Responses from the morning session.
1. What is your vision? What is your quest? 

•	Children can grow up in a library
o	Inspiration: opportunity for
o	Other cultures
o	Love

•	It’s about the journey.
o	Be adaptable
o	You’ll never reach end
o	It’s on-going

•	Skills: everyone should opportunity to learn information lit

•	Everyone should have tech access

•	We want to help people
o	Understand changing tech
o	Support, train

•	We have challenges

•	We want to be more:
o	Access
o	Formats
o	Service

•	We want to be indispensable and make sure we’re relevant:
o	Focus on community 
o	What is new and different?
•	Provide it

•	A place for children to collect a sack full of treasures

•	Next generation: a place where they can get/love books

•	Discovery, Literacy, more than just a short sound bite

•	Hard to see a vision of future when our experiences are in the past

•	Essential place in the community 
o	Staff and community build a place together

•	More transformational (instead of transactional)
•	Serve a community that’s diverse
o	Creating a Civil Oasis (cool place)
o	Creating experiential learning

•	Refuge

2. What are your biggest challenges?

•	Keeping up to date with tech
•	Time: to learn, practice

•	Training: getting enough staff

•	Storage

•	Money

•	Space for kids/patrons

•	Time to practice, learn, be creative 
o	Need reflective time! Uninterrupted

•	Fear of failing

•	Ever changing news and media

•	Keeping patrons up to date with new library stuff

•	Patron skills: find info, checkout, etc.

•	Too busy

•	Communication venues are more and more fragmented

•	Where do (patrons) gather?

•	Brick and mortar v. virtual

•	Administration 

•	Technology changes often

•	Libraries don’t want to change

•	How to allocate/divide money
•	Patrons not using resources they might like 

•	Staffing and number of hours

•	Customers: not always happy with change/ able to change

•	Poverty-patrons: need social services

•	Fines – negative stereotypes of libraries

•	Public Perception: “Do people still use libraries”

•	Business and legal restrictions still based on *Print*

•	Security (physical) make safe place
o	Loitering sleeping

•	Clear vision despite internal disagreements

•	(Internet) privacy (ex. Facebook)
o	Nothing is private anymore (but we understand value of privacy)

•	Become more embedding in courses

•	Not enough un interrupted time
o	In “reactive mode” instead of creative/reflective 

Responses from afternoon session.

1. What is your vision? What is your quest?

•	Dynamic Teen Program

•	Cutting edge; not Re-Active

•	Promoting libraries

•	Library is great equalizer
o	Rich, poor, no matter!

•	Be indispensable

•	Inspire new generation to use libraries

•	Connected to communities
o	Parents, kids, students etc. 

•	Marketing with $0 budget

•	Space for variety; flexibility

•	Patron access to info catalogs, accurate information. Patrons want access!

2. What are your biggest challenges?

•	Anticipating correctly

•	How do we embed ourselves in people’s lives?

•	Community expectations
o	Where are the popular items?
•	Excess popular items when trend is over

•	Tech glitches and compatibility $$$

•	Making complex systems understandable and usable

•	Convince public that we are still a public good

•	Lack of fundraising

•	Allocate funding
o	Titles vs. Format, etc.

•	Lack of space, how to use space

•	Community presence-marketing

•	Team building

•	Loving your co-workers

•	Departmentalized

•	Filling meeting rooms

•	Quiet space? Complaints about noise

•	Need bigger meeting rooms

•	Some areas remain quiet areas

3. What risks should you take? What strategy should you use?

•	More funds and revenue
o	Coffee shop
o	Charge for iPads
o	Bring patrons in
o	More book store feel

•	Make library more known to students

•	Changing policies
o	Drinks 
o	Cell phones
o	Comfort 

•	E-book reader know-how
o	Community tech show and tell

•	Know and support that failure is an option board to pages

•	Taking personal ownership in library. Talk about libraries even when not at work.

•	Being a place of creation and not just consumption

•	Eliminate things that no longer work or are needed