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Dear Laval Hunsucker and others, I am sorry that the conference theme is not on the ALISE webpage just yet. Below is a copy. I will also respond to your questions and concerns over the list. Many thanks for your questions! lp December 30, 2009 lp 2011 ALISE Annual Conference Competitiveness and Innovation Tuesday, January 4 through Friday, January 7 V San Diego, CA From the informal meetings of ALAs Library School Instructors, held occasionally from 1907 to 1910, to present day ALISE, the scope of curricula, professional preparation, and research provided through library education programs has expanded to include information science, archival studies, and museum studies education. This expansion has been fed by legislative funding to create a globally competitive workforce, innovations in digital technologies, struggles for race, gender, social class equity, an enhanced commitment to diversity, changes in the nature, creation and dissemination of information, changes in the communities with which our students will work, broadened methodological approaches, research agendas and funding opportunities that are not library specific, and demands from our home institutions for increased revenue and research status. To meet the demands of our home institutions and the needs of our communities, many LIS programs are finding themselves in challenging races for students, external funding, and, scholarly prestige. As we journey further into the 21st Century where resources continue to tighten and innovation and competition are consistent themes for legislation and funding we ask: how do LIS programs, its research, scholarship, teaching, and service, remain competitive and innovative? What do we know from the past and what do we see for the future? The 2010 conference theme was "Collaboration." Collaboration is one means of success in LIS. This year we present a different facet of success: competition/competitiveness and include with this the concept of innovation. ALISE has successfully evolved with the multitude of advances in the 20th Century and continues to evolve and anticipate the advances of the 21st Century. The 2011 conference will provide a venue for presenting, understanding, and discussing various approaches to remaining competitive and innovative. Some topics for possible panels and papers include, but certainly are not limited to: Ethical considerations of competition and innovation Race, gender, social class equity issues Changing modes of curricular delivery Approaches to preparing for the unforeseen innovations on the horizon Expanding student populations and competing for talent Competitiveness and innovation as research and scholarship expectations Innovative administrative structures and responses Developing and nurturing a successful culture of competitiveness and innovation Political aspects of competition and innovation Unions and unionization From radical, fringe, queer to mainstreamX clamoring for inclusion, competing for representation in libraries, archives, museums Critical approaches to conventional thought regarding library and information science education Accreditations, certifications, licensures Historical perspectives on competition and innovation in library and information science/ education for the LIS-archival studies-museum studies professional On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Laval Hunsucker wrote: >> More information on the conference theme can >> be found at: http://www.alise.org/ > > There's probably something I'm overlooking, but I > can't find on this site anything about the *2011* > conference, except date and location. > > That's a pity, because I was indeed eager to learn > more about the theme that has been chosen. Who > is/are being perceived, or has/have been conceived > of, here as competitor(s), and for what are they > competing with the ALISE membership ? ( Or is > it, in fact, a question of competition among parties > *within* the realm of established LIS education ? ) > The theme for last year was, after all, "Creating a > Culture of Collaboration", I believe. >