Hello,
After reading Joe's comment about Horrell's scholarly lit on the topic leadership--and seeing the great bibliography of references that Joe just did-- am back to thinking that Hernon would be best as keynote. However, how about considering Horrell as a panelist (representing an academic library director pt of view?). So am revising my count here. Feel free to revise if you change your vote
Hernon (2)
Horrell (1)
Gordon (1)
Let's decide by May 8 on final choice. If we have clear pick earlier than that, we'll take next step to contact speaker choice asap.
Regarding the breakout themes, unless any of us have any further feedback, can we just go with the bullet points in Joe's final draft of mission. Let's really finalize this by May 8.
~Brian
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Some possible breakout topics:
~Joe
Monday, May 4, 2009
Final decisions on keynote & breakout sessions
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excellent topics Joe! I'd say we go with these. Unless we hear from others by end of week, let's stick to these.
~B
I am not sure we need a discussion on The "Graying of the Profession": How will Upcoming Retirements Affect Academic Libraries? First, I think it's negative sterotyping to use 'graying'. Not sure how many retirements will be happening with pension and health care issues. I think we have enough breakout topics with the remaining five. Also baby boomers cover 1946-1964, a twenty year span and this group is very varied and not all are thinking of retirement because had kids later (now in college)and think they are forever young.
Sharon
I think that in the current economic climate, there may not be so much retiring, and the other breakout issues are so much more positive that maybe we can skip this? Or maybe try to find a way to reframe the issue. The "Transfer of power" breakout will address some of this, and it's bound to come up in discussions and questions during the day.
Jane
I agree that the topic should be rephrased. I think my point was to address whether the so-called "graying of the profession" was a real phenomenon (for all the reasons Jane and Sharon mention) and initiate a dialogue about what academic libraries would potentially be losing in terms of experience, institutional memory, etc.
~Joe
I agree with the resphrase. Joe, can you pls. edit the breakout topic list in this post to reflect
~Brian
Changed from:
The "Graying of the Profession": How Will Upcoming Retirements Affect Academic Libraries?
to:
The "Graying of the Profession": Are Academic Libraries Poised to Lose Their Most Valuable Resource?
If it's the "graying" that's being objected to I should add that it's simply the rubric used in the lit to describe trends in Census data, not my own words. The change in subtitle hopefully gives it a more positive connotation while at the same time leaving the issue more open-ended.
~Joe
i like the change.
~brian
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