[nfais-l] NFAIS conference hotel discount ending

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NFAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE HOTEL DISCOUNT ENDS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH

 

 

If you have registered for the NFAIS 2012 Annual Conference, but have not
yet secured your hotel reservations, please be aware that the hotel discount
at the Hyatt at the Bellevue ends on Tuesday, February 6, 2012.  If you
still need to make reservations, call 1-888-421-1442 and mention the NFAIS
conference in order to receive the discount (single occupancy: $180, Double
occupancy: $180; triple occupancye: $205; and quadruple ocupancy: $230 -
note that the full rates start at $279).

 

If you have not yet registered for the conference, Born of Disruption:  An
Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape, you can access the final
program and registration form at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference. 

 

Just a few of the organizations that  will be discussing the new landscape
are:

Amazon (cloud computing), American Chemical Society (new normal in
publishing), Annual Reviews (mobile delivery of content), British
Library/JISC (the researcher of the future), California Digital Library
(data sets), Columbia University (new normal for libraries), Elsevier
(workflow solutions), Gale Cengage (ebooks), Gartner, Inc. (emerging new
technologies), Hearst Corp. (semantic web), Mendeley (mashups and API's),
Microsoft (digital libraries), Modern Language Association (new normal in
the Humanities), Nature Publishing (Miles Conrad Lecture), NIST (Big Data),
Pew' Intermet & American Life Project (tnew normal based upon recent survey
resuts),  Public Library of Science (new value metrics), Royal Society of
Chemistry (crowd sourcing), Thomson Reuters IP & Science (global
competition),Unlimited Priorities LLC (cloud computing case study), Wolfram
Alpha (computational knowledge)

 

>From an opening keynote by John Wilbanks on the emerging information
landscape all the way through to the closing interactive keynote by Joe
Esposito on identifying the future based upon what is currently around us,
the conference will provide an interesting look at how our information world
has and will continue to evolve.  The special members-only event this year
will feature Anthea Stratigos, Co-founder and CEo of Outsell, addressing
success in the current economic environment (prior registration required).

 

To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director
of Communication and Planning (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.

 

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), 1518
Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. 

NFAIS:  Serving the Global Information Community

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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