> The NLA is again hosting an Innovative Ideas Forum.  The 2006 event
> was received very enthusiastically, and the 2007 program aims to
> inform and challenge you in a similar way.  Speakers this year include
> Bruce Wyman (Denver Art Museum, one of the people behind  steve: the
> art museum social tagging project), Abby Blachly (LibraryThing,
> talking about community cataloguing), Courtney Gibson (head of the
> Arts, Entertainment and Comedy Unit at the ABC, on their digital
> future) as well as Sabina Wynn from the Australian Film Commission
> (community involvement), Kent Fitch and Allison Dellitt from the NLA,
> Professor Amanda Spink from QUT, and Graham Young, editor of On Line
> Opinion
> 
> The Forum is on April 19 at the National Library.  Registration is
> essential if you want to attend but there is no charge for attendance.
> Please register early to avoid missing out!
> 
> You can find the home page for the 2007 event at
> View Attachment and links from
> that page to the program and to the registration form.
> 
> Among the many comments received after the 2006 Innovative Ideas forum
> were:
> ". It was an intellectual approach and that is completely refreshing -
> I love discussion of ideas!. The quality of the speakers reflected the
> intellectual framework of the forum. I went away knowing that as a
> participant my horizons had been stretched"
> "I thought it was excellent. Very well organised; ran smoothly; good
> venue; and an excellent choice of presenters"
> "it was extremely interesting and worthwhile; one of the better
> seminar days I have been to in recent times"
> "opened up a whole new thought process, not only for my role in
> libraries but in information management generally"
> 
> Sandra Henderson
> Executive Support Branch
> National Library of Australia
> CANBERRA  ACT 2600
> Phone: +61 2 6262 1481
> Fax: +61 2 6273 2545
> Email: shenders at nla.gov.au
> 
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