3. 1. What’s the future of pathways to
knowledge (reference expertise)?
2. What’s the future of public
technology and community
anchor institutions?
3. What’s the future of learning
“spaces”?
4.
5.
6. • People think libraries are important,
especially for communities
• People like and trust librarians
• People think libraries level of the playing
field for those without vast resources
• People think libraries provide services that
are hard to get elsewhere
• People believe libraries have rebranded
themselves as tech hubs
9. • How is it created? New scientific
method (and citizen scientists) …
Big data … Niches and argument
… Simulations and models
• What are its interfaces? New
displays … Networked data/info
… Gamified environments
• How is it disseminated? Social
networks and media … Flipped
schools
10. Q2: What is the future of
pathways to knowledge
(reference expertise)?
11. New:
Learning as a
process
We learn best
passively, by
listening and
watching
Old:
Learning as
transaction
We learn best
actively doing
and managing
our own
learning
12. Q3: What is the future of public
technology and community anchor
institutions?
13. February 11,
2016 13www.pewresearch.org
The clear public
mandate: Do
something for
education ….
Large majorities of
Americans see
libraries as part
of the
educational
ecosystem and as
resources for
promoting digital
and information
literacy.
17. New kinds of enrichment/entertainment are networked
and aimed at networked individuals
• Can be DIY and self-paced
• Can be experiential,
participatory
• Can be just-in time, real time
• Can draw on peers and their
networks
• Can be place-agnostic
• Can exploit augmented
reality
• Can have gaming
sensibilities
• Can exploit feedback and
analytics
20. How it works
• Motive – real-time awareness
• Content – headlines, new information, first
impressions matter most
• Demographics – under 30, tilts women
• Device – smartphone, tablet
• Engagement – glancing OR galvanized
• Influentials – brands
• ~ Mindshare – < 5% of media time
22. People: Serve and Learn
– Tech experts
– Master teachers in age
of lifelong learning
– Visionaries for the
knowledge economy
and the jobs it
produces
– Experts in sense-
making, context, and
curation
– Monitors of algorithms
Title: The puzzles librarians need to solve
Abstract: In order to thrive in the future, librarians will need to be great forecasters and innovators. There are key puzzles they need to figure out. Among them: What’s the future of personal enrichment and entertainment? What’s the future of people’s pathways to knowledge and reference expertise? What’s the future of public technology and community anchor institutions? What’s the future of learning “spaces”? What’s the future of attention and its structural holes? Lee Rainie of the Pew Research Center will describe how his organization’s research provides guideposts for librarians along three dimensions of library activity: the people, the place, and the platform.
Homework: Too Big To Know (David Weinberger)
Susannah book
The big data book about new paradigm
Motive – browsing for updates / checking in / catching up
Content – News (very broad definition), social updates
Device – Any
Mental engagement / frame of mind – continuous partial attention
Gatekeepers and influencers – editors and social networks
Proportion of time – quarter to a third of media time
Best media strategy – apps, shareable content, mediated by networks, curated by editors
Unique point – this is new phenomenon in the digital age
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