Registration Now Open for 2012 Charleston Conference!
Dear Colleagues,
We're pleased to announce that registration for the 2012 Charleston Conference
(http://katina.info/conference/), to be held November 7-10 in historic downtown
Charleston, SC, is now open! Register by September 14th to receive the Early
Bird rate.
Register online at http://www.katina.info/conference/registration.php.
Our tentative program is posted online at
http://katina.info/conference/program.php. Confirmed plenary speakers include:
Annette Thomas, CEO, Macmillan
Anurag Acharya, Founder and Lead Engineer, Google Scholar
Peter Brantley, Director, Bookserver Project
Mike Shatzkin, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company, Inc.
Greg Tanabaum, CEO, ScholarNext
Peter Binfield, Publisher, PLoS One
Timo Hannay, Managing Director, Digital Science
Kristen Eschenfelder, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of
Library and Information Studies
Mark Coker, President, Smashwords
Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for Research
Libraries (CRL)
Others TBA
We are also excited to announce a new event: Tools of Change - Charleston (Mini
TOC), The Age of Curation: Creating & Selling Value In a World of Ubiquitous
Content. If you have ever wanted to attend the industry leading Tools of Change
conference, now you can during your time at The Charleston Conference. O'Reilly
Media's Tools of Change and BiblioLabs, in cooperation with The Charleston
Conference, presents Mini TOC Charleston, a one day event of conversation
focusing on publishing, tech and the bookish-arts community. When: Wednesday,
November 7, from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, more information online at
http://oreilly.com/minitoc-charleston.html.
Why come to Charleston? Each year, over 1,000 librarians, vendors, and
publishers make a pilgrimage to the Holy City. They are not headed to the
Mediterranean, but to the southeast coast of the U S -- to Charleston, SC. The
Charleston Conference is an informal annual gathering of librarians, publishers,
electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials each
November to discuss issues of importance to them all. It is designed to be a
collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same
issues in a non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment.
Presidents of companies discuss and debate with library directors, acquisitions
librarians, reference librarians, serials librarians, collection development
librarians, and many, many others. Begun in 1980, the Charleston Conference has
grown from 20 participants in 1980 to over 1,400 in 2011.
This year, the Conference will again be held at the Francis Marion Hotel
(http://www.francismarionhotel.com/) in historic downtown Charleston, and with
concurrent sessions at the nearby Courtyard Marriott Historic District and the
College of Charleston Addlestone Library. Travel and hotel information is
available on our website at http://www.katina.info/conference/travel.php.
Feel free to contribute, say what you want, or give us your ideas for panels and
presentations through our Call for Papers form, online at
http://www.katina.info/conference/callforpapers.php. The deadline for
submissions is June 15.
Contact Leah Hinds at leah_at_katina.info with questions or comments. We hope to
see you in November!
Tom Gilson
Associate Editor, Against the Grain
Head of Reference Emeritus
Addlestone Library
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
Received on Wed Jun 06 2012 - 03:00:58 EDT