[nfais-l] NFAIS Workshop series - Indexing and The Future Role of A&I

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NFAIS Workshop Series: Indexing and Indices:  An Essential Component of
Information Discovery and The Future Role of Abstracting and Indexing
Services.   Register for both and receive a 15% discount (Virtual and onsite
registrations are available)

 

The use of abstracts and indices to ensure information discovery and manage
information overload has been a common practice for centuries among scholar
and researchers. Abstracting and Information Services have played an
integral role in the flow of scholarly communication, evolving in parallel
as the means for such communication changed.  But both the pace and impact
of information technology advances have increased and the original A&I
mission, to ensure information discovery and manage information overload,
has become a challenging, complex endeavor. 

 

NFAIS will hold two workshops in the coming months: The first will focus on
the approaches to indexing that are currently in use, their pros and cons,
and possible changes for the future; the second will look at the evolution
of abstracting and indexing services, the challenges offered by the current
information environment, and how these services may need to adapt to remain
relevant to future generations of librarians, scholars and researchers.

 

Indexing and Indices: An Essential Component of Information Discovery will
be held on Friday, November 30, 2012 from 9:00am - 4:45pm, EST, in
Philadelphia, PA.  This workshop will look at some of the indexing
approaches that can be used to ensure the discovery of scholarly and
scientific content; e.g., natural language vs. controlled vocabulary,
faceted indexing and classification systems; image indexing and retrieval;
and indexing of the web. Publishers, as well as librarians responsible for
the indexing of their institution's digital information assets and other
intellectual property, will discuss the approaches that they have taken,
what works, what doesn't, and why. The importance of controlled vocabularies
will be discussed as will the pros and cons of manual indexing versus
machine-generated indexing versus a hybrid approach.  The indexing of
non-textual content will be discussed and the meeting will close with a
conversation with librarians who will voice their perspective on what is
needed to improve information discovery. The agenda can be accessed at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/378-indexing-and-indices-nov-2012



The Future Role of Abstracting and Indexing Services will be held on Friday,
March 15, 2013 from 9:00am - 4:15pm EST in Philadelphia, PA. This workshop
will provide an overview of the history and current status of today's
Abstracting & Indexing Services (A&I's) and the challenges that they face to
remain relevant in a rapidly changing information environment. Librarians
will discuss how well these services meet the needs of their users and will
offer insights as to how the role of A&I's may change as libraries - and
their own services - continue to evolve. The workshop will also look at the
new competitors who are emerging and what unfilled needs they are attempting
to address. A&I providers will offer their perspective on the current
environment and will discuss what initiatives they are planning to keep pace
with change.  And the meeting will close with a look at the future of
information discovery and the role that both new and traditional information
providers may play. The preliminary agenda can be accessed at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/379-the-future-of-abstracting-and-indexing-m
arch-2013

 

If you or your staff want an update on the various indexing approaches that
are currently in use to ensure information discovery or want to increase
your understanding of the challenges that most abstracting and indexing
services now face, register for one or both of the workshops today.

 

Both onsite and virtual registrations are available for individuals and for
groups of three or more from the same organization.  Group registrations can
be a mix of onsite and virtual attendees, with a small food charge added for
those attending onsite. Members of Sister Societies (CENDI, ISCTI, AAUP,
NISO, ASIS&T, SSP, AAP/PSP, and LYRASIS) are eligible for discounts (see
registration form link at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/378-indexing-and-indices-nov-2012)

 

Register for both workshops and receive a 15% discount! 

 

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/.

 

 

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