NASIG is soliciting presentation proposals for its 41st Annual Conference, to be held June 2 - 4, 2026, in Madison, Wisconsin. We are currently seeking in-person presentations. Sessions will be one hour in length on topics related to the areas defined in NASIG’s Core Competencies, including, but not limited to:

• Electronic resource life cycle and management
• Collection analysis, assessment, and development
• Licensing and legal framework of library content
• Ethical issues in technical services
• Standards and systems of cataloging and classification, metadata, linked data, and indexing
• Standards, initiatives, and best practices for library content
• Scholarly communication, including copyright, data management, and assessment and impact metrics
• Institutional repositories, publishing, digital preservation, open educational resources, and open access
• Life cycle and workflow of print continuing resources
• Relationship building between libraries, vendors, publishers, standards bodies, and others involved in the information community
• Supervision and management of staff working in areas relevant to NASIG
• Management of projects related to electronic and/or print resources or scholarly communication
• Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in technical services workflows
• Initiatives and best practices in areas included in the core competencies and awareness of trends and ongoing developments in those areas
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in relation to libraries

Each session should include approximately 30-45 minutes of content, with remaining time allotted for discussion.  

Co-presenters are welcomed, but we ask that you limit submissions to no more than three presenters. Presenters may be asked to combine sessions with other presenters on similar topics.

Proposals are selected by the Program Planning Committee based on their relevance to NASIG member interests.  Please refer to the Proposal Resources page to see the rubric used by the committee to evaluate submissions, as well as other resources for crafting a successful proposal.

Presenters will have the option of publishing a conference report in the NASIG Conference Proceedings.  

More information about the conference is available at https://nasig.org/NASIG-Annual-Conference. Accepted presentations will be offered a 50% discount off qualified registration for the conference.

The submission deadline is December 19, 2025

Questions? Please email nasigppc@gmail.com