From: "Gamboa, Camille" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:54:33 +0000

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SAGE is delighted to sponsor the keynote sessions of NISO's Two-Day
Virtual Conference, detailed below, making them free for public
viewing. RSVP now to learn from two e-content leaders from the comfort
of your own personal computer.

RSVP here: http://ow.ly/CSKMS

"Embrace Technology - or It will Embrace You" - Timo Hannay

Opening Keynote Presentation:  Tuesday, October 21, 11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET

A common view is that publishing is about publications, or at least
content. But publishing is really the business of delivering timely,
relevant information to people in the most useful form possible.
Increasingly such tasks are best achieved with information technology,
not only to disseminate the information but also to gather and
organize it in the first place. Many traditional publishing skills
will continue to remain relevant, but to meet the opportunities and
challenges of the web age they will have to be reinvented and combined
with deep technological savvy. Organizations that can master this
complex but potent combination will become the dominant publishers of
the 21st century.

Timo Hannay is the Managing Director of Digital Science.

"Publisher of the Community" - R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of
New Librarianship,

Closing Keynote Presentation: Wednesday, October 22, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET

Libraries have historically focused on knowledge containers: books,
articles, journals, web pages. Yet the future opportunity for the
dissemination of knowledge will come not from new formats, or content
models, but by making the knowledge of the entire community available.
The scholarly conversation can extend beyond the article, to the data
set, to the intellectual foment of debate and idea generation. The
state of society, and our places within it can now be accessible for
all. We can look forward to facilitating the knowledge society.not
documenting it, or describing it, but making it happen.

Professor Lankes is the Dean's Scholar for the New Librarianship at
Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and the Director
of the Information Institute of Syracuse.

Thank you,
Camille Gamboa
SAGE
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