1. Closing thoughts
John Naughton

2. The perils of denial

3. It’s not just librarians

4. It’s not just librarians

5. It’s a confusing period
“informed bewilderment”
(Castells)
“we have to maintain the old services while moving into a different world”
“research libraries are not green-field sites”

6. Attitudes/perceptions
Librarians are...

7. Option 1 Distaste, revulsion, denial
Focus on the downsides of the emerging ecosystem
Early retirement?

8. Option 2 Seeing opportunities in the emerging ecosystem
Harnessing/engaging user-generated energy
Flickr, YouTube, Mashups, blogging, mobiles,...
Emergence of a new species: the entrepreneurial librarian!

9. Option 3 A professional challenge
Understanding new users & their needs
Embracing relevant technologies
Engaging with new scholarly workflows
Digital repositories & the REF
Becoming central to teaching and learning
Digital curation
‘Born digital’ resources
Making non-digital resources available globally

10. Option 4 Becoming ‘thought leaders’ in the emerging media ecosystem
Why leave the Today programme to techies, or Weinberger & Shirky?
(or Naughton, for that matter)
Or the London Review of Books to John Lanchester?

11. Option 1 is not an option for Cambridge
offers us
ways of exploring the others