Ron Joslin - Macalester College

Several people have inquired about the name of the library highlighted in the 'music video' shown by Alan and Rachel at the end of their NMC/Horizon Report presentation. The library was Weigle Information Commons at the University of Pennsylvania. The video can be found posted on their web site.

LibTechConference_FinalProgram.pdf

Final conference program which will be handed out during registration is also attached to this post as a pdf document.

participants.pdf

Approximately 235 people have registered to participate from Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Participants come from all types of library backgrounds including academic, public, K-12, special, corporate, medical, as well as multi-types and other library-related organizations.

The Horizon Report, which will be discussed during the afternoon keynote session, is released annually by the New Media Consortium and Educause. It describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and other learning environments over the next one to five years. The six selected areas for 2008—grassroots video, collaboration webs, mobile broadband, data mashups, collective intelligence, and social operating systems.


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All conference presenters are being encouraged to post their presentation materials and links here in order to make it easy for everyone to access these materials. Please continue to monitor the "group" space that was set up for each session for these materials and any ongoing discussions.