4/12/07 - Conference Welcome

The conference is a sell-out with delegates from 101 countries, coming for afar a field as Korea and Peru. Conference chair (Alan Dale) in his opening speech believed that we will look back on 2007 as a watershed year for information provision - even the “dawn of a new era”. This change provides challenges and opportunities for information professionals to work in new ways. He cited Lynne Brindley’s recent speech (posted on YouTube by CILIP) at the Umbrella conference as a good example of how we need to be adapting.