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The Continuing Resources Section Standards Update Forum presents news on developments affecting continuing resources management at  American Library Association conferences. Our next forum will take place 10:30am-12:00pm on Sunday, June 26, 2011 at the New Orleans Marriott-Studio 7.  It will feature reports from the NISO SERU (Shared Electronic Resources Understanding) Working Group and the PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals) Working Group, as well as a panel discussion on how the standards process works.

Judy Luther of Informed Strategies, co-chair of the NISO SERU Working Group, will speak about SERU and its progress.  A revision of SERU is under development to address e-resources other than journals.  The new draft has gone out for preliminary comment.  Judy will speak to the intent of the revision and will address questions about SERU and its use.

Steven Shadle, Serials Access Librarian at the University of Washington Libraries and a member of the PIE-J Working Group will provide an update on PIE-J. The PIE-J Working Group seeks to develop a recommended practice that will provide guidance on the presentation and identification of e-journals, particularly in the areas of title presentation and bibliographic history, accurate use of the ISSN, and citation practice, in order to assist publishers, platform providers, abstracting and indexing services, knowledgebase providers, aggregators, and other concerned parties in facilitating online discovery, identification, and access to publications. 

The Continuing Resources Standards Committee thanks Swets for its generous sponsorship of the forum.

Naomi Young

Principal Serials Cataloger, Smathers Libraries

University of Florida

naomi@uflib.ufl.edu

352-273-2734