5th Annual ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture

Speaker: Stephen Abram
Topic: Are We Ready for Massive Library Innovation?
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Date: Friday, November 3, 2006
Time: No-host bar: 7:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Hotel Sainte Claire, St. Claire Room
Map to Hotel Sainte Claire
302 South Market Street, San José, CA 95113
Free metered and public parking after 6:00 p.m.
No charge for admission and you don't need to RSVP.
Printable flyer: 2006 Lazerow Flyer [PDF]

Abstract

There is a global conversation going on right now about the next generation of the web. It's happening under the series title "Web 2.0." It's the McLuhanesque hot Web where true human interaction takes precedence over merely cool information delivery and e-mail. It's about putting information into the real context of our users' lives, work and play. It's about truly understanding user needs. What does Library 2.0 look like in this Web 2.0 ecosystem? In a world of MySpace, Facebook, Virtual Worlds and Second Life and a world with user-driven tools like del.icio.us, Flickr, Blogger, LibraryThing, and Pandora—what are the competencies needed by Librarian 2.0 to sustain relevance? Come and hear Stephen Abram's highlights to spark this discussion further.

About the Speaker

Stephen Abram is the president-elect of SLA and the past-President of the Canadian Library Association and Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix. He has been VP of Corporate Development for Micromedia ProQuest and Publisher Electronic Information for Thomson. He ran libraries for Suncor, Coopers & Lybrand, Smith Lyons Torrance Stevenson and Mayer and Hay Group. Stephen has been listed by Library Journal as one of their first "Mover and Shakers," the 'key' people influencing the future of libraries and librarianship. He has been awarded SLA's John Cotton Dana Award as well as being a Fellow of the SLA. He was Canadian Special Librarian of the Year and Alumni of the Year for the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies. He was President 2002 of the Ontario Library Association as well as having sat on the SLA Board of Directors as Director and Secretary. He gives over 100 international keynote talks annually to library and information industry conferences and writes articles and columns for Information Outlook, Feliciter, OLA Access, Multimedia &Internet @ Schools, and Library Journal. ALA Editions will publish his book in Winter 2007.

Mr. Abram's most recent publications are available at: www.sirsi.com/Resources/abram_articles.html".
He maintains a weblog at: stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com

This event is sponsored by Thomson Scientific.

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