Colleagues/ A May Day NFAIS Event ! BTW: NFAIS = National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services_ /Gerry _Social Media and the Future of Scholarly Communication Lyrasis Office / May 1 2009 / Philadelphia, PA BTW-2: Lyrasis = PALINET + SOLINET [snip] Not so today! Information technology, the Web, and the introduction of social media have not only broadened the geographic scope of scholarly communication beyond that of the print environment, but have re-introduced social dialog and immediate feedback into the scholarly communication process on a global scale. Scholars worldwide are embracing this change. But the organizations that have been primarily responsible for managing the flow of scholarly communication for the past three hundred plus years publishers, abstracting and indexing services, and librarians have not, for the most part, discovered how to interject their function and adapt their processes to the newly-emerging conversational communication process. This meeting will provide a glimpse at how social media are beginning to transform the scholarly communication process and how content providers and librarians are using social media to meet the needs and expectations of 21st century scholars. Partial Program

Overview: Acceptance and Use of Social Media in Scholarly Communication

Steve Paxhia, Lead Analyst, Publishing Strategy & Technology Practice,The Gilbane Group

Content-Rich Scholarly Social Networks

Jeff Boily, CEO, BioWizard / Lettie Conrad, Online Publishing/Product Manager, Sage Publications, Inc.

The Use of Social Media by Publishers and Scholarly Societies

John Sullivan, Chief Information Officer, the American Chemical Society / Jason Wilde, Publisher, Physical Sciences, Nature Publishing Group

Technology Resources for Building Social Networks and Incorporating Social Media

Dr. Bay Arinze, Professor of Management Information Systems, Drexel University and Founder and Senior Editor of MyNetResearch / Reynolds Guida, Director, Product Development, Thomson Reuters, Scientific and Healthcare Unit

Social Media in the Library Environment

Jill Hurst-Wahl, Instructor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University / Wayne Hay, IT Manager, Westchester Library System, New York Challenges to Adopting Social Media Jay Datema, Founder, Bookism.org Closing Keynote: Social Media and the Future of Scholarly Communication Darin McBeath, Director of Disruptive Technologies, Elsevier Registration [After April 10, 2009] NFAIS Members / $345 ; PALINET Members / $365 ; Non-members / $395 Thanks To Marydee Ojala / Editor, ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources For Information Professionals / For The Reminder !!! Links to All Associated Forms/BioSketch and The Full Program, Including Abstracts Are Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/c5cgkq ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]