Oct 22
Internet Librarian International 2008
The 10th ILI conference under the theme Translating 2.0 Technologies for Tangible Benefits & Transparency took place in London on 16 – 17 October. Gunilla Widén-Wulff, Maria Kronqvist-Berg and Outi Nivakoski were there to listen interesting presentations and also to present our own research project.
The conference had a very practical orientation, and it was useful to hear about implementations of Web 2.0 technologies in different kinds of libraries and other organizations. There were also forecasts for the future, for example in the inspiring panel discussion What Constitutes a Next Generation Library by Michael Stephens, Michael Casey and Thomas Brevik, in which also the audience engaged lively.
The atmosphere in the conference was truly international, since the participants came from all over the globe. Also the presentations discussed application of Web 2.0 tools in various countries. All in all, it can be said that we experienced the global Library 2.0 phenomenon in a nutshell!
