Reality 2.0: Attracting and Engaging the Millennial Library User

Stephen

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May 26, 2008

Timberline Leadership Symposium

I had the distinct pleasure of participating in the first Timberline Leadership Symposium last week at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon. It was a great experience in a perfect location. 14 feet of snow and that was after a melt! It was up to my second floor window.

Anyway, we did a lot of stuff including a new preferences diagnostic called DISC that I just completed too - for those of you who were there I am apparently an I and not a D like I suspected! My contribution was the economic, demographic, social and techology SWOT for libraries to help underpin the vision exercise.

Here are the slides:

Reality 2.0: Leadership and Strategy

Great group of folks. I hope to meet them all again.

Stephen

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May 15, 2008

AISTI Annual Conference

I love visiting the AISTI conference in Sante Fe NM. It is always an interesting time with a very bright group.

Here's my presentation:

Building Capacity for Change:
Preparing Our Enterprises for New Information Strategies

Stephen

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May 8, 2008

SLA New Jersey Chapter

Here's this week's presentation to the SLA New Jersey Chapter:

Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves & Our Association

Lots of fun there at Rutgers and talking to the profs and students too.

Stephen

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Connecticut Library Association

Here's the session I did for the Connecticut Library Association conference this month.

Technology Watch: What's New, What's Coming, and What You Need to Know

Mystic CT, great name!

Stephen

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FAME

Not that kind of fame but the Florida Association of Media Educators!

I did a presentation for them in West Palm Beach on The Ftuure Learners Will See.

Pretty place too.

Stephen

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April 15, 2008

Montana Library Association Conference

last week, I had a wonderful visit to Great Falls Montana for the Montana Library Association Annual Conference. They were remarkably hospitable! We even played Jeopardy and I was auctioned off for charity in the game. I toured the new university library and we went to a club where mermaids were swimming in a tank too. Lots of fun. Real image busters for libraries and Montana!

Anyway, while there I gave two sessions that were roughly the same (same slides - maybe different words). Here's the talk:

Top 5 or 10 Strategies for Library Success

Stephen

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Wisconsin SAE

I had a nice visit with the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives in early April.

Here's the presenation:

15 Technologies That Are Transforming Our Associations

It comes out of some of the thinking I did as president of OLA, CLA and SLA.

Stephen

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April 3, 2008

LIS School Visits

I love doing visits to LIS schools and talking to students and profs. I've had the good luck to do three student groups in the past few weeks.

McGill School of Information Studies in Montreal:

Reality 2.0: Developing Your Learning Strategy for Life After Grad School

University of Toronto, Faculty of Information

Reality 2.0: Developing Your Learning Strategy for Life After Grad School

Simmons in Boston

Reality 2.0: Developing Your Learning Strategy for Life After Grad School

It stokes your heart to meet and talk with these folks.

Stephen

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SLA Eastern Canada Chapter Event

Here's the presentation fomr the night before SLA Boston for the SLA Eastern Canada Chapter in Montreal.

SLA: Transforming Ourselves and Our Association.

Stephen

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SLA Boston Event

Well I am way behind in posting presentations. All my fault.

Here's the presentationj I did for the SLA Boston Chapter event on March 26.

SLA: Transforming Ourselves and Transforming Our Association.

Stephen

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March 10, 2008

BookNet Presentation

I had the opportunity to speak in my hometown to a group of publishers of all types. The BookNet Technology Forum 2008 was a very interesting event so I stayed for the whole day and listened to everyone.

Information 3.0: The 2.0 Phenomenon on Steroids
March 6, 2008

Stephen

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March 1, 2008

SLA SARC Conference

I got to do two presentations at the SLA South Atlantic Regional Conference in Florida.

Here are the slides for number one:

Association 2.0: Riding the Edge

Number two was about educational, fun or library YouTube videos:

Specials on the Edge

There was actually a third but it was just a conversation so I took a risk and I went naked (without slides)!

Stephen

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PSP PPT's in DC

I had the opportunity to do a keynote for the 2008 PSP Conference (Professional and Scholarly Publishers). Here are the slides:

The New Student & Professor: What is different and are libraries changing?
Feb. 7, 2008

Stephen

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February 21, 2008

Technologies to Promote Your Libraries

Earlier this week I did a national releconfverence for the Education Institute. The topic was Technologies to Promote Your Libraries as part of their Tech Tuesdays: Talking with Techies program.

I sent out a handout in advance and thought others might find it useful.

You can download it here (7 page PDF):

I've included my favourite marketing blogs and other stuff of that nature as well as my article "Can All This 2.0 Stuff Help Libraries with Promotion?"

Stephen

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Technologies to Promote Your Libraries

Here are the handouts:

Education Institute Program
Tuesday, Feb. 19th, 3-4pm ET (12-1pm PT)
Technologies to Promote Your Libraries
Part of Tech Tuesdays: Talking with Techies Series
with Stephen Abram- 1 hour AUDIO CONFERENCE

Stephen

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February 15, 2008

CASLIS Toronto Chapter Presentation

I visited my local chapter of CASLIS (A division of CLA) to present in February. It was great to see so many old friends and catch up.

Here are the PPT's:

Building Capacity for Learning: Learning 2.0!
CASLIS Feb. 6, 2008

Stephen

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February 6, 2008

CASLIS Evening Event

I did a session on professional learning for special librarians for the Toronto Chapter of the Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services (CASLIS).

Building Capacity for Personal Learning: Learning 2.0

Stephen

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February 2, 2008

OLA SuperConference

Here's the slides that we did for the OLA SuperConference this year.

Building Capacity for Learning: Learning 2.0!
OLA 2008

OLA is so huge and enormous. It's a wonderful conference in Canada attracting folks from all over the world.

Stephen

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January 30, 2008

National Association of Independent Schools

It was a great day with the leadership and staff of the National Association of Independent Schools. Here's the presentation:

The New Scholar: How are they different and how are libraries changing?

Stephen

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January 20, 2008

SLA Toronto

I got to speak to me home chapter of SLA, Toronto.

Here are the PPT's.

Reality 2.0: Attracting, Retaining and Engaging the Association 2.0 Member

Stephen

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January 15, 2008

SLA New York

I had a nice trip to New York to visit the SLA Chapter there.

Here's the presentation.

Charting the Future of SLA and Libraries

Stephen

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December 27, 2007

SLA Western Canada Chapter

Twas a nice trip to Vancouver and an event for the SLA Western Canada Chapter. Lots of friends therre! Here are the PPT slides:

Charting the Future of SLA and Libraries

Stephen

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SLA Minnesota Chapter

Heading north from Toronto and visiting the SLA Minnesota Chapter. Here are my PPTs:

Charting the Future of SLA and Libraries

Stephen

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Online International in London

I had a nice trip to London for the annual Online International conference. (A side trip to the annual CIty / SLA Europe Holiday party was fun too!)

Here are my PPTs:

Library 2.0: Fact or Fiction?

Stephen

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Medical Library Association: Southern Chapter

A quick trip to Charleston SC for the Medical Library Association: Southern Chapter and a fun workshop.

Arrghhh: A Tech Forecast
MLA Southern Chapter

Stephen

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Indiana Library Federation Conference

Here's my PPT for my luncheon presenation in November to the Indiana Library Federation Conference.

Waiting For Your Cat to Bark:
Competing with Google’s Ilk

Stephen

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November 16, 2007

SLA Wisconsin Chapter

One of the things about travelling a lot is that I get to visit more SLA Chapters than usual!

Anyway, here's the dinner speech I did in Wisconsin.

10 Cool Technologies and Your Library’s PR Plan

SLA members are the best.

Stephen

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SLA San Andreas & San Francisco Bay Area Chapters

Another visit in California was to the SLA San Andreas & San Francisco Bay Area Chapters. It was a real nice dinner on the Stamford Campus and then they had to listen to me. It was a treat that SLA CEO Janice Lachance made it there too. Here are the PPTs:

Charting the Future of SLA and Libraries Social Web 2.0

They managed to delay the earthquakes until the following week!

Stephen

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SLA Southern California

One of the nice benefits of being incoming SLA President is that I get to visit SLA Chapters around the world. In this case I visited SLA Southern California Chapter and we had a lovely panel discussion, dinner and I gave an after-dinner talk. Here it is:

Charting the Future of SLA and Libraries

Humour abounded (as did smoke from the awful fires) and I got baseball caps from both USC and UCLA.

Stephen

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Pennsylvania Library Assn Conference

I visited State College PA for the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference.
Here are the slides for my keynote:

Social Libraries: Soaring to New Heights

Stephen

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NY3Rs Association Workshop

Leadership Symposia are fun. Here's one I did in Saratoga Springs NY:

Millennials, Personas, Baby Boom and Baby Echo:
Who are they and what do they want from academic libraries?

Academic Libraries 2007 Conference
The Library is Everywhere: Maps and Minefields
NY3Rs Association: Academic and Special Libraries Section, NYLA

(The fun part was landing on Halloween and arriving at the hotel to find a Fantasy convention en costume!)

Stephen

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California Library Association Conference

Here are the slides from my keynote for the California Library Association Conference in Long Beach, Cal. Flying over the fires was a little scary.

5+ Top Strategies
for Library Success

Stephen

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California Library Association Executive Institute

Here are the slides for the workshop I did for the California Library Association Executive Institute:

Information 3.0: What’s Next?
Be Afraid, Break The Inertia

It was a little smokey due to the fires but not as smokey as other stops.

Stephen

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NYLA Millennials Session

Here are the PowerPoints for the NYLA session on Millennials.

Baby Busters, Gen-X and Born Digital Babies
Millennials Information Behaviors

Stephen

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NYLA Session on Diversity

I visited Buffalo for the New York Library Association (NYLA) Conference. It was rainy but the visit was warm. Here are PPT's.

Serving Diverse Communities

Stephen

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OCLC Member's Council

I had the nice opportunity to be invited to address the OCLC Member's Council at their Fall meeting. It was great fun and a great thoughtful audience.

I chose to speak about Information 3.0: What's Next?. Here are the slides.

Stephen

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October 27, 2007

Rural Libraries Conference

I had the great honour to address the Association for Rural & Small Libraries / Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship Conference in Ohio. Here are the slides:

Looking at the Future:
Is there one for Rural and Small Libraries

Stephen

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Iowa Library Association

I made my first visit to Iowa for the Iowa Library Association Conference in Coralville. It was very nice. I did two presentations:

Social Libraries:The 2.0 Phenomenon

Baby Busters, Gen-X and Born Digital Babies
Millennials Information Behaviors

Stephen

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Australian School Libraries Association

I had a wonderful trip to Australia again this autumn / spring / October. One part of that trip was to do a speech to the Australian School Libraries Association. Here are the slides:

Building a better learner
Millennials Information Behaviors

Stephen

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October 13, 2007

Copyright Clearance Center

I was invited to discuss the future of libraries and copyright for the CCC advisory board. Here's the PPT. They are a SirsiDynix partner for many of our products.

Web 2.0 and Copyright: Big Picture Issues

Stephen

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Arkansas Library Association

I visited Arkansas (Little Rock and Hot Srpings) for the first time to speak at their annual conference. It was fun and I saw some interesting things on tours that the hosts were nice enough to take me on. (Even including the Clinton Presidential Library and the house from TV's Designing Women as well as Macarthur Park of the song fame - cool).

Anyway, I promised to put my PowerPoints up here so here they are:

Social Libraries and Librarians:The 2.0 Challenge

Stephen

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September 12, 2007

SLIS in Johannesburg

While I was in South Africa in August I got the opportunity to speak to special librarians in Johannesburg. They were lovely hosts and it was a great time (and the Johannesburg Zoo is fun). Here's the PowerPoints:

Social Libraries and Librarians: Collaboration Cooperation Sharing Storytelling Networking
SLIS: August 24, 2007

Stephen

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IFLA Sessions on KM

I had the opportunityu to speak at two sessions at IFLA in Durban South Africa. These were done for the IFLA KM Section. Here are the PowerPoints.

KM Workshop Programme: Best Practices / Lessons Learned
Friday August 17, 2007

Social Libraries and Librarians:Collaboration Cooperation Sharing Storytelling Networking
Tuesday August 21, 2007

(Disclosure: SirsiDynix was a sponsor)

Stephen

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August 22, 2007

SEFLIN Conference

I was delighted to be able to speak to the SEFLIN (South East Florida) Conference. A few meals with folks were a real delight.

Here's the link to my session:

Social Libraries and Librarians: The 2.0 Challenge

Stephen

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Washington State Public Library Directors

Joe janes and I had a great time at the Washington State Public Library Directors retreat in July. Here's a link to the PPT slides we used to generate some discussion.

Libraries and Librarians: What the Future Holds

Stephen

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August 7, 2007

DRM and SLA

I participated in a small panel at SLA in Denver. Here's a link to the slides I used, although it's not that clear what was said. Such is the nature of panel discussions.

Stephen

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DRM and SLA

I participated in a small panel at SLA in Denver. Here's a link to the slides I used, although it's not that clear what was said. Such is the nature of panel discussions.

Stephen

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ALA Empowerment Conference

In DC this June ALA ran an Empowerment Conference for library staff. It was pretty interesting to see the great skills and energy of this group.

Joe Janes from the U Washington iSchool and I did a session on trends. We had a severely dead PC projector so we went naked and went without our PowerPoints. I think we did well.

Anyway, just in case anyone want to see the slides, I'll link to them here.

Stephen

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ALCTS at ALA

I was honored to give the end note at the ALA ALCTS 50th anniversary pre-conference workshop.

It was a very innovative format with speakers and reactors and an end of day panel that reacted to the whole day. Entertaining and educational. The organizers did a great job (and great food in the Reagan Building too).

Here's a link to the PowerPoint:

Social Libraries: The Librarian 2.0 Phenomenon

Stephen

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ALA Public Relations Session

I had great fun getting up early in the morning on Sunday at ALA in DC.

I'd been asked by the ALA PR committee to do a 2 hour program about innovative PR so I chose to highlight recent technology innovations that libraries could use to enhance their PR activities.

Here is a link to the PowerPoint.

PR for the New Millennium: 16 Cool Technologies

Natch - you might notice that I managed to get an article out of it too in the latest SirsiDynix OneSource. Nothing goes to waste on a long plane ride to Seattle!

Stephen

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June 2, 2007

CLA in Newfoundland

It was cold but it was amazing. I saw puffins and more.

Anyway, one of the featured sessions at CLA was this one I did with Jane Dysart.

Building Capacity for Learning
15 Minutes a Day!

CLA 2007 St. John’s Nfld.

Jane Dysart
Dysart & Jones Associates &
Stephen Abram
Chief Strategist, SirsiDynix Institute

It summarizes some of the more innovative activities in library land to increase the competencies of all of our folks.

Stephen

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IFLA Metropolitan Libraries

I keynoted the opening session of the IFLA Metrolpoitan Libraries section hosted at the amazing Seattle Public Library. Here's the slides:

The Social Web 2.0

Stephen

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Reaching Forward

I loved keynoting the Reaching Forward Conference in Chicago for the Illinois Library Association. I am told that this is the largest conference for all library support staff in North America (maybe the world?).

Here's the slides:

Next Generation Libraries:The Social Web 2.0.

Stephen

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SLA Princeton Trenton Chapter Anniversary

I had the great opportunity to keynote the 40th Anniversary event of the SLA Princeton-Trenton Chapter. It was a great celebration at the Art Park. Here are the slides:

Association 2.0

Stephen

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Massachusetts Library Association

Here are the slides from my keynote to the Massachusetts Library Association on May 2. It was a lovely conference set in bucolic Sturbridge.

Technoschism:Reorganizing and Restructuring Libraries for the Real Future

My favourite quote from a session where I had the opportunity to interview aout 15 12-17 year olds? A twelve year old saying:

"I don't just use Google. I check other search sites and make sure there are multiple sources. I then look to see if it's a dot gov or dot edu site since I can trust those more."

Blew my mind!

Stephen

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May 16, 2007

SLA Upstate New York Workshop

I had a fun day with 200 librarians at the SLA Upstate New York's annual workshop. Great fun. We talked about Social Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomena.

Here's a link to the slides.

Stephen

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DigitalNow Association 2.0

I got the opportunity to do one of the keynotes at the DigitalNow Conference in Florida about Association 2.0. It was great to see so many association executives there (and a lot of library ones too) talking about the future. The CPA's had an amazing Second Life presence! So did the American Cancer Society!

Here's a link to me keynote on Association 2.0.

Stephen

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Association 2.0

I did two great SLA Chapter visits talkinng about technolpgy and the changes we need to make in associations and out libraries.

The link to the SLA Hudson Valley Chapter slides is here.

The link to the SLA Fairfield County Chapter slides is here.

SLA always is so hospitable and fun. As president-elect it's a great honour to be part of this association.

Stephen

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Florida Library Association Conference

It was a great conference in Orlando and here's the link to my keynote: A Library Tech Forecast.

Stephen

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UK Serials Group

I had a nice trip to Birmingham, Warwick actually, to do the endnote speech for the UK Serials Group Conference. There were loads of other interesting presenations too.

Mine was Library 2.0: Inventing the Future.

Here's the link.

Stephen

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April 25, 2007

Oklahoma Millennials

A second session on Millennials for the Oklahoma Library Association.

Millennials: The Kids are Alright!
Millennials Information Behaviors

Stephen

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New York Metro Liubrary Resources Council

Here are the slides from the NY Metro all day workshop. I love NY!

The Social Library 2.0

Stephen

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Online Northwest Keynote

Here's my keynote from Oregon's Online NW conference. I hear there's a webcast of it on their website too.

The Social Library: Becoming Library 2.0

Stephen

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Pennsylvania Colleges Conference

Here's the PPT's from the conference of Pennsylvania Colleges:

The Social Web 2.0

Stephen

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Oklahoma Library Association

Here's my keynote to the Oklahoma Linbrary Association Conference in April:

Technoschism: Library 2.0

Stephen

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EUSIDIC in Denmark

Here's my presentation to the EUSIDIC Conference in Roskilde in Demark. It was a very fine conference and the international flair was wonderful.

The Social Library 2.0

Stephen

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Education Institute Session

I did a national teleconference for Canada on this topic. We expect to so a new session at CLA in St. John's Newfoundland at Canadian LA next month.

The Education Institute
15 Minutes a Day! ll It Takes to Keep Up in a 2.0 World

Stephen

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ALA Midwinter SDI LIVE Sessions

I did two presentations in our SirsiDynix booth as SDI LIVE sessions at ALA Midwinter in Seattle. Here are the two:

Next Generation Portals: The 2.0 End User Experience

The Social Library 2020: 2.0 in Action

We plan a few more at ALA in DC in June as well as some TechTalk sessions in the booth theatre.

Stephen

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January 29, 2007

Connecticut Libraries Council

Here's the session from Bridgeport CT where I spoke to the Connecticut colleges folks at their annual workshop:

The Social Library 2.0: The User as the Driving Force

Stephen

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SLA New York Chapter

Here's the PPT for a fun night speaking to the SLA New York Chapter.

The Social Library 2.0

Stephen

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SLA Toronto Chapter West

Here's the session I did for SLA Toronto on January 16th in Oakville:

A Tech Forecast: Library 2.0 in the Real World (PPT)

Stephen

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December 1, 2006

SLA Central Ohio Chapter

I had a nice trip to Columbus Ohio and spoke to the SLA Central Ohio Chapter. We talked about "Becoming Librarian 2.0".

You can find a link here.

Stephen

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SLA Hawaii Chapter

I visited the SLA Hawaii Chapter at the University of Hawaii. Really friendly group and wonderful hosts. Hawaii was nice stop on the way home from Australia and New Zealand too.

We talked about Web 2.0: Becoming Library 2.0. Here's the link.

Stephen

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SLA Pacific North West Chapter

Here's a presentation called "Thinking Big: Becoming Librarian 2.0".

It was great to visiting with a bunch of SLA members in Seattle.

Stephen

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WNYLRC Event

I also visited with the Western New York Library Resources Council conference in October. The topic was "Web 2.0: Becoming Library 2.0".

You can link to it here.

Stephen

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California Library Association Conference

Here's a link to my keynote for the Sacramento conference. I talked about "Libraries: Questions, Questions, Everywhere. Getting Our Share".

Stephen

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California Library Association Conference

Here's a link to my keynote for the Sacramento conference. I talked about "Libraries: Questions, Questions, Everywhere. Getting Our Share".

Stephen

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Nebraska Library Association Conference

Again, another great conference which was very welcoming. I did two sessions:

The keynote was called "Web 2.0: Becoming Library 2.0". You can link to it here.

The session called "Delighting the Real User: Public Library Personas" is here.

Stephen

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Missouri Library Association Conference

I got to do two speeches at the Missouri LA Conference.

The keynote on Finding the Future: Libraries 2010 is here.

The session on Millennials and 2.0 is here.

Stephen

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Rochester Leadership Institute

Another PPT on for the MCLS Leadership Institute in Rochester. It was great to spend a day with Ed Vielmetti and Michael Stephens.

Stephen

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ALA LITA Endnote

Here's the link to the LITA Endnote called "Web 2.0: Becoming Library 2.0."

Another trip to Nashville and fun food!

Stephen

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LIANZA in Wellington NZ

If you ever get a chance to go to the LIANZA conference in New Zealand. Accept without hesitation. It is wonderful. They treat you like royalty and it's great fun and educational too.

Here's the link to my keynote called "Next Generation Libraries and Libraries for the Next Generation".

I did a session called "Competing With Google" and here's the link to that.

The most fun was the session with 14 Millennials where I loved doing the interviews on stage. What a cool bunch. It was taped so I might have a link eventually.

Stephen

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Idaho Library Association Conference

The Idaho Library Association Conference in Pullman was winderful. I even bought stuff at the fun auction. I did two talks: the keynote on "Find the Future: Libraty in 2010 which is posted here and a session on Library 2.0 which is posted here.

Stephen

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CAVAL in Australia

Here's a link to the sessions in Melbourne and Sydney Australia for CAVAL. The topic was Web 2.0 and Library 2.0: Competing in a Google World.

You can link to the slides here.

Stephen

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September 24, 2006

North Carolina Public Library Directors Assn.

I had a wonderful time at an event in Asheville, NC for the state's public library leaders.

You can link to this PPT here.

Stephen

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September 6, 2006

IFLA Unicode Panel

Also, while at IFLA I was a participant on a panel about Unicode (the ability to search and display all language's character sets - and not just old ASCII). Here's a link to my PPT slides for the presenation called "Unicode and Portals and OPACs."

Stephen

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IFLA Government and Parliamentary Libraries

Twas a great trip to Seoul. While at IFLA I was part of a panel on trends and forecasts for government and parliamentary libraries. here's a link to the PPT.

The topic title was "Content Creation and Management What's Next for Government Libraries and Information"

Stephen

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Florida State Library and NEFLIN Presentation

I had a nice trip to Orlando in August for the Technology Training to Go event put on by the Florida State Library and NEFLIN. It was an introduction to the Library 2.0 opportunity.

The PPT is here.

Stephen

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August 4, 2006

My first trip to Wisconsin

I had a great trip to keynote WiLSWorld in Madison Wisconsin. A very interesting conference and lots of good stuff happening there. I even got to visit with a few SLA WI Chapter members too!

Anyway, here's a link to the PPT. This speech was called "Growing Up in a Google and 2.0 World".

I especially liked the Hawai'ian Shirt theme. Beats a tie and suit jacket any day! Congratulations to Barbara Arnold for winning the ugliest shirt award. Rochelle of Tinfoil and Racoon has built a little Flickr meme on it.

It's nice to see a conference where the fun is built in. Sometimes we're just too serious.

Stephen

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Idaho Vision 2020

Wow!! What a conference!

The Idaho Commission for Libraries (State Library) hosted a conference on Digital Natives for two days in Boise in July. Speakers included Sarah Houghton, Aaron Schmidt, Alane Wilson and me.

They videotaped most of the conference so I'll provide a link when that goes up.

Until then, here's a link to my keynote PPT entitled "The Information Tornado: Taming the Information Surge".

I am also looking forward to seeing the streaming video of the panel interviews I did with a great crew of millennials. Very interesting. It was blogged here, here , here, here, and here.

Also, if you get a chance, the Idaho Vision 2020 document is good and they're actually making it live instead of gathering dust. Cool.

Stephen

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July 12, 2006

SLA and Personas

Here's a link to the session I did in Baltimore for SLA about the SirsiDynix Personas research.

Stephen

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Minnesota Reference Conference

First, here's the link to the PPT for the keynote I did for Minnesota about Reference 2010. This is just the PPT. Scarily, for me, they also videotaped the session and posted the video and slides in a very neat way. So, here's a place below where you can view it (and know that I hate to watch myself so haven't viewed the whole thing.)

"The MINITEX website now provides a link to the video of Stephen Abram’s informative, lively presentation, "Reference 2010: the Librarian 2.0 in Your Future". More than 230 staff members from MINITEX libraries, including the University of Minnesota Libraries, and others attended the 2006 Reference Symposium on May 15, which included Abram's keynote address. Abram was introduced by Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian, University of Minnesota Libraries – Twin Cities. The biannual Reference Symposium is co-sponsored by the University Libraries and MINITEX.

The video is available at: http://www.minitex.umn.edu/train-conf/highlights/2006-05-15/. The high resolution for broadband connection version includes the video of the speakers, the audio, and the PowerPoint images that made up the presentation. The low resolution for dial-up connection version includes the audio and the PowerPoint images."

Anyway, this is a trend since I was videotaped for three sessions yesterday and today. Maybe I'll just go virtual!

Stephen

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IFLA News Section

I visited Salt Lake City for the first time and spoke to the IFLA News Section about "Thinking Ahead: News 2.0". Here's a link to the PPT. The University of Utah had great facilities and the challenges facing 'news' and archiving and repositories are great fodder for great minds.

Stephen

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LISA V Conference

I had a short trip to Harvard U in Cambridge to speak to the LISA V (Library and Information Services in Astronomy) Conference. Here's the link to the PPT. It's a web 2.0 overview for an international audience.

Stephen

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CASLIS/GELA Edmonton Presentation

I had a nice trip to Edmonton in early June speak to the joint annual meeting of CASLIS/GELA at the University of Alberta Faculy Club. It was great to see so many old friends. The topic was one of my favourites - Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. I never tire of this opportunity to use technology to reconnect with users in new and improved ways. Here's the link.

Stephen

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SLA Leadership and Management Division

It was the SLA LMD Division's 30th anniversary this conference in Baltimore. I am a past chair of the division and I was really honoured to be asked to present the luncheon keynote to help celebrate this milestone. Here's a link to the PPT. I tried to address the question "Are Libraries Innovative Enough?" The answer is probably no surprise.

Stephen

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SLA and 8R's

A session at SLA was devoted to major initiatives in recruiting and retaining library pros. I covered the 8R's work with this PPT and the other half of the session covered the IMLS study progress.

This is a serious issue and it's great to see effort being sustained to study it and actually undertake action to address the issue.

Stephen

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CLA and the 8R's

We had a great panel updating the CLA conference attendees on the progress of the CLA President's Task Force on the 8R's.

Here's a link to our presentation.

Here's a link to more information on the 8R's.

Here's a link to the Info-Nation website which is launching very soon. Essentially, Info*Nation is CLA's attempt to recruit some new blood to the information professions. (By "professions," we are talking broadly about all people whose "profession" – vocation, calling, employment – is working in libraries; not just librarians with too many degrees.) We want to emphasize the diverse elements of library work and break down some of the stereotypes associated with libraries. At the same time we want to recruit personnel that continue to be committed to the core values of libraries (public service, learning, literacy, access to information, regular coffee breaks, etc.). Besides, at some point a whole bunch of senior librarians and library technicians are going to retire and it would be nice to have one or two competent individuals to fill the void. It's edgy and done a little diferently than the traditional library careers pages. Keep your eyes pealed.

Stephen

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CLA Web 2.0 Session

I had a great time in Ottawa at the Canadian Library Association Conference. This posting links to my presentation about Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0.

The second annual technology track at CLA seemed to be a great success. Despite having to move the whole conference due to a potential strike situation everything ran pretty smoothly. Of course I don't envy the CLA staff and conference team who essentially had to plan all of the conference logistics twice!

Stephen

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ALA Consortia Trends

I did a private workshop facilitation for consortia and association leaders at ALA. This posting links to the PPT that contains a series of provocations that supported a great conversation. It doesn't really give a sense of the great questions and comments that occurred but that's the nature of 'being there'.

Stephen

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ALA YALSA Presentation

Here's a link to the YALSA Powerpoint from New Orleans at ALA. This one is the early morning Sunday session on Millennials and their role for public and school libaries - all those library staff specializing in young adult services.

Stephen

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June 9, 2006

CASLIS Edmonton Dinner Speech

Here's a link to my PPT Presentation on Web 2.0 for the annual dinner of CASLIS Edmonton / GELA in Edmonton. It was at the Faculty Club of the University of Alberta on June 1st and it was great to see so many good friends.

Stephen

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May 20, 2006

DigitalNow

I got the opportunity to speak to a wide range of association executives (including a bunch of good library association folks) at DigitalFusion's ASAE DigitalNow Conference. It was a great way to spend a weekend in Disney World at the end of a long winter. I highly recommend the new Animal Kingdom where I spent a while communing with nature, Disney style - which might be as close to real life as the web is, but it was still fun.

Anyway, my session on "Web 2.0, Association 2.0 and Leadership 2.0" is here.

Stephen

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Texas Library Association

This conference is huge! It's also very well organized and incredibly hospitable. I loved it. And, OMG if I can be permitted a little star worship, I got to see Julie Andrews and Rhea Perlman up close and personal.

I also got to give two presenations. The one on Millennials is here and the one "Poppies, Flyig Monkeys and Good Witches" is here (It's really a trend forcast).

Either way, TxLA is fun.

Stephen

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College Library Director Forecast

Here's a link to the PPT for a talk given to the library directors in Connecticut (Council of Connecticut Library Directors). It was interesting (for me at least) going through some of the key predicted changes libraries and applying them in the education space.

Stephen

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Personas Teleconference

I did a national (Canada) teleconference on personas and knowing our commnunities for the "Partnership" which is the collaborative Education Institute of the provincial library associations in Canada. Here's the slides that were used as a handout. There were some great questions at the end.

Stephen

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Quebec Library Association (ABQLA)

I had a lovely time at the ABQLA Conference in Montreal in May. I got to do two sessions. One on Millennials which is here and one on the future of libraries and Web 2.0 stuff here.

Stephen

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April 30, 2006

Taiwan National Library

While I was in Taiwan I decided to stay another day and tour the place. What an amazing place! I saw the national museum, 101, temples, night markets and loads of great stuff all courtesy of my SirsiDynix colleague, James Loh. Thanks again James.

Also, after my session on the road show a group of librarians in Taiwan from the all over asked me if I would do another presentation on Sunday morning about Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarian 2.0. My article on this topics had been translated into Chinese. I was glad to do it and I also got a great tour of the amazing National Library of Taiwan. It was a very cool (and busy) place. Thanks for the opportunity!

Here's that presentation.

Stephen

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March 27, 2006

ASIDIC Presentation

You can link to my keynote presentation PPT for ASIDIC here. ASIDIC is the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers.

It's called "Who's Afraid of the Google Wolf?" It was a very interesting conference in Sanibel Florida on Mar. 12, 2006 - such a hardship! This multi-type association has technology, publisher, vendor, consortia and library members meeting twice annually.

Stephen

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NFAIS Presentation

You can link to my keynote presentation PPT for NFAIS here. NFAIS is the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services.

It's called "Re-defining Information Quality and Value-Add in the New Information Environment". It was a very interesting conference in Philadelphia on Feb. 26, 2006with the theme "Content Unleashed".

Stephen

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