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Ben and Melloney from the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library in Arkansas showed how they have developed innovative and aggressive marketing programs

We are no longer simply consumers of information–we have become creators.  Library users create information every day; how can we incorporate that into our services? Technology has changed the way we interact with each other and our environments.  We need to expand our definition of literacy to incorporate these changes and support a read-write culture as [...]

Wednesday’s keynote session featured Steve Coffman, VP, Library Support Services, LSSI and Roy Tennant, Sr. Program Officer, Research, OCLC.

The half-life of our information professional skills is only about 5 years. So we need to be reinventing ourselves all the time.

With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), providing accessibility to electronic devices has become an important issue.