Preliminary Conference Program

8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Conference Registration

8:30 am - 5:00 pm
AIIP Board Meeting
(Open to all 1:30 to 3:30)

1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Exhibits Open

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
First Timers' & New Member Orientation & Reception

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Opening Reception in the Exhibit Area

7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Conference Registration

7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Exhibits Open

7:30 am - 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 10:30 am
Welcome
Member and Vendor Introductions
Presentation of Awards

10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Keynote
Pilgrim's Progress: Planning Your Internet Marketing Strategy
Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, Wilson Internet Services

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch (included in Conference registration fee)

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Visit the Vendors

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
General Session
Technology Trends & Gadgets
Jeremy Caplan

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• Accounting Issues for Independent Information Professionals, Providence SCORE
• Networking: the Hundred-Foot Rule, Pam Wegmann, Information Matters
• The CI Function: Growing with the Profession, Susan Stearns, InMagic

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
English High Tea & Exhibits

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dinner on your own

9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Dessert Reception and Talent Show

7:30 am - 12:00 pm
Conference Registration

8:30 am - 9:30 am
Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 10:00 am
Memorial Lecture and Breakfast
Juliet Schor, Department of Sociology, Boston College

10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
General Session
Burned at the Stake? Copyright and Legal Issues for IIPs
George Pike, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Business Meeting (Box Lunch Included)

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• Marketing Basics: Create a Desire for Your Services, Anne Caputo, Factiva
• Packaging Value-Added Deliverables, Jonathan Day, ResearchScope
• Super Searchers Unplugged Panel, Moderated by Suzanne Sabroski, Sabroski and Associates

8:00 am - 9:30 am
Conference Registration

8:00 am - 9: 00 am
Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:30 am
Keynote
Truth in Business
Margaret Heffernan

10:30 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break

10:45 am - 11:45 am
General Session
AllTheWeb, FAST Search
Peter Bauert, General Manager, AlltheWeb, FAST Search & Transfer

11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Close of Conference

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Optional Newport Mansion Tour
Transportation to and from Rosecliff, a tour of the mansion and a one hour shopping period in Newport allotted. Box lunch served on the bus for $10.00. Tour cost is $32.00 per person. A 5:30 drop off at T.F. Green airport available for departing attendees.