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<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS
Workshop Series: <i>Indexing and Indices: An Essential Component of
Information Discover</i>y and <i>The Future Role of Abstracting and Indexing
Services</i>.<i> </i> Register for both and receive a 15% discount</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(<i>Virtual and
onsite registrations are available)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Indexing
and Indices: An Essential Component of Information Discovery</span></i></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 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: <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/378-indexing-and-indices-nov-2012">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/378-indexing-and-indices-nov-2012</a><br>
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<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
Future Role of Abstracting and Indexing Services</span></i></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 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: <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/379-the-future-of-abstracting-and-indexing-march-2013">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/379-the-future-of-abstracting-and-indexing-march-2013</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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: <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/378-indexing-and-indices-nov-2012">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/378-indexing-and-indices-nov-2012</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Register
for both workshops and receive a 15% discount! <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For more
information contact: Jill O’Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication
and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); mailto</span>:jilloneill@nfais.org
or go to http://www.nfais.org/.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS: Serving the Global Information
Community<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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