–cultural, civic and scholarly programming for our libraries — with ties into IL issues and with relevant pr for library collections, services, staff where appropriate. Library as bridge to scholarly and cultural conversation, writ LARGE. i’ve decided this is my dream job btw.

–related to above — curriculum development… we want to integrate into existing curricula, but what about recognizing the unique value of a library-specific curriculum. I think it would look a lot like talking about scholarly communications issues, and socio-political issues in regards to info storage/retrieval and use

–activism: open access movement, intellectual property issues, freedom of expression and speech, net neutrality etc. librarians need to be at the tables where these things are decided/argued. or storming the barricades.

–the one big library thing? what do you think about that?

–while on the other hand, the Local … getting serious about special collections and archives. Not just acquisitions but exposure of materials… via library events/panels but also digitization, dissemination. And by so doing … fostering ties into our local communities, more partnerships with the public libraries, building bridges between scholars and citizens.

these are my thoughts. don’t steal them without attribution you weasel