The History of Infopeople

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The History of Infopeople

• 60,000 BC to the Present

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In the beginning
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60,000 years or so later

• Computers!!

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Then a brilliant idea was born

• Train librarians in the use of this new-fangled
  thing called the INTERNET on those COMPUTERS!

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And they came up with

• We Be Peeps
• Peeps R Us
• Infolibs
• Library Schmibrary
• INJABA (Its Not Just About Books Anymore)
• none of which quite worked

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Then they had a brainstorm

• Information for the People
• RIGHT ON!
• hmm kind of wordy,
• and a little too, uh,
• Berkeley-in-the-Sixties sounding

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So they tried shortening it a bit

• InFORP - hmmm, too much like a burp
• InFoPRO - closer, but too much like software
• InFoPeople - hey
• THATS IT!

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And the first thing they did was

• get a bunch of computers MADE by some guy in a
  cabin somewhere and then fly them to libraries -
  oh, and give them Internet connectivity to boot!!

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Weve come a long way

• Weve worked our way through three State
  Librarians

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And weve conducted

• Over 2500 on-ground workshops
• Broadcast more than 70 webcasts
• Offered more than 25 online courses
• What will the future hold, you wonder?

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