[nfais-l] Registration closing tomorrow for NFAIS Roundtable

[Bonnie Lawlor]

Registration Closes Tomorrow September 28th at 12:00pm EST for the NFAIS
Humanities Roundtable XI, Focus on Libraries!

 

Both the virtual and onsite registrations for the one-day NFAIS program,
Focus on Libraries will close at noon (EST) tomorrow, Friday, September
28th.  The workshop is scheduled for October 1, 2012 at the state-of-the-art
Graduate <http://www.gc.cuny.edu/about_gc/campus/interview_architects.htm>
Center of the City University of New York in Manhattan, from 9:00am to
4:45pm EDST (go to:
http://www.nfais.org/page/370-2012-nfais-humanities-roundtable). 

 

Virtual registration for the full day event is only $95 for NFAIS members
and $115 for non-members. A  virtual Group rate (for 3 or more attendees) is
$275 for NFAIS members and $335 for non members. Onsite registration is $145
for NFAIS  members and $165 for non-members and includes continental
breakfast, lunch and two refreshment breaks,

 

The meeting will take a look at the needs and concerns of librarians on such
issues as the discovery of content in today's library environment,
information literacy and the training of end-users, best practices for
building effective working relationships among librarians, vendors and
content providers, the decision-making criteria used to determine the
products and services in which to invest, and the current digital humanities
environment. Librarians who attend will learn how their peers are addressing
these issues and content providers will gain insight on the how to create
and deliver more effective products and services for scholars, students, and
librarians in the humanities.

 

Speakers include:

 

.         Elliot Shore, Chief Information Officer and Dean of Libraries,
Bryn Mawr College (Elliott will be the new Director of ARL beginning January
1)

.         Christopher Strauber, Humanities Librarian, Tufts University

.         Amy Lucker, Head Librarian, Stephen Chan Library of Fine Arts, New
York University

.         Beth Bidlack, Collection Assessment & Analysis Librarian,
Dartmouth College Library

.         Maria Ziemer, Manager, ProQuest Graduate Education Program

.         Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Philosophy & Religion Librarian, Princeton
University

.         Kendall Crilly, Associate University Librarian for Program
Development & Research, Yale University

.         John Shank, Instructional Design, Pennsylvania State University

.         Christine M. Gordon, Partner, Apogee Insights Group

.         Matthew Gold, Assistant to the Provost, CUNY Graduate Center,
Co-Director of CUNY's Digital Humanities Institute

 

More information on the program, registration, and other logistics may be
accessed at: http://www.nfais.org/page/370-2012-nfais-humanities-roundtable.

 

 For further 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 60
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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