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How We Enhance Information, and How We Are Enhanced . . . Conference Report: Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts, the ASIST Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, November 12‐17, 2004

Penny O’Connor (Assistant Head, Science and Technology Department, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. (penny.oconnor@computer.org))

Library Hi Tech News

ISSN: 0741-9058

Article publication date: 1 February 2005

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Abstract

Purpose

Aims to report on the 2004 Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), which had the theme of Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts. The conference was held in November in Providence, Rhode Island.

Design/methodology/approach

Reviews some of the events of the conference.

Findings

Finds that the hot topics of the conference were: Google, blogs, wikis, virtual reference and the Semantic Web.

Originality/value

A report that will be of interest to library and information management professionals.

Keywords

Citation

O’Connor, P. (2005), "How We Enhance Information, and How We Are Enhanced . . . Conference Report: Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts, the ASIST Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, November 12‐17, 2004", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 9-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/07419050510593317

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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