Some nuggets from the academy ...

Bill Gates said the Internet is a tidal wave that will wash over and drown those who do not learn to swim. Eugene Cloete said that librarians are swimming instructors...

Wisdom is not a commodity, but information is.

There should be a mindshift in librarians away from their collections towards their clients and their connections. (Johannes Cronje). I have definitely always been more interested in my clients than in my collections...

Johannes also introduced us to the idea of the pecka-kutcha (Google it, it's an interesting idea) and to mydropbox.com, which you can use to share large files.

Yesterday we listened to Jasper Reese (!) but today Lisa Kane and Gaelle Ramon confirmed that researchers do indeed need libraries and librarians.