Thanks to all who attended and participated in The Next Generation ILS: Mashed-Up, Fried or Half-Baked? Symposium in Boise, ID: hosted by the Idaho Commission for Libraries and BCR. We hope you all found the conversation (and Mr. PotatoHead creating) as stimulating as we did. As discussed at the symposium, we want to keep the conversation and creativity flowing... so we're going to turn this site into a repository of the information shared at the symposium and a venue for ongoing collaboration.
Here you'll find copies of the speakers presentations, transcripts of the notes from all the flip chart work the groups did, photos and video of the event (after we edit!) and a blog to allow attendees to continue to communicate with each other.
Continue to move beyond your dissatisfaction, join the discussion and help design the future of the ILS. BCR is dedicated to continue to provide a forum for open discourse to help focus the current debate beyond the symposium in Idaho. Let's continue to take those mashed-up, fried and half-baked thoughts and frustrations and turn them into a next generation solution that may or may not be an ILS as we know it today.
BCR
BCR brings libraries together for greater success by expanding their knowledge, reach and power. They offer a broad range of solutions and their hands-on, personal attention to each member enables them to deliver effective and timely solutions that help libraries keep pace with new developments in technology and services. BCR is the nation’s oldest and most established multistate library cooperative. Since 1935, the BCR team has helped libraries learn new skills, reach new patrons, increase productivity and save money. BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit headquartered in Aurora, Colorado. For more information, visit www.BCR.org or email info@BCR.org.