Looking For A Good Conference Speaker

I’m part of a committee looking for good speaker for a local librarian conference next year. All I can tell you is what we’re NOT looking for:
No tech gurus
No library 2.0
No future files
No gaming
No wikis, blogs or Second Life

We’re thinking more back to basics, good old fashioned librarian stuff. Ideas? Let me know.

September 28, 2007 by Blake Uncategorized 7

leo says:

September 28, 2007 at 2:33 am

Back to Basics?
Stuff like customer service? I don’t know who to recommend, but I’d personally love to hear someone speaking long these lines:

Institutional communication is not just a smattering of marketing here and another smattering of marketing there. It is, instead, a disciplined, planned and thorough method by which a library tells its users why using their library is worth their time, money and effort, that is, why their library is valuable and the value that individuals and families will find there. (Holt, Glen. “Communicating the Value of Your Libraries”, Bottom Line 20, 3 (2007):119-124.)

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Anonymous Patron says:

September 28, 2007 at 3:09 am

Authors?
How about some current authors in the LIS field?

Walt Crawford — Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change

Amanda Credaro — Biblia’s Guide to Warrior Librarianship: Humor for Librarians Who Refuse to Be Classified

George Bobinski — Libraries and Librarianship: Sixty Years of Challenge and Change, 1945 – 2005

Etc!

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Anonymous Patron says:

September 28, 2007 at 9:43 pm

Too Many Double Negatives
We are NOT looking for NO…

So you are looking for all of those things listed?

Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?

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Pete says:

September 28, 2007 at 9:50 pm

Re:Authors?
Two words: Nancy Perl.

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Desert Sailor says:

September 28, 2007 at 11:57 pm

Re:Too Many Double Negatives
Well there is a double negative thing going on there…

If this is a public library group get hold of Doug Raber at the University of Missouri library school.

Most of the other folks mentioned are oft told tales and probably expensive.

Desert Sailor

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rochelle says:

September 29, 2007 at 1:25 am

To Michael Gorman commenter–sorry!
Sorry! It’s been ages since I moderated a comment. As I was trying to moderate as “Funny”, I somehow deleted it. Blake…please don’t fire me.

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mdoneil says:

September 29, 2007 at 4:58 am

Re:To Michael Gorman commenter–sorry!
I haven’t seen the moderation thingy in ages.

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