Name: Access in Flux: What Librarians Need to Know About the Changing Scholarly Landscape
Start: 2026-06-04T10:30:00-0500
End: 2026-06-04T11:30:00-0500

Welcome to the NASIG 2026 Conference. The conference will take place at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial. Union on June 2-4, 2026. Check out the Venue Map link below to locate conference spaces. The Registration Desk is on the 2nd floor by the Annex Room. Wifi logon instructions are available here. Note: If you are registered with eduroam at your home institution you can connect to wifi using eduroam.

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Access in Flux: What Librarians Need to Know About the Changing Scholarly Landscape

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am CDT

Old Madison

Over the past two years, rapid shifts in browser technology and changing regulatory requirements have created new obstacles for delivering seamless, secure access to online scholarly resources. This session explores these obstacles, highlights the latest developments in the resource access ecosystem, and introduces how the SeamlessAccess initiative helps libraries, publishers, and service providers navigate this evolving landscape through its core principles of usability, privacy, reliability, and security.

Speakers

John Felts

Head of Information Technology and Collections, Coastal Carolina University

John is currently the Head of Information Technology and Collections at Coastal Carolina University. He has worked in academic library technology for over 30 years and is a former patent holder and co-founder of Journal Finder, the first OpenURL Resolver and knowledge base to go into... Read More →

Michelle Colquitt

Continuing Resources & Government Information Management Librarian, Clemson University Libraries

Greetings! My name is Michelle Colquitt and I am the Continuing Resources and Government Information Management Librarian at Clemson University. I'm an introverted people person who loves to make connections and chat about library technical services. I'm looking forward to meeting... Read More →

Heather Staines

Senior Consultant, Delta Think

I'm a consultant for scholarly publishers and vendors, and I am also Director of Community Engagement for the Delta Think Open Access Data & Analytics Tool. In my spare time I write musicals about metadata!

Thursday June 4, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Old Madison

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John Felts

Michelle Colquitt

Heather Staines

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