NFAIS 2011 Annual Conference

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The program for the NFAIS 2011 Annual Conference is complete.
http://www.nfais.org/page/292-program-2 ... conference

This 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

Register at http://www.nfais.org/page/291-2011-nfais-annual-
conference
Special registration rates are available to qualifying librarians.
See this registration page for specifics:
http://info.nfais.org/info/ANCO_2011_RegForm.pdf

Full information at: http://www.nfais.org/page/291-2011-nfais-
annual-conference

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.