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<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS ANNUAL
CONFERENCE HOTEL DISCOUNT ENDS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If
you have not yet registered for the conference, <i>Born of Disruption: An
Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape,</i> you can access the final
program and registration form at: <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference</a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Just
a few of the organizations that will be discussing the new landscape are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Amazon</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (cloud computing), <b>American
Chemical Society</b> (new normal in publishing), <b>Annual Reviews</b> (mobile
delivery of content), <b>British Library/JISC</b> (the researcher of the
future), <b>California Digital Library</b> (data sets), <b>Columbia University</b>
(new normal for libraries), <b>Elsevier </b>(workflow solutions), <b>Gale
Cengage</b> (ebooks), <b>Gartner, Inc.</b> (emerging new technologies), <b>Hearst
Corp.</b> (semantic web), <b>Mendeley </b>(mashups and API’s), <b>Microsoft
(</b>digital libraries)<b>, Modern Language Association </b>(new normal in the
Humanities),<b> Nature Publishing</b> (Miles Conrad Lecture), <b>NIST </b>(Big
Data),<b> Pew’ Intermet & American Life Project</b> (tnew normal
based upon recent survey resuts), <b>Public Library of Science</b> (new value
metrics), <b>Royal Society of Chemistry</b> (crowd sourcing), <b>Thomson
Reuters IP & Science</b> (global competition),<b>Unlimited Priorities LLC</b>
(cloud computing case study), <b>Wolfram Alpha</b> (computational knowledge)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To register
or obtain more information c</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ontact:</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director of
Communication and Planning (<a href="mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org">jilloneill@nfais.org</a>
or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site at <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (<i>NFAIS</i>), 1518
Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS: Serving
the Global Information Community<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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