Re-inventing Content, Discovery, and Delivery for Today's Academic Environment

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The Hub Cira Centre
2929 Arch Street
Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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AGENDA

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  Speaker Slides Posted in PDF File Formats

  Summary of the meeting by Don Hawkins

8:30am - 9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 9:15am: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Bonnie Lawlor, NFAIS Executive Director; Maureen C. Kelly, Principal, Content Kinetics, Moderator

9:15am - 11:30am: Re-inventing Content from Traditional Sources

This session will take a look at how a few innovative journal publishers and database creators across a variety of subject disciplines are re-inventing information products and services to meet the information usage needs and expectations that are being formed by the widespread use of digital technologies by students, faculty and researchers on today's college and university campuses.

Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President, Alexander Street Press [ Slides ]; Cristian Dumitrescu, SciFinder Academic Product Manager, CAS [ Slides ], and Joseph Graham, Assistant Director for Marketing, American Chemical Society Publications [ Slides ]

10:15am - 10:30am: Break and Networking Opportunity

Re-inventing Content from Traditional Sources (continued)

H. Robert Cohen, Founder and Director, RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800 - 1950; Guillaume Mazières, Executive Vice President, US Operations. TEMIS, Inc. [ Slides ] and Bruce Kiesel, Director Knowledge Base Management, Thomson Reuters IP & Science [ Slides ]

11:30pm - 12:30pm: Lunch (will be provided)

12:30pm - 2:30pm: e-Books and e-Textbooks: Re-inventing the Learning Experience

E-books and e-textbooks are becoming a force to be reckoned. No longer merely digital versions of the print, the new generation of textbooks leverages technology to create a totally new learning experience. This session will take a look at the market acceptance and potential growth of digital textbooks and some of the innovative services that are currently offered.

William Zobrist, Product Strategy, Pearson, Luke Curtin, Global Product Manager, Wiley Plus, John W. Wiley & Sons, Dana Dreibelbis, President & Publisher, M&C Life Sciences Inc. [ Slides ] Rob Reynolds, Ph.D., Director of Product Design and Research, Xplana [ Slides ]

2:30pm - 2:45pm Break and Networking Opportunity

2:45pm - 3:45pm: Discovery and Delivery Platforms

Information discovery and delivery platforms serve more than the basic search and retrieval functions. They have become sophisticated tools for data management, analysis, and collaboration. This session will take a look at innovative discovery and delivery platforms and how they have evolved to meet the current needs and expectations of academic information seekers.

Yukun Harsono, Senior Vice President, Search & Discovery, Elsevier, Inc., Nader Qaimari, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Cengage Learning [ Slides ]

3:45pm - 4:30pm: What is a Book, Anyway?

The surging popularity of ebooks and ereaders is very confusing to publishers and to libraries. The highly evolved supply chains that support the distribution and sale of print books are being disrupted, displaced, and distorted. Libraries that have been built as secular temples for print are wondering what roles they can play in the future. Publishers are being told that they can no longer just sell objects, that ebooks are really website apps, and that contextualization is the key to maximize income streams. So what is a book, really? In this talk, Eric Hellman will argue that books can still make sense in a paperless world, and discuss the technologies and the business models that enable them.

Eric Hellman, President, GlueJar

4:30pm: Adjourn