Topics (in alphabetical order):

Copyright and the Library of the Future - Even as the Internet brings us closer to ensuring access to information for all, copyright claims threaten to cut us off from that goal. Because every electronic view of a document creates a "copy," the digital library faces frequent contact -- and increasingly frequent conflict -- with copyright law. How does copyright affect digital librarians, and how can we fight together for the public good?

Cutting Through The Clutter Tips and Tools for Info and Choice Overload: Our Own and Everyone Else's
Come with us on a simplification journey. Bill Jensen has been studying work complexity for over a decade, and he understands: There's too much clutter and crap coming at you as well as everyone you serve. Good-Guy Bill is here to help! You will learn tips for cutting through all the clutter, and competing on clarity. Including: o How to delete most of the emails you receive!, o The three things you must do before you communicate to anyone, o The five questions you need to answer to change people's behaviors. But be prepared. There's a chance that Tough-Love Bill might also show up. He's been known to ask librarians, knowledge managers, and information experts to raise our standards for how we help people. You will leave this session truly energized (and possibly challenged) to cut through clutter like never before!

Envisioning a Possibile Future: A Proposed New Mexico Library Portal.
Mr. Akeroyd will draw on the major points presented by each speaker, placing them in the context of a collaborative planning process being initiated by the New Mexico State Library targeted toward the implementation of a New Mexico Library Portal (NMLP). Initial steps toward development of the NMLP will begin in 2004 with the launch of the WebJunction (www.webjunction.org) State Specific Portal Pilot Project -- a public access computing sustainability project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. New Mexico is one of five states selected to participate in this pilot project. He envisions the NMLP as a long-term developmental project involving all libraries in New Mexico that will provide a uniform platform for resource-sharing, information exchange, online community building, wider access to networked information resources, training options, and technical support.

Informatics - the Key Link in Preclinical Drug Discovery
One of the remaining challenges in drug discovery remains data integration, and its transformation into knowledge. Key to this process, in the preclinical phase, remains the handling of chemical information (cheminformatics), and its seamless link to proteome/genome data (bioinformatics), as well as clinical data (medical informatics). The Office of Biocomputing at UNM is engaged in research activities related to these areas - as discussed by example

Mining Digital Library Usage Patterns
A natural evolution of user communities demonstrate specific information seeking behaviors over time. In particular there is an applied technique of DL log analysis which reveals temporal patterns of usage and how they relate to document and user relationships, patterns of document and journal impact, and their relations to existing citation graphs. This research has been applied in a range of settings such as DL recommender systems, open standards and metrics of journal impact ranking, dynamic networks of active objects and the detection of anomalies in web site usage.

New Forms of Collaboration in Science and in Education - The Electronic Age is affecting collaborations in science and in the ways in which science is being taught. Special emphasis will be placed on the way in which both the practice of science, and science education, are being "democratized."

Quantum Computing Shifting the Computational Paradigm
An important effort is under way to develop a new technology that could have an important impact in the way we store, transmit and process information. Building a quantum computer would not simply represent one more step in the process of creating more powerful computational devices. In fact, quantum information processing is a new paradigm for computation based on the use of the most counter-intuitive aspects of atomic and sub-atomic physics. This talk will focus on the main ideas behind quantum computation and review the status of the currents attempts to build such devices.

Sorting through the Puzzle Pieces as AISTI Faces the Future
AISTI is a unique and quite heterogeneous library consortium that focuses on innovation in scholarly communication. Creating a structure for members to utilize the AISTI Dspace e-print server has provided a platform for members learn about alternative publishing methods but it also begs the question of where do we go from there? AISTI become a nucleation point which has brought some new approaches and projects to AISTI, such as the Emerging Research Summit. While in the "city different", this talk will explore some of the different thinking that AISTI is using to attack its mission of innovation.

Survivor Library: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
Will we be voted off the island? What are the 10 key changes in the information seeking behaviors of the next generation that will prepare them for the knowledge economy that they will live through? What do we need to know to adapt? Are our 'Boomer" and "GenX" skills limiting our ability to serve them well? What technologies will seamlessly integrate with the NextGen world? Our speaker, Stephen Abram, will share his perspectives and strategies.

Welcome to the Nanotechnology Future
Dramatic forecasts of a nanotechnology future populated by invisibly small machines performing miracles (or dastardly deeds) miss the obvious: Nanotechnology is already here. From traffic lights to your personal sunscreen, numerous items that we use in everyday life are better because they exploit the special properties of ordinary materials that are engineered on the near-atomic scale. Ultra-small objects like "nanotubes" and "quantum dots" are just the first of new building blocks that humankind might use to create revolutionary medicines, harness natural energy sources, or transform communication in the decades ahead. Forget the robots - this is more exciting!