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An NFAIS Forum for the Information Community:  Online Usage Statistics -
Current Trends and Future Directions in Meeting User Needs

The NFAIS Committee on Best Practices/Usage Statistics is organizing a forum
that will provide an overview of the current status and future trends in the
development and provision of online usage statistics - all within the
context of evolving technology, emerging standards and most importantly -
customer needs and expectations.  

This one-day session will be held on Friday, October 1, 2004 at St. John's
University Manhattan Campus, New York, N.Y, from 9:00A.M. - 4:30P.M.  It
will begin with an overview of the development of online usage statistics
and a discussion of the various standards that have been developed for their
use.  A group of users from diverse market sectors - academic, government,
and corporate - will present their perspective with regard to how well their
needs are currently being met, and what they perceive as the essential user
requirements to be met in the future.  The expectations - and limitations -
of technology in meeting those needs will be addressed, as will the legal
concerns related to users' privacy rights.  The remainder of the session
will be devoted to case studies of actual implementation of online usage
statistics, highlighting the challenges that were met and the level of
customer satisfaction that resulted.

Come and join your peers in learning what organizations need to know - and
plan for - in order to ensure that evolving customer needs are met - both
now and in the future.   Register early, as seating is limited. The draft
program, registration form, directions to the meeting location, and a list
of nearby hotels are available at:
http://www.nfais.org/events/event_details.cfm?id=26

Register before August 20, 2004 and NFAIS members pay $155 and non-members
pay $205 (registration fee includes continental breakfast, a box lunch and
two refreshment breaks).  After August 20, 2004 NFAIS members pay $195 and
non-members pay $245. 

For more information contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication
and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax);
mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org.   Founded in 1958, NFAIS is a premier
membership organization of approximately 50 of the world's leading producers
of databases, information services, and information technology in the
sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, and the arts and
humanities



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Richard Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
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