Speaking

I have been to speaking engagements where no one showed up; and I've given keynote addresses to a thousand conference attendees. I've had many speaking engagements at Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, and before the City Councils of Bremerton, Poulsbo, and Bainbridge Island. My topics range from explaining library technological initiatives and the funding structure of public libraries to the future of technology and society. Below are a few speaking engagements and courses.

• What’s Next? A speculative query on the future of technology and its effects on the traditional library,” Keynote presentation for the 18th Annual Computers in Libraries Conference, Washington, D.C. March 12-14, 2003.
• “Technologies for the Visually Impaired,” conference program at the Alaska Library Association Annual Conference, March 6-9. 2003, Juneau, Alaska.
• “What’s the Next Big Thing?” Endnote speaker for the Alaska Library Association Annual Conference, March 6-9, 2003, Juneau, Alaska.
• Technology in Libraries, day-long seminar in five locations around Minnesota for their Voluntary Certification program for library employees. September, 1998.
• "Data Communications Alternatives" Washington Library Association Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon: May, 1995.
• "Technology for the Future, WAN’s and Frame Relay" Washington Library Association Annual Conference, Yakima, Washington, April, 1994..
• "Managing Dead Technology," Keynote address given at the 1993 Computers in Libraries Conference held in Washington, D.C., February 28--March 2, 1993.
• "The Computer revolution is over; they won” (keynote address). Online Northwest, Corvallis, Oregon, January 31, 1992.
• "Bulletin Board Systems for libraries," presentation at Technofair, Bellevue, Washington, October, 1991.
• "The history of computers as seen through advertising," presentation at Technofair, Bellevue, Washington, October, 1991.
• "How to put together a PC with nothing but a Swiss Army Knife," presentation at Technofair, a library conference in Spokane, Washington, June, 1989.
• "Library Automation; perspectives from Deep Thought," keynote speaker at CLSI User's Group Semi-Annual Conference, Clearwater, Florida, May 28, 1989.
• "Whither MS-DOS and the PC?," presentation given at the 4th Annual Computers in Libraries Conference, March 14-16, 1989, Oakland, California.
• "Planning for automation," presentation given at the WILL Conference on Library Leadership, Yakima, Washington, October 4th, 1986.
• "Your Choices: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way," Keynote speech given at Tacoma Public Library's Techfair, September 24th, 1986.
• "It never stops: Maintaining and developing automation projects," presentation given at Technofair, sponsored by the Washington State Library, June 6th, 1986, Olympia, WA.
• "Planning to use technology; what do I really need?" presentation given at Technofair, sponsored by the Washington State Library, June 5th, 1986, Olympia, WA.
• "Technological Infiltration; when computers take over," presentation given at the King County Library System Staff Day, May 16, 1986.
• "The Dark Side of Automated Circulation," presentation given at the 1984 Washington Library Association Conference, Pasco, Washington, April 29, 1984.
• "Financial Spreadsheets," presentation for the Microcomputer Software Update, 1984 Workshop, Pacific Northwest Chapters of the Special Libraries Association and the American Society for Information Science, University of Washington, March 10, 1984.
• "Computer applications in education," 1-credit class given through Seattle Pacific University at the Marine Science Center, Poulsbo, WA, January, 1983 and June, 1983.
• "Readability and microcomputers," Seminar given at the Western Regional International Reading Association Conference held in Seattle, WA, March 15, 1983.
• "Compulit," One quarter course given through Tacoma Public Library on computer literacy, Spring, 1983.
• "Teaching Computer and Courseware use: EDSC 5164," 3-credit course given through Seattle Pacific University at Olympic College, Bremerton, Winter Quarter, 1983.
• "Microcomputers; hardware and software," program presented at the PNLA Annual Conference held in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August, 1982.
• "Microcomputers in libraries," all-day seminar through the University of Washington Continuing Education Department, School of Librarianship, June 5th: Seattle; June 12th: Spokane, 1982.
• "Automation; what it really costs," Paper presented at the PNLA Annual Conference held in Boise, Idaho, August, 1979