Keynote Speaker for 2010 MOBIUS Annual Conference

Read about Marshall's keynote address.

The MOBIUS Consortium, the Executive Committee, and members of MOBIUS Annual Conference Planning and Advisory Committee are pleased to announce Marshall Breeding as the keynote speaker for the 2010 MOBIUS Annual Conference.

Marshall Breeding serves as the Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Vanderbilt University Libraries in Nashville, TN. He is part of the management team of the Library, focusing issues related to the strategic use of technology in the library. He designs and develops digital library resources and investigates emerging technologies. Marshall is also the Executive Director the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, a large-scale archive of digital video content.

In addition to his responsibilities at Vanderbilt, Marshall frequently speaks and writes on topics of network technologies and library automation. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides (www.librarytechnology.org) and the lib-web-cats online directory of libraries on the Web. His monthly column “Systems Librarian” appears in Computers in Libraries; he is a Contributing Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by the American Library Association, and has authored the “Automation System Marketplace” feature published by Library Journal for the last eight years. He has authored eight issues of ALA’s Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters.

Marshall Breeding will be presenting on the “Current Trends and Future Directions of Library Automation” at the keynote address on June 15 at 7:00PM.

We hope you can join us this year to hear Mr. Breeding’s insights into the future of library automation.