| Conference Report: Thinking Ahead 2006 Salt Lake Public Library | |||||||||||||
| Greta Chapman | |||||||||||||
| DAY | SPEAKER | TOPICS | |||||||||||
| Thursday | Daniel Knowlton | Cultural Anthropolist Oberservation of the Library Profession | |||||||||||
| Friday | Leslie Burger | ALA President - transforming librarians with Library 2.0 social networking | |||||||||||
| Discussion | Pace of Change - Choices, Reaction, Attitude, Demonstrate | ||||||||||||
| Profession - Counter Intuitive | |||||||||||||
| Set of Conditions: Not able to please everyone, tougher skin, non-judgemental but also activist, passive. | |||||||||||||
| Gary Strong | Emerging Media | ||||||||||||
| Convergencies | |||||||||||||
| Discussion | Media Production, Website as delivery system | ||||||||||||
| Joseph Firmuge | Visual Programming | ||||||||||||
| Digital Universe | |||||||||||||
| Portals - Stewards of Info. | |||||||||||||
| Discussion | Digital Collections; Format Wars. Democracy to Govern ourselves & Popular M. | ||||||||||||
| Saturday | Bridget Lamont | The Library as a Civic Forum - Educate people & participate in shaping public opinion | |||||||||||
| Discussion | If You Build it, They Will Come: Creating Spaces | ||||||||||||
| George Needham | The Untouchables - Reconfiguring the M.L.S. Degree - LTA - AA, B.A., M.L.S., Phd | ||||||||||||
| Discussion | The Professional Generation Gap | ||||||||||||
| Daivd Knowlton | An Anthropological Wrap-Up | ||||||||||||
| Thomas Frey | Keynote: The future creates the present. | ||||||||||||
| Our vision of the future creates what we do today. | |||||||||||||
| Average time with job | 2004 - 4 years | ||||||||||||
| 2010 - 3.5 years | |||||||||||||
| Empire of One 7 of 10 laid off will start own job | |||||||||||||