Panel

 **Database 2.0 - How smart will it be and will we be able to afford it?** Friday - 2:15Saturday - 10:30 & 12  What will content providers do for us tomorrow and how will they support 21st Century Learning? Will it be widgets and feeds and customization and media and interactivity and intuitively: What can we expect of Database 2.0? Joyce will pose these and other questions to our commercial educational partners. **Facilitator: Joyce Kasman Valenza, Springfield Township High School Library & //SLJ// blogger** **Participants:**
 * Andrew Schlessinger, CEO & Co-Founder, SAFARI Montage NDaddario@libraryvideo.com
 * Roger Rosen, President and CEO of Rosen Publishing Group rogerrosen@gmail.com
 * Michael Campbell,Director of Marketing, Follett Software mcampbell@fsc.follett.com
 * Alison Zepp, Follett Library Resources, alison.zepp@flr.follett.com
 * Todd Brekhus, President, Capstone Digital Solutions t.brekhus@capstonepub.com
 * Jay Flynn, Vice-President and Publisher, K-12, Gale, jay.flynn@cengage.com
 * Scholastic?

Database 2.0 - How smart will it be and will we be able to afford it? Joyce and our esteemed panel of database representatives and publishers will chat about the future of our beloved databases. Joyce will pose a few critical questions to our commercial educational partners, including:

•What keeps the vendors up at night? What will content providers do for us tomorrow? What can we expect of Database 2.0? • How will databases support 21st Century Learning? • Will we be able to set up RSS feeds? • Will we be able to store database links in tools like Diigo and Delicious? • Will searches grow more visual or intuitive? • Will they better support the limited vocabulary of learners? • What can we expect in terms of media? • Will citation help adjust to new MLA guidelines? • How will databases reflect the 2.0 notion of community and sharing? • What about widgets? • How will databases and librarians work to make proprietary content as available and handy as Google/Facebook/Youtube content? • Will states and library systems and school districts be able to continue to support our databases? And, if not, what next? • And how can we work together to defend the value of this content in an open source, information-wants-to-be-free landscape?
 * Will it play nice with other tools? NoodleTools? Turnitin?

How can we ALL work together to promote the industry? How do we make databases sexy? Maybe, we need a slogan: ????? //Databases, don't leave school without them?// Do we need a cross-industry campaign? (Quote from David Jakes: //What is it about librarians and their databases?//) What about new resistance to pay for content?