Day two: Keynote & sessions

This morning's keynote was delivered by Bruce James, the head of GPO. It was an interesting history of GPO along with an overview of the direction he intents on taking it in the future (i.e. 100% digital content). I now know more about the GPO than I did yesterday. The best quote was when he was talking about depository libraries having to keep documents in puportuity: "We're fining out that puportuity is a very long time."

I attended two morning sessions, "Social Software 101" and "Wiki's @ Your Library". The former was an overview of "social" technologies such as wikis, blogs, and IM. The latter was an introduction to Wikis and how they can be applied in a librari environment. Examples of Memory Aplha (the Star Trek wiki) and Wikipedia were shown and were excellently presented examples. Unfortunately, Karen and I had to leave this one a bit early to meet up with the Neal-Schuman rep.

The lunch meeting went well, ending up with the two of us promising to turn in a book proposal by the end of April.