Internet Librarian International. 20th-21st October

Neil Lynch and myself from the Scottish Government Library attended this year’s Internet Librarian International conference.  This is one of my favourite conferences.  Hearing about innovations first-hand from librarians from around the world is always interesting and gives me ideas on how our own library could do things differently.  Every year there’s always new themes which form part of the conference buzz.  This year, for me, that theme was libraries need to provide what users want or they will simply go elsewhere, leaving libraries facing a very uncertain future.  Liz McGettigan and others gave excellent presentations on what this actually means for libraries – principally a radical replacing of traditional service delivery with new technology based services.

That’s my very brief conference ‘takeaway’.  You can read my full conference notes at the Scottish Government Library blog including the presentations and key points from the sessions I attended.  You can also check out the conference programme and this archive of conference Tweets.

Paul Gray

Scottish Government Library