This document summarizes Joe Murphy's presentation on technology trends for information professionals at the Internet Librarian International conference in London in 2013. Some of the key trends discussed include the growing role of makerspaces and libraries as places of creation, the relationship between libraries and startups/entrepreneurship, libraries serving as innovation hubs for their cities, and new areas like wearable technology, the internet of things, and connected smart cars. Murphy emphasizes libraries' strengths in areas like storytelling, lifelong learning, and serving as trusted guides amidst technological change.

1. Tech Trends for
Information Professionals
Joe Murphy
Internet Librarian International – London 2013
@libraryfuture

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3. Joe Murphy
Director, Library Futures Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
Mission:
• Empower librarians dreaming big and creating
an inspirational futures
• Secure robust roles for libraries in the future
• Help keep libraries a remarkable part of the
conversation
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7. The Greatest Brand of all Time – Books. Stories
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8. Moonshots
around core strengths

9. Is change the new normal?
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10. What are
libraries
about
now?
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11. Library as
creation
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12. Where Maker
Spaces will take
libraries – what is
next
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13. The Library
& the Entrepreneur
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Libraries & Start Ups
Librarians as Entrepreneurs (intrepreneurs)
Libraries & Start up Culture
The Library & the City
Shareholders/stakeholders

14. The Library and the City
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/05/31/187316703/Ri
o-Goes-High-Tech-With-An-Eye-Toward-Olympics-World-Cup
City innovation projects
parallel a library mission
http://www.npr.org/2013/07/11/201200441/innovationcenters-may-be-cornerstones-of-new-urban-economy
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15. Do your most creative.
And bring us all along
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16. Walls or blank canvas?
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17. Ideas as
connection
points
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19. “I am glad someone still believes in libraries”
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20. Libraries like watches?
- obsolete because
tech shift?
- new clientele?
- new uses ?
- serve the still loyal
market?
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21. Solve the pain points
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23. Rooted in ideas
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24. Marketing Win
Focuses on shared cultural
experience, not name
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26. Issues in Tech News
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Automatic Content Recognition (ACR)
Interactive Visual Displays
NFC
Ambient Alerts - Google Now

27. Rebranding or
re-enforcing?
The question as capital
Do libraries have more
future than past?
Brand as question not as
answer.
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28. Gartner’s top Strategic Tech trends for 2014
http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/show-reports/316750-gartner-s-top-10strategic-technology-trends-for-2014

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30. Tech
(re)applied
inside
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31. Next Areas
• Internet of Things
– Smart Everyday Objects
• Wearable Tech
– Google Glass - - Smart Watches
• The Quantified Self Qualified
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32. Connected Smart Cars
• As platform for content/service
• As interactive agents
– A sender of signals – means alert the library etc
that it is within access range
– - an extension of mobile ambient location apps?
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34. FAA panel says (non connected) devices will be safe to
use on most parts of flights.
• Process reflects our struggle to catch up policy to
expectations.
• Sometimes change takes time for valid reasons.
Example of working in rules valid in the past and role
of tech patience.

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36. More social aspects of content
Shift from discovery to engagement

37. "very first data storage system" may have been discovered
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeolog
y/clues-to-prehistoric-code-foundinmesopotamia-131011.htm

38. Balance
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39. Tunnel vision
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40. More streaming of traditionally print media
A new gap that librarians can fill,
advocate for the digital reader
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41. Amazon Kindle Matchbook
• Bought the print edition? Now
also get the e copy for less.
• Could be reverse …
• Reflects cross format reading
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1001373341
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42. Twitter experiments
https://twitter.com/EventParrot
Twitter trying private messaging for news sharing?
DMs to counter tweet drowning?

43. Maturation of media partnerships
https://twitter.com/NBA/statuses/335946268192940033

44. Social profitable with Media partnerships
• Twitter and ratings
– Sharknado effect
• Facebook sending TV networks Weekly Data
on Chatter about their Programs
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/29/facebook-woos-tvnetworks-with-more-data/

45. Media tipping
points
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46. eBooks as subscription takes off
http://www.scribd.com/browse/Books-Nonfiction?p=3

47. Netflix(S) for Books
- 24Symbols – Oyster – etc –
- Streaming – Subscription – Freemium @libraryfuture

48. Ouch
Are we so
indistinguishable from
book services etc?
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49. Book strong
and
future ready

50. In competition w/ Netflix/Hulu, CBS is promoting
Video on Demand the day After Shows Air
• Expansion/acceptance of viewing on demand
• Another Napster moment for TV
• Amount of TV watched on demand rose >40%
this year
• And yet – broadcast TV is not dead

52. Drones + ecommerce delivery + Student services platform
• New tech leads to experiments
• Regulation context – Public perception.
• Content as test case - “if you can deliver a
textbook, then things such as urgent medical
deliveries, … and other e-commerce will be
much more viable.” (Ahmed Haider, CEO of Zookal, co-founder of
http://vimeo.com/76606906
Flirtey)

53. Little Mermaid Second Screen Live
BYOD content engagement encouraged
The Second “Screen” as cross format
• Audible.com (owned by
Amazon.com)
• Original content
• New cross format
partnership – video to
audio.
http://www.audible.com/pd/Arts-Entertainment/Homeland-Phantom-PainAudiobook/B00FN4UVF2/ref=a_hp_c1_all_1_1_ga

54. We don’t have to
cut out out heart
to adapt

55. “There will definitely be some boats that will be
rocked by this.” – Google search algorithm updated
Analyst Sameet Sinha - http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/09/26/google-overhauls-search-engine/2877491/

56. “Food, Water, Shelter and Facebook”
“Connection is a profound and
basic need.”
(Matthew Lieberman - "Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect")
Article in Aljazeera America by Carlin Flora
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/12/food-watershelterandfacebook.html

57. Never underestimate the power of
a social (mobile) librarian.
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Curator
Creator
Educator
Filter
Connector
Facilitator
Experimenter
Beacon
http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/supporting-usersorganizations/2013-08/i-am-social-librarian-infographic-free-download
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58. https://twitter.com/Nobelprize_org/statuses/388258838744297472
I too check my tweets before my phone in the morning

59. http://tumblr.thefjp.org/post/63761388198/mapping-internet-populations-and-digital-divide - By the Oxford Internet Institute
Geographical space represents absolute size of
each country’s online population. Color refers to
the % of its overall population online.
Latin America hosts almost as many Internet users as the US
Global mobile penetration is nearly billion subscribers
China, India, and Japan
have more internet users
than Europe and North
America combined

60. http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/11/rappers-are-rapping-about-being-verified-or-not-on-twitter/
http://rapgenius.com/Slaughterhouse-funkmaster-flex-freestyle-lyrics
https://twitter.com/JP_Books/status/385783294807126016

61. “The price of oil just went up because traders misread a tweet”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/10/theprice-of-oil-just-went-up-because-traders-misread-a-tweet/
Impact of
the medium
https://twitter.com/IDFSpokesperson/statuses/388302956799336449
Hash tag literacy ?

62. Vine – micro
mobile video
- Hyper Short Video & Creative Economy – The Loop
– Mobile – Gif Economy
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63. PC sales drop tied to iPad growth
http://www.statista.com/topics/1070/pcs/chart/1281/pc-shipment-growth/%20
“Traditional PC Shipments to Decline 10.6 Percent in 2013,
While Tablet Shipments Increase 67.9 Percent”
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2525515

64. “Reading Literary Fiction Improves
Theory of Mind” – Science
• “experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to
better performance on tests of affective ToM”
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/10/02/science.1239918.abstract?sid=f192d0cc-1443-4bf1-a043-61410da39519
• Reading is social because you enter an imaginary social
environment.
• Libraries and people intelligence
• A rethinking of value from traditional librarian intelligences

65. With reach comes reflection
The Jungle of our time?
Our profession often focuses on the
societal impact of new tech areas.
http://trends.ifla.org/

66. Google Chromecast
TV still a dominant screen – Mobile as source Implications for screen projection – new life for the 1st
screen – screen sharing – battle for the living room – a
new old platform for the library –
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67. A country’s lack and a service
the Library can fill
Americans lacking
“technical skills needed
for a modern workplace”
including ““problemsolving in technology-rich
environments,” on using
digital devices to find and
evaluate information,
communicate, and
perform common tasks.”
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/07/us/united-states-laggingin-skills.html?ref=us

68. "very first data storage system" may have been discovered
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeolog
y/clues-to-prehistoric-code-foundinmesopotamia-131011.htm
- Wall Street use – The Impermanence of Messages - Library
Archiving Issues? – Communication Around Pictures – From
cultural norms to communication assets –
Snapchat
- people do want default of privacy in apps – Providing
reference in Snapchat
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69. When trends
jump to
new areas.
Trend of auto
updates/uploads
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70. Subscription
everything
Indoor mapping – content
partnerships with location
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71. When the message is … “no”
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72. http://explore.noodle.org/post/62987270909/how-to-make-your-own-luck
Via https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/385872875603120128
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73. Story of Missed Value Moby Dick and the Librarian
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74. Stability Amidst Tech Change our Brand?
• Slow TV
• Slow fashion –
– Zady (… vision: to combat the fast-fashion craze by providing a
platform for only those companies that care about timeless style and
solid construction.” – Looks out for producers and consumers)
• Slow food
• Appropriate slant for libraries?

75. What I need from you Give us (more) your
inspirational examples we
can strive towards.
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76. The joy & inspiration libraries
bring just by having a familiar title
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78. Ready – Go!
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79. The Beginning
Joe Murphy
Director, Library Futures Innovative Interfaces, inc.
Twitter @libraryfuture
LinkedIn
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