Keynote:  R. David Lankes – Syracuse

The Mission of Librarians:  To Improve Society Through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities

Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=760

See Join the Mission – http://www.DavidLankes.org

• Serve
• Innovate – bring about change
• Lead – Librarians are trusted 3rd party source, lead on campus, obligation to say “you can be better”
• … global mission .. improvement ..libraries about knowledge not about things … “connective tissues of our organizations” .. out of the building too.
• Permissive attitude of risk
• Knowledge is created through conversation
• Not what we provide
• What we change
• We .. Jump from this to this to this.  Libraries are a museum of technologies that fail