LJ: Do Libries Innovate?

LJ Newswire has a great post describing the "great debate" sponsored by LITA. I found this story presents a view of the debate not written about by others. I would like to hear from Andrew Pace, Karen Schneider, Joe Janes, and Stephen Abram on their view of its accuracy.

ALA 2007 roundup: stats, SPARC, Google, and innovation - Library Journal: "Do Libraries Innovate? Librarian Culture Comes in for Some Criticism

It was billed as the great debate, taking on a key question for libraries: Do libraries innovate? Sponsored by LITA (Library and Information Technology Association), the panel was moderated by Andrew Pace of North Carolina State University, and featured the University of Washington's Joe Janes, SirsiDynix's Stephen Abram, and blogger and library consultant Karen Schneider. While the panel was lively and drew its share of laughs, the serious question of whether libraries innovate drew a mixed response (with Abram saying no), and a rebuke to what the panel saw as an excessively negative librarian culture which doesn't tolerate failure or encourage experimentation. "