Thanks for all the comments,  sounds like there will be some other participants who are also either working in libraries or aware of the issues going on in the profession!  I should add a disclaimer of sorts,  while I mentioned the university that I work for, I won't be participating in the conference as their representative. I'm here on my own time/dime because I'm interested in the issues and technologies, especially because libraries continue to find themselves pulled further into the larger digital environment that keeps evolving and changing. So my thoughts and comments are representative of myself and and not my employer.

I wish  I were a little more alert (jet lag + antihistamines) so that I could write something a little more articulate and witty about myself. But I got the e-mail requesting introductions and seeing as how I'll be a participant/volunteer for this conference, I wanted to drop in for a few words. I'm a technology librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno, which is a land grant school for Western Nevada and Eastern California. My job has to do with metadata, although it's really more about trying to bring libraries into the 21st century, as technology not only changes how we publish and access information, but how we use it. Libraries are a pretty classic example of a profession that's still stuck in the old/print model of doing things and having a really hard time waking up to the world completely mutating around them. Sometimes I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall.