Speaker Resources

NASIG 39th Annual Conference

June 3 - 7, 2024 Spokane, Washington

Dates and Deadlines

• December 1, 2023: Session proposals due.
• January 2024: Session proposal decisions shared with speakers
• February 20, 2024: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) due
• May 31, 2024: Last day to send in any slides or handouts you wish to share with attendees
• July 2024: Paper due to the NASIG conference proceedings editors

General Information

NASIG has a code of conduct for all conference participants. This conference will be an in-person event with in-person presenters. A virtual conference will be held at a different time of year and may have different content. More information about the virtual conference will be announced soon.

Presentations

Send your slides to either your Program Planning Committee (PPC) contact or add them to SCHED.

SCHED.com

SCHED will be available to speakers in Spring 2024, once available your liaison will let you know when it's time to review and update your profile. You can do this either by logging into Sched to edit your profile or you can send this to your PPC contact. While there are no requirements for the information you provide we do suggest you add information. You may also wish to add your slides to Sched.

Conference Handouts/Presentation Materials

Please note, speakers are required to provide a final copy of any presentation slides for loading into the NASIG Figshare account.

NASIG will be using a Figshare account to allow for cloud storage of speakers presentations and to manage conference handouts. Attendees will be directed to the conference Figshare page to download handouts and presentation materials. Speaker presentations and handouts are to be e-mailed to the Communications Committee (CC) at communications@nasig.org for them to upload the materials to the NASIG Figshare site. Speakers are encourage to submit their slides prior to the conference. If slide presentations are sent during the conference itself, CC will be uploading the presentations as quickly as possible. Slides should be submitted by May 31, 2024.

Though we are not requiring speakers to use this version of the presentations when you actually present, we strongly invite all to do so. For some guidelines in formatting a Figshare presentation, please see the following:

• DLF's Guide to Creating Accessible Presentation

• Creating Presentations That Don't Suck by Melissa Haendel

• Seven Steps to Creating an Accessible PowerPoint Slideshow

Please particularly consider accessibility of your presentations, including color contrast and text size. Posting your presentation ahead of time is another way to make your presentation more accessible to all attendees. Please also be sure to properly credit any images and make your own rights clear. You may wish to add a Creative Commons license to increase its ability to be shared.

Send your presentation materials as attachments to communications@nasig.org. In the body of the email, include the title of your presentation and the names of the presenters as well as any URLs if you are using a website instead of a document as your handout. In order to assist CC in organizing the presentations, please begin all presentation titles with "nasig2024".

Your materials will be freely accessible to everyone; they will not be restricted to NASIG members and conference attendees. If you have questions, please contact CC at communications@nasig.org.

Conference Proceedings

Speakers are encouraged to write their own paper, however if speakers are unable when filling out your Memorandum of Understanding (due by February 20, 2024). If you are not the only speaker for your session, please be sure to communicate with your co-presenters when deciding who will be writing the paper.

The conference proceedings will be published Open Access in NASIG Proceedings on the Michigan Publishing Services platform as a standalone publication. It will no longer be published as a special issue of the Serials Librarian, but previous proceedings through 2021 will be available via Open Access on the Taylor & Francis platform as special issues of the Serials Librarian. Authors will be asked to sign a NASIG Proceedings Article Publishing Agreement. More information about submitting a Proceedings paper can be found in the FAQs for NASIG Vision Speakers & Presenters.

The proceedings editors have developed Conference Proceedings Author Guidelines for your reference.

The deadline for submitting your paper is will be 6 to 8 weeks post-conference. Please contact proceedings@nasig.org if you have further questions.

Memorandum of Understanding

All speakers are required to sign and return a copy of the NASIG Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which you will receive via email from a member of the program planning committee (PPC). MOU's are due by February 20, 2024. If you have not received an MOU, please contact PPC at prog-plan@nasig.org.

Compensation

The details of your compensation for speaking at NASIG was communicated in your proposal acceptance. If you have any further questions about compensation, please see our policy for Annual Conference and Continuing Education Events.