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<h1><span style='text-decoration:none'>NFAIS 2013 ANNUAL CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD
DISCOUNTS END FRIDAY, JANUARY 11TH<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 2013
NFAIS Annual Conference, <i>In Search of Answers: Unlocking New Value
from Content, </i>will take place February 24 - 26, 2013 at the historic <a
href="http://philadelphia.bellevue.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp">Hyatt at
the Bellevue</a> in Philadelphia, PA. Early bird registrations are
available until Friday, January 11, 2013. Until then savings of up to $200 off
the full registration fee are available and NFAIS members registering three or
more staff at the same time receive even greater savings (for details see the
registration page at <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference</a>.</span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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"'>Continuing
this year: <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>50%
discounts for staff of member organizations that are in the early stages of
their career (5 years or less)<b>. </b>Call/ e-mail for details (215-893-1561
or <a href="mailto:nfais@nfais.org">mailto:nfais@nfais.org</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>30%
discount on daily rates for all government employees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>20%
discount on full/daily rates for first time non-member attendees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Use
of audience-response devices throughout the conference to capture audience
opinions – all registrants will be sent a copy of the results<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This
three-day meeting will take a look at how the convergence of existing and
emerging technologies for the mining, linking, analysis, measurement, and
management of large quantities of global information across multiple media and
data formats has produced an unprecedented toolkit which, if creatively
applied, empowers publishers, librarians <i>and </i>users to develop new
products and services and to expose, enhance, and create new layers of value
along the entire information distribution chain. The program is available at: <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Highlights
Include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>A thought-provoking keynote by David Weinberger,
author of <i>Too Big to</i> <i>Know, </i>on the information explosion and
how technology in combination with global collaboration and the shared
wisdom of the crowd is reshaping knowledge creation.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hot off the press qualitative survey results from
Outsell, Inc. showing the extent to which tools such as metrics and
analytics are being used by publishers and librarians to unlock new value
from existing content<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>The perspective of scholars and researchers on the
ability of existing information resources to provide the answers
they need and what they believe needs to be done to extract new value<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>A look at how innovative publishers and
librarians are applying data mining , linking, analytics, and metrics not
only to create smart content, but also to better understand user needs and
behavior<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>New and emerging metrics for measuring the value of
information in an inter-tangled world of scholarly publishing,
social media and information sharing <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Publisher
and Librarian perspectives on how data mining, analytics, the re-use and
sharing of content and collaborative research are forcing a re-evaluation
of privacy, intellectual property, and data ownership policies</span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>A look at IBM’s Watson and the future role of
technology in extracting answers from reams of information </span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To
register or obtain more information contact:</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/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/372-2013-nfais-annual-conference</a>.
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (<i>NFAIS</i>), 1518
Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. <i>NFAIS: Serving
the Global Information Community<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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