NFAIS 2011 Annual Conference Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2011, Philadelphia PA

["October Ivins" <october.ivins@mindspring.com>]

NFAIS 2011 Annual Conference
Taming the Information Tsunami: The New World of Discovery
Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2011, Philadelphia PA

The program for the NFAIS 2011 Annual Conference is complete. The 
3-day meeting will take a look at today's world of information 
overload and how publishers and librarians are navigating today's 
exponential growth of digital information to provide scholars and 
researchers with the reliable, relevant information that deserves 
their time and attention--no matter the source, the language or 
the medium. The Conference will be held Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2011 in 
Philadelphia, PA at the historic Hyatt at the Bellevue.

http://www.philadelphia.bellevue.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp

The program will bring together publishers, librarians, and 
technology developers representing all market sectors from around 
the globe to discuss how they are responding to the daunting 
challenge of identifying, acquiring, processing, transmitting, 
and storing incredible amounts of digital content across all 
media and across a growing amount of foreign languages - a 
challenge that will continue into the foreseeable future as the 
volume of information continues to escalate. Practical approaches 
currently being implemented will be discussed along with emerging 
technologies that hold promise for the future such as augmented 
reality, machine thinking, semantic search, cloud computing, 
automated translations and more.

Speakers include:

Dan Gillmor, noted journalist and author, We the Media; Steven 
Berlin Johnson, Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine, and 
distinguished author, Everything Bad is Good For You and Where 
Good Ideas Come From; Miles Conrad Awardee Dr. Ben Shneiderman, 
University of Maryland; David Ferriero, Archivist of the United 
States; John Blossom, Shore Communications, Inc.; Susan Feldman, 
Research Vice President, Search and Discovery Technologies, IDC; 
Dr. Moshe Pritker, CEO, Journal of Visualized Experiments; Dan 
Pollock, Nature Publishing Group; Martha Anderson, Library of 
Congress; Dr. Khalid Al-Kafadi, Thomson Reuters R &D; Dr. Thomas 
Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine; Nick Halstead, 
Datasift; Christine Perey, Perey Research & Consulting; David 
Barnes, IBM; Dr. William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University; Adam 
Farquhar, British Library; Mark Gauthier, H.W. Wilson Company; 
Rafael Sidi, Elsevier; Richard Weaver, Infotrieve; Victor Camlek, 
Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science; Dr Douglas Oard, University 
of Maryland; Britt Meueller, Qualcomm, Inc.; Dr. Barend Mons, 
Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre; and John Mark Ockerbloom, 
University of Pennsylvania.

Sponsors currently include CAS, H.W. Wilson, Thomson Reuters 
Healthcare & Science, the American Psychological 
Association/PsycInfo, Elsevier, Philosopher's Information Center, 
ProQuest, Thomson Reuters IP Solutions, Access Innovations, 
Accessible Archives, American Theological Library Association, 
CrossRef, Data Conversion Laboratory, the Defense Technical 
Information Center, the Getty Conservation Institute, Information 
Today, Inc., International Food Information Services, Really 
Strategies, Inc., Temis, Inc., and Unlimited Priorities 
Corporation.

For more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, 
Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 
(fax); mailto: jilloneill@nfais.org or go to 
http://www.nfais.org/.

(Ms.) October Ivins, MLS
Ivins eContent Solutions
phone (781)793-9283 EST
october.ivins@mindspring.com