I had the privilege of attending a Symposium over the past couple days with one of my colleagues. At the Symposium we learned a lot about providing library services in a virtual environment. A highlight of the event was hearing and talking with Stephen Abram. He has a lot of amazing ideas about the future of library services. One of the (many) things I wrote down was that we [librarians] “need to think of ourselves as people who improve the quality of the question.” Stephen has mentioned this in a blog posting of his own.

You can see a collection of presentations Stephen has given in the past, plus some of his articles, at http://www.sirsi.com/Resources/abram_articles.html. I hope he will post the presentation he gave on Tuesday, “Poppies, Flying MOnkeys and Good Witches: Finding the Future of Libraries,” along with the others.