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