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.

As such, here's one thought that's occured to me lately about what's going on with the debate in the library world about what our mission should be, print versus online, and traditional subject classification versus user-driven aggregation. The discussion has been passionate and at times can be very contentious. Take a look at the high level library profession blogs and you can find several current debates on topics like the ALA president's latest divisive comments regarding technology minded library professionals, the decision by the Library of Congress decision to stop creating series authority records , or the choice of delivery platform for ALA's bootcamp. I'm sure you could frame these debates in terms of the larger debate over Web 2.0 and technology versus print. I definitely have opinions that put me pretty firmly in the technology camp, but at a certain point, this debate really starts to sound a lot like another ongoing debate in popular culture, the Mommy Wars. I was especially struck by this thought after reading Po Bronson's Mother's Day essay about it, in which he talks about how the debate is really about judgementalness about the "right" way or "wrong" way of doing things:

What these two sides are fighting over, to put it bluntly, is who's the better mother. But every war is supposed to have a battle line, and amid the chaos of this war, I've been unable to find that battle line.

Anyhow, change "who's the better mother" to "who's the better librarian" and I think that pretty much sums up the position that each side is taking in the debates about online versus print or traditional service orientation versus new business/delivery models debates.