Top Technology Trends ALA 2007

top technology trends twittered @ ALA 2007 (Washington)

toc
tech stuff
opac sucks
open source
mobile
interaction
communication
google
long tail
library2.0
web2.0
awareness
image
some library2.0 mashups
slow library movement
personal collections
copyrights and privacy

opac sucks (1)
the opac is decoupled from the Integrated Library System (ILS)
faceted search: e.g. Aquabrowser (Medialab/TLS/Bowker), Encore (Innovative Interfaces), Primo (ExLibris)
ranking / sort algorithms: e.g. holds, copies, circulations, frbr
frbr
web2.0 features: tagging, lists, ... – mydiscoveries
contextualization (evolution form to content) - fictionconnection

opac sucks (2)
semantic web
tag clouds – grokker
natural language search – hakia , powerset
new definition of local search engine – Worldcat Local , Aquabrowser Gent , ...

open source
Ubuntu
office applications
web2.0 applications
Integrated Library Systems
- Evergreen / Pines / Equinox
- Koha / Liblime
We are heading towards an unprecendented disruption of the consolidated ILS market (Marshall Breeding)

mobile
wi-fi commonplace
mobile devices
mobile applications and content
roaming users (applications on USB drive, desktop on web, web storage, ...)
Where is the software going to live? (John Blyberg)

interaction
We are moving away from the keyboard/mouse paradigm (Jeremy Frumkin)
touch
movement
very, very high resolution
Nintendo Wii
iPhone
Microsoft Photosynth
Microsoft Surface (and parody )

communication
E-mail is dead (Michelle Lentz)
blogs (time sensitive)
wiki’s (not time sensitive)
rss-feeds
instant messaging
text messaging
private (trusted) e-mail

google

long tail time sales (c) Chris Anderson

long tail
We are busy creating a demand for the long tail, but we also need support for the distribution of it (Lori Bowen Ayre)
make it easy - reduce transaction costs (Lorcan Dempsey)
make it personal
make it fast and convenient - RFID, 24/7, ILL, home delivery
cf. Five laws of library science (S. R. Ranganathan, )
Books are for use.
Every reader his or her book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
The library is a growing organism.
1931

long tail
not only about the physical library
We are going back to the closed stacks : e lectronic resources are designed so poorly that they are destined to fail (Andrew Pace)

Discovery has left the building, distribution will also (Joan Frye Williams)

Espresso book machine ( On demand books )
Print on demand publishing

buy it! link

web 2.0 (c) Tim O’Reilly

discover web 2.0!

you are not alone (c) Business Week June 2007

library 2.0 (c) Bonaria Biancu

awareness
If you don’t change, you won’t remain what you are (Karen Schneider)
sense of urgency
age and generation problem
experience and play
going where the users are
authority shift

http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/
( Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County)

http://explorediscoverplay.blogspot.com/

http://www.pictureaustralia.org

http://teens.denverlibrary.org/ (Denver Public Library)
Children are plugged in until they enter school (Michael Stephens)

http://www.library.nashville.org
(Nashville Public Library)

Secondlife

Slow library movement
locality is vital to libraries
mindfulness matters
technology should be used ‘where it works’
However, once you get to the point where most library patrons in most places have at least nominal access to the same materials, what makes your library, the one in your town, yours? (Jessamyn West)

http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ (Allen County Public Library)

http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/

http://www.rocwiki.org/

personal collections
Personal value precedes network value (Boaz Leskes)
Librarything books
Del.icio.us social bookmarks
Zotero research projects
Flickr pictures
MySpace , Facebook , LinkedIn people
...

privacy and copyrights
new business models
pay per view
digital lending ( Overdrive , Onleihe )
streaming
focus on out-of-copyright materials
copyrights on community created content
privacy problems (US)

warnings
Data lives forever or for 5 years, whatever comes first. So, can I get my data out? (David Lankes)
Trial and error (no standards, perpetual bèta)
Mind featuritis!
(c) Kathy Sierra

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