Stephen Abram's presentation discusses the need for libraries to change their strategies in response to rapid technological changes. Libraries must transition beyond being solely focused on books and move towards becoming knowledge portals that emphasize quality content in all formats. Libraries also need to expand information literacy programs and become format agnostic to better serve patrons. Strategic analytics are important to measure libraries' impact, ROI, and value. If libraries embrace these changes, focus on questions rather than answers, and empower librarians, they can continue playing a vital role in communities.

1. FrankenLibraries: The FutureStephen Abram, MLSDover, DelawareJune 21, 2011

2. ChangeThese slides are available at Stephen’s Lighthouse blog

3. We Only Get So Many Once-in-a-Lifetime Chances To Do Great Things

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

8. So how must library and educator strategies change?

9. Change can happen very fast

10. Sensemaking

11. News FlashNews FlashTech Shift Happens

12. Seth Godin on Decisions (June 8, 2011)Which of the four are getting in the way?

13. You don't know what to do

14. You don't know how to do it

15. You don't have the authority or the resources to do it

16. You're afraid

17. Once you figure out what's getting in the way, it's far easier to find the answer (or decide to work on a different problem).

18. Stuck is a state of mind, and it's curable.

19. What Are Libraries Really For?Community

20. Learning

21. Discovery

22. Progress

23. Research (Applied and Theoretical)

24. Cultural & Knowledge Custody

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

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27. Cook’s Voyage

28. Columbus, Cabot, Cortes

29. MagellanColumbusCook

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

34. Grocery Stores

35. Grocery Stores

36. Grocery Stores

37. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

38. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

39. Meals

40. The new bibliography and collection developmentKNOWLEDGE PORTALSKNOWLEDGE,LEARNING,INFORMATION &RESEARCHCOMMONS

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

45. Service MetaphorCafeterias

46. Take Out

47. Private Dining Rooms

48. Private Chefs

49. VarietyYou have the tools.

50. Stop Making it so Hard!

51. Trans-Literacy: Move beyond reading & PC skills News literacy

52. Technology literacy

53. Information literacy

54. Media literacy

55. Adaptive literacy

56. Research literacy

57. Academic literacy

58. Reputation, Etc.

59. Reading literacy

60. Numeracy

61. Critical literacy

62. Social literacy

63. Computer literacy

64. Web literacy

65. Content literacy

66. Written literacy

67. Steal This Idea

68. List of content farms and general spammy user generated content sites:All Experts (allexperts.com)

69. Answers (answers.com)

70. Answer Bag (answerbag.com)

71. Articles Base (articlesbase.com)

72. Ask (ask.com)

73. Associated Content (associatedcontent.com)

74. BizRate (bizrate.com)

75. Buzle (buzzle.com)

76. Brothersoft (brothersoft.com)

77. Bytes (bytes.com)

78. ChaCha (chacha.com)

79. eFreedom (efreedom.com)

80. eHow (ehow.com)

81. Essortment (essortment.com)

82. Examiner (examiner.com)

83. Expert Village (expertvillage.com)

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85. Experts Exchange (experts-exchange.com)

86. eZine Articles (ezinearticles.com)

87. Find Articles (findarticles.com)

88. FixYa (fixya.com Helium (helium.com)