Stephen Abram
VP of Innovation, SirsiDynix
It's a burgeoning information and knowledge economy. During those "other" economies -- industry-driven or finance-driven -- we saw the emergence of a cadre of professionals who, in private practice, drove the growth and development of the emergence of a new world. These were engineers, lawyers, accountants, MBA's and others who practiced their skills to drive value creation.
Is the independent information professional sector ready for huge growth in this new economy? Are there weak signals from the future that show that this is already happening? Where would we look for success? Is the real opportunity for the best info pros in private practice? Can they drive innovation and growth?
About Stephen Abram
Stephen Abram is a recovering librarian, having received his MLS in 1980. He is entering a 12-step program as an association junkie. He is currently international President of SLA, but he has endured the presidencies of his local, provincial, and national associations. He is Vice President of Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute, where he swims upstream continually to try to discover the future for all types of libraries and their vendors.
Stephen was listed by Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future of libraries and has received numerous honours. He holds audiences hostage for about 150 speeches a year. He writes all or parts of 5 books a year, posts thousands of blog postings, and writes about 36 articles a year. He is nuts and
doesn't sleep. His columns appear in Information Outlook and Multimedia and Internet @ Schools, and SirsiDynix OneSource, and he is the author of ALA Editions 2007 bestseller, Out Front with Stephen Abram. He blogs at the popular Stephen's Lighthouse (http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/). He has two children in university and is therefore quite broke. He spent a week in Paris on holiday this past August apologizing to his wife.
About the Roger Summit Award Lecture
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
AIIP 23rd Annual Conference
March 26-29, 2009
Albuquerque Marriott
Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
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