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The History of Infopeople

The History of Infopeople. 60,000 BC to the Present. In the beginning…. 60,000 years or so later…. Computers!!. Then a brilliant idea was born. Train librarians in the use of this new-fangled thing called the INTERNET on those COMPUTERS!. And they came up with…. We Be Peeps Peeps R Us

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The History of Infopeople

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  1. The History of Infopeople 60,000 BC to the Present

  2. In the beginning…

  3. 60,000 years or so later… Computers!!

  4. Then a brilliant idea was born Train librarians in the use of this new-fangled thing called the INTERNET on those COMPUTERS!

  5. And they came up with… • We Be Peeps • Peeps R Us • Infolibs • Library Schmibrary • INJABA (It’s Not Just About Books Anymore) none of which quite worked

  6. 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

  7. So they tried shortening it a bit… • InFORP - hmmm, too much like a burp • InFoPRO - closer, but too much like software • InFoPeople - hey… THAT’S IT!

  8. 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!!

  9. We’ve come a long way… • We dropped the capital F and capital P (yes, we spell it Infopeople now…) • We’ve worked our way through several State Librarians…

  10. And we’ve 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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