Marshall Breeding, one of the few people alive who has been to all 26 Computers in Libraries conferences, presented this overview of different ways that libraries are innovating in their communities. This is not a session from which one would bring back a lot of practical things to implement, but rather something that inspires you to try and think "outside the box" in the light of what others have achieved.
Marshall started out with some of the wealthiest, beautiful, and stunning libraries in the world such as the Yonsei Samsung Library in Seoul, South Korea, the DOK library in Delft, Netherlands and the Customs House Library in Sydney, Australia. These libraries are all doing impressive things with touch screens, computers, gaming devices, and design to create unique spaces.
He followed this with some national libraries as well as the Library of Congress, which is doing some fascinating things particularly with A/V resources.
Finally he showed what libraries are doing to transform society with relatively limited resources in places like Colombia. This was inspirational seeing important things these libraries were doing to preserve the history and enhance the lives of those living in some of the poorer regions in that country.
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