From blawlor at nfais.org Thu Jul 1 16:02:56 2010 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:02:56 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS ASIDIC Merger Message-ID: <015101cb1958$663fba20$32bf2e60$@org> NFAIS and ASIDIC Announce Merger Several weeks ago I contacted you regarding a possible merger between NFAIS and ASIDIC. With somewhat conflicting emotions I announce that as of June 30, 2010, ASIDIC members are now NFAIS members as a result of the dissolution of ASIDIC. With joy, I welcome our newest members into the NFAIS Community. Yet with sadness I say farewell to a respected sister organization who admirably fulfilled its mission for more than forty years and served its members well. Many NFAIS members were also members of ASIDIC and I know that you share my feelings. In his final letter to the ASIDIC membership ASIDIC President, Tim Ingoldsby, encouraged them to raise a glass to ASIDIC in memory of the people and meetings that have been at the heart of the organization. I encourage you all to do the same, especially since many of those people have been at the core of NFAIS as well. So today we unite and move forward as one organization into the future. What that future holds, we cannot foresee, but we welcome our newest members and, as part of a larger, stronger NFAIS Community, we will meet the challenges and opportunities.. together. For more details, see the joint NFAIS/ASIDIC press release at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/275-june-30-nfais-and-asidic-announce-merger . Bonnie Lawlor Executive Director National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004 Philadelphia, PA 19102 1-215-893-1561 Phone 1-215-893-1564 Fax blawlor at nfais.org www.nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Tue Jul 6 12:00:16 2010 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:00:16 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Forthcoming NFAIS Webinar Message-ID: <9E9C0736466346B982CDD35DE231029D@DDPXRT91> NFAIS Webinar: Google Wave - An Innovative Collaborative Workflow Tool Collaborative work projects are becoming the norm and tools that facilitate such shared workflow efforts are growing in number. Even Google has jumped in by launching its own tool - Google Wave. Initially accessible by invitation-only in 2009, it was made publically available in May and has generated a log of buzz. It supports real-time collaboration via a single web interface, eliminating the need for multiple communication tools such as wikis, e-mail, instant messaging, chat, etc. thus allowing for greater group efficiency. And it supports richly-formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more. It is the wave of the future (no pun intended!) and should not be ignored. NFAIS will hold a 90-minute informational Webinar on Google Wave and its companion tool, Google Buzz on August 4, 2010 at 1:00pm EDST. In the first half of the webinar Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Planning & Communication, will discuss the use of the real-time web as work environment/platform and the potential impact of such use on knowledge workers. She will touch on the key components of workflow efforts - information gathering, sharing and actual collaboration - and discuss how Google Wave and Google Buzz support the new workflow, highlighting their commonalities and differences. Following the overview, John Blossom, President, Shore Communications, Inc. (http://www.shore.com/) will present the value proposition offered by Google Wave. He will talk about who has adopted it, where and how it is currently being used, and will provide real-life examples of its most practical applications. If you want to learn more about these innovative new tools register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $75 and non-members pay $95. An unlimited number of staff from an NFAIS member organization can participate for a group fee of $225. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any non-member organization is $285. The registration form can be accessed at: XXXXXX. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. 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From jilloneill at nfais.org Thu Jul 8 16:21:02 2010 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:21:02 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Open Source Software and Copyright: Cendi Workshop Message-ID: * * * REGISTER BY JULY 10 * * * Open Source Software and Copyright: Legal and Business Considerations for Government Use A Workshop Sponsored by CENDI, the Law Library of Congress and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee Library of Congress, Madison Building, Mumford Room (6th Floor) Washington, DC Monday, July 26, 2010 - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm CENDI, the Law Library of Congress and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) are joining together to hold a workshop on Open Source Software (OSS) in the Federal government environment. It will be hosted by FLICC at the Library of Congress. Federal agencies are increasingly supporting the use and acquisition of open source software as an alternative to proprietary software in their information technology programs. The workshop will focus on legal, business and copyright issues related to the development and use of such software. Speakers will include legal experts and operations level practitioners who are dealing with these issues on a daily basis. Topics to be addressed include the development of OSS, policy and business models, the distribution and use within the government, and issues that should be addressed by agencies as they move into this new, collaborative development environment. This workshop will be of interest to IT managers, policy makers, legal and general counsel staff, procurement officials and government contractors. The workshop is based on the latest product of the CENDI Copyright Group, "Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright and Computer Software: Issues Affecting the U.S. Government with Special Emphasis on Open Source Software," which was released in November 2009. This follows on CENDI's very popular "Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright." Registration is now open. Space is limited and we encourage registration by July 10, 2010. The registration and program are available from: http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/oss_workshop_0710/ Registration Fee: $50 CENDI (www.cendi.gov) is an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 14 U.S. federal agencies. CENDI's mission is to help improve the productivity of federal science- and technology-based programs through effective scientific, technical, and related information-support systems. FLICC (www.loc.flicc.gov is an interagency cooperative of federal libraries and information centers. Law Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/law/) provides research and reference assistance and oversees the permanent legal collection to support the U.S. Congress. Contact Kathryn Holloway JR Candlish CENDI Secretariat CENDI Secretariat 865-298-1234 865-298-1253 kholloway at iiaweb.com jcandlish at iiaweb.com Jill O'Neill Director, Planning & Communication NFAIS (v) 215-893-1561 (email) jilloneill at nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Fri Jul 9 13:31:39 2010 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:31:39 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Forthcoming NFAIS Webinar Message-ID: <26CB0E0610AE450B986F89E557987859@DDPXRT91> NFAIS Webinar: Google Wave - An Innovative Collaborative Workflow Tool Collaborative work projects are becoming the norm and tools that facilitate such shared workflow efforts are growing in number. Even Google has jumped in by launching its own tool - Google Wave. Initially accessible by invitation-only in 2009, it was made publically available in May and has generated a log of buzz. It supports real-time collaboration via a single web interface, eliminating the need for multiple communication tools such as wikis, e-mail, instant messaging, chat, etc. thus allowing for greater group efficiency. And it supports richly-formatted text, photos, videos, maps and more. It is the wave of the future (no pun intended!) and should not be ignored. NFAIS will hold a 90-minute informational Webinar on Google Wave and its companion tool, Google Buzz on August 4, 2010 at 1:00pm EDST. In the first half of the webinar Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Planning & Communication, will discuss the use of the real-time web as work environment/platform and the potential impact of such use on knowledge workers. She will touch on the key components of workflow efforts - information gathering, sharing and actual collaboration - and discuss how Google Wave and Google Buzz support the new workflow, highlighting their commonalities and differences. Following the overview, John Blossom, President, Shore Communications, Inc. (http://www.shore.com/) will present the value proposition offered by Google Wave. He will talk about who has adopted it, where and how it is currently being used, and will provide real-life examples of its most practical applications. If you want to learn more about these innovative new tools register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $75 and non-members pay $95. An unlimited number of staff from an NFAIS member organization can participate for a group fee of $225. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any non-member organization is $285. The registration form can be accessed at: http://info.nfais.org/info/2010_Aug_Web_RegForm.pdf. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community Jill O'Neill Director, Planning & Communication NFAIS (v) 215-893-1561 (email) jilloneill at nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Tue Jul 13 10:50:18 2010 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:50:18 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] CENDI Workshop on Open Source Software and Copyright Message-ID: <01c001cb229a$b6830960$23891c20$@org> Dear NFAIS Members, If you were planning to attend the Open Source Software and Copyright workshop being offered by our sister organization, CENDI, and just hadn't registered, now is your chance! While it has a focus on government, anyone interested in using open source software should consider attending. * * * REGISTRATION EXTENDED TO JULY 19 * * * See the URL below for online registration. Open Source Software and Copyright: Legal and Business Considerations for Government Use A Workshop Sponsored by CENDI, the Law Library of Congress and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee Library of Congress, Madison Building, Mumford Room (6th Floor) Washington, DC Monday, July 26, 2010 - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm CENDI, the Law Library of Congress and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) are joining together to hold a workshop on Open Source Software (OSS) in the Federal government environment. It will be hosted by FLICC at the Library of Congress. Federal agencies are increasingly supporting the use and acquisition of open source software as an alternative to proprietary software in their information technology programs. The workshop will focus on legal, business and copyright issues related to the development and use of such software. Speakers will include legal experts and operations level practitioners who are dealing with these issues on a daily basis. Topics to be addressed include the development of OSS, policy and business models, the distribution and use within the government, and issues that should be addressed by agencies as they move into this new, collaborative development environment. This workshop will be of interest to IT managers, policy makers, legal and general counsel staff, procurement officials and government contractors. The workshop is based on the latest product of the CENDI Copyright Group, " Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright and Computer Software: Issues Affecting the U.S. Government with Special Emphasis on Open Source Software," which was released in November 2009. This follows on CENDI's very popular " Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright." The registration deadline has been extended to July 19. However, space is limited and we encourage registration as soon as possible. The registration and program are available from: http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/oss_workshop_0710/ Registration Fee: $50 CENDI ( www.cendi.gov) is an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 14 U.S. federal agencies. CENDI's mission is to help improve the productivity of federal science- and technology-based programs through effective scientific, technical, and related information-support systems. FLICC (www.loc.flicc.gov is an interagency cooperative of federal libraries and information centers. Law Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/law/) provides research and reference assistance and oversees the permanent legal collection to support the U.S. Congress. Contact JR Candlish CENDI Secretariat 865-298-1253 jcandlish at iiaweb.com Bonnie Lawlor Executive Director National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004 Philadelphia, PA 19102 1-215-893-1561 Phone 1-215-893-1564 Fax blawlor at nfais.org www.nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Wed Jul 14 08:50:55 2010 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:50:55 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Semantic Tagging Webinar Message-ID: <002b01cb2353$33843070$9a8c9150$@org> The announcement below regarding a forthcoming complimentary webinar on semantic tagging is being posted on behalf of NFAIS member organization, Molecular Connections. For more information, contact them directly at publishingservices at molecularconnections.com ****************************************************** "STOP Thinking - START Tagging" "GET MOST OUT OF YOUR CONTENT - TAG it Semantically" The "new age" publishing consumers' preferences are fast changing. Organizing your existing content & enabling semantic level searches is critical for getting the best out of your content. Using publicly available ontologies and Molecular Connection's (MC) proprietary workflow, MC has come up with an end - to - end solution for semantically tagging content - be it books, full text articles or patents. Using a "Hybrid" approach, we index content at a very granular level and permit the end-user to browse the content using their ontologies of choice be it MESH, UMLS etc. To know more, join us for a free Webinar on 22nd or 27th July, 2010 at: New York- Thursday, 10:00 Brussels- Thursday, 16:00 London- Thursday, 15:00 San Francisco- Thursday, 07:00 Bangalore- Thursday, 19:30 Limited Space !! Register Now or at http://www.molecularconnections.com/publishing/en/home/resources/webinar-reg istration Note: If interested in a different date or time, please write to us at publishingservices at molecularconnections.com We are looking forward to your participation, Corporate Centre, Bangalore India Contact: publishingservices at molecularconnections.com Web: http://www.molecularconnections.com/publishing/ new sign1.GIF About the email: MC respects your privacy and will not sell, lease, or share your e-mail address with any other organization. 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The two essays take opposing stands on the issue of whether the Internet is making us dumber (Carr's position) or smarter (Shirky's). Actually, neither essay actually responds to the question. Rather, each author wends his way around to making a different point. Carr believes that the ubiquity of Web access on mobile devices distracts us from the focused attention and thought required in serious reading whereas Shirky writes that the Web has restored acts of "reading and writing as central activities in our culture." Carr: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284981644790098.ht ml Shirky: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.ht ml Of course, such debates don't properly differentiate between the varying approaches to reading that different work tasks require. Current thinking suggests that these approaches break into four (somewhat permeable) categories - (1) immersive (2) extractive or strategic (3) pedagogical and (4) interstitial. That last may be unfamiliar, but it pertains to the short spurts of reading managed in the small chunks of time available to us in between larger obligations (see Arthur Atwell's 2009 posting on the New Cereal Box Moment at http://arthurattwell.com/technology/49-interstitial-reading-the-new-cereal-b ox-moment. Atwell credits Joseph Esposito (current CEO of Giantchair.com) with the concept. See http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/12/interstitial-publishing.html). Esposito actually hones in on an important aspect of the issue troubling Carr, ".interstitial publishing is confused with having a short attention span, as though a moment is somehow less valuable than an hour. The key to this new form of publishing, however, is that it views the short period of each entry not as a watered-down version of the "real thing," a long text, but as something built perfectly for the space and time it occupies." Esposito's idea is that literary forms will gradually be adapted to fit our current lifestyles and needs while Carr's concern is that if we wire our brains too much for this style of reading, whether on the Web (replete with hyperlinks, another distraction in Carr's view) or on mobile devices, then those brains will be less capable of immersive or contemplative reading of longer and more complex arguments and narratives. Part of what readers may be doing in that brief span of time noted by Esposito is something called document or information triage, a concept that has been floating around in research circles for a few years. As one scholarly paper I read noted, this is something that "has traditionally been the province of analysts, professional researchers and reference librarians," but our awareness of the practice is spreading with the rise in popularity of mobile devices and access to digital content. It's the mental process that we go through when skimming or reading a document in order to evaluate its value or relevance to our interest (see Soonil Bae, Patterns of Reading and Organizing Information in Document Triage, at http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/asist-reading-triage.pdf). Researcher Cathy C. Marshall of Microsoft (and a co-author of the above referenced paper on document triage) examines those acts that make up the research process -- reading, annotation, writing, and personal information management and storage (See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/cathymar/). In 2002, Marshall produced a paper for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002) that examined reading on small form factor devices, specifically on the technology of the time -- the Palm Pilot and the HP Jornada Pocket PC. She noted behaviors by students in how they read and how they fit the activity into their lives: "[the student] does not read linearly; she looks for paratextual cues (like chapter headings) and uses these in combination with a search facility. Second, when she is engaged with the text in a more linear fashion, she is moving both forward and backward, alternating between skimming and focused reading,.Most importantly she evaluates how much time she has, and what ground she can possibly cover in this time." The use of the device for purposes of reading was tied to contextual task, content structure, navigational options, and time constraints (see Reading in the Small: A study of reading on small form factor devices Catherine C. Marshall, Christine Ruotolo at http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/72887/p67-marshall.pdf). Many of us do not realize how much of this interstitial reading occupies our day. We don't think of checking email on a corporate Blackberry or glancing at a Twitter stream as "reading," but that is because, as Marshall also notes, reading is not a stand-alone activity but a hybrid one, accomplished in a larger ecosystem of documents, technologies, and reading-related activities. Reading is essentially an invisible practice (Is that woman with the Blackberry really reading her email or is she assessing its priority on the To-Do list?). It is possible that the volume of what the user population reads has actually increased based on the volume of tightly condensed content that gets poured into different environments. I referenced two book titles in the opening sentences of this piece. Recognizing that finding the time to read book-length treatments of a topic may be an issue for NFAIS members, I also included links to two shorter pieces that encapsulate the primary arguments found in those books. I might further have condensed those URLs (using Bitly, see: http://bit.ly/) and incorporated references to the content into a Tweet dispersed to 300 followers. Alternatively, I might have embedded video from YouTube or created a link to dynamically search for similar content. These are forms that readily fit into the context of these shorter reading experiences. Efficiency is a watchword here. By presenting ideas in both short and long form, through text as well as via the aural/visual delivery of video, the points being made by those authors are not just disseminated more broadly - they are also being presented to the user in a range of options that allows the user to fit content ingestion into existing contextual and time constraints. During lunch recently, Maureen Kelly of Content Kinetics challenged me to describe for her what a 21st century abstracting and indexing service would look like. I didn't get very far in my imagining but, were I sitting down to my kitchen table to develop such a service, I would design something that would incorporate the following: A Twitter-like element (condensed textual item information, speedily processed) A Bitly-like element (condensed identifier, access) An #ask4stuff-like element (condensed bibliography, search/context) I would combine human-readable content for rapid processing and decision-making with machine readable content to facilitate navigation to the item and ensure the additional option of implicit search in order maximize the potential reach of the user in getting to the useful information (thereby reinventing the bibliographic citation). Speaking more seriously, such a construct would readily fit into Marshall's structure for reading on mobile devices: contextual task, content structure, navigational options, and time constraints. If you don't recognize the #ask4stuff element, it's a nifty bit of software engineering from OCLC, introduced at the American Library Association this year (see Mike Teet's blog entry at: http://community.oclc.org/cooperative/2010/06/sometimes-the-internet-is-just -not-big-enough-for-me.html). Not being technical, I truly cannot explain how it works, but the use of the hashtag in a tweet with accompanying query terms such as "Lucy Maud Montgomery" or "poliomyelitis causes" launches a search in WorldCat. The system then returns a different tweet (within a matter of seconds) to the user with a link. Clicking on the link vaults the user out of Twitter to a set of WorldCat results. The OCLC intent was to bring the library into the user's immediate environment, heightening the library's visibility, but my satisfaction with the thing was due to its convenience and usefulness. It was time-efficient without being overly fussy as to query terms or search structure. I tweet this (http://twitter.com/jillmwo/status/18359512306) and get back this (http://twitter.com/Ask4Stuff/status/18359513003). Does it replace my older methodology of using a published bibliography to gather names of researchers working in this field? Not perfectly - there were duplicate hits and some irrelevancies due to the ambiguity of the word triage, but the idea behind #ask4stuff is sound. The service is accessible on a wildly popular platform, one oriented towards brevity and immediacy. The user isn't even necessarily thinking of the interaction with #ask4stuff as searching. Their next step will be some level of assessment or evaluation of the results' relevancy. When I access Twitter over my morning toast and coffee to see what headlines and topics are currently engaging my network there, I scan individual tweets for intelligence and/or interest and then star (bookmark) the tweet for access later in my office. (I'm unlikely to scan a PDF or even a news article on the screen real estate available to me on an iTouch.) In the office, those items I've bookmarked are evaluated on a larger monitor by clicking through on any tweet-incorporated links; if the piece looks like a closer read might be required to fully grasp an author's idea or argument, it can then be printed for more concentrated review during my 20-minute train trip home. Such a hybrid process is information triage in June 2010. In Marshall's 1997 paper, Spatial Hypertext and the Practice of Information Triage, she makes the statement that "Information triage implies changes in reading and attention. Tools to support information triage may change the nature of reading even more, by making quick, partial interpretation of content possible and multiple readings the order of the day." Subsequent work by researchers both in the UK and in the US suggest that interface design and document structure are key in supporting the level of analysis and evaluation key to effective triage. Should you be curious, two such papers are (1) Loizides, F. "An Empirical Study of User Navigation During Document Triage," Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Springer, and (2) Bae, S., "Supporting Document Triage via Annotation-based Visualizations," Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Wiley Interscience. Full text for the latter may be accessed at http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~shipman/papers/asist-2008.pdf. The fourth of Ranganathan's five laws is that libraries should save the time of the reader. It's not about whether the content is presented in a book, article, video, abstract or bibliographic citation. Nor is it about whether the reader is using a tethered or untethered computing device. We are perhaps prone to forget that (except, of course, for purposes of writing marketing blurbs). It's not just about discovery or aiding current awareness; information services should also have as a primary focus saving the user's time - not only in gathering, but also in assessing material. Nicholas Carr wrote a fantastic article for The Atlantic in 2008 when he gave us Is Google Making Us Stupid. Was his decision to further explore his argument in The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains necessary to move the discussion forward? How has he saved the time of the user? Or to pose the question differently, which would you as a busy professional be apt to read first? When Publishers Weekly covered the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses in Denver in June, there was terrific uproar at a panel on demand-driven library acquisition. "Yankee Book Peddler's Kim Anderson drew gasps from attendees when he stated that the University of Kansas now drops a new title from its catalog if it isn't requested within the first six months. "What?" an audience member exclaimed, "when journal reviews don't appear for three years?" (see http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/trade-shows-events /article/43600-facing-the-facts-university-presses-in-the-digital-age.html]) . Meaning no disrespect to any particular discipline or community, does a review emerging three years after the fact seem like it would be saving any user's time? As a side note, you might want to make time to read the text of Joseph Esposito's plenary address at that same AAUP meeting regarding Stage Five Book Publishing and where libraries fit in that environment (see http://www.aaupnet.org/programs/annualmeeting/2010/esposito.html. His slides are available at http://www.slideshare.net/aaupny/stage-five-presentation-working-copy.) Philip E. Bourne of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences contributed an article to PLoS Computational Biology entitled "What Do I Want from the Publisher of the Future?" In it, he asked, "if we move away from the traditional PDF to something more dynamic that integrates data, rich media, and that includes interactive access, what do I as a scientist want from publishers at that point?" He points out that "the final published work does not map well to the workflow of the scientific endeavor used to create it." Bourne's ideas about publishers' assuming responsibility for capturing his total workflow are somewhat vague, but he recognizes quite clearly that the presentation and scope of content need to be altered to satisfy his needs. The elements of context, content structure, and navigation as they currently exist (print or platform) aren't adequately easing the time constraints that hamper his investigations (see http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000787). In June, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) published a report "Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025" by David J. Staley and Kara J. Malenfont. The report was intended to be an aid in strategic planning for academic librarians seeking to underscore the library's value to parent institutions. It was interesting to read the 26 different scenarios offered and which outcomes the library community seemed to think most likely. I will draw your attention to just two of them. One of them was the need to provide a form of "third space," a location where students could separate from the noise and distraction represented by 24/7 access through mobile devices in order to bring to bear the mental concentration necessary to immersive reading and study. The second scenario of interest mirrored Nicholas Carr's concern, "With our brains no longer making neural pathways to understand written language, we sharpen other skills like sensing and intuition to understand how to relate to others and share ideas." (Download the ACRL report from http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/value/futures2025.pdf). To me those two scenarios are tied. If information is presented in more readily consumable forms (video, audio, text, etc.) that are easier for users to absorb and use, then finding the zone of quiet in which to follow a concentrated process of thought may be as simple as finding an empty room and an adequately comfortable chair. The function a library serves in that scenario becomes very different. Interstitial forms of reading will likely seem more natural and useful to some research professionals, while the kind of immersive reading that Nicholas Carr values (and which others may find to be cognitively burdensome) will be left to those for whom that form of intake is most conducive. For the information community, the question should never have been whether the Internet was making us smarter or dumber; the question is how the Internet should best be leveraged in order to save the time of the reader while giving them the information that they need! Mark Your Calendars: August 4, 2010: NFAIS Webinar on Google Wave - An Innovative Collaborative Workflow Tool. For more information go to: http://www.nfais.org/page/276-google-wave-webinar 2010 SPONSORS Accessible Archives, Inc. American Psychological Association/PsycINFO The British Library CAS Copyright Clearance Center CrossRef Data Conversion Laboratory Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Getty Research Institute H. W. Wilson Information Today, Inc. Office of Scientific & Technical Information, DOE Philosopher's Information Center ProQuest Really Strategies, Inc. Temis, Inc. Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science Thomson Reuters IP Solutions Unlimited Priorities Corporation *************************** Jill O'Neill Director, Planning & Communication NFAIS (v) 215-893-1561 (email) jilloneill at nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Fri Jul 23 10:27:49 2010 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (Jill O'Neill) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:27:49 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Barbara Fister on Ebooks (Library Journal) Message-ID: I found this column by Barbara Fister, Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota) to hit the major points regarding scholarly ebooks in an academic library setting: http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/newsletters/newsletterbucketacademicnewswir e/886015-440/ebooks_and_the_retailization_of.html.csp One of the closing paragraphs: What academics need from ebooks is not less than what they can expect from print books, but more. They need to be able to read closely, annotate, and remix (through unfettered and accurate quotation and analysis); they need to be able to share texts, to be able to count on them to remain stable, and ideally be able to assign them to students without requiring them to purchase specialized hardware. Scholars should be able to read widely without any concern that their reading list could be subpoenaed. And they need access to a wide range of books and other materials, not just that for which there is currently a consumer market. Jill O'Neill Director, Planning & Communication NFAIS (v) 215-893-1561 (email) jilloneill at nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Fri Jul 23 12:30:57 2010 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:30:57 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Obituary - Bob Asleson Message-ID: <012c01cb2a84$6df7ff10$49e7fd30$@org> NFAIS Joins Unlimited Priorities in Mourning the Loss of Bob Asleson, Long-time Information Industry Executive We just received notice that Bob Asleson, an information industry executive known to many of you, passed away yesterday. Bob was a member of Unlimited Priorities Corporation's Board and we join them in mourning their loss. Please note the obituary below. ************************************************ In Memoriam: Bob Asleson October 11, 1935 - July 22, 2010 It is with heavy hearts that we acknowledge the passing of Bob Asleson, a long-time member of the Unlimited Priorities Advisory Board. Bob was a native of Minnesota and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. In addition, he earned a JD Degree from George Washington University. Following three years of active duty in the US Navy, he joined Xerox Corporation where he was affiliated with University Microfilms and R. R. Bowker. Following associations with Information Handling Services, International Thomson, The Library Corporation and numerous M & A consulting assignments, he moved on to represent the interests of a private family firm, The Redalen Group, where his primary involvement was with Paratext and Children's Literature Comprehensive Database. Bob served on countless information industry boards, including that of Unlimited Priorities. Bob was an avid lover of jazz and convertible Jaguars. He is survived by his loving wife, three accomplished daughters, their husbands and seven grandchildren. We salute Bob's dedication and many contributions to the information industry-he was truly one of the industry good guys. So long, Bob. We will miss you. ****************************************************************** Bonnie Lawlor Executive Director National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004 Philadelphia, PA 19102 1-215-893-1561 Phone 1-215-893-1564 Fax blawlor at nfais.org www.nfais.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Tue Jul 27 09:28:41 2010 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:28:41 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Webinar - Google Wave Message-ID: <019201cb2d8f$a1089aa0$e319cfe0$@org> NFAIS Webinar August 4th: Google Wave - An Innovative Collaborative Workflow Tool NFAIS will hold a 90-minute informational Webinar on Google Wave and its companion tool, Google Buzz on August 4, 2010 at 1:00pm EDST. Learn more about there collaborative work tools. In the first half of the webinar Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Planning & Communication, will discuss the use of the real-time web as work environment/platform and the potential impact of such use on knowledge workers. She will touch on the key components of workflow efforts - information gathering, sharing and actual collaboration - and discuss how Google Wave and Google Buzz support the new workflow, highlighting their commonalities and differences. Following the overview, John Blossom, President, Shore Communications, Inc. (http://www.shore.com/) will present the value proposition offered by Google Wave. He will talk about who has adopted it, where and how it is currently being used, and will provide real-life examples of its most practical applications. If you want to learn more about these innovative new tools register for the NFAIS webinar today. NFAIS members pay $75 and non-members pay $95. An unlimited number of staff from an NFAIS member organization can participate for a group fee of $225. The group fee for an unlimited number of staff from any non-member organization is $285. The registration form can be accessed at: http://info.nfais.org/info/2010_Aug_Web_RegForm.pdf. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. 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