NASIG updates strategic plan

NASIG, formerly the North American Serials Interest Group, recently announced availability of the NASIG Strategic Plan 2017-2011. This new strategic plan reflects NASIG's evolution from an organization primarily focused on serials management to one with a broader scope including electronic resources management and scholarly communications.

The details:

NASIG's vision, adopted November 10,2014, is to be:

an independent organization working to advance and transform the management of information resoures. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate and improve the distribution, acquisition, and long-term accessibility of information resources in all formats and business models.

The organization's mission includes three key components.

1. Support of a community of professionals ... engaging in understanding of one another's perspectives and improving functionality throughout the information resources lifecycle ...
2. Provision of a variety of conference and continuing education programming ...
3. Promotion of the development and implementation of best practices and standards for the distribution, acquisition and long-term accessibility of information resources in all formats and business models throughout their lifecycle.

The strategic plan identifies five strategic directions for the organization.

1. NASIG will revitalize its marketing approach to reflect is new mission and vision.
2. NASIG will expand student outreach and mentoring.
3. NASIG will find the optimum balance between paid staff and volunteer work.
4. NASIG will be involved in creating new content to add to the body of scholarly work.
5. NASIG will work to enhance benefits to all members with a particular emphasis on members from the commercial sector.

NASIG's 33rd annual meeting, with the theme Transforming the Information Community will be held in Atlanta, GA  Friday June 8 - Monday June 11, 2018.