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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I hope you can join us!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Olimpia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 2013 Annual NEASIS&T Networking Dinner!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEASIS&T will announce and congratulate the NEASIST Chapter Member of the Year and Student Member of the Year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: Tuesday, May 7</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Time</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: 6 to 9 p.m.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Guest Speaker</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: Dr. David Weinberger<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Place</span></strong>: MIT, Pappalardo Room (Bldg 4-349) <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4" title="MIT, Pappalardo Room, 4-349"><span style="color:purple">find it on MIT MAP</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Register now until Sunday, May 5.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://neasist-dinner.eventbrite.com/" title=""Register for NEASIST" t "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:purple;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="123" height="36" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CE4A53.5E11D110" alt="Eventbrite - NEASIST 2012 Annual Awards Dinner"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEASIST welcomes David Weinberger who will talk about</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">LIBRARY AS PLATFORM: Opening up to Support our Communities in the Production of Knowledge</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">David Weinberger, Ph.D., writes about the effect of the Internet on ideas. He is a co-author of the bestseller, The Cluetrain Manifesto (2000) and is the author of
“Small Pieces Loosely Joined” and “Everything Is Miscellaneous.” His new book, “Too Big to Know” (2012), looks at how the networking of knowledge and expertise is changing how we understand our world and make decisions in it; it has won two international “book
of the year” awards. Dr. Weinberger is a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and is co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, where he is also leading the Harvard Library Interoperability Initiative. He has been a
marketing adviser to many high tech companies, and adviser to several presidential candidates, and was recently a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto, and lives in Boston.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*<a href="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/09/future-of-libraries/by-david-weinberger/" target="_blank" title="Library as Platform"><span style="color:purple">Library as Platform</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Schedule:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">6:00 Networking<br>
6:30 Dinner (Mexican buffet)**<br>
7:30 Award presentations followed by speaker, Dr. David Weinberger</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">** Prices</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
NEASIST/ASIST/SLA member: $25.00<br>
Public (non-member): $35.00<br>
Student/retiree/between jobs: $18.00</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hope to see you!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The NEASIS&T Program Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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