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Jan 19
Announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston by the United Kingdom Serials Group
(UKSG) and the National Information Standards Organization
(NISO), the KBART (Knowledge Bases and Related Tools)
Working Group has published their initial set of practical
recommendations for the timely exchange of accurate metadata
between content providers and knowledge base deve... Read more »
Jan 15
Anyone following the plethora of news announcements released in time for ALA Midwinter is aware that mobile is currently one of the hottest area of activity in the library environment. All the more reason then to view this video (from Ohio television news station, NBC4) that shows Mike Teets, Vice President, OCLC Enterprise Architecture, demonstrating the recent iPhone application from RedLaser, that supports usage of local ... Read more »
Redefining
the Value of Information:
Exploring the New Equation
February 28 - March 2, 2010
Hyatt at the Bellevue
Broad and Walnut Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19102
NFAIS Workshop: Improving the User Search
Experience
May 14, Philadelphia PA
NFAIS Humanities Roundtable
October 19, 2009, New York, NY
The Mobile Delivery of Content
October 30, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
Archived Webinar Available!
Semantic Web: Fact or Myth
Joint NFAIS, CENDI, FLICC Meeting, November 17, 2009,
Washington D.C.
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