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ALA Great Debate

I had the opportunity again this year to participate in ALA LITA’s Ultimate Debate. This year the topic was “Are Libraries Innovative Enough” with me, Karen Schneider, and Joe Janes. We were ably moderated by Andrew Pace.
Quite a few people blogged the discussion so it must have engaged a few folks!
Here’s a link to the LITA Podcast of the event.
Note that you can choose to download the entire mp3 file to your computer (thereby preserving it for your own use conveniently, instead of just playing it online) by right-clicking on the little graphic and then left-clicking on the “save as” option in the context menu.
I was a little disappointed that many questions from the audience focused on whether ALA, our associations or library schools were innovative enough. It felt a little like we were trying to find someplace else to ‘blame’.
Stephen

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Posted on: July 17, 2007, 5:08 pm Category: Uncategorized

By: stephen

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  1. Roman said
    on July 18, 2007 10:03 am

    I’m really enjoying listening to this podcast. I find myself really hungering for a faster pace of change and innovation in libraries (that’s a little hyperbolic, but kind of true). I think the glimmer of hope is that the people who are either in library school now or have recently completed library school seem to be more comfortable with new technology – maybe that will lead to faster innovation in a few years’ time. Hopefully it won’t be too late!