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LILRC Home > Programs & Services > Annual Conference > 2006 Annual Conference
A star-studded cast of speakers will highlight the15th anniversary of LILRC's Annual Conference on the Future of Libraries! The conference kickoff dinner will feature ALA President 2006-2007, Leslie Burger delivering the keynote address on Thursday, October 19th. As Director of the Princeton Public Library, Leslie has been instrumental in revolutionizing her community's concept of its public library's role to the extent that they sponsored a $20 million plus new library! Leslie also heads her own consulting firm, Library Development Solutions, through which she has assisted all types of libraries with strategic planning, space needs assessments, evaluation, and program implementation.
Friday's first session will have a retro approach - the very first keynote speaker, futurist David Pearce Snyder, is invited back to "revisit the future." David is a strategic forecaster and Life Styles Editor for The Futurist, serves on the editorial board of On the Horizon, and is a board member of the Institute for Science, Engineering and Pubic Policy at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon; the Academy for Advanced and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C., and the School of Human Ecology, at the University of Maryland, College Park. David will review some of his 1991 predictions and give his projections of societal and global changes coming ahead.
Friday afternoon will focus on the future of libraries and information management with Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, Thomas Frye. Tom received over 270 awards as a 15-year IBM employee before creating the DaVinci Institute. He has addressed high level government officials and Fortune 100 company executives including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Capital One, Bell Canada, Ford Motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, the National Association of Federal Credit Unions and many more. He is also a columnist for several Colorado papers, a contributor to The Futurist, author of Inventions of Impact (1998), and editor of the Impact Lab, an award-winning, emerging technology blog!
Mark your calendars for a very exciting and stimulating two days in October! Registration information will be in September/October LILRC Newsletter and also on LILRC Web site at http://www.lilrc.org/workshops/event186.pdf.
Annual Conference Committee Members:
Penny Bealle, Suffolk County Community College
Herb Biblo, LILRC
eva efron, Nassau BOCES School Library System
Art Friedman, Nassau County Community College
Joyce Gotsch, Dowling College Library, Chair
Robyn Klose, Nassau Library System
Maureen Mackenzie, Dowling College School of Business
Susan Newson, East Meadow Pubic Library
Charles Rubenstein, Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science
Michiko Tanaka, Brookhaven Laboratory
Su Terry, Dowling College Library