Program Buzz from LMD

Well, the buzz about SLA's conference program for Baltimore is definitely being felt in the blogosphere, on chapter lists, and at meetings!  The Toronto chapter had two veterans, Juanita Richardson and Gayle Gossen, along with Janice Lachance providing tips last Thursday evening for conference goers.  And of course, I had to add my 2 cents since I've helped the LMD program committee with topics and speakers for the 2006 LMD program in Baltimore.  LMD has a theme for its programs each day.  Monday, June 12th's theme for the day is PEOPLE and starts off with a mini-keynote talk on developing leaders co-sponsored by eight dvisions featuring Ken Haycock, Director, School of Library & Informaiton Science, San Jose State U, member of the council of ALA, president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, and has worked in most library environments, as library media coordinator for a major city school district, CEO of a regional library system, manager of special libraries and on the review team for university libraries.  Other PEOPLE programs include: Eliciting Feedback, Innovation, Continuing to Learn.  Tuesday's theme, Strategic Planning, features author Steve Denning on keeping conversations strategic rather than tactical; former Chief Knowledge Officer for Ernst & Young, Dave Pollard on knowledge harvesting for planning; relatioship marketing; environmental trends, tools and research.  Wednesday's theme of Knowledge Sharing features talks on competencies in the knowledge transfer organization, social networking, collaboration tools & using social software, incorporating knowledge managment (KM) in to service offerings, the future of librarians in the workforce and sharing conference knowledge, SLA06 debrief.