As always conferences are amazing, stimulating, intense and tiring, but worth every second of it. I was able to talk with so many amazing people, and yet there were so many others I wanted to connect with and didn’t manage to. *More reflection at the end, but for those who want the nitty gritty…. Pulled from notes and tweets – some of my favorite quotes/idea and what I’m thinking about. If you could tell the world 1 thing about libraries in 30 secs or less what would it be? Good enough is the new perfect Lean into your discomfort – change doesn’t happen without discomfort. Be clear where your lines are drawn. Your librarianly obsession with Star Wars will not endear you to your patrons. The future is here its just not evenly distributed. Privacy is dead, get over it “If I’d asked them what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” – Henry Ford “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” Gen. Eric Shinseki If we keep identifying with books – libraries are dead. We should reward success and failure, punish inaction We have more autonomy as college students that we do as adults
