"2.0" as adjective appears a few times on the program for an ALA's Annual Conference in less than two years, long before I thought it would (plus many other 2.0-ish programs).

• Next Generation Libraries: The 2.0 Phenomenon with American Libraries columnist Joe Janes and ALA Editions author Stephen Abram, Saturday, June 23. Co-sponsored by the Office for Human Resources Development and Recruitment.
   


• Information in the World of Digital Natives with Matt Hong on Saturday, June 23. Overview of how the Internet usage and workflow of digital natives/Millenials differs from that of digital immigrants and skews toward Web 2.0 cornerstones: multi-tasking, multimedia, social and community, user-generated content, personalization, storing and tagging. Because of this, content providers seeking to market to digital natives must approach this demograph in a unique way, and seek to insert information solutions into the unique digital native workflow.
   


• Washington Office Breakout Session I - ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy will be presenting a session on Participatory Networks: Libraries as Conversation.
   


• Transforming Your Library, and Your Library's Future, with Technology on Saturday, June 23, with Alan Kirk Gray, co-Chair, Darien Library, CT; John Blyberg, co-Chair, Darien Library, CT; Lori Ayre, The Galecia Group; Casey Bisson, Plymouth State University, NY; Roy Tennant, California Digital Library. Technology can transform your library and its services, as it is transforming the lives of your patrons. From do-it-now technology improvements to next-generation implementations, from software to SOPACs, from in-your-face competition to over-the-horizon transformations, three accomplished experts will instruct, enlighten and challenge you to use technology to make your library more relevant to your patrons -- today and tomorrow.
   


• The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate? on Saturday, June 23, with Roy Tennant, California Digital Library; Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix; Joseph Janes, University of Washignton; Karen Schneider, Florida State University. Libraries did not invent Google Book Search, LibraryThing, Facebook, or any other innovation critical to the new information era/knowledge economy. We make use of these inventions. But is that enough? What prevents us from being more inventive? Join four thought-provoking speakers for a debate on these questions and a search for answers.
   


• Technically Speaking: A Conversation about Cutting Edge Library Automation and Technology on Sunday, June 24. A panel moderated by American Libraries columnist Andrew K. Pace and Smart Libraries columnist Marshall Breeding. We've asked the CEOs to stay in their suites and send their best and brightest to the exhibit floor for a panel moderated by Andrew Pace (Head of Information Technology at North Carolina State University and American Libraries "Technically Speaking" columnist and "Hectic Pace" blogger) and Marshall Breeding (Director of Innovative Technologies and Research at Vanderbilt University Library, Smart Libraries columnist, and creator of Library Technology Guides and lib-web-cats). Watch the conversation unfold as Breeding and Pace ask a cutting-edge group of technologists to look into the future of library automation and technology from the vendor perspective.
   


• Building the Next Generation Public Library Web Site with Drupal on Sunday, June 24, with John Blyberg, previously with the Ann Arbor District Library. In 2005, Ann Arbor District Library unveiled it's "3.0" website. Its use of blogs, interactive commenting, and other "Web 2.0" functionality has earned it considerable national attention. The software behind the site is an open-source Drupal CMS. John Blyberg will discuss AADL's decision to use Drupal and will show how Drupal can be both a powerful CMS and agile development tool, and will address the benefits of open-source projects by illustrating its impact on AADL's development program.
   


• LITA President's Program: Tag! Your IT!: Online Digital Audio Collections Meet PennTags on Sunday, June 24. Chuck Haddix (University of Missouri-Kansas City) presents "The Voices of World War II" a case study of developing a digital library with access through the online catalog. Michael Winkler (University of Pennsylvania) demonstrates PennTags, a social bookmarking and tagging system, for the creation of personalized bibliographies of resources relating to and including this collection in the library catalog, licensed databases, and Web resources using a combination of subject headings, index terms, and personal tagging.
   


• Once Upon a Furl in a Podcast Long Ago: Using New Technologies to Support Library Instruction on Monday, June 25, with Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information; Kathy Burnett, Associate Professor, Information Studies, Florida State University; Kathryn Shaughnessy, Instructional Services Librarian, St. John's University, Queens; Heather Tompkins, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Carlton College. Librarians are teaching to the Net Generation. Students are growing up in a world of technology. Ever wonder how to creatively use new technologies in the classroom? Not quite sure what a blog, Podcast, RSS feed, or social bookmark is? Or how you could use these to teach? Joan Lippincott, Associate Director of Coalition for Networked Information, will give an overview of emerging technologies and library instruction. Also, hear how one LIS professor, an expert in gender and information technology, is teaching future librarians how to use these tools in the classroom. See examples and get tips from an instructional services librarian and a women's studies librarian on how to integrate such tools into your instruction.
   


• Ignite your Library's Public Relations and Outreach Using Hot Technologies on Monday, June 25, with Michael Stephens, faculty, Dominican University; Steven Bell, Director, Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services, Temple University Library; and Helen Blowers, Public Services Technology Director for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, will discuss ways to incorporate the latest technologies into library promotion. After speakers share their expertise participants will break out into groups for discussions lead by the speakers. Everyone should come away with sizzling ideas to promote services and collections.
   


• Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog - Social Software, Virtual Reality, and Authority Everywhere on Monday, June 25, with Helen Blowers, Public Services Technology Director, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg Cnty., N.C.; Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian, Norwich University, Vt.; John Blyberg, Systems Administrator, Darien (CT) Public Library; Lori Bell, Director of Innovation, Alliance Library System, IL. Innovators from within the library world present creative and practical initiatives that show how libraries can participate in the dynamic emergence of web-based information services. If you are looking for ideas as to how your library can embrace technologies offered by the likes of Wikis, Blogs, Web 2.0, Second Life, Podcasting, Flickr, You Tube, and My Space, then this is the program for you. Traditional forms of publishing, research, and recreational information will be challenged and expanded, as will traditional notions of information authority. Presenters will show how library participation in these contemporary online forums via social software is becoming as common and as easy as walking the dog.
   


• Technical Services 2.0: Using Social Software for Collaboration on Monday, June 25. Social software such as wikis, blogs, RSS feeds, instant messaging and social bookmarking are proving themselves on the public services side of libraries. This program will explore their application in technical services.