Vice President/Program Chair's Annual Report 2005/2006

Program Committee The members of this year’s program committee have worked hard to produce two exceptional programs. Thanks to committee members:

Fall 2005 Conference at Vassar College

Our Fall 2005 conference, Transitions: New Directions in Librarianship, took place on a beautiful October day on the historic Vassar campus. Keynote speaker, Frank D’Andraia, Dean and Director of University Libraries, University at Albany, SUNY forecast some of the challenges academic libraries will face in the 21 st century. We also heard from Cornell librarians, Barbara Berger Eden and Bill Kara, about the transformation of their traditional roles in preservation and technical services. Tom Mackey, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies, University at Albany, SUNY, spoke about using blogs as a teaching tool for information science students. We closed out the day with an engaging presentation by Steven Cohen, creator of the blog, Library Stuff, on using blogs and RSS feeds in our day to day work.

Attendees left the conference more than ready to embrace change during the new academic year.

 Spring 2006 conference

Many thanks and congratulations to Connie Roberts as the local arrangements chair for this conference at Hamilton. As we close out the semester, this Spring’s focus on data use for many library functions will provide welcome tips for managing services and collections.

Submitted by Deborah Bernnard

Vice President/Program Chair

University at Albany, SUNY