1. The History of Infopeople 60,000 BC to the Present

2. In the beginning…

3. 60,000 years or so later… Computers!!

4. Then a brilliant idea was born Train librarians in the use of this new-fangled thing called the INTERNET on those COMPUTERS!

5. And they came up with… We Be Peeps Peeps R Us Infolibs Library Schmibrary INJABA (It’s Not Just About Books Anymore) none of which quite worked

6. Then they had a brainstorm… Information for the People RIGHT ON! hmm… kind of wordy, and a little too, uh, Berkeley-in-the-Sixties sounding

7. So they tried shortening it a bit… o InFORP - hmmm, too much like a burp o InFoPRO - closer, but too much like software o InFoPeople - hey… THAT’S IT!

8. And the first thing they did was… …get a bunch of computers MADE by some guy in a cabin somewhere and then fly them to libraries - oh, and give them Internet connectivity to boot!!

9. We’ve come a long way… We dropped the capital F and capital P (yes, we spell it Infopeople now…) We’ve worked our way through several State Librarians…

10. And we’ve conducted: Over 2500 on-ground workshops Broadcast more than 70 webcasts Offered more than 25 online courses What will the future hold, you wonder?