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<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS
2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE: REGISTRATIONS STILL AVAILABLE</span></u></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There
is still time to register for the 2012 NFAIS Annual Conference, <i>Born of
Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape. </i>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: </span><a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference</span></a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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>
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<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>(maships 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 computin 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
currebnt 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 (</span><a
href="mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>jilloneill@nfais.org</span></a><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS
Web site at </span><a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference"><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/335-2012-nfais-annual-conference</span></a><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. </span><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><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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