AALL PLL Summit in Boston Juy 2012l

1. Special & Law Libraries:
The Technology Ecology in 2020
Stephen Abram, MLS
Gale Cengage Learning
AALL PLL Summit
Boston, July 21, 2012

9. Experience Portals
Virtual Work and Learning Commons
Not . . .
Computer Commons
Intranets
Information Commons
Knowledge Commons

11. Grocery Stores

12. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

13. Cookbooks, Chefs . . . Info Kitchens

14. Meals

15. Mobile
Personal & Private
Truly at the point of need
NotReallyAPhone, NFC, Tablets

17. Linked Data
OCLC, Trove, …
Imagine the Nextgen Cloud
Chapters, Articles, Objects
SaaS, IaaS, PaaS

19. Device Agnosticism
Browsers, Phones, Tablets, eBooks,
Media, LMS, ILS, …
XML, HTML5, etc.

21. Private Social Networks
Not Traditional Intranets
Walled Gardens are different
Multiple Networks & Cohorts

23. Audio and Streaming Media
Search engines for audio
Search engines for video
Sentiment Search
POV Search

25. eLearning Maturity
Beyond the PPT course and Webinar
True continuous learning and
development

27. Identity
Copyright, IP, & Privacy

29. Advanced eBooks
Not just a traditional book
Editorial and computed links
Addition of visuals, media, sound,
exercises, assessments, analytics

31. Professional Conversations
Access to Expertise and Expert
Networks
Challenge to Professional Firms and
Associations

33. Behavioral Analytics
Using digital behaviours to improve
and tune to the user experience

34. Analytics

35. Dynamic Prescriptive Workflow
and Creativity
Tacit versus Explicit
Workflow can be standardized while
creativity can be enhanced

37. Further Rise of the
Embedded Librarian
Up Your Game

42. …an experience in
every strategy

43. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA
VP strategic partnerships and markets
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