March 11 - 15, 2009. Seattle, WA.
This is ACRL's first "Green Conference"
Welcome from Betsy Wilson, Conference chair:
Each conference attendee received a shower timer. This is a 4-minute timer that will help save 90,000 gallons of water for the city of Seattle if we all take 4-minute showers during our three-day stay here. Conference bags and mugs are also "green."
Comments by ACRL Executive Director, Mary Ellen Davis:
Thanked everyone for coming to Seattle - especially in these times - a testament to the importance of the conference.
2,841 attendees from all states and 25 foreign countries; the most international conference ever.
1,150 are attending the conference for the first time.
110 scholarship recipients
332 virtual conference participants
3,069 (+100 virtual) for Baltimore conference.
Beth Lindsay was the first conference registrant; will receive a complimentary year of ACRL membership.
ACRL President, Erika Linke
Presidential theme: the purposeful advocate. Stephanie Vance (advocacy trainer) will be speaker at the ACRL President's program at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.
Presentation of the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year award (sponsored by YBP Library Services): Gloriana St. Clair (Carnegie Mellon University).
Keynote Address, Rushworth Kidder (Institute for Global Ethics. books: Shared Values for a Troubled World, Moral Courage + others)
Five shared values for a civilized society: Honesty, Fairness, Responsibility, Respect, Compassion.
Ethics, Privacy, and other ALA Codes are important for us.
We are no longer in a financial recession; we are in an ethics recession.
We need to build a culture of integrity.
Ethics training does not provide the right tools.
ow do you resolve right vs right dilemmas? Can't make it a right vs wrong, need to be right vs higher right.
Four categories of dilemma:
- truth vs loyalty
- individual vs community
- short term vs long-term
- justice vs mercy
Some tools:
Understand the shared values.
Have moral courage: willing endurance of physical danger for a great sense of principle.
how do we build organizations that exude integrity? We must build a culture of ethics./integrity.
Ethics is not only about the individual.
Ethics: obedience to the unenforceable. Obedience to the enforceable is the law.
The law now tries to fill the ethics void (eg. fine for littering from your car in CA)
Technology leverages ethics. a single decision can wreak global havoc almost instantly. We have a positive obligation to be ethical futurists.
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