Random Ideas to Explore Re: Libraries

On April 24, I will be delivering the keynote and a workshop for the Prairie Area Library Services day-long meeting outside of Chicago. A former student from my days of teaching Change Management invited me, but I seem to be struggling to put together a brief description of my talk. So I started jotting down notes and phrases as they came to me. I still don't have the topic nailed down, but I needed a place where I would remember these ideas:

• Libraries: Antidote to economic stress and personal distress
• Riding the Shark: Tools for Thriving in Tough Times
• But I Don't Even Know How to Spell "Entrepreneurship"
• Opportunities for Entrepreneurship
• Libraries on the Edge
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: value of public libraries in supporting sustainable communities.
• 2009: The Year of the Library
• Value
• Changing the Story
• Writing Our Own Story
• Pebbles in Teapots
• Boiling, but Blooming: Taking Advantage of Tough Times or "But I Don't Even Know How to Spell Entrepreneurship!"
• New Metaphors for Libraries and Communities
• When the Going Gets Tough,
• New Roles for Libraries
• Why Tough Times are Good News
• Tough Times:
• Taking Charge of Change: Thriving and ____ Through Tough Times
• What We can Learn From Tough Times
• Making Friends and Winning Over Enemies in Tough Times
• Tools for Tackling Tough Times
• Turn your thinking inside out
• Pardon me ma'am, your metaphor is showing
• Thinksters

Now back to figuring out what it is I REALLY want to say!