The National Library of Colombia & ISSN Centre  (Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia) are happy to invite you to their Second Academic Conference about the Colombian serials, entitled : “Segunda Jornada Académica: Las Publicaciones Seriadas Colombianas: Panorama y Perspectivas”

• date:  Monday 10th August, at 08:00 a.m.

• Place :

– Morning meeting: PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA – Room: AUDITORIO: FÉLIX RESTREPO – Avenida Carrera 7 No. 43 – 82 (North entrance)

-Afternoon meeting: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA – Room: GERMAN ARCINIEGAS – Calle 24 No. 5 – 80

Please click on the following link to see the agenda: AGENDA – SEGUNDA JORNADA ACADÉMICA 

CIDEMIS: a new service for ISSN assignment and correction requests from French libraries

The ABES (French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education) has launched a new system, CIDEMIS, jointly developed in partnership with the National Library of France and the ISSN International Centre, to dematerialize the workflow of ISSN assignment and correction requests sent by French libraries to the ISSN national centres.

CIDEMIS will enhance the rapidity and the efficiency of the whole process, by quickly providing the relevant information to national centres. It will also allow a better monitoring of the assignment and correction activity. These requests from a network of professionals in French libraries help improving the coverage and the accuracy of the ISSN register.

More information (in French): http://fil.abes.fr/2015/06/22/cidemis-ouverture-de-lapplication/

Two workshops will take place as part of ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) 2015 General Assembly to be held on 4th July 2015 in Hanover, Germany.

The Information Trends and Opportunities Committee (ITOC workshop) will focus on strategic thinking and future trends in open science and open data, and theTechnical Activities Coordinating Committee (TACC) innovation workshop will deal with innovative information products and services that help STI more useable and accessible.

ISSN IC will also attend the 36th Conference of the International Association of University Libraries (IATUL), an Associate Member of ICSTI, organized on 5-9th July in Hanover, under the heading « Strategic Partnerships for Access and Discovery

At the annual conference of the American Library Association in San Francisco, the US ISSN National Centre will give a presentation entitled “ISSN @ 40:  Past, Present, and Future” at the Library of Congress exhibit booth and the ALCTS Continuing Resources Update Forum will feature three presentations about ISSN.

Gaëlle Béquet will open a conference dedicated to “Bibliographic transition” in France.

AFNOR, the French standardization agency, and the National Library of France (BnF) organize on June 26^th, 2015 a conference on “bibliographic transition”. Sylviane Tarsot Gillery, BnF’s general director, Gaëlle Béquet, chair of ISO TC46 (Technical Committee on information and documentation) and Pierre Fuzeau, chair of CN46 (French national mirror of TC46) will open this one-day conference.

The conference will present the issues of adopting new bibliographic models and formats, consistent with the FRBR approaches, to drive the participation of cultural institutions in the web of data. Even though the questions related to the adoption of RDA cataloguing rules in France will be specifically under focus, the discussions are intended for a wide audience, from libraries, archives and museums.

Link to the programme (in French): http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2015/a.jp_150626_afnor.html

The ISSN database software, based on Virtua from Innovative [http://www.iii.com/products/vtls-virtua], has been recently upgraded to a new release which includes some important customizations. In particular, it is now possible for the ISSN International Centre to create and manage directly the internal bibliographic validations rules which help to ensure the quality and consistency of the data in the ISSN Register.

The new release also offers the possibility of loading bibliographic data from external applications, which opens new horizons for the connection of external services.

Mrs Gaëlle Béquet, director of the ISSN International Centre, has visited the Instituto de Información Científica y Tecnológica (IDICT) in Havana (Cuba) on May 18^th and 19^th, 2015.

IDICT has been cooperating for many years with the ISSN International Centre for the identification of Cuban serial publications which are recorded in the ISSN Register. This visit was the opportunity to present ISSN network and services, and especially ROAD, the Directory of Open Access Resources.

Gaëlle Béquet, chair of the ISO Technical Committee 46 (Information and Documentation) and Clément Oury will attend the TC46 plenary meeting in Beijing (China) from June 1^st to 5^th.

The International Centre will attend the annual meeting of ABES (les Journées de l’ABES) in Montpellier on 27&28 May, 2015.

The 64th ISSN Governing Board Meeting was held on April 29th, and 30th, 2015, in Paris, in the ISSN IC premises.