[Asis-l] Symposium: the Shape of Things to Come: Trisociety/DASER

[KT Vaughan]

Please excuse cross-postings - now is the time to register!

What: The Shape of Things to Come: The 8th Quadrennial Trisociety 
Symposium / 3rd DASER Summit
When: Friday, Nov. 3, 2006 9am-5pm
Symposium URL: http;s://www.asis.org/Conferences/Daser/index.htm

Why:
The 8th Quadrennial Trisociety Symposium /  3rd DASER Summit will focus 
on questions of how libraries and information centers are shaping the 
digital information world, and how they are being shaped by it.  Many 
have wondered if libraries -- and librarians -- will even exist in the 
22nd century.  The Symposium assumes scientists, engineers, and 
physicians will continue to need information professionals.  Instead, we 
ask the questions: What is a library?  Where are libraries in the 
digital reolution? What does a physical library look like?  What is a 
librarian?  Research and opinion from leaders in cutting edge library 
and information centers will prove both enlightening and inspiring.

Schedule:
Fred Heath (Vice Provost, University of Texas @ Austin Libraries) - The 
physical transformation of library space
Carole Palmer (Assoc. Professor, University of Illinois @ 
Urbana-Champaign GSLIS) - Changing habits and needs of information users
Danielle Plumer (Faculty, University of Texas @ Austin School of 
Information) - New technologies in libraries
Jack Maness (Librarian, University of Colorado @ Boulder Engineering 
Library) - Use of social networking and social communication 
technologies for library services

Roundtable lunch (included in registration) on topics of attendees' choice

Panel of Visionaries:
Michael Leach (Director, Physics Research Library and the Kummel Library 
of Geological Sciences, Harvard University and President, ASIS&T)
Martha Bedard (Associate Dean of Libraries & Director, Medical Sciences 
Library, Texas A&M University)
David Flaxbart (Head, Mallet Chemistry Library, University of Texas @ 
Austin)

Conversations will continue at dutch-treat dinners in the lovely 6th 
Street area of Austin.

History:
The Trisociety Symposium on Chemical Information was founded in the late 
1970s as a partnership among the three chemical informatics groups 
associated with ASIS&T, the ACS, and SLA.

The DASER Summit was begun in 2003 as a joint project of the ASIS&T 
SIG/STI and the NEASIST Chapter. The 2003 Summit focused on digital 
archives in science from a broad perspective. The 2005 Summit, 
cosponsored by SIG/STI and the Potomac Valley Chapter, looked at open 
access publishing in STM.