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Special Libraries Association (SLA) 2011—Conference Buzz

DCL Editorial — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:57:22 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins, Unlimited Priorities The Special Libraries Association (SLA) held its 2011 Conference on June 12-15 in Philadelphia, PA. The conference theme was “Future Ready”, with an emphasis on the need for information professionals to be ready for the future in the midst of all the changes that are buffeting the industry now. [...]

“It’s What Counts: How Data Transforms Our World”—33rd Annual SSP Meeting

DCL Editorial — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:14:06 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins, Unlimited Priorities The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) held its 33rd Annual Meeting on June 1-3 in Boston, MA. Its theme was “It’s What Counts: How Data Transforms Our World.” Last year in San Francisco, the attendance was 595; this year it was 720—a significant 21% increase. My overall impression was [...]

Re–inventing Content, Discovery, and Delivery for Today’s Academic Environment—NFAIS 2011

DCL Editorial — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:00:41 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins, Unlimited Priorities Expectations of today’s academic information users have changed as technology has advanced and new technologies have appeared, so many information providers have re-invented their content accordingly. The processes of accessing and delivering information are considerably different than they were even a few years ago. This NFAIS symposium on May [...]

BookExpo America 2011—Google: eBook Content as a Service

DCL Editorial — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:59:44 +0000

Publishers Weekly has a good summary of Google’s panel discussion and presentation at BookExpo America on Tuesday, May 24th and Wednesday May 25th, respectively. In it is an inside look at what publishers today are seeing in the eBook market. The discussion consisted of Google Books’ Director of Strategic Partnerships, Tom Turvey, presenting questions about [...]

Personal Digital Archiving — Conference Buzz

DCL Editorial — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:32:48 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins, Unlimited Priorities I used to think that personal digital archiving meant scanning and storing family documents and photos. The Personal Digital Archiving conference in San Francisco on February 24-25 proved that although that is certainly included, the concept extends into many other areas as well. The conference venue was the fascinating [...]

NFAIS 2011 — Taming the Information Tsunami — Conference Buzz

DCL Editorial — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:46:26 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins, Unlimited Priorities The 53rd annual conference of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) was held in Philadelphia on February 28 – March 1. Its theme was “Taming the Information Tsunami: The New World of Discovery.” Here are a few brief highlights of the conference: In his address, “The Crowd, [...]

Record Attendance at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing—Conference Buzz

DCL Editorial — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:57:34 +0000

By Donald T. Hawkins (Unlimited Priorities) About 1,400 attendees attended O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing Conference in New York, February 14-16. From its inception five years ago, when attendance was 400, TOC has grown every year, and the 2011 conference was the largest ever. It’s easy to see why; TOC continues to [...]

Intelligent Content 2011 – Conference Buzz

DCL Editorial — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:40:56 +0000

The Intelligent Content conference held February 16-18 in Palm Springs, CA was focused on getting content delivered to the customer, no matter where they are or how they're experiencing your content. Accessing content within a social media network such as Facebook, through Apps on smartphones, and as eBooks on portable readers were discussed as prime [...]

Online Information 2010—Conference Buzz

DCL Editorial — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:50:57 +0000

The annual Online Information conference in London in early December consists of an exhibit hall, traditional conference presentations on a variety of related subjects, and a number of free seminars in the exhibit hall. Although attendance was noticeably down this year, the conference has so far survived as one of the few remaining large generalized [...]

Charleston Conference—Conference Buzz

DCL Editorial — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:50:27 +0000

At the 2010 Charleston Conference (November3-6), which was the 30th in the series (surely one of the more long-running information industry events!), one of the highlights was a “discovery systems faceoff” between two of the major players, Serials Solutions and EBSCO. The faceoff came about from a challenge posed after an exchange of Letters to [...]