Monday, just over a week since the start of the 2009 conference in Winnipeg; five days since its end. Those five days went quickly by.

I have been tweeting each day some of my reflections on the conference. During presentations I take down a blend of notes on what I am hearing, and notes on where my thoughts spin off to.

So for example, during David Rothman's talk on library futures as utopia or dystopia, he said something about providing access, making the resources transparently accessible to the users. But what I thought was:

Do we want everything to be transparent and accessible to the health professional? Yes, we do - but how to we communicate the difference between the free and the mediated? The librarian vanishes... And then are cut. The need is real but if the solution is invisible then how will it be funded?