Register Now for the NFAIS 2011 Annual Conference

Attend the 53rd NFAIS Annual Conference and learn how learn how you can ensure that your products and services allow information seekers to successfully navigate the information tsunami.

Not yet registered for the 2011 NFAIS Annual Conference, Taming the Information Tsunami: The New World of Discovery?  Don’t worry.  Registrations are still being accepted for the meeting that will take place February 27 – March 1, 2011 at the historic Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia, PA.  Register now.
 
The program will bring together publishers, librarians, and technology developers 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. Practical approaches currently being implemented will be discussed along with emerging technologies holding promise for the future. such as augmented reality, machine thinking, semantic search, cloud computing, automated translations and more.
 
The opening keynote address will be a thought-provoking look at the complex problems and entrepreneurial opportunities offered by today’s information explosion from Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media, and the Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture will be given by award recipient Dr. Ben Shneiderman, Professor and Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland.  Click here to see the complete program. 
 
To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O’Neill, NFAIS Director of Communication and Planning, email jilloneill@nfais.org, phone 215-893-1561, or visit the conference Web site.