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AgNIC 2011 Conference
Meeting Announcement

May 18 - 19, 2011 at National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland

Trudi Davidoff
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Melanie Gardner
AgNIC Coordinator
Office of the Director
USDA/National Agricultural Library
Beltsville, Maryland USA 20705
(301) 504-6780
fax: (301) 504-7042
melanie.gardner@ars.usda.gov
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AgNIC ~ The Fifth Element

Please join us as AgNIC holds its 16th Annual Meeting at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in Beltsville, Maryland, May 18-19, 2011.

The focus of the meeting is: AgNIC - THE FIFTH ELEMENT, AgNIC is the ELEMENTAL source for agricultural information.

To further our theme, a major focus of the meeting will be on “radical collaboration.”

Other ELEMENTS of our meeting will be:

· AIR - technology, cloud computing, mobile computing, worldwide / AgNIC Technology  &  webinars
· FIRE - knowledge discovery through collaboration and networking / AgNIC Membership & Marketing
 · EARTH - content, repository, services, partnerships, impact / AgNIC Content, Reference, Mentoring & Metadata
· WATER - mash-ups, data mining, social networking, international / AgNIC Reference & Content

 Attendees* will hear from the "2CUL" Partnership between Columbia and Cornell Universities. 2CUL enables the two universities to provide content, expertise, and services jointly which are impossible to accomplish alone [TBD].

Registration will be $75 and will include two lunches, breaks, May 18-19, and dinner on May 18.

NOTE: Attendees will also be able to take advantage of pre-meeting trainings on Digital Projects, or Social Media (see below).

PRE-MEETING WORKSHOPS
Tuesday, May 17, 2:00 to 4:30 PM EDT - NOTE: Pre-meeting workshops are free, but are limited to 20 participants, so sign up early!

WORKSHOP #1: Social Media, Information Management Tools and Your Institution by Peter Fernandez, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

This workshop will review some of the most prominent social media technologies available, such as Facebook and Twitter, and will help you explore how you can utilize them to accomplish your goals. The workshop will also cover free tools like Zotero, Evernote, and Digsby that can function as standalone products or help generate and manage content for your social media presence.

We will evaluate these technologies with regard to their sustainability, privacy implications and their funding models.

WORKSHOP #2: Digital Projects, If It's Digital and in Google - Then They will Come by Dr. Rob McGeachin, Texas A&M University Libraries

This workshop will review the basics of planning and implementing a legacy print digitization project using the Texas FARMER project of the Texas A&M University Libraries as the primary example. Progressing from loading single works at a time into the electronic repository to our current batch loading techniques, the workflows are continuing to evolve. It will include an introduction to the usage of PDF/Archival (PDF/A) files as one of the emerging preservation techniques for digital works.

Hotel Reservations: May be made at Beltsville (3+ miles), College Park (1+ miles), or Greenbelt (2+ miles) hotels. The closest two to the Library are ~

Holiday Inn, College Park, Maryland ~ 301.345.6700 / 888.465.4329

Hampton Inn, College Park, Maryland ~ 301.345.2200 / 800.276.7415

Transportation

Reagan National Airport (DCA) and take the Metro train (Greenline train to Greenbelt Metro stop), and a taxi or hotel (Holiday Inn) shuttle to hotel.

Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI) and take the B-30 bus to Greenbelt Metro, and a taxi or (Holiday Inn) hotel shuttle to hotel.

Dulles Interantional Airport (IAD) and take a shuttle, taxi or rent a car to get to your hotel.

Attendees please
print and fill out this registration form and fax it
to Melanie.
fax number:
(301) 504-7042