[Macpartners] Interesting event tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7 with David Weingerber at Pappalardo Room, 6pm-9pm

[Olimpia Estela Caceres-Brown]

Hi colleagues,

I hope you can join us!

Best regards,

Olimpia
The  2013 Annual NEASIS&T  Networking Dinner!
New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science & Technology

NEASIS&T will announce and congratulate the NEASIST Chapter Member of the Year and Student Member of the Year.

Date:                           Tuesday, May 7
Time:                          6 to 9 p.m.
Guest Speaker:         Dr. David Weinberger
Place:                         MIT, Pappalardo Room (Bldg 4-349)  find it on MIT MAP<http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=4>

Register now until Sunday, May 5.

[Eventbrite - NEASIST 2012 Annual Awards Dinner]<http://neasist-dinner.eventbrite.com/>


NEASIST welcomes David Weinberger who will talk about
LIBRARY AS PLATFORM: Opening up to Support our Communities in the Production of Knowledge*
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.

*Library as Platform<http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/09/future-of-libraries/by-david-weinberger/>


Schedule:
6:00 Networking
6:30 Dinner (Mexican buffet)**
7:30 Award presentations followed by speaker, Dr. David Weinberger

** Prices
NEASIST/ASIST/SLA member:     $25.00
Public (non-member):                   $35.00
Student/retiree/between jobs:       $18.00

Hope to see you!
The NEASIS&T Program Committee

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