The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that early bird registrations will end on January 13, 2012, for the NFAIS Annual Conference, Born of Disruption: An Emerging New Normal for the Information Landscape. 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. Further details is available at the registration page at http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/336-register-for-2012-annual-conference. NFAIS is a membership association for organisations that create, organise and facilitate access to authoritative information.
The three-day meeting is scheduled from February 26 - 28, 2012 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA. It will take a look at how technologies once considered disruptive have converged, been embraced, and are driving publishers and librarians around the globe to reinvent their methods of information creation, packaging and delivery. The preliminary programme is available at http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/361-program-2012-nfais-annual-conference.
Highlights include a keynote by John Wilbanks on the emerging information landscape - what is shaping it and the opportunities it offers. Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project will present the survey results demonstrating the extent to which once disruptive technologies (mobile computing, social media, the cloud, etc.) have become mainstream. A panel of information industry leaders will provide their perspective on the new normal and the changes that they have made in products, technologies, staff skills and business policies in order to remain relevant.
Additionally, the conference will showcase examples of how content providers are working with new content (data sets, multimedia, Big Data) and new technologies (HTML5, cloud computing, APIs, mobile devices) to transform their products and services. These include a look at initiatives fuelled by current user information behaviour and expectations such as Microsoft's Academic Search, new methods for measuring the value of web-based scholarship, and crowd-sourced scholarly content. Key issues relevant to all who operate in a global information economy - privacy, intellectual property - and competition for budget dollars from developing countries will be examined. The conference will take a look at what is down the road, including a profile of the researcher of the future from preliminary results of a joint survey by JISC and the British Library. Also included in the schedule is a look at the Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies that will impact the information community. Joe Esposito will provide an interactive closing keynote, looking at how the 'new normal' may evolve over the next five years.
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