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Looking Forward: The Future of Libraries
This document discusses the changing role of libraries in the digital age. While traditional services like circulation and reference questions are declining, library visits and program attendance are increasing. To remain relevant, libraries must embrace new technologies, become more collaborative spaces that encourage participation, and meet users where they are online through social media and mobile platforms. The future of libraries relies on helping patrons master emerging literacies, acting as hubs for information sharing, and understanding users' needs in our new digital information ecosystem.
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Editor's Notes
- #7 Pew Internet & American Life. Lee Rainie. How libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/How-libraries-can-survive-in-the-new-media-ecosystem.aspx
- #10 FB stats Feb 2009
- #11 What do you do? Sing into it to identify music? Take a picture of a building to find where you’re at? Scan a barcode to get a price on a product? Access library catalog from anywhere in building? Pull up image of book to easily identify it? 14% off network, 10% indifferent
- #14 Jon Blyberg, Darien Library Assistant Director, Innovation and UX (User Experience).
- #15 Social capital: linking, network. New literacies: graphic (visual), navigation (non-linear world), skepticism (evaluation), ethical (rules of cyberspace), personal (understand digital environment)