Definitely Digital: An Exploration of the Future of Knowledge on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Friday, January 19, 2007 — Grand Hyatt Seattle, Eliza Anderson Amphitheater This preconference is the first event of the 50th anniversary of ALCTS. Information will be made available via the ALCTS website after the conference. It is co-sponsored by Amazon.com. There were four speakers plus a panel discussion. My notes below give the major points from the four speakers, but I have not reported on the panel discussion, which covered the questions discussed in the pre-conference blog: Digiblog, the ALCTS Blog. First Speaker James Hilton, “Scholarship in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges†VP & CIO, U of Virginia He began by listing and explaining some assumptions about scholarly publishing. Publishing is a basic need of scholarship because it is how collaboration takes place. The…