Opening Session: Monday 9am-11am

Opening Session
IUG Chair: Nancy Fleck, Michigan State University
IUG Chair to be: John Culshaw, Colorado State University
Information on the conference.


CEO & Chairman of Innovative Interfaces: Jerry Kline
Corporate Update:
• Innovative Interfaces has 93 new partners
• Currently TOP in LJ Survey
• Leader is ARL libraries
• ERM Leader
• Millennium has 32% market share in academic libraries-leader
o 19% market share in public libraries-not leader
• Industry has changed from 20 competitors to 5. Not good for library, no competition for business.
• Innovative employs 110 librarians-largest librarian employer in California
• Utilizes development partnerships to introduce new products: Encore


VP of Innovative Interfaces: Betsy Graham
Presented: Be Innovative Awards
1. Most Innovative Implementation of eResource Discovery
a. Birmingham Public Library
2. Most Innovative Staff Program
a. West Palm Beach Public Library
i. Staff Wiki to track technology competencies
b. Las Vegas Clark County Library Distract
i. Concierge Kiosk for all staff to quickly resolve patron problems
3. Most Innovative WebPac
a. Lewis & Clark College Library
i. Online course reserve system
b. eLGAR: Auckland, New Zealand
c. Mid-Hudson Library System
i. Kids Catalog
4. Most Innovative Patron Services
a. Hong Kong Baptist University
b. Ryerson University
i. Catalog searches within Facebook

KeyNote Speaker: Larry Irving
Technologist & Library
Coined term: Digital Divide
Senior advisor to Bill Clinton, Gore and Secretary of Commerce

• Background in bridging the gap of urban children who don’t have access to technology
• Tried to make community access points available to those demographics that had no access to the information superhighway
o Gave grants to public libraries, access points, to purchase computers
• Digital Divide has morphed
o More people have Internet, but only ½ have broadband
-Broadband needed to handle huge files
• YouTube consumes 7-10% of the Internet:
o Has as much traffic in one day than in the entire year of 2000
o TeacherTube
o GodTube
• MIT & Stanford all course loads online
• Pandora: music
• Blinks: search engine for video
• Hulu: video repository
• In 2010, 20 typical American households will consume as much of the Internet as the entire world did in 1998