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Stephen Abram, is a recovering librarian having received his MLS in 1980. He is entering a 12 step program as an association junkie. He is currently immediate past President of SLA but he has endured the presidencies of his local, provincial, and national associations. He is Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute where he swims upstream continually to try to discover the future for all types of libraries and their vendors. Stephen was listed by Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future of libraries and has received numerous honours. He holds audiences hostage for about 150 speeches a year. He writes all or parts of 6 books a year, posts thousands of blog postings and writes about 36 articles a year. He is nuts and doesn't sleep. His columns appear in Information Outlook and Multimedia and Internet @ Schools, and SirsiDynix OneSource and he is the author of ALA Editions 2007 bestseller, Out Front with Stephen Abram. He blogs at the popular Stephen's Lighthouse. He has two children in university and is therefore quite broke. He spent a week in Paris on holiday this past August apologizing to his wife. |