Library Retreat #3

1. Milner As a Place Represented in our Vision Statement as center for Information, Culture, and Technology.

2. The Athenaeum – Goucher College: The intellectual, cultural, and social crossroads of the college

5. Lewis Library: Princeton University

7. North Carolina State University Received a $313,000 from IMLS to develop a roadmap for how 21st century libraries can best give a competitive edge to faculty, researchers, graduate students and a new generation of always-connected, technology-savvy, and highly-engaged undergraduates. The NCSU Libraries will lead a collaborative project to prototype, develop, and disseminate plans for how mobile technologies, gesture-based computing, large scale visualization, enhanced reality can help academic libraries create the next generation of technology-rich collaborative learning spaces.

14. Urban Mediaspace Public library of Aarhus, Denmark Vision to become a new visual and cultural focal point for the city whilst pioneering the next generation of library design.

17. Why? Digital Natives are defined by their activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos, and audio.

19. 3 out of 4 Americans use social technology

20. 24 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute This will take 818 years to view

21. More than 2,000,000,000views per day

22. 6,300,000,000videos are available on YouTube

23. The English Wikipedia has 3,316,695 articles written by 282,888people and edited 3.8 million

24. 1400% is the monthly growth rate of Twitter users 50 million tweets per day 600 tweets per second

25. 5,500,000,000 pictures archived on Flickers

26. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook 500 million active user

27. 3,000,000,000 hours a week spent on playing online video games

28. Avg. young person will spend 10,000hours by age 21 while the number of school hours - 5th grade to high school graduation is 10,080hours

29. Milner’s New Elements Multifunctional Space (includes Virtual World Station, exhibition, mini theatre, etc.) Podcast and Video Production Studios Gamers lounge

30. Main Features Technology presence Social space

31. Milner’s 3rd floor