Access 2007 Library Tech Conference in Victoria

The draft program for the Access 2007 library technology conference in Victoria, British Columbia, has been posted. The conference takes place October 10th - 13th, 2007.

Among the sessions:

• Opening Keynote by Jessamyn West of librarian.net: Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarian 2.0 - solving problems with buzzwords
• Closing Keynote: Leveraging the Power of the Grid by Roy Tennant of OCLC
• Alouette Canada Progress Report (Canada-wide digitization initiative)
• Darth Vader, Open Access, and Digital Libraries: What is the Future of Electronic Collections?
• Genius Loci: Libraries in Transition ("Drawing on the results of the 2007 Canadian Consortial LibQUAL+ survey and on their amiably conflicting perspectives, the speakers will paint two different scenarios for tomorrow’s academic library and the organizational implications of each.")
• ILS Options for Academic Libraries
• Open ILS, Web 2.0 and multitype provincial library initiatives in BC
• Repository Redux