Stephen Abram, MLS the immediate past President 2008 of SLA and is Vice President, Innovation, for SirsiDynix.  He is Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute.  He is an SLA Fellow and the past president of the Ontario Library Association, SLA and the Canadian Library Association.  In June 2003 he was awarded SLA’s John Cotton Dana Award.  He received the AIIP Roger Summit Award in 2009. He is the author of Out Front with Stephen Abram and Stephen’s Lighthouse blog.