I had a great time at the Bridg­ing Worlds Con­fer­ence and spent some amaz­ing vaca­tion days in Cam­bo­dia and Malaysia, so I’m late fol­low­ing up on my con­fer­ence promise to post a link to the slides for my talk Librar­ian 2.0: New Breed or Just Another Day at the Office? (12.2MB PDF). Please note that these slides are more cur­rent than the ones on the con­fer­ence site. I’ll find out about post­ing the accom­pa­ny­ing paper, too.

The con­fer­ence itself was won­der­ful (the orga­niz­ers did a good job), and I was espe­cially pleased to meet in person:

• Haz­man Aziz — I wish I had half of Hazman’s energy
• Ivan Chew — I loved Ivan’s presentation
• Peter God­win — Peter is a very funny fellow
• Kathryn Green­hill — finally!
• Joann Ran­som — who is doing some amaz­ing online com­mu­nity work in New Zealand

I also highly rec­om­mend play­ing any of Brian Kelly’s con­fer­ence speaker games if you ever get the chance.

For those of you who asked for links, the two major papers I dis­cussed in my talk are Fiat Lux, Fiat Late­bra: A Cel­e­bra­tion of His­tor­i­cal Library Func­tions (which details “The Seven Ages of Librar­i­an­ship”) by D. W. Krum­mel and Par­tic­i­pa­tory Net­works: The Library as Con­ver­sa­tion by David Lankes. Both of these gen­tle­men did all of the heavy lift­ing for illus­trat­ing how we’re mov­ing into an eighth age of librar­i­an­ship (“par­tic­i­pa­tory librar­i­an­ship”), and Scott Nichol­son con­nected the dots for me while dis­cussing the his­tor­i­cal con­text of gam­ing in libraries.

As for pic­tures, it’s going to take me a cou­ple of weeks to cull and label the 5GB of shots I took (espe­cially since GLLS2008 starts this week­end!), but they’ll even­tu­ally appear on my my Flickr account. Thank you to every­one who helped make this one of the most amaz­ing trips of my life.