This afternoon I will be standing in for Alyson Kosina from VALA to welcome attendees at the VALA-CAVAL 30 year anniversary event .Very, very happy to be doing this.

Here is a description of the event:

Lizanne Payne:
The Future of Library Collections: Access and Stewardship in a Networked World

Over the past 25 years, the library collections landscape has been totally reshaped by digital information and global networks. As this seismic shift continues, libraries are being challenged to balance the costs and benefits of maintaining print collections at the local level, and are moving increasingly toward shared management of print materials among neighboring institutions. We are on the cusp of a great opportunity: libraries could provide lasting benefits to scholarship and economies to their institutions by proactively developing a distributed print repository network on a regional, national or global scale.

Karen Schneider:
The Nature of Open: How Open Source and Web 2.0 Bring Us Back to the Roots of Librarianship. Karen will demonstrate how the trends toward open source and Web 2.0 go full circle to some of the more extraordinary events in the history of librarianship. These include involvement in the Social Work movement of the early 20th century, libraries’ roles in the rise of popular reading, early library automation projects and the librarian-led innovation that came out of these efforts, and then on to Web 2.0 and open source.

I hope to use my wireless modem and CoverITLive. We shall see if it works.