Documents/FIRM/3: Forum/3.5: December 2008 Forum -- CANCELED

3.5: December 2008 Forum -- CANCELED

On December 3 at the Library of Congress (LOC), conduct a forum on the topic of The Federal Information Management Professional: Transforming Past Challenges into Future Opportunities

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THIS FORUM WAS CANCELED. Date: December 3, 2008 (9:30 until noon; "registration" / networking to begin at 9 a.m.) Place: Library of Congress (Building, Room TBA) DRAFT Title: "The Federal Information Management Professional: Transforming Past Challenges into Future Opportunities" Format: Two moderated panels - each approx. 1 hour with a 15 minute break in between and some time for introductions / Q&A. Panel 1 - Background on how federal information management business processes evolved to where we are today - technologically, legislatively, administratively, etc... panelists will include, but not be limited to those with "perspective" on: federal libraries, federal archives and publication depositories, and public sector records access specialists (research librarians or FOIA). What have been the "challenges"? What have we learned as a community from addressing those "challenges"? ETC... Panel 2 - The "what comes next" - emerging legislative landscape.... how can we work together to simplify federal information governance and infrastructure to make it more citizen-centric. Panelists will include, but not be limited to those with perspectives on open government, web management, electronic records preservation and bibliographic control and the role of CIO's. What efforts will unify our diverse community to accomplish some common objectives? What shared goals and values need to be reflected in "enforcable standards"? ETC...

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  • John Paul DeleyForum Coordinator

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