"From Guerilla Innovation to Institutional Transformation: Information Professionals as Change Agents"

Full day event at Providence College.

Embedded libraries... usability and findability... hacking your OPAC... agile development... metadata aggregators... Web 2.0 and social software... user-centered design... library as experience. In the past few years we continue to see an explosion of visionary new strategies for organizing and providing access to information products and services. The forward-thinking problem-solvers among us have eagerly educated ourselves and developed plans to apply this next generation of theoretical and practical approaches to the toughest dilemmas in our information environments. And then we hit the wall...

So how do we cultivate "cultures of transformation" in our institutions? How do we carve out time and space for exploration and experimentation? How do we encourage the kind of unrestrained creativity from which the most revolutionary and lasting improvements have emerged? How do we craft guerilla innovation strategies that can prove their worth at the grass roots level?