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[padg] ALCTS 50th Anniversary Conference--you're invited!
This message is from Jane Treadwell, chair of the 50th conference
committee. Please forward as you see fit -- Nancy E Kraft PARS chair
Dear Colleagues,
The ALCTS 50th Anniversary National Conference will be here before we
know it! Please forward this message to anyone you think might be
interested in attending, including any listservs to which you belong.
Thank you!
You're invited!
"Interactive Futures" and more, celebrating ALCTS' 50th Anniversary.
What: "Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation
of Library Collections & Technical Services"
Where: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center,
Washington, DC
When: June 20 and 21, 2007. Registration begins at 1:30 on the 20th.
What: ALCTS Gala 50th Anniversary Dinner
Where: Aboard the luxury cruise ship, the Odyssey III on the Potomac
River
When: June 21, 2007, boarding at 6 pm, cruise at 7 pm
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has
a superb line-up of events to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. Visit the
ALCTS 50th web site for more information and to register:
www.ala.org/alcts <http://www.ala.org/alcts/> .
"Interactive Futures: A National Conference on the Transformation of
Library Collections & Technical Services": a thought-provoking, open,
and participatory exchange on the transformation of our work and the
profession; explore the challenges we face and develop a vision of the
future roles of collections and technical services librarians.
Registration for ALCTS members is only $250 and includes breakfast,
lunch and a reception. Registration rates are also available for ALA
members and non-members.
Keynote:
Richard Lanham: "The Two Markets: Libraries in an Attention Economy"
Lanham, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and author of the Economics of
Attention, U. of Chicago Press, 2006, will speak to the attention
economy, where it is not information which is in short supply, but the
human attention needed to make sense of it. Visit his website at
http://www.rhetoricainc.com <http://www.rhetoricainc.com/> .
Plenary Sessions:
David Lankes: "Collecting Conversations in a Massive Scale World"
David Lankes' presentation outlines some of the issues and opportunities
for libraries in this massive scale environment as well as presenting a
new way of organizing library materials: as conversations. More about
David Lankes, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies:
http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/
<http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?page_id=94>
Susan Nutter: "Genetically Engineering Our Future"
Susan is Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at North Carolina State
University
End Notes:
Stephen Abram, Vice President of Innovation, Sirsi/Dynix: "Social
Libraries: The Librarian 2.0 Phenomenon"
Abram's talk addresses the role of the library and librarians in the
social web: Library 2.0, RSS, YouTube, Blogs, Wikis, Facebook,
MySpace-- do library staff have the right skills and competencies for
Web 2.0? http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com
<http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com/> and
http://www.sirsi.com/Resources/abram_articles.html
In break-out sessions led by an outstanding group of facilitators,
you'll have an opportunity to discuss the presentations and brainstorm
how the issues and insights the speakers offer will affect the future of
technical services.
The closing session panel, moderated by Carol Pitts Diedrichs, concludes
the conference with valuable insights and ideas to take away. The
stellar panel includes Nancy Gwinn, Karen Calhoun, Brian Schottlaender,
and Peggy Johnson.
The Gala 50th Anniversary Dinner, aboard the luxurious Odyssey III,
where diners will cruise the Potomac River, enjoying the sites of
Washington, DC and Georgetown. The Odyssey III was build specifically
to navigate the Potomac River and its many bridges,
http://www.odysseycruises.com/dc/index.cfm. The ship will begin
boarding at 6 p.m. Dinner is $75.
The ALCTS 50th Celebration is made possible in part by the generous
contributions from our sponsors: OCLC, Innovative Interfaces, EBSCO,
Elsevier, Amazon.com, Swets, Preservation Technologies, Harrassowitz,
and individual contributions through the "ALCTS $50 for 50 Years
Campaign". Individual contributions can be made at a variety of levels
by clicking the "50 for 50" icon on the ALCTS web site. To be a
sponsor, visit the ALCTS 50th web page and click "Sponsorships".
We hope you'll join us for these and forthcoming ALCTS 50th Anniversary
events. Go to the ALCTS web site, www.ala.org/alcts to "RSVP" or to
learn more.
ALCTS 50th Anniversary Celebration: Commemorating our Past, Celebrating
our Present, Creating our Future
ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
Jane
Jane B. Treadwell
University Librarian & Dean of Library Instructional Services
LIB 204A
University of Illinois at Springfield
Springfield, IL 62794
(217)206-6597; fax (217)206-6354