NFAIS Conference Announcement

NFAIS

1958 - 2008:  50th Anniversary


The cut-off date for the early bird conference registration
fee is
only days away -  Tuesday, January 8, 2008!!  The
conference,
scheduled for February 24-26, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA,  is
for all
information providers - publishers, librarians and educators
- who
want to learn more about the user behavior and expectations
that are
driving the new information order and the technologies,
business
practices and strategies that are required to adapt products
and
services to a new generation of information seekers.

The Conference theme - The New Information Order:  Its
Culture,
Content and Economy will look at how the rapid adoption of
information
technology is creating a user-centric, technology-driven
society with
its own unique culture, value propositions, behavior and
economy, and
will highlight the opportunities that are available to all
who are
willing to adapt to the New Order. The preliminary program,
registration forms and general information are now available
at:
http://www
.nfais.org/2008_Tier_Program.htm
<http:/
/www.nfais.org/2008_Tier_Program.htm> .

Highlights include:

*	Trends that are driving the new information order from
noted
author David Weinberger,
<http://presentations.inxpo.com/Shows/ECom
Xpo/10-07/Presenations/Biopage
s/Weinberger.htm>  (Everything is Miscellaneous: The
Power of the New
Digital Disorder
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_i
s_Miscellaneous:_The_Power_of_
the_New_Digital_Disorder>  ClueTrain Manifesto, etc.)

*	Emerging technologies and the future of information
discovery

*	User perceptions of the value of content based upon
recent
surveys from Outsell, Inc.

*	Corporate and library business practices and revenue
models that
reflect the culture of today's information society

*	The geographic shift in the information economy and the
opportunities offered by China as a new source of content

*	Strategies for success in the New Information Order form
the
perspective of corporate, academic and government
executives

This 2008 NFAIS Annual Conference will be a very special
event as
NFAIS will be marking the 50th Anniversary of its founding. 
The City
of Philadelphia will proclaim the opening day, February 24,
2008, as
"NFAIS Day," the Gala celebration will be held in
the ballroom of the
historic Academy of Music
<http
://www.academyofmusic.org/fs_history.htm> , the
oldest grand
opera house in the U.S. that is still used for its original
purpose,
and the meeting itself will be held in the Park Hyatt at the
Bellevue
<http://parkphiladelphia.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index
.jsp> , a
national historic hotel. Join us and find out how your
organization
can thrive in the New Information Order!

For more information, contact Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director
of
Communication and Planning (jilloneillnfais.org or 215-893-1561)
or
visit the NFAIS Web site at
h
ttp://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=44
<http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=44> .
____
2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing
and Information Science,
October 19-24, in Milwaukee
Plenaries: Anthea Stratigos, Outsell (research and advisory
firm) 
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
http://www.asis
.org/Conferences/AM07/

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