Quantum2 Highlights - September/October 2003

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In this issue of Quantum2 Highlights:

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Quantum2 Web Sessions
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Our popular Web sessions continue in October and November with the following offerings. The World Clock at http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ will help you to determine your local time.

        Assessing Clients' Needs - Map Information Flow
        2 - 3:30 p.m. EDT, October 21, 2003

        Marketing Information Services
        2 - 3:30 p.m. GMT, November 18, 2003

For more information and to register, please visit http://quantum.dialog.com/training/workshops/.



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Upcoming Quantum2 Sessions
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Quantum2 sessions will be presented at the following Dialog and information industry events:

        Italy, Tuesday, October 14, 2003
        Sala Visconti, Crowne Plaza Milan Linate
        Via K. Adenauer, 3
        20097 San Donato Milanese
        (To register for this Dialog Update, please visit http://www.dialog.com/events/update/)

        France, Tuesday, October 21, 2003
        International Chemical Information Conference October 19-22, 2003
        Nimes, France
        (http://www.infonortics.com/chemical/ch03/03chempro.html)

        Netherlands, Monday, November 3, 2003
        NVB-Congress
        Ede, The Netherlands
        (http://www.nvb-online.nl/)


        Barcelona, Thursday, October 16, 2003
        Madrid, Friday, October 17, 2003
        (To register, call 0034 932 189 484.)
       
        Stockholm, Tuesday, November 4, 2003
        Oslo, Wednesday, October 5, 2003

        Bern, Tuesday, November 11, 2003

        Copenhagen, Wednesday, November 12, 2003
        (To register, call 0045 70 23 00 01.)

        Amsterdam, Wednesday, November 19, 2003
        Brussels, Thursday, November 20, 2003

In addition, Quantum2 will be conducted at the following Special Libraries Association events in the United States:

        Texas Chapter, Wednesday, October 8, 2003 (Austin Local Planning Group)
        Cincinnati Chapter, Thursday October 9, 2003
        Fairfield County Chapter, Thursday, November 13, 2003
        Michigan Chapter, Thursday, November 13, 2003
        (To register for these events, please contact your local chapter program chair.)



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Quantum2 Forum Discussion Thread
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Under our current Competitive Intelligence (CI) forum discussion, there is a thread examining the best places to publish CI articles. A few suggestions, such as Competia, SCIP and others have been made. If you know of any others, we would be very pleased to hear them. Who knows what little nuggets of information we have in our collective memory unless we share them?

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A Problem Shared  . . . Revisited!
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In July, I posted a question on behalf of one our members in Taiwan. Responses have been thin, probably because it was the height of summer and many were vacationing. For the benefit of our fellow information professionals, and so that I can post results in a future newsletter, I would like to pose the question again:

If you could draw up on a blank piece of paper your vision of the ideal library service or the ideal information service, what would it be? What would it offer? What would be the one thing you would share with your colleagues?

Please respond to this question at dialog.quantum@thomson.com and be sure to put "Ideal Library" in the subject line.

As always, your suggestions for workshop topics are always welcome and encouraged. If you know a friend or colleague who would benefit from Quantum2, please encourage him or her to sign up today at http://quantum.dialog.com/.

Regards,

Liz Blankson-Hemans
Manager, Information Professional Development
Dialog