[nfais-l] NFAIS Humanities Roundtable

[Bonnie Lawlor]

REMINDER: The NFAIS Humanities Roundtable IX is Scheduled for October 18,
2010

 

A one-day NFAIS program, Turn and Face the New:  Delivering Humanities
Research in a Changing Environment, is scheduled for October 18, 2010 at the
state-of-the-art Graduate
<http://www.gc.cuny.edu/about_gc/campus/interview_architects.htm>  Center of
the City University of New York in Manhattan, from 9:00am to 4:15pm.  The
meeting will highlight some of the major trends impacting the humanities
information environment - e-books, mobile computing, social media, discovery
services, and the future of abstracting and indexing services.  And there
will be ample time for attendees to share their own perspectives on changing
user information behavior and the evolution of the humanities information
landscape. While the meeting has a humanities information context, the
program content is applicable to all information providers and librarians
(see final program at:
http://www.nfais.org/page/277-2010-nfais-humanities-roundtable).

 

The morning will begin with a look at the changing library customer.  With
feedback from recent research, you will learn about the status of the print
monograph, the tipping point for the purchase and use of e-books, and how
these trends are impacting university presses.  The focus will then turn to
the mobile delivery of information with a discussion on content preparation
and its optimal delivery mechanism - via a mobile application or a
mobile-optimized web site.  This will be followed by a case study on how to
successfully develop and use a blog to create an organizational online
voice.  The morning will close with am interesting look at usage statistics
from hosted content.  You will learn what current technology can (and
cannot) do with regard to tracking the user's path, what hosts can share
with content providers, and how usage statistics drive platform development.

 

The afternoon will begin with a panel of humanities information providers
sharing their perspective on the future of the humanities market - how user
needs, expectations, and skills are changing and how technology is driving
that change.   This will be followed by a session on how the reading
experience itself is evolving - the devices that are used, how users are
reacting to those devices, and what new trends can be expected in the coming
year. There will be an update on the impact of discovery services in the
delivery of humanities information, and the closing keynote will discuss the
future of abstracting and indexing services - what they do well, how they
can expand - and how they can even thrive.

 

The final program, directions to the meeting facility, and registration
information are now available on the NFAIS Web site at:
http://www.nfais.org/page/277-2010-nfais-humanities-roundtable.

 

Register soon, as seating is limited. Registration for this one-day session,
including continental breakfast, lunch and two refreshment breaks, is only
$95 for NFAIS members and $115 for non-members.  For more information
contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning,
215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:
mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org.   

 

Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a premier membership organization of more than 80
of the world's leading producers of databases, information services, and
information technology in the sciences, engineering, social sciences,
business, and the arts and humanities.

 

 

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