From blawlor at nfais.org Wed Nov 2 07:45:16 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 07:45:16 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] Workshop on the erosion of the subscritpion model and emerging alternatives Message-ID: <009601cc9954$e4111890$ac3349b0$@org> REMINDER: November 10th NFAIS Workshop: Erosion of the Subscription Model and Emerging Alternatives. Virtual and On-site registrations still available. In the current economic climate libraries have limited purchasing power. Academic budgets are declining while the need for access to digital information is increasing on today's wired campuses. As a result, innovative librarians are seeking alternative methods to access and acquire the content required by their faculty, students, and researchers. Is resource sharing the answer? Will purchase on demand work for books and journals? Is the subscription model no longer viable - even for scholarly materials? What new business models are emerging, are they successful, and what does the future hold for the subscription model in the distribution of scholarly and scientific information. If you want to learn the answers to these questions, join us on November 10, 2011 when librarians and content providers will gather in Philadelphia, PA to share their perspectives in a one-day workshop. Both onsite and virtual registrations are available at a discount until October 25th. Highlights include: * An overview of the current landscape for content purchasing and licensing and a look at how things are shaping for the future (Dan Tonkery, President & CEO, Content Strategies) * A look at the current status of library budgets based upon the environmental scan undertaken by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and released in June 2011 (Lisa Hinchliffe, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana) * The perspectives of academic librarians and content providers on the future of the subscription model and the alternative solutions with which they are experimenting. (Betsy Appleton, Electronic Resources Librarian, George Mason University Liraries, Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for Research Libraries; Linda Beebe, Senior Director, American Psychological Association/PsycINFO; M. Scott Dineen, Deputy Senior Director, Publications, Optical Society of America; Amy Pedersen, Vice President of Channel Management and Marketing Operations, Elsevier Science & Technology Books) . The business models that are being used by innovative content aggregators and publishing platforms in order to meet the needs of librarians and the distribution advantages they offer to content providers (Jason E. Phillips, Director, Sales Strategy, JSTOR | Portico; others TBA) The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are available at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/358-erosion-of-the-subscription-model-nov-10 -2011. On site Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $435, members of Sister-societies pay $455, and non-members pay $485. Virtual Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $385, members of Sister-societies pay $405, and non-members pay $435. Unlimited Virtual Attendance: Groups of 3 or more can attend at the following reduced rates: NFAIS members, $995, Sister-society members $1,195, and non-members $1,395. Unlimited registrations will also have access to the recorded version for a limited time after the meeting. 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: Supporting the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jillmwo at gmail.com Wed Nov 2 12:10:53 2011 From: jillmwo at gmail.com (Jill O'Neill) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:10:53 -0400 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Enotes, October 2011 Message-ID: *NFAIS Enotes, October, 2011* *Written and Compiled by Jill O?Neill* *Catching Fire?!* I am quietly excited. In just about two weeks, I will be opening up the Amazon package containing my Kindle Fire device. I was able to use that one-click order button ahead of the teeming masses and am supposed to receive mine on November 17. Come that day, I will be able to navigate across the touch screen of the device to read news on Web sites such as CNN, watch BBC television shows, and check my Twitter stream using a vetted Android app from Amazon?s App Store. This is not very different from what I am currently able to do on my second-generation iPod Touch device; indeed, the biggest difference in the hardware is that the Fire?s screen is significantly larger (although the same resolution as the Touch). The storage size (8GB) is the same on both; the battery life purports to be roughly the same as well. The Fire lacks a camera, but so does my Touch. Both Amazon and Apple are pressing me to store content in their cloud services. The rumor is that Fire is essentially the RIM Playbook, tailored slightly to Amazon specifications. As a form factor suited to couch computing, this jazzy addition to the Kindle family promises to occupy and distract me, at least until the end of 2011. For comparisons with other devices, you might look at: 1. What you get with $199 tablets http://www.pcworld.com/article/241686/what_you_get_with_199_tablets.html 2. Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet vs. the Competition: Spec Showdown http://www.pcworld.com/article/240746/amazons_kindle_fire_tablet_vs_the_competition_spec_showdown.html The Amazon product page for the Fire is here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051VVOB2/ref=sa_menu_kdpo3 Truth be told, I?ve had some moments of buyers? remorse since my order date of September 28, but more on philosophical grounds than functional ones. Like Apple, Amazon is running a proprietary ecosystem and nothing about the Fire suggests anything other than Amazon?s hope that I will continue to play only in their private garden. I?ve been a customer of Amazon?s since 1995 so it seems unlikely that I would switch allegiances, but I would prefer that Amazon not discount that loyalty. The twofold aspects of the Fire that did intrigue me were its Silk browser and its use of the Cloud for purposes of storage and streaming. Silk is a more of a re-engineered rather than entirely new browser, one better suited to the limited computing power of a small tablet. It is built on what is called split architecture. Split architecture has been used in the Opera browser for mobile devices because it reduces the processing load on devices where the internal chip may not be all that powerful. I quote from a technology expert here: *what is split architecture? The tasks included in the process of web browsing are split between the tablet and the back end, which is in the cloud. The main systems are on the Kindle Fire, and the additional elements are found remotely on the Amazon Cloud. When clicking a link, the request is being delivered to the cloud, which fetches the elements, optimizes them and loads them to the mobile device. According to Amazon, the cloud functions as a limitless cache where images, CSS, and JavaScript are stored for the most common visited pages. This will lead to lighter processing on the tablet (see: * http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2011/10/is-amazon-silk-the-future-of-browsers/). The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posed some serious objections to use of the cloud on the grounds of privacy and indeed, Congressional antennae were briefly raised in alarm. By virtue of this split architecture, Amazon will preload some Web sites based on discernible user behavior in order to shorten the time and load for delivering those web sites to the individual. I, as a user, may favor *The Atlantic Wire* and, knowing that I am not alone in that favoritism, Amazon will preload segments of that page in anticipation of crowds heading to that location. Amazon has indicated that user data will not be retained more than 30 days so that some concerns may be allayed. But there was also a data-mining concern raised by Apple employee and blogger Chris Espinosa: *Amazon now has what every storefront lusts for: the knowledge of what other stores your customers are shopping in and what prices they?re being offered there. What?s more, Amazon is getting this not by expensive, proactive scraping the Web, like Google has to do; they?re getting it passively by offering a simple caching service, and letting Fire users do the hard work of crawling the Web. In essence the Fire user base is Amazon?s Mechanical Turk, scraping the Web for free and providing Amazon with the most valuable cache of user behavior in existence *(see* *http://cdespinosa.posterous.com/fire]). Amazon responded to Chris? concerns via Om Malik by pointing out that they only retain URLs for purposes of troubleshooting and diagnosing technical issues arising with Silk (see: http://gigaom.com/2011/09/28/amazon-silk-or-a-spider-web/). Given that the original browsers associated with my original Kindle and with the 3rd generation Kindle were slow and entirely lacking in user-friendliness, I look forward to the possibilities of Silk even as I wonder how much of a data trail I might be leaving in my wake. The Silk browser was touted by technology analysts as one of the interesting innovations offered via the Kindle Fire. But within weeks, other mobile suppliers such as Opera and Nokia were pointing out that Silk (while nifty) is not truly an Amazon innovation (see: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395333,00.asp). Touted as the *other* major innovation found in the Kindle Fire (but again, perhaps, not really) was the tie between the Kindle Fire and Amazon?s existing Cloud Drive (see: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore/) for purposes of back-up and storage of both very large files (as in videos) and application files (as in Android apps). MP3 files being stored on the Fire for listening at odd moments is also a selling point for the device and Amazon will undoubtedly be using the Fire to encourage users to purchase storage above the free 5GB currently offered. (Amazon has fee-based storage options associated with Cloud Drive ranging from $20 annually up to $1000.) Numerous analysts are proposing that the Kindle Fire is aimed at competing with Apple?s iPad or with Barnes & Noble?s e-reader, the Nook. Undercutting both in price for only slightly less functionality, the assumption is that Amazon will take a loss on the actual device because they estimate a longer life-time profit from a customer purchasing multiple forms of content beyond the book. While an eInk Kindle device may offset Amazon?s costs through e-book sales and ads delivered to the user, a Fire may encourage users such as myself (so far, neither a buyer of Amazon MP3s or Instant Video) to expand content consumption into those other realms (see: http://allthingsd.com/20111026/why-amazon-is-happy-to-burn-money-on-the-kindle-fire/). They want to turn me into a digital omnivore (see comScore?s white paper available at: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Presentations_Whitepapers/2011/Digital_Omnivores ). As the research from that white paper shows, nearly half of tablet owners make or complete a purchase using their tablet device. The same research shows that iPads now drive more Web traffic than iPhones (46.8% vs. 42.8%). There is a downside for Amazon in this situation ? one not announced in close conjunction with its launch of the four new Kindle devices. The Kindle Fire represents a forced shift for Amazon ? specifically, a shift in the e-book format supported on Amazon?s devices. In an effort to compete in the lucrative market for graphic novels, children?s books, cookbooks, and similar design-reliant forms of content, Amazon announced that the new Kindles will support KF8 files (a bastardized version of HTML5). Specifically, the announcement noted: *Kindle Format 8 replaces the Mobi format and adds over 150 new formatting capabilities, including fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars and Scalable Vector Graphics, opening up more opportunities to create Kindle books that readers will love.* Certainly, based on the surrounding buzz, it was disappointing to many publishers to learn that Amazon would not move to what many consider the industry standard, the E-Pub format. *Technology Review*offers some insights on the expanded possibilities (see: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/helloworld/27282/?p1=blogs). That there will be fall-out from this is inevitable as one author and tech expert immediately pointed out (see: http://guidohenkel.com/2011/10/amazon-introduces-new-indle-ebook-format-and-makes-a-major-misstep/). Amazon is moving away from the purely text-based format, Mobi (designed for small screen mobile phone displays) and towards HTML5 ? more suited to the graphic displays to be viewed on a fluid Web-enabled device with a larger screen size. But, as one of my Twitterati friends noted, this is creating a tiered system of generational devices and consumers will likely not be happy once they realize it. Is it any wonder then that Amazon began a buy-back program for older generation Kindles still out there in the landscape? (see: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/amazon-now-accepts-old-kindles-in-exchange-for-new-ones/ ). The introduction of the new format suggests as well that the Kindle apps that run on other devices (iOS, Android, Windows, etc.) will need to be re-engineered as well. And what of the library community hoping to serve e-books to patrons using those various Amazon Kindle devices? Is Overdrive equipped to serve up KF8 editions? If you have only time to read one article this month about what?s happening in this space with Apple and Amazon (and the two distant rivals of Google and Facebook), I strongly recommend that you read in full an excellent piece by Farhad Manjoo and published by Fast Company entitled *The Great Tech War of 2012*. Manjoo proposes scenarios for each of these players in ?winning? the war, but he underscores the importance of three elements for them as well ? hardware, media and data. Apple and Amazon have all three as part of their strategies, where Google and Facebook do not. [ http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/tech-wars-2012-amazon-apple-google-facebook] Recognizing that this is a fast moving area, the publishers have established a supplemental sidebar for 30 days after the publication of that article where you can see comments and updates from the major players. Manjoo?s piece echoes something I recently heard from Evan Schnittman of Bloomsbury Press at the recent Really Strategies User Conference. Schnittman, who has worked in both STM publishing as well as for a major university press (Oxford,) noted that success in the current environment required major players to be able to leverage three things ? a device, content, and an operating system or platform. It is perhaps worthwhile to note that most NFAIS member organizations have amassed a body of content and some have platforms, but few, if any, have devices. That?s not a problem necessarily (despite Evan?s statement), but it does suggest that NFAIS members must monitor the strengths and weaknesses of these devices closely if they want to deliver to users intelligently and effectively. I may question the wisdom of my Kindle Fire order, but I have looked long and hard at the broad range of tablet providers -- ASUS, Acer, Toshiba, Samsung, HP, Motorola, and, yes, Apple. With the technology shifting so rapidly, it seems foolhardy to invest much of my limited disposable income in any device that won?t last more than a year or two. Indeed, two years is about all I should expect to get out of it. An Apple analyst noted that, given that tablet-style-devices are primarily personal devices, *??it?s reasonable to assume that tablets will be sold on a more one-to-one basis than PCs. (Also, probably on a shorter replacement cycle than a typical PC.) Probably not to the extent that mobile phones are, but probably more than PCs. Or, you might at least want to have a few of them around the house, so that multiple people could use them simultaneously*? (see: http://www.splatf.com/2011/10/tablet-pc-market/). If that?s the future, it doesn?t really matter if I buy the new Kindle Fire or upgrade to the 4thgeneration iPod Touch. Disposable devices demand disposable price tags. * * *MARK YOUR CALENDARS:* 2012 NFAIS Annual Conference: *Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape*, February 26-28, 2012, Philadelphia, PA. For more information, go to: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference * * * * *2011 SPONSORS* * * Access Innovations, Inc*.* Accessible Archives, Inc. American Psychological Association/PsycINFO American Theological Library Association CAS CrossRef Data Conversion Laboratory Defense Technical Information Center Elsevier Getty Research Institute H. W. Wilson Information Today, Inc. International Food Information Services Philosopher?s Information Center ProQuest Really Strategies, Inc. TEMIS, Inc. Thomson Reuters IP & Science Unlimited Priorities Corporation -- Jill O'Neill jillmwo at gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/jilloneill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Nov 7 08:46:04 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:46:04 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] Registration closes at noon on 11/9 for NFAIS Workshop Message-ID: <02b001cc9d53$988262f0$c98728d0$@org> FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE NFAIS WORKSHOP: Erosion of the Subscription Model and Emerging Alternatives. Virtual and On-site registrations close at noon (EST) on Wednesday, November 9th. Registrations will close at noon on Wednesday, November 9th for the NFAIS workshop - The Erosion of the Subscription Model and Emerging Alternatives. With major libraries such as the William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD closing their doors and moving completely online, it is critical to understand the alternative methods that innovative librarians are using to access and acquire the content required by their faculty, students, and researchers. Is resource sharing the answer? Will purchase on demand work for books and journals? Is the subscription model no longer viable - even for scholarly materials? What new business models are emerging, are they successful, and what does the future hold for the subscription model in the distribution of scholarly and scientific information. If you want to learn the answers to these questions, join us on November 10, 2011 when librarians and content providers will gather in Philadelphia, PA to share their perspectives in a one-day workshop. Both onsite and virtual registrations are available at a discount until October 25th. Highlights include: * An overview of the current landscape for content purchasing and licensing and a look at how things are shaping for the future (Dan Tonkery, President & CEO, Content Strategies) * A look at the current status of library budgets based upon the environmental scan undertaken by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and released in June 2011 (Lisa Hinchliffe, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana) * The perspectives of academic librarians and content providers on the future of the subscription model and the alternative solutions with which they are experimenting. (Betsy Appleton, Electronic Resources Librarian, George Mason University Liraries, Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for Research Libraries; Linda Beebe, Senior Director, American Psychological Association/PsycINFO; M. Scott Dineen, Deputy Senior Director, Publications, Optical Society of America; Amy Pedersen, Vice President of Channel Management and Marketing Operations, Elsevier Science & Technology Books) . The business models that are being used by innovative content aggregators and publishing platforms in order to meet the needs of librarians and the distribution advantages they offer to content providers (Jason E. Phillips, Director, Sales Strategy, JSTOR | Portico; others TBA) The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are available at: http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/358-erosion-of-the-subscription-model-nov-10 -2011. On site Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $435, members of Sister-societies pay $455, and non-members pay $485. Virtual Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $385, members of Sister-societies pay $405, and non-members pay $435. Unlimited Virtual Attendance: Groups of 3 or more can attend at the following reduced rates: NFAIS members, $995, Sister-society members $1,195, and non-members $1,395. Unlimited registrations will also have access to the recorded version for a limited time after the meeting. 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: Supporting the Global Information Co -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Nov 7 09:35:37 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:35:37 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS BOARD SWOT analysis Message-ID: <035901cc9d5a$8473f0b0$8d5bd210$@org> Just a reminder that the SWOT analysis is due back to me by Monday, November 14th. Many thanks. Bonnie From: Bonnie Lawlor [mailto:blawlor at nfais.org] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 2:10 PM To: Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie; Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie; Bonnie Lawlor; 'Chris McCue'; David Brown; 'Ellen Herbst'; Helen Anne Lawlor; 'Jeffrey Massa'; Judy Russell; 'Judy Salk'; Keith MacGregor; 'Lynn Willis'; 'mark Gauthier'; 'Mark Hyer'; 'Ric Davis'; 'Richard (Ric) Davis'; 'S. BeDell'; 'Suzanne BeDell' Subject: NFAIS SWOT analysis Importance: High Attached is a form that everyone can use to do their own SWOT analysis for NFAIS. The strengths/weaknesses should be those internal to NFAIS; e.g., a perceived strength could be the loyalty of a core group of members or the perceived high quality of meetings; a weakness could be the lack of visibility or poor staff resources. The opportunities and threats should be those external; e.g., an opportunity could be new markets and a threat could be competitive member organizations or the economy (see http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/swot/ for a quick reminder in case you haven't done one recently) Please take some time to give this your best thinking. I will compile all of the responses and circulate a document for discussion at the December 9th Board meeting. Please return your completed matrix to me by Monday, November 14th (one month from today) so I have one week to compile the results and circulate the summary to you by November 22nd to ensure that everyone - even those headed for London Online - will have time to digest the material. Many thanks. 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URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Nov 7 12:01:06 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:01:06 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NISO publishes Single Sign-on Authentication Recommendations Message-ID: <043501cc9d6e$d73d8b80$85b8a280$@org> NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Single Sign-on Authentication Identifies Needed Improvements for Users Authenticating to Licensed Electronic Resources Baltimore, MD, November 7, 2011 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the publication of a new Recommended Practice, ESPReSSO: Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single Sign-On (NISO RP-11-2011), that identifies practical solutions for improving the use of single sign-on authentication technologies to ensure a seamless experience for the user. This recommended practice is the result of the NISO Chair's Initiative-a project of the chair of NISO's Board of Directors, focusing on a specific issue that would benefit from study and the development of a recommended practice or standard. Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist for E-Resource Access and Management Services at EBSCO Information Services and the 2008-2009 Chair of NISO's Board of Directors, chose the issue of standardizing seamless, item-level linking through single sign-on (SSO) authentication technologies in a networked information environment, which resulted in the formation of the ESPReSSO Working Group. Currently a hybrid environment of authentication practices exists, including older methods of userid/password, IP authentication, and/or proxy servers along with newer federated authentication protocols such as Athens and Shibboleth. The ESPReSSO recommended practice identifies changes that can be made immediately to improve the authentication experience for the user, even in a hybrid situation, while encouraging both publishers/service providers and libraries to transition to the newer Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based authentication, such as Shibboleth. "With the growing use of mobile devices and remote access, the older authentication methods are not manageable for either the content provider or the library," explains Steve Carmody, IT Architect, Computing and Information Services, at Brown University and co-chair of the NISO ESPReSSO Working Group. "The ESPReSSO recommendations will help bridge the transition to more robust authentication methods that better match the needs of today's users and eliminate the need for multiple identities." "The growing use of web discovery services over the older federated search method have only increased the need for single sign-on authentication and consistency of access and context for the user," states Harry Kaplanian, Director of Technology, Serials Solutions, Inc., and co-chair of the NISO ESPReSSO Working Group. "With a discovery service portal, users are often unaware that they will ultimately be accessing resources across a broad spectrum of platforms and providers, and the multiple back-end logins that occur can be both confusing and frustrating. In addition to addressing this situation, the ESPReSSO recommendations also identify methods that can be used to maintain users' privacy while still offering them advanced functionality, such as saving searches between sessions." "The ESPReSSO Working Group has produced a very forward-looking document," states Todd Carpenter, Managing Director of NISO. "It provides recommendations that can be implemented immediately in today's hybrid environment and will also transition the community towards the preferred single sign-on methodology." The ESPReSSO Recommended Practice is available for free download from the NISO website at: www.niso.org/publications/rp. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Tue Nov 8 08:33:05 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:33:05 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Professional Development Webinars Message-ID: <00df01cc9e1a$f28718a0$d79549e0$@org> NFAIS Professional Development Webinar: Email Marketing Part I: Five Secrets to Email Marketing Success The first in a series of professional development webinars on Successful Strategies for Email and Social Media Marketing will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 11:00am - 12:30pm EST. Hosted by Mitch Lapides, President, FulcrumTech, this session, will highlight five specific ways to drive dramatically improve results and return-on-investment (ROI) from your email-marketing campaigns. Mitch will also share important tips about how to best grow a high quality email list that keeps you in compliance with U.S. and European laws and delivers top results. Attendees can also submit promotional emails and newsletters for review by FulcrumTech experts who will provide feedback on how to improve them. The second webinar, Email Marketing Part II: How to Maximize Your Email Marketing RO,I will be held on December 6, 2011 (11:00am - 12:30pm EST) and will focus on how to measure and quantify the current state of your email program and then determine which combination of changes will have the biggest impact on your return-on-investment. And, on January 25, 2012 (11:00am - 12:30pm EST) the final webinar in the series, Building Your Social Media Plan, will teach you what you need to do before launching a social marketing campaign on Facebook, Twitter and/or YouTube. If you or your staff want to evaluate your email promotional campaigns or newsletters, justify improvements, and ensure that your social media message is exactly what you want it to be, register for one or all of the webinars today. You will have access to the recorded versions of all of the webinars for which you register, so if you cannot attend a live session, you still have an opportunity to "listen in and learn." For a single webinar, individual NFAIS members pay $95, Sister Society members pay $105, and non-members pay $115. Register 3 or more staff for a webinar and NFAIS member organizations pay $245, Sister Society members pay $265, and non-member organizations pay $285. Register for the entire series and receive a 25% discount! See the registration form for details at: http://www.nfais.org/page/356-2011-12-email-marketing-series. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Thu Nov 10 19:11:13 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:11:13 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] Project Manager Position Available Message-ID: <026c01cca006$6c57c0c0$45074240$@org> PROJECT MANAGEMENT POSITION AVAILABLE NFAIS Member organization, Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), is seeking a full-time Project Manager for its Queens, New York office. DCL converts client documents to standard formats, such as XML, SGML, and HTML. The Project Manager leads the conversion process for one or more concurrent projects through the production and delivery phases. To do this, the Project Manager: . Provides pre-sales support in analyzing data samples and identifying factors that affect conversion costs . Evaluates client requirements and performs detailed analysis of client data samples . Defines conversion process and maps customer data to stylesheets/DTDs . Develops functional specifications and initial prototypes for software engineering . Establishes production plan with timeframes and costs parameters and forecasts resource requirements . Leads multi-functional project team in implementing the data conversion production plan . Coordinates efforts among functional areas and serves as liaison with vendors . Communicates with client throughout project and coordinates communication with Sales & Marketing staff . Monitors progress and maintains responsibility for delivering projects on time and on budget. The Project Manager position comprises the following levels, in order of increasing skill level and experience: . Data Analyst . Project Manager . Senior Project Manager Reporting Relationships The Project Manager reports to the Chief Operating Officer and works closely with project team members and staff from other functional areas. The Project manager maintains close communications with Sales & Marketing staff. Qualifications . Undergraduate and/or graduate degree in electrical engineering, computer science, industrial engineering or related field . 5+ years of experience leading project teams and performing data analysis/technical management in document conversion, information technology or related field . Working knowledge of electronic data conversion business . Significant experience in project scheduling, expediting, monitoring, and revision . Experience in working with owners and senior leadership of an emerging growth company . Demonstrated ability to analyze data in a variety of formats, to establish prototypes, and to estimate timeframes and costs for undertaking data conversions . Demonstrated effectiveness in leading multi-functional teams in a technical production environment . Demonstrated ability to respond to client requirements with timely, effective technical solutions . Superior interpersonal skills . Experienced in working directly with customers and non-technical professionals . Superior oral and written communications, especially with respect to technical content . Results oriented and dedicated to excellence . US Citizenship is required due to contractual requirements for some projects If you are interested, please send your resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to jobs at dclab.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Identifies unique requirements and builds additional filters as needed . Delivers Proof-of-Concept and production samples to project managers or data analysts for evaluation . Tests conversions and iteratively refines based on input from DCL staff and customers . Sets up production environment required for each project . Works closely with project team and participates in all team meetings and decisions Desired Skills & Experience . An undergraduate and/or graduate degree, or equivalent, in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field is required. . Must have a minimum of 1-2 years of experience in Perl, or XSLT. . Familiarity with SGML/XML, HTML,VBA, and Electronic Publishing software are all a plus. . Working knowledge of XML standards such as DITA, eBook, NLM, DocBook or Military DTDs a plus. . Working knowledge of electronic data conversion business a plus. . US Citizenship is required due to contractual requirements for some projects. 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Hosted by Mitch Lapides, President, FulcrumTech, the webinar will highlight five specific ways to drive dramatically improve results and return-on-investment (ROI) from your email-marketing campaigns. Mitch will also share important tips about how to best grow a high quality email list that keeps you in compliance with U.S. and European laws and delivers top results. Attendees can also submit promotional emails and newsletters for review by FulcrumTech experts who will provide feedback on how to improve them. The second webinar, Email Marketing Part II: How to Maximize Your Email Marketing RO,I will be held on December 6, 2011 (11:00am - 12:30pm EST) and will focus on how to measure and quantify the current state of your email program and then determine which combination of changes will have the biggest impact on your return-on-investment. And, on January 25, 2012 (11:00am - 12:30pm EST) the final webinar in the series, Building Your Social Media Plan, will teach you what you need to do before launching a social marketing campaign on Facebook, Twitter and/or YouTube. If you or your staff want to evaluate your email promotional campaigns or newsletters, justify improvements, and ensure that your social media message is exactly what you want it to be, register for one or all of the webinars today. You will have access to the recorded versions of all of the webinars for which you register, so if you cannot attend a live session, you still have an opportunity to "listen in and learn." For a single webinar individual NFAIS members pay $95, Sister Society members pay $105, and non-members pay $115. Register 3 or more for any webinar and NFAIS member organizations pay $245, Sister Society members pay $265, and non-member organizations pay $285. Register for the entire series and receive a 25% discount! See the registration form for details at: http://www.nfais.org/page/356-2011-12-email-marketing-series. For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/. NFAIS: Serving the Global Information Community -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blawlor at nfais.org Mon Nov 21 07:47:29 2011 From: blawlor at nfais.org (Bonnie Lawlor) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:47:29 -0500 Subject: [nfais-l] Condolences to Dick Kaser Message-ID: <00f101cca84b$bafe66f0$30fb34d0$@org> NFAIS Offers Condolences to Dick Kaser, Former Executive Director. It is with great sorrow that I report that Victoria (Tory) Kaser, wife of former NFAIS Executive Director, Dick Kaser, passed away on Saturday, November 19, 2011. 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URL: From jilloneill at nfais.org Mon Nov 28 11:09:03 2011 From: jilloneill at nfais.org (jilloneill at nfais.org) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:09:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nfais-l] 2012 NFAIS Annual Conference - Early Bird Registration Message-ID: <1322496543.647310669@webmail.nfais.org> EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR THE 2012 NFAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE The 2012 NFAIS Annual Conference, Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape, will take place February 26 - 28, 2012 at the historic [http://philadelphia.bellevue.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp] Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. Early bird registrations are available until January 13, 2012. Until then savings of up to $200 off the full registration fee are available and NFAIS members registering three or more staff at the same time receive even greater savings (for details see the registration page at [http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/336-register-for-2012-annual-conference] http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/336-register-for-2012-annual-conference). New this year: ? 50% discounts for staff of member organizations that are in the early stages of their career (5 years or less). Call/ e-mail for details (215-893-1561 or [mailto:nfais at nfais.org] mailto:nfais at nfais.org) ? 30% discount on daily rates for all government employees ? 20% discount on full/daily rates for first time non-member attendees ? Use of audience-response devices throughout the conference to capture audience opinions ? all registrants will be sent a copy of the results This three-day meeting will take a look at how technologies once considered disruptive have converged, been embraced, and are driving publishers and librarians around the globe to reinvent their methods of information creation, packaging, and delivery. A ?New Normal? information landscape has begun to emerge??. The preliminary program is available at: [http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/361-program-2012-nfais-annual-conference] http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/361-program-2012-nfais-annual-conference. Highlights Include: ? A thought-provoking keynote by John Wilbanks on the emerging information landscape - what is shaping it and the opportunities it offers ? Survey results from Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, demonstrating the extent to which once disruptive technologies (mobile computing, social media, the Cloud, etc.) have become mainstream ? A panel of information industry leaders providing their perspective on the new normal and the changes that they have made in products, technologies, staff skills, and business policies in order to remain relevant ? A discussion of the technology Hype Cycle, a tool that provides a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and how they are potentially relevant to exploiting new opportunities. ? Examples of how content providers are working with new content (data sets, multimedia, Big Data) and new technologies ( HTML5, cloud computing, APIs, mobile devices) to transform their products and services ? A look at initiatives fueled by current user information behavior and expectations such as Microsoft?s Academic Search, new methods for measuring the value of web-based scholarship, and crowd-sourced scholarly content ? Key issues relevant to all who operate in a global information economy - privacy, intellectual property, and competition for budget dollars from developing countries ? An interactive closing keynote by Joe Esposito looking at how the ?new normal? may evolve over the next five years To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning ([mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org] jilloneill at nfais.org or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at [http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference] http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street,Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. 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