Future Library Forum is planning an Unconference for 2015. It will be a cross-sector gathering (Public/Academic/Commercial), with participants from all levels. It will offer a unique opportunity for discussion around the future of libraries. If you're interested I am putting out a 'Call For Thoughts' (see slides), and would appreciate any feedback. Some brief ideas of my own are included, but in good unconference style I'd like to crowdsource the agenda. There will be no cost for attending either in person (the event likely to be in London, UK), and you can additionally follow via social media. Hopefully this will be the first of many Forum meets in various locations around the globe.

2. Future Library Forum develops discussion
around Futurology of Libraries and Information
Services.
It aims to provide crowdsourced insight into the
direction of travel of Libraries and Information
Services to inform practitioners, corporates and
policy-makers.
It is a space for considerations beyond the near
future.
The Forum is an open global community on
Google+, Twitter (@futur_lib), and on LinkedIn
(Group: 'Future Library Forum').

3. WHAT IS AN ‘UNCONFERENCE’?
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has
been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to
avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference, such as fees,
sponsored presentations, and top-down organization.
Typically at an unconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the
beginning of the meeting. Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a
topic can claim a time and a space. Unconferences typically feature open
discussions rather than having a single speaker at the front of the room
giving a talk, although any format is permitted. This form of conference is
particularly useful when the attendees generally have a high level of
expertise or knowledge in the field the conference convenes to discuss.

4. SO THE FUTURE LIBRARY FORUM UNCONFERENCE IS …
… a Collaborative & Participatory
Networked Event involving
Present & Future Leaders and
Thinkers from across the Library
& Information World, brought
together in a unique mix to
discuss …

6. MAKER-SPACES. EBOOKS. DIGITAL SERVICES.
OPEN ACCESS. BOOKLESS.
Where are we going?
Where do we want to be?
What’s happening to Budgets?
Is the Library Model Sustainable?
Will the Profession Survive?
What is the 10, 20, 50 Year Horizon?
And we’ll look beyond traditional Library Studies to
consider Societal and Technological Change …

7. FUTUROLOGY.
Futures studies (also called futurology and futurism) is the study of
postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the
worldviews and myths that underlie them. Futures studies seeks to
understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly
change. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based
understanding of past and present, and to determine the
likelihood of future events and trends. Unlike the physical sciences
where a narrower, more specified system is studied, futures studies
concerns a much bigger and more complex world system. The
methodology and knowledge are much less proven as compared to
natural science or even social science like sociology, economics, and
political science.

8. FutureLibraryForum
@gmail.com
The future is what
we make of it.