[nfais-l] NFAIS Humanities Roundtable

[Bonnie Lawlor]

Reminder: NFAIS Humanities Roundtable X Scheduled for October 3, 2011

 


A one-day NFAIS program, Digital Humanities Content: Embracing the Future
While Coping with the Present, is scheduled for October 3, 2011 at the
state-of-the-art
<http://www.gc.cuny.edu/about_gc/campus/interview_architects.htm> Graduate
Center of the City University of New York in Manhattan, from 9:00am to
4:45pm.  The meeting will highlight some of the major trends impacting the
humanities information environment and there will be ample time for
attendees to share their own perspectives on current challenges and
opportunities and the evolution of the humanities information landscape. 


The meeting will begin with a keynote address by Kathleen Fitzpatrick,
author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology and the Future of the
Academy, will address what she envisions as a potential future for the
humanities in the context of the changing academic environment. This will be
followed by a sessions on building community around content and research and
presentations on forward-looking humanities initiatives.


 

The afternoon will take a step back from the future and look at day-to-day
issues such as the creation and incorporation of metadata feeds from the
viewpoints of primary and secondary providers and how to create community
using the metadata in new environments.  This will be followed by a panel of
humanities information providers sharing their perspective on the current
status of the humanities market and how technology is driving changes in
user needs, expectations, and skills. Attendees will have ample opportunity
share their own experiences and perspectives as part of this interactive
discussion. 

 

The final sessions will focus on how to remain relevant to users.
Librarians will discuss issues related to ensuring that both undergraduate
and graduate students find and use authoritative, high-quality information
resources.  They will report on what users are expecting to find, how they
are expecting to interact with the content and the community, and the
findability/usability issues that they, as librarians working in the
trenches, believe must be addressed for content providers to remain relevant
now and into the future.

 

The program, directions to the meeting facility, and registration
information are now available on the NFAIS Web site at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/355-2011-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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