Income inequality in Ohio increased from 1979 to 2011, with the top 1% seeing income growth of 70% while the bottom 99% saw incomes decrease by 7.7%. Demographic trends show more diverse families, more people living alone, and changes in how people work and experience income inequality. Reading habits are also changing, with 1 in 4 people using ebooks while 7 in 10 still read print. The media and technology landscape is experiencing a golden age of content creation and learning through big data and the curation of online content as the web celebrates its 25th anniversary. Libraries and nonprofits are exploring new ways to share resources, tell community stories, and serve as hubs through industrial engineering and cool designs.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document outlines the strategic plan for Schlow Library from 2013-2016. It discusses disruptive technologies affecting libraries and how the plan was developed through community surveys and reports. The strategic plan contains six targets: 1) Expanding virtual access to the library 2) Enhancing early childhood and family programs 3) Strengthening community partnerships 4) Establishing the library as a community hub 5) Promoting online learning opportunities and 6) Ensuring long-term financial stability through donors and endowments.
The document provides guidance on assessing library performance through benchmarking and other metrics. It discusses determining why an assessment is needed, what to measure like inputs, outputs and processes. It also outlines finding peer libraries to benchmark against and cautions that benchmarks need context. Specific benchmarking tools are recommended for public and academic libraries, and predictors of public library success are listed. Finally, it discusses gathering customer feedback through various survey methods.
Library trustees play an important role in fundraising and advocacy for their libraries. Trustees should promote the value and impact of library services to gain community support. Effective fundraising and advocacy helps libraries secure necessary funding to continue providing valuable resources and programs for their patrons.
This document outlines 16 trends that libraries may face in the coming years: low literacy skills and lack of internet access present challenges; diversity is increasing as minorities become the majority by 2042; "solo living" and "niche aging" reflect demographic shifts; more people will need caregiver support; obesity remains problematic; do-it-yourself culture is on the rise; society moves to cashless transactions; environmental issues cause fear; empowered consumers take privacy and digital differentiation into their own hands. Ohio libraries are trained to address these trends through leadership.
This document discusses benchmarking libraries by comparing key metrics and statistics. It provides sources for benchmark data on public, academic, and school libraries. Metrics discussed include expenditures, circulation, programs, visits, demographics of service areas. The Hennen ratings weights different metrics to calculate library scores. Case studies show libraries improving outcomes by increasing collections, outlets, and programs with fewer staff. Benchmarking allows libraries to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities in comparison to peer institutions.
Income inequality in Ohio increased from 1979 to 2011, with the top 1% seeing income growth of 70% while the bottom 99% saw incomes decrease by 7.7%. Demographic trends show more diverse families, more people living alone, and changes in how people work and experience income inequality. Reading habits are also changing, with 1 in 4 people using ebooks while 7 in 10 still read print. The media and technology landscape is experiencing a golden age of content creation and learning through big data and the curation of online content as the web celebrates its 25th anniversary. Libraries and nonprofits are exploring new ways to share resources, tell community stories, and serve as hubs through industrial engineering and cool designs.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document outlines the strategic plan for Schlow Library from 2013-2016. It discusses disruptive technologies affecting libraries and how the plan was developed through community surveys and reports. The strategic plan contains six targets: 1) Expanding virtual access to the library 2) Enhancing early childhood and family programs 3) Strengthening community partnerships 4) Establishing the library as a community hub 5) Promoting online learning opportunities and 6) Ensuring long-term financial stability through donors and endowments.
The document provides guidance on assessing library performance through benchmarking and other metrics. It discusses determining why an assessment is needed, what to measure like inputs, outputs and processes. It also outlines finding peer libraries to benchmark against and cautions that benchmarks need context. Specific benchmarking tools are recommended for public and academic libraries, and predictors of public library success are listed. Finally, it discusses gathering customer feedback through various survey methods.
Library trustees play an important role in fundraising and advocacy for their libraries. Trustees should promote the value and impact of library services to gain community support. Effective fundraising and advocacy helps libraries secure necessary funding to continue providing valuable resources and programs for their patrons.
This document outlines 16 trends that libraries may face in the coming years: low literacy skills and lack of internet access present challenges; diversity is increasing as minorities become the majority by 2042; "solo living" and "niche aging" reflect demographic shifts; more people will need caregiver support; obesity remains problematic; do-it-yourself culture is on the rise; society moves to cashless transactions; environmental issues cause fear; empowered consumers take privacy and digital differentiation into their own hands. Ohio libraries are trained to address these trends through leadership.
This document discusses benchmarking libraries by comparing key metrics and statistics. It provides sources for benchmark data on public, academic, and school libraries. Metrics discussed include expenditures, circulation, programs, visits, demographics of service areas. The Hennen ratings weights different metrics to calculate library scores. Case studies show libraries improving outcomes by increasing collections, outlets, and programs with fewer staff. Benchmarking allows libraries to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities in comparison to peer institutions.
This document discusses benchmarking libraries by comparing key metrics and statistics. It provides examples of how the local community has been ranked, as well as metrics for comparing the library to peer libraries and national standards. These include operating expenditures, programs attended, internet use, and other usage statistics. The document also shows examples of benchmarks that have been used to compare libraries and evaluate their performance.
The document warns against wiping out bacteria, as they play an important role in ecosystems. While some bacteria cause disease, many species are beneficial and help with processes like decomposition. Care should be taken to not eliminate all bacteria as that could disrupt natural systems.
The 2012 library budget proposes increasing spending on staff hours, a strategic planning survey and meetings, and a new line item for BookFest PA. Revenues are expected to decrease from fines and interest but increase from contributions and book sales. Personnel expenditures will rise due to 2% staff raises and higher medical insurance costs. A new cyberfraud insurance policy and increased costs for financial services, audits, mileage reimbursement, and janitorial services are budgeted. Capital projects include enhancements to the second floor, replacing public blinds, and migrating to a new horizon system. The long-term financial picture requires funding capital improvements in a flat revenue environment through advanced fundraising and parking revenues.
Portion of the program, "From Dreams to Ribbon Cutting," PA Library Association conference, 2011, State College, PA. Review the roles of library staff, trustees, friends, elected officials and donors in the building project.
This document discusses how organizations can respond effectively to crises by keeping their core functions, communicating well, and redefining their financing. It suggests organizations focus on hours, materials, programs and outreach as their core and consider options like staff travel/training reductions, salary freezes, pursuing more grants, and utilizing more volunteers to address budget issues rather than cutting programs or hours.
The document discusses various library rating systems and scores, and questions whether they accurately reflect libraries' performance. It provides examples of three fictional libraries' scores on the Hennen rating system and shows how their policies could affect circulation numbers. The document also lists some common library statistics collected and factors like population demographics that may impact a library's use and funding.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
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The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Discover top-tier mobile app development services, offering innovative solutions for iOS and Android. Enhance your business with custom, user-friendly mobile applications.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
This document discusses benchmarking libraries by comparing key metrics and statistics. It provides examples of how the local community has been ranked, as well as metrics for comparing the library to peer libraries and national standards. These include operating expenditures, programs attended, internet use, and other usage statistics. The document also shows examples of benchmarks that have been used to compare libraries and evaluate their performance.
The document warns against wiping out bacteria, as they play an important role in ecosystems. While some bacteria cause disease, many species are beneficial and help with processes like decomposition. Care should be taken to not eliminate all bacteria as that could disrupt natural systems.
The 2012 library budget proposes increasing spending on staff hours, a strategic planning survey and meetings, and a new line item for BookFest PA. Revenues are expected to decrease from fines and interest but increase from contributions and book sales. Personnel expenditures will rise due to 2% staff raises and higher medical insurance costs. A new cyberfraud insurance policy and increased costs for financial services, audits, mileage reimbursement, and janitorial services are budgeted. Capital projects include enhancements to the second floor, replacing public blinds, and migrating to a new horizon system. The long-term financial picture requires funding capital improvements in a flat revenue environment through advanced fundraising and parking revenues.
Portion of the program, "From Dreams to Ribbon Cutting," PA Library Association conference, 2011, State College, PA. Review the roles of library staff, trustees, friends, elected officials and donors in the building project.
This document discusses how organizations can respond effectively to crises by keeping their core functions, communicating well, and redefining their financing. It suggests organizations focus on hours, materials, programs and outreach as their core and consider options like staff travel/training reductions, salary freezes, pursuing more grants, and utilizing more volunteers to address budget issues rather than cutting programs or hours.
The document discusses various library rating systems and scores, and questions whether they accurately reflect libraries' performance. It provides examples of three fictional libraries' scores on the Hennen rating system and shows how their policies could affect circulation numbers. The document also lists some common library statistics collected and factors like population demographics that may impact a library's use and funding.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
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The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
This is a mini-presentation of some trends, encompassing society, technology and libraries, that are affecting public libraries. These are current trends, not futuristic outlooks. Many of these are actively impacting the way libraries are used now and in the next couple of years. Knowing and responding to these developments are key to meeting community needs and keeping the library a vital civic organization. As I summarize each trend, I’ll also tell you how other libraries are reacting.
First, let’s take a moment to reflect on the world a baby born today will inhabit.
What other things have been a big part of your life that the baby won’t know? (Walkman, typewriter, CB radio…)A good library will thrive in a changing environment like this. Monitor community trends and changes; be flexible, ready to give up sacred practices of the past. And libraries are doing just that!
Family and household demographics are changing: Globally, more people living alone, and liking it, than ever before. 28% of US population. Library social events and clubs. Marriage: Young people delaying marriage, gay marriages skyrocketing. Parenting: Single parents, same-sex parents, multi-ethnic parents, more stay-at-home dads. Parenting resources; multi-agency child screenings and programs; Night and Dad storytimes. New public health issues include childhood obesity, online bullying, auto accidents due to texting, etc. Partnerships with social service agencies focused on community concerns.
Niche aging65+, 13% of population, By 2030, will be 29% of populationThis group is like a parking lot of used cars!Every 8th person is 65+1 in 6 people are caring for elderly or disabled person, average 20 hours/ week caring for loved ones51% of care recipients live in their own homeLibraries provide a variety of services to meet needs: collections and programs at retirement communities, volunteer and social opportunities, intellectual stimulation, grandparent experiences.
Meet the “Vigilante Consumer”, who has mastered frugality and the complaint process. Wants the best price. Posts complaints about service on social media. Learns to dodge automated phone systems. Extreme couponing. Bashes government employees. Library response: Consumer Reports. Library user reviews. Customer feedback surveys and corrective action.
Majority are femaleUse library website 1+ times per weekEducated > high schoolAge 21-60Read 47 books/year, mostly from libraryAlso borrow media, go to programs, and majority votePay attention to this person and spend less time on non-users.
Libraries are under attack by “disruptive technologies.” They are better, faster way of doing things which have become popular, and these new ways disrupt and destroy the old way. What are some disruptive technologies that have affected libraries?E-booksStreaming videoMOOCsMusic downloadsDecline of print newspapers & magazines
At the same time we have to meet the needs of those who like doing things easier – like e-books, libraries are the video stores of the communities.
--GPS, smartphones and our computers generate massive amounts of information that companies, law enforcement and even individuals are willing to pay money to see. --Minute details of our lives are captured and shared, from the brand of toothpaste you buy at the grocery store, to the causes you’ve “liked” on Facebook. --Surveys demonstrate that in spite of concerns about privacy and identity theft, Americans actually do little to protect themselves online.--They don’t mind sharing if they get coupons or GPS traffic reports. --How can you library address a growing demand for personal borrowing records while maintaining confidentiality?
“Technology Overload” A gigabyte = 1 hr of video, 10 yards of books. Time Magazine reported we take in 34 gigs of data in 12 hours a day. Scientists proving multi tasking not really possible. Backlash to email and 24/7 texting and twittering. “Tech free” spa retreats. Green spaces highly valued in community planning. Library quiet zones, individual study spaces.
Maker spaces are big. These are library spaces that have a 3D printer.