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Register Online | Register by mail, fax or emailPreregistration extended until June 13. Or register onsite. Fees include conference materials, continental breakfast, lunch, reception, and breaks. Onsite registration: Will be accepted if space is available. Call ALCTS at (312) 280-5034 to check availability after June 1. NOTE: While we invite you to attend both the conference and the dinner, you may opt to register for only one event. Housing InformationHotel Washington
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| Wed 6.20 | Thu 6.21 |
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| 1:30–2pm Welcome |
7:30–8:30 am Continental Breakfast |
| 2–3pm Opening General Session: Richard Lanham "The Two Markets: Libraries in an Attention Economy" |
8:30–9:45 am Welcome Plenary Session: David Lankes "Collecting Conversations in a Massive Scale World" |
| 3–3:30pm Break and Mingle |
9:45–10 am Break |
| 3:30–4:30pm Break-out Sessions |
10–11 am Break-out Sessions |
| 4:30–5:30pm Poster Sessions Submit your presentation online today. |
11 am–Noon Plenary Session: Dianne van der Reyden |
| 5–7pm Reception (overlaps with poster sessions from 5–5:30pm) |
Noon–1:15 pm Lunch (provided) |
| 1:15–2:15 pm Break-out Sessions |
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| 2:15–2:30 pm Break |
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| 2:30–3:30 pm End Note with Stephen Abram "Social Libraries: The Librarian 2.0 Phenomenon" |
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| 3:30–4:30 pm Closing Panel |
The Two Markets: Libraries in an Attention Economy
Featured Speaker: Richard A. Lanham is an author, lecturer, and UCLA English professor emeritus. His works include: The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. (1993, Univ. of Chicago Press) His latest work, The Economics of Attention (2006, Univ. of Chicago Press). www.rhetoricainc.com
Collecting Conversations in a Massive Scale World
David Lankes is an associate professor at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies. He has authored, co-authored or edited eight books, and written numerous book chapters and journal articles on the Internet and digital reference.
Lankes’ presentation outlines some of the issues and opportunities for libraries in this massive scale environment as well as presenting a new way of organizing library materials: as conversations.”
More about David Lankes: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/
Dianne van der Reyden, Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress is author of The Real Versus the Virtual: Selecting Content for Digital Outreach and Preservation, Recent Scientific Research in Conservation, and Storage of Documents, http://www.loc.gov/preserv/
Social Libraries: The Librarian 2.0 Phenomenon
Featured Speaker: Stephen Abram is Vice President of Innovation, Sirsi Corporation. He is a leading international librarian and lighthouse thinker in the North American library community.
Abram’s talk addresses the role of the library, its evolution and traditions in the social web: Library 2.0, RSS, YouTube, Blogs, Wikis, Facebook, MySpace, and do library staff have the right skills and competencies.
Stephen Abram: http://stephenslighthouse.sirsi.com and http://www.sirsi.com/Resources/abram_articles.html
The panel will be moderated by Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Dean, University of Kentucky Libraries. Attendees will hear from Nancy Gwinn, Karen Calhoun, Peggy Johnson, and Brian Schottlaender.
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