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School Libraries:Technology Trends and the eBook Challenge Stephen Abram, MLS Monroe County BOCES Rochester, NY April 2, 2012

ChangeThese slides are available at Stephen’s Lighthouse blog

Several Things Should Happen Today You should have fun first. You should get too much information You should share with each other You should get new viewpoints and perspectives that challenge the norm You should question the status quo You are responsible for your own learning

We Only Get So Many Once-in-a-LifetimeChances To Do Great Things

News Flash“The Internet and technology have now progressed to their infancy”

So how must library andeducator strategies change?

Change can happen very fast

Sensemaking

What is an EXPERIENCE? What is a library experience?What differentiates a library experience from a transaction? What differentiates public libraries from Google/Bing?

The Evolution of Answers

Why do people ask questions?Is your library experience conceptually organized around answers and programs? Or collections, technology and buildings?

Why do people ask questions? Who, What, When, Where How & Why Data – Information – Knowledge - Behavior To Learn or to Know To Acquire Information, Clarify, Tune To Decide, to Solve, to Choose, to Delay To Interview, Delve, Interact, Progress To Entertain or Socialize To Reduce Fear To Help, Aid, Cure, Be a Friend To Win A Bet

News Flash News FlashTech Shift Happens

Seth Godin on Decisions (June 8, 2011)o Which of these are getting in the way?o You dont know what to doo You dont know how to do ito You dont have the authority or the resources to do ito Youre afraido You believe that money matters mosto Once you figure out whats getting in the way, its far easier to find the answer (or decide to work on a different problem).o Stuck is a state of mind, and its curable.

What Are Libraries Really For?• Community• Learning• Discovery• Progress• Research (Applied and Theoretical)• Cultural & Knowledge Custody• Economic Impact

Columbus, Cook, Magellan and Libraries:Searching for the corners of the earth, the edge of the oceans and discovering dragons ...

Cook’s Voyage

Columbus, Cabot, Cortes

Magellan Columbus Cook

Questions for Libraries Today:1. Are our priorities right?2. Are learning, research, discovery changing materially and what is actually changing?3. Books. Meh…4. What is the role for school librarians in the real future (that is not an extension of the past)?

Grocery Stores

Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

Let’s chatWhat is a meal in education and learning terms?

The newbibliography and collection development KNOWLEDGE PORTALS KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, INFORMATION & RESEARCH COMMONS

Chefs, counsellors, teachers, magiciansLibrarians play a vital role in building the critical connections between information , knowledge and learning.

Service Metaphoro Cafeteriaso Take Outo Private Dining Roomso Private Chefso Variety

You have the tools.

Stop Making it So Hard!

Trans-Literacy: Move beyond reading & PC skills  Reading literacy  News literacy  Numeracy  Technology literacy  Critical literacy  Information literacy  Social literacy  Media literacy  Computer literacy  Adaptive literacy  Web literacy  Research literacy  Content literacy  Academic literacy  Written literacy  Reputation, Etc.

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