Nancy Davenport, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources and keynote speaker at IUG 2006, gave a stirring and forward-looking talk. Librarians as IT workers and IT as the evolving DNA of libraries were her central themes. She also pointed to some nice examples of how some libraries are innovating their physical spaces to better accomodate customer behavior.
Coincidentally or inevitably, she cited research into Starbuck’s brand awareness and cultural impact and urged us to replace “Starbuck’s” with “library” as we read the article excerpt. Unfortunately, I missed the author’s name but I’ll be on the lookout. Until then, I’ll just have to point you here.
IUG Keynote and more ‘buck’s
Nancy Davenport, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources and keynote speaker at IUG 2006, gave a stirring and forward-looking talk. Librarians as IT workers and IT as the evolving DNA of libraries were her central themes. She also pointed to some nice examples of how some libraries are innovating their physical spaces to better accomodate customer behavior.
Coincidentally or inevitably, she cited research into Starbuck’s brand awareness and cultural impact and urged us to replace “Starbuck’s” with “library” as we read the article excerpt. Unfortunately, I missed the author’s name but I’ll be on the lookout. Until then, I’ll just have to point you here.