Technology will have much greater impact on research and learning than the direct effect, already significant, that it had on library systems and services.
Much of our work, learning and research activity will have to be reshaped in a network environment. This will have a profound effect on library services and on academic libraries, in particular: in the short term, the library will have to re-build services around user workflows, supporting the remix of content and services in user environments, and not the other way round; in the medium term, the libraries will have to face an important shift of paradigms in research and learning daily practice. *

How academic libraries respond to these challenges? Which perception of them have the final users of library services, students, teachers and researchers? How Italian libraries and Higher Education institutions are getting prepared? The Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 metaphors are fit to describe these developments and challenges? Is there the risk to depreciate the professional quality of library work in name of what has been called "technological fundamentalism"?

The seminar aims to promote the awareness and facilitate the discussion on these issues among Italian librarians, some international experts and commercial publishers.
The Seminar is organized in collaboration with Content Complete Ltd.

Each day will be introduced by a paper given by leading international experts:

• 3rd Oct.: Derek Law, Head of the Information Resources Directorate and University Librarian - University of Strathclyde: 'Beyond the Hybrid Library: Libraries in a Web 2.0 World'
• 4th Oct.: Elizabeth Winter, Electronic Resources Coordinator - Acquisition and Management - Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta,GA), 'Social Software in Academic Libraries: A Web 2.0 Toolkit'.