attacks on the World Trade
Center, the Pentagon and
Shanksville, PA
Apple announces iTunes
Wikipedia goes online
2001:
A SERIALS
ODYSSEY

19. June 20-23, 2002, The College of William and Mary
Transforming Serials: The Revolution
Continues
• Asteroid misses the Earth by a mere 75,000 miles
• Dick Cheney is Acting President for 2-1/2 hours while
George Bush undergoes a colonoscopy
At the conference:
Web Portals: The Future of Information Access and
Distribution
The OpenURL and SFX Linking

20. June 26-29, 2003 Portland State University
Human Genome Project sequences 99% of human genetic code.
Do Not Call Registry begins.
Space shuttle Columbia breaks up over Texas.
Finding a Better Trail Through the Journals Forest
How Electronic Journals Are Changing Patterns of Use
Usage Statistics: Taking E-Metrics to the Next Level

21. June 17-20, 2004, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Growth, Creativity and Collaboration.
Great Visions On a Great Lake
Janet Jackson has a “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl.
1st American same sex marriage performed in Massachusetts
Facebook launched for college students only
What's the Big Deal?
Electronic Resource Management:
The Quest for Systems and Standards

22. 2005
May
19-22
20th
Dan Rather and Ted Koppel both retire
Mark Felt revealed as “Deep Throat” in Watergate
Hurricane Katrina hits Gulf coast
“We Own It”: Dealing with “Perpetual
Access” in Big Deals
FRBR and Serials: An Overview and
Analysis
Ensuring Consistent Usage Statistics:
Project COUNTER

23. May 4-7, 2006
Denver, Colorado Billionth song downloaded from iTunes:
Speed of Sound by Coldplay
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
was YOU, all World Wide Web users.

25. June 5-8, 2008, Phoenix, Arizona
Taking the Sting Out of Serials!
In 2008. . .
Screenwriters strike against Hollywood studios
Blue-ray HD format corners 70% of market
At the conference:
Emerging Trends, 2.0, and Libraries
Discovery and Delivery: Making it Work for
Users

26. In the year 2009
Barack Obama
inaugurated as 44th
POTUS.
Capt. “Sully”
Sullenberger lands his
plane in the Hudson
River; all survive.
June 3-7, 2009, Asheville, North Carolina
At the conference
Measuring the Value of the Academic Library:
Return on Investment and Other Value Measures
Navigating a Course for Serials
Staffing into the New Millennium
KBART: Improving Access to
Electronic Resources through
Better Linking

27. June 3-6, 2010, Palm
Springs, California

28. June 2-5, 2011, St. Louis, Missouri
The world in 2011
Arab Spring
Royal wedding
between Prince
William and
commoner Kate
Middleton
Launch of Angry
Birds
The conference
Exploring Patron-Driven
Access Models for E-
journals and E-books
Gateway to Good
Negotiation: From Computer
Mediated Communication to
Playing Hardball
Inventing the Can Opener:
Getting the Most Out of
Discovery

29. NASA lands Science Rover Curiosity on Mars.
Hurricane Sandy devastates the East Coast.
12/21/2012 “phenomenon: Mayan calendar comes to an end;
the world doesn’t end
From the conference:
Is the Journal Dead? Possible Futures for Serial Scholarship
“Big Deal” Deconstruction
Mobile Websites and Apps in Academic Libraries: Harmony on
a Small Scale

30. At the conference . . .
Realizing the Value of Non-Purchased
Content
Building a Better Knowledgebase: A
Community Perspective
Adopting and Implementing an Open Access
Policy: The Library’s Role
Fundamentals of E-Resource Licensing

31. From a System
of Journals to a
Web of Objects
Core
Competencies
for Print Serials
Librarians
Rounding Up
Those Prices: Do
You Know What
You Are Paying
For?
#NASIG 2014
In 2014 . . . Ellen
deGeneres breaks
Twitter by taking a
selfie at the Oscars

32. 30th Anniversary Task Force
Eleanor Cook, Chair
Sara Bahnmaier
Karen Davidson
Christie Degener
Jeff Slagell
Paula Sullenger
Esta Tovstiadi
Jenni Wilson
Leigh Ann de Pope CPC Liaison
Carol Ann Borchert, Board Liaison
Design and editing Sara Bahnmaier
Concept Paula Sullenger
Special thanks to everyone who contributed a photo or digital file
for this presentation
Design consultants
Breanna Hamm

33. THANK YOU TO ALL OUR
SPONSORS FOR YOUR
SUPPORT!
We couldn’t have made it to 30
without YOU.
Let’s all come back for NASIG at
31. . .32. . .35 . . .40!