Risk and Entrepreneurship in Libraries: Seizing Opportunities for Change
An ALA ALCTS Symposium Philadelphia, PA : January 11, 2008, 8:30am-5:00pm

Every library is facing challenges in adapting to the rapidly evolving
information
environment. In most cases, the process of change involves a willingness to
take
risks but may also offer opportunities for entrepreneurship. The 2008 ALA
ALCTS MidWinter symposium will examine the concept of risk taking and
entrepreneurship in libraries in general, with a special emphasis on
collections
and technical services.  Speakers from different types of libraries will
describe
how they have implemented innovative changes and managed their risks. The
ALCTS President's Program Committee invites you to hear our speakers and
to take inspiration back to your home library!

Confirmed speakers to date include Marshall Keys (MDA Consulting, former
executive director of NELINET and an adjunct faculty member at Simmons'
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, where he teaches a
course on information entrepreneurship); Rivkah Sass (Director, Omaha
Public Library and Library Journal's 2006 Librarian of the year); Mike
Carroll
(Villanova University School of Law and an authority on Creative Commons
licenses); Regina Reynolds (head of the US ISSN Center at the Library of
Congress and a respected authority on contemporary cataloging issues);
and Scottie Cochrane (director of the Denison College Library which has
created a single collection services unit with its sister institution,
Kenyon
College).

Advance Registration Fees: (Register by November 30th)
ALCTS Member: $199
ALA Member: $249
Non-Member: $299
Student/Retired: $99

Registration information can be found at:
<http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2008/registration.h
tm#how>

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Cindy Hepfer
Head, Electronic Periodicals Management Dept.
Central Technical Services
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY 14260-2210
Tel 716-645-2784/2786 Fax: 716-645-5955
HSLcindy@buffalo.edu
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