October 19, 2009
NELA Conference
I am in Hartford CT today giving a presentation to the New England Library Association Conference.
Here are the PPT's:
From Information to Intelligence: Using the SocialWeb to Transform Communities
The fall colours here are lovely.
Stephen
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September 10, 2009
Thinking Ahead Conference
Here's my keynote from last night's Thinking Ahead Conference in Salt Lake City.
Web 3.0 and Libraries: What is at the Heart of Libraries?
Stephen
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August 29, 2009
IFLA
I've just returned from the IFLA Conference in Milan Italy ans the pre-conference for the IT section in Florence. Both were great and it was wonderful to see so many friends and clients from around the world.
Here's a link to the keynote presentation I did for the IT pre-conference:
Library 2.0 and where we’ve been and where we’re going
Stephen
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July 20, 2009
ALA Presentation
While I was at ALA in Chicago I did a bunch of SirsiDynix booth presentation that were quite well attended and received.
Here's the PowerPoints:
Not Just Clicks: The Essence of Usability
Stephen
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July 6, 2009
ALA Trade Show Presentations
The Annual HUGE ALA exhibits and trade show is coming up and starts this Saturday. I plan to be in our booth a fair bit too so drop by the chat. My colleagues and I are also doing a bunch of 20-30 minute presentations in our booth's Theatre and everyone is welcome to attend. Here's our SirsiDynix program schedule:
SirsiDynix Theatre ‘Live’ Presentations
Saturday July 11th
9:30 a.m. Stephen Abram, "Not Just Clicks: The essence of usability"
11:00 a.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 for Public Libraries
11:30 a.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 – The Techie View
Sunday July 12th
10:00 a.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 for Public Libraries
11:00 a.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 – The Techie View
1:00 p.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 for Public Libraries
Monday July 13th
10:00 a.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 – The Techie View
11:00 a.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 for Public Libraries
12:00 p.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 for Public Libraries
Tuesday July 14th
9:30 a.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 for Public Libraries
10:30 a.m. SirsiDynix Enterprise 3.0 – The Techie View
11:00 a.m. Stephen Abram, "Not Just Clicks: The essence of usability"
I'll post my slides from ALA for those of you who can't be there.
I am also a panelist for the ALA Committee on Accreditation (COA) program “ALA Accreditation – Employers Speak” at the conference on Sunday, July 12 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Since SirsiDynix employs a few hundred plus accredited librarians in nearly all capacities (executive, customer support, sales, development, training, implementations, etc.) we have a vested interest in the accreditation debates and conversations.
I am looking forward to seeing a lot of friends, colleagues and clients at ALA in Chicago.
Stephen
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June 10, 2009
IATUL Keynote in Belgium
I had the honour of doing this year's keynote for the IATUL conference last week. Here's the PPT's:
Library Innovation Processes towards Quality Enhancement
IATUL Conference
Leuven, Belgium
June 1, 2009
This was a very hospitable group and a great international conference.
Stephen
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May 14, 2009
LOEX
In one of my many trips to Alburquerque this year, I got to do the keynote at the LOEX conference, which is a great conference of people involved in training and information literacy in libraries.
Here's my presentation:
Information Fluency in a Virtual World
It was a fairly new PPT but I will use it again! There are, after all, only so many hours in a day.
Stephen
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April 29, 2009
Library of Congress
It's always a thrill to speak at the LoC! This time it was for the joint conference and the topic was collaboration in libraries:
Stephen
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Tennessee Library Association
I had the nice opportunity to visit Nashville and keynote the opening of the Tennessee Library Association Conference.
Here's my keynote:
Stephen
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Computers in Libraries 2009
I did two presentations at Computers in Libraries this year.
One was about the changes in integrated library systems on a panel:
What’s New and Innovative in ILS?
The other was for comedy night, which I hosted. We had a fun, but adult, time.
CIL continues to be one of the best conferences on the planet for libraries. I loved the openness this year with LobbyCon and the Tweeting, etc.
Stephen
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AIIP Roger Summit Lecture
Here's the presentation I made when I was awarded the Roger Summit Award (by Roger himself!) at the AIIP conference.
Will All Info Pros be in Private Practice?
Stephen
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April 28, 2009
CASLIS Ottawa Chapter
I spoke to a regional meeting of libraries in Ottawa for CASLIS Ottawa Chapter to an almost full auditorium in Ottawa Public Library. Everyone could sense that change was in the air, with some federal budget cuts and especially with the pending appointment of a new chief at Library and Archives Canada - Bibliotheque et Archives Canada (LACBAC).
Here`s my presentation:
Provocations: Leadership in Transformational Times
Stephen
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December 15, 2008
My Upcoming Speech in Second Life
OK, I am trying to stretch myself. I asked a team of volunteers to set up a Second Life sandbox for SLA to play and learn in. They did, lead by the awesome Jill Hurst-Wahl. Now they've taken me at my word and asked me to do an event there. So, after a practice session this afternoon, I hope to have more confidence and, as part of my own personal goal to try new things, I will, as SLA President, give a presentation in Second Life on "Developing a Global Innovation Culture in Second Life." I think we'll try for 30 mnutes. I'll try to take questions too.
My presentation will be given on SLA's land in SL (Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City%20II/59/100/22) on this Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. SLT). I plan on using voice chat for his presentation and there will be no PPT's (which is also rare for me!). So, have your speakers on and/or headphones ready. My avatar is "Squid Cagney".
Whether you are new to Second Life or a long-time resident, we hope that you will come to my presentation on Wed., Dec. 17 and we encourage you to bring others with you. This event is open to the public and all are welcome to attend. Some advice if you haven't been to SL in a while is to sign in and see if you need to update your client. It doesn't take long and will save you some time later.
See you there.
Stephen
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December 1, 2008
My India Trip
I spent the past week in New Delhi India. Besides the obvious excitement in Mumbai, the Conference I attended, (ICoASL) International Conference on Asian Special Libraries, was excellent. The sessions that I gave at the conference were sometimes panel and non-PPT (Didn't know I could do thet eh?!).
Anyway, here are the few I did use PPTs for:
Nov. 28 - DELNET - Univeristy of New Delhi
Libraries and the Global Technology Forecast
Nov. 28 - American International Center - U.S. Embassy
Libraries, Associations and the Near Future
On Saturday some of us went to Agra to see the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort. Amazing places. truly beautiful.
Stephen
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November 30, 2008
Catholic University
One of my favourite things to do is to speak at schools of library and information science. I got to do this at Catholic U while I was in Virginia for the SLA board meetings a week ago. Here are the PPTs:
Reality 2.0: Achieving Relevance: 21st Century Special Libraries
Stephen
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November 17, 2008
SLA Rio Grande Chapter
I had a delightful visit last week to the SLA Rio Grande Chapter and the University of New Mexico.
Here's the PPT slides;
Stephen
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November 11, 2008
Ohio Library Council on Trendspotting
Here's my other presentation for the Ohio Library Council’s
Innovative Environments Conference:
Voices of Innovation: Trendspotting
Weak Signals from the Future
Columbus, OH
Nov. 5, 2008
Stephen
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November 10, 2008
Ohio's Innovative Environments Conference
Here are the PPT's from my breakout session at last week's Ohio Library Council "Innovative Environments Conference":
Stephen
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October 27, 2008
Internet Librarian 2008
My favourite conference was last week, Internet Librarian. It was the usual mix of cool kids and exciting projects and ideas and keynotes. And despite the faltering economy it was the third biggest IL to date after last year's record size.
Anyway, I gave a a few sessions. Here are the PPTs:
Enterprise Trends: Beyond the Simple Intranet
10 Technologies for Whole School Adoption
(Internet @ Schools West Conference)
Pecha Kucha: Trendspotting - Weak Signals from the Future
(Pecha Kucha has a special format - 20 slides delivered in 20 second each! - not my best format but it focuses the mind and communication. Anyway, there are a few videos out there of this session. Nancy Dowd's and David Lee King's and Rebecca Jones' were awesome! An award goes to anyone who can say Pecha Kucha three times fast.)
I deny that there is a video out there from IL 2008 of me singing my favourite Eminem rap that closed the conference.
Stephen
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October 20, 2008
University of Maryland iSchool
I truly enjoy speaking to LIS students. There was a great group at the University of Maryland one afternoon last week. Here are the obligatory PPT's.
It would be so much more fun to have a longer horizon (mine not their's) to really create more of this future knowledge based society.
Stephen
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SLA Maryland
I had a wonderful trip to Baltimore to speak with the members of the SLA Maryland Chapter on the campus of Johns Hopkins University. Here is the speech.
The Challenge of Our Age: Preparing Our Enterprises for New Information Strategies
A delightful evening on my part!
Stephen
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October 9, 2008
Stockholm
OK I cheated. I had to fly through Rekjavik, Iceland on the way to Stockholm so I stayed a day there. Interesting place. Then I got to Stockholm and saw the beautiful city of Stockholm. Interestingly, I was speaking at a national conference (slides below) and the surprise was when the elevator doors opened at my hotel in Sweden and I see a dozen Australian librarians in the lobby! Here they were for a completely different purpose. Small world! They were visiting great public libraries and learning a ton.
Building Capacity for Change: 25 Technologies Transforming Libraries
Stockholm, Sweden
Karolinska Institutet University Library
11th annual Medical Library conference
Oct. 6, 2008
Fun trip.
Stephen
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SLA Alabama
A lovely sunny trip to Tuscaloosa Alabama to visit the SLA Alabama chapter. Here are the PPTs. They even broadcasted it to the distance education students. Again, it's wonderful to visit so many LIS schools and see some pretty good innovations and specialties.
Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves, Our Associations and Our Enterprises
Stephen
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SLA Michigan Chapter
Twas a great evening and day in Detroit meeting LIS students, tourng Southfield PL, lunch with the SLA locals and doing an event for the evening. Here's my special stump speech for SLA Michigan:
Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves, Our Associations and Our Enterprises
Stephen
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Swedish Association for Information Specialists
I had fun listening and learning at the Biovitrum library for the half day session for the Swedish Association for Information Specialists. Here's the PPT's:
Knowledge, Information and the 21st Century
Stockholm, Sweden
Oct. 7, 2008
Stephen
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September 24, 2008
SLA Long Island
A visit to New York and Long Island was in the cards on the way home from ANZ. I have to say that these folks are working hard while dealing with being and working near the center of the current financial crisis.
Here are my PPT's from the SLA event in Long Island:
Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves, Our Associations and Our Enterprises
There were quite a few L-school students there which was wonderful. It's nice to see new and excited faces.
Stephen
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SLA New Zealand Event
After Australia I headed east and visited Wellington NZ. It was such fun meeting with intelligent and innovative groups of librarians at the state library, national library and parliamentary library. Lots of wonderful transformational initiatives happening in New Zealand. Such a dynamic community!
These folks were the most hospitable hosts I've ever had. I got neat tours of Wellington in between and before sessions as well as two wonderful evening dinners. And the views!
The local SLA chapter hosted a huge public event for all librray folk nearby and here are my PPTs:
Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves, Our Associations and Our Enterprises
I hope to see more of NZ next time!
Stephen
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ALIA SLA Joint Sessions
I sure got a workout in Australia. As part of our new joint SLA/ALIA agreement we tried out a series of half day sessions every day for three days in a row in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. They were successful since we were sold out, filled the room and had a waiting list. I think there's more opportunities to try this format. These sessions had me (my opening PPT is below) as well as other great speakers from Australia - different folks for each session - dsiscussing the innovations that they were doing. All of this was awesome. I haven't learned so much in three days in a long time. Aussie library folk rock!
Reality 2.0: Transforming Ourselves, Our Associations and Our Enterprises
I hope we try this again.
Stephen
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September 22, 2008
ALIA Endnote
I was very lucky to be asked to give the endnote speech for the ALIA biennial conference in Alice Springs (The red centre of Australia) at the end of August. It was awesome. I learned a lot about innovations in Australia (and there are a lot) as well as a bunch of new stuff. I also got to pet Wallabies (I'll post a picture sometime), and do a desert tour. We had a wonderful outdoor evening banquet where the lights were turned off an the southern night constellations were explained to us. I saw Jupiter! I just love going to Australia.
Anyway, here the powerpoihts for the endnote:
Library Challenges: The BIG Stuff
Stephen
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August 29, 2008
Delft DOK and Rotterdam Bibliotheek
I had a great visit to Rotterdam and Delft and made a fun presentation to the local community. I made a quick visiting to Amsterdam PL on the way to Singapore and Australia. These are two amazing libraries and I took tons of pictures. Here's the PPT:
Building Capacity for Change: 25 Technologies Transforming Libraries
Innovation rules here. Thanks for inviting me. (Wait until you see the new book from Information Today on the DOK "Dutch Boys" Shanachie tour last year. They are heading to OZ in the fall and did Jamaica in the Spring.)
Stephen
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August 27, 2008
University of Tilburg Staff Presentation
While in Holland I also had the opportunity to speak to the staff team at the University of Tilburg. I promised them the PPTon my blog and here it is!
Building Capacity for Learning: Affordable Technology Preparedness
Thanks for the hospitality.
Stephen
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University of Tilburg Staff Presentation
While in Holland I also had the opportunity to speak to the staff team at the University of Tilburg. I promised them the PPTon my blog and here it is!
Building Capacity for Learning: Affordable Technology Preparedness
Thanks for the hospitality.
Stephen
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August 13, 2008
IFLA Main Conference 2008
I did three sessions at IFLA in Quebec City. Two involved PPT's. Here they are for those who asked:
Building Capacity for Learning: Affordable Technology Preparedness
Building Capacity for Change: Transforming Our Associations and Libraries
It's great to have everyone here in Canada.
Stephen
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August 12, 2008
IFLA Resource Sharing Satellite
I had the pivilege to give the endnote at the IFLA Resource Sharing Satellite Conference in Boston. Here are my slides for the folks who were there.
Next Generation Sharing Technologies:
Throw Off Your Policies and Expose Yourself
Stephen
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July 10, 2008
Yukon Trip
I had a great time in the Yukon and visited nearly every type of library in Whitehorse.
Here's my first formal presentation:
Library Futures: What’s Next?
Dealing with exponential change
Stephen
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ALA ILL Pre-Conference
I did the opening presentation for the ALA Resource Sharing pre-conference.
Here's the PPT:
Throw Off Your Policies and Expozse Yourself
Stephen
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June 23, 2008
The SLA Conference last week
I had a wonderful time at the SLA Conference in Seattle.
Highlights for me were:
1. Vint Cerf giving his views on the development of the inter-planetary internet to us and Charlie Rose
2. Machinima at the Opening Session
3. Meeting Seth Godin
4. The 23 Things song from Tim and Richard
5. David Snowden showing story collection in Iran and use thereof.
6. Eugenie Prime updating her No Puny Visions talk from SLA Seattle in 1997.
7. The IT/LMD Dance
8. Having my daughter there.
9. Seeing the SLA Second Life site develop
10. Having over 200 attendees Twitter the conference from the SLA Innovation Lab.
11. Launching the SLA 23 Things and getting sign ups right away
12. Soft launching the SLA Innovation Lab with beakers and lab rats!
13. Giving out awards to cool folks
Here's a link to my President's session on Reality 2.0
Here's a link to the slides from my opening remarks
6 more months to go as president of SLA.
Stephen
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June 9, 2008
Shanachie Tour
I didn't have time to do a video with the Shanachie guys on their tour that ended at Internet Librarian in Monterey in November. I did get to catch up with them in Jamaica at ACURIL in Montego Bay. Here's part of the video from that event:
Videos from Shanachies: ACURIL 2008 - Stephen Abram interview
Stephen
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June 4, 2008
ACURIL in Jamaica
I had a wonderful time presenting to the ACURIL conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Here are the PowerPoints.
There were sunny days but it also rained a lot!
Stephen
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May 27, 2008
New Hampshire Educational Media Association
I had a nice trip to Nashua New Hampshire to chat with quite a few NH media specialists and teacher-librarians.
Here are my two presentations:
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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:
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:
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:
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.
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
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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:
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!
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:
Stephen
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Oklahoma Library Association
Here's my keynote to the Oklahoma Linbrary Association Conference in April:
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.
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.
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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