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RMG's Seventh Annual Presidents' Seminar: Re-Engineering the Library
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob McGee)
Mon Jan 6 21:09:58 1997
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:31:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Rob McGee <rmg@interaccess.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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NEWS RELEASE .......... RMG Consultants, Inc. .........December 20, 1996
................."RE-ENGINEERING THE LIBRARY INDUSTRY"
to confront the risks and opportunities of the Digital Age that
challenge libraries and the companies that serve them to adapt,
re-invent, and re-cast themselves.
.............................is the topic of
.............................RMG Consultants'
............Seventh Annual Presidents' Seminar: The View from the Top
................February 14, 1997 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., Washington, D.C.
.....................Washington Convention Center, Room #32
The onslaught of new information technologies, products, and services has
lead to the Digital Era in which libraries are challenged to organize
access both to traditional analog (print-form) information, and to the
exploding
world of digital resources available through the Internet/World Wide Web.
The "Digital Convergence" of computing/communications/ consumer electronics
/media /entertainment /publishing technologies and industries is producing
easy-to-use seamless interfaces, high-bandwidth telecommunications
services, affordably priced computing power and storage, and digital
content.
Altogether, these forces constitute a "sea change" in the ways that our
culture -- and libraries -- handle information. Libraries are confronted
by the risks and opportunities of the Digital Age, as their customers
become targets for new information products and services flowing from the
strategic alliances and restructured companies of the Digital Convergence
-- and not
just from the traditional library industry.
Top executives of the leading vendors of integrated library systems will
share their thoughts on the needs and opportunities to "Re-engineer the
Library Industry" for the Digital Era. They are asked in this seminar to
frame questions and comments for each other and the audience on:
* The changing needs of Library customers
* Libraries
* Library Consortia
* Library Schools
* Outsourcing / Co-sourcing
* Information Technology
* Convergence of Libraries and Education
* Vendors to Libraries
Top executives of leading library automation companies are empaneled to
discuss issues posed by the Digital Era for libraries and the library
automation industry -- at the level of our profession and industry, but
not to make sales pitches or to promote their companies.
This free seminar is sponsored by RMG as part of its commitment to the
continuing education of the library community on the impact of new
technologies, and to show appreciation for vendors, buyers, and users of
automated library systems who have made the industry robust and dynamic.
Advance registration is not required.
For further information contact: Brian Mahany or Odette Alleyne in the
Chicago Office of RMG Consultants, Inc., 312/321-0432 or via email at
rmg@interaccess.com.
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Rob McGee Voice: 312/321-0432
RMG Consultants,Inc. Fax: 312/321-9594
333 W. North Avenue, Suite F, Chicago IL 60610 Email: rmg@interaccess.com
Web:http://homepage.interaccess.com/~rmg
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