An Invitation From the Conference Chair , Stephen Abram
The Library at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is pleased to host the Second Annual E-Info Global Symposium: Information Delivery & E-Access in Academic Libraries. This Symposium is organized by librarians for librarians! And I was thrilled when Dr. Wilson Luquire asked me to be involved. To chair a reasonably young and new conference allows one to throw off the legacy thinking of the past and focus solely on the BIG questions of the future.
I immediately enrolled Jane Dysart whose extensive conference design experience and network of great speakers has proved invaluable. We have planned the Symposium to focus on leading edge (dare we say bleeding or bruising edge?) topics that we think are critical to the long term success of libraries in IHE's. I look forward to seeing many leading edge academic library thinkers at the E-Info Global Symposium on stage and in the audience.
Huntsville is a wonderful location to think, reflect and be challenged to invent the future of academic libraries. We have challenged ourselves to find the best and most innovative thinkers to challenge us in our strategies.
- What are the best strategies for information and learning commons?
- How should the academic library be organized in this Millennium?
- What will be the impact of e-learning (indeed foundation changes in learning) on our services, programs and products?
- How do we increase the capacity of our staff to learn new way and technologies? Can we help them adapt quickly to necessary changes?
- What role will the new social technology tools play in education, research and libraries?
- and more. . .
Join us for what promises to be another incredible E-Info Global Symposium, complete with education, special events and most of all, the best in networking opportunities. We promise an engaging, interactive, and chock full of learning event.
You want to be there – in Huntsville – December 6th – 7th, 2007, or you will miss another great Conference! Please join us.
We look forward to seeing you in Huntsville!
Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA
Conference Chair
Stephen's Lighthouse