The Ultimate Debate: Who Controls the Future of Search sponosred by LITA’s Internet Resources Interest Group Saturday June 24, Convention Center Moderator: Roy Tennant, California Digital Library Disputants: Stephen Abram, Sirsi/Dynix (also president-elect of SLA) Joe Janes, Univ. of Washington Be it resolved that the future of search will occur without library influence. A series of sample questions, paraphrased as: Will large commercial search services like Google replace libraries? Should libraries cooperate with large commercial services by sharing metadata? What would Google Scholar or similar need to have before libraries abandon their own metasearch? Or are they there now? Will libraries incorporate the better search tools into their own catalogs? Will user familiarity with the new tools make library catalogs obsolete? What is your worst nightmare and finest vision for the future of library search services. How likely do you think either is? *NB by Jason: the “more” is a…