[nfais-l] NFAIS conference registrations still available

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NFAIS 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE:  REGISTRATIONS STILL AVAILABLE

 

There is still time to register for the 2012 NFAIS Annual Conference, Born
of Disruption:  An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape. The
meeting is schedulded to take place from February 26-28, 2012 at the
historic Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA.  The final program and
registration form can be accesses at:
<http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference>
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 (maships 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 computin 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 currebnt economic environment (prior registration required).

 

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. 

NFAIS:  Serving the Global Information Community

 

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