Lorcan Dempsey to keynote at Access 2005

I strongly suggested to the planning group for Access 2006 in Ottawa that Lorcan Dempsey would be an interesting speaker, based on the ideas in Lorcan's blog.

It appears the Access 2005 (Edmonton) planners have gotten there first: Access 2005 Keynote Added.

The library and the network
Lorcan Dempsey

Topic: There are nodes and networks. In a material world, the node provides entry and aggregation opportunities. In a dematerialized world, the network, or networks, become much more important. This presentation will explore some ways in which library functions switch from the node to the network, and some of the service and organizational implications that flow from this.

Comments

[Lorcan]

Thanks for the nice comment. Mmm.. now that I see it written down like that ... I hope the abstract does not seem too cryptic. There is so much going on now, it is difficult to know quite what to speak about ;-)