The document discusses the future of library web services and provides guiding principles for developing them. It advocates that library web services should be intuitive, data-driven, and people-oriented. It also suggests they should enable curation, creation, and collaboration. The key points are that as technology evolves, especially mobile devices, library services need to be accessible anywhere and support user needs through apps and integration with other platforms and services.

1. Library Web Services
Which way next?

4. Personal fitness past:
Local

5. Personal fitness future:
Networked

6. Web Services Today
•Networked
•Personalized
•Ubiquitous

8. Guiding Principles
Academic Library’s web
services should be...
• Intuitive
• Data-driven
• People-oriented

9. 1
Intuitive

11. vs.

12. Cloud
Services
Lots of kites, one sky.

13. lib.uchicago.edu

14. Data-driven
2

15. Apps overtake
browsers in
2012...
Mobile data usage up
70% worldwide last year
By the end of 2013, there
will be more mobile
phones than people

16. Apps for Libraries

17. 3
People-oriented

18. IDS Project: Peer Reviewer
Enriches existing workflows

19. Find it at...

20. ?

22. Plan for every detail, but be willing to abandon those
plans when reality demands.

23. Be flexible!
And keep looking for the next opportunity...

24. Webscale: Do more together!

25. 3 C’s
•Curate
•Create
•Collaborate

26. Curation

27. “Once all the technology is a given, all the old-fashioned
stuff will start to matter even more”
-Joel Cawley, VP of strategy and enterprise initiatives, IBM

28. Creation

31. Collaboration

32. “Big innovation requires big collaboration.”
-Steven Berlin Johnson, author

33. Library web services should be:
•Intuitive
•Data-driven
•People-oriented

34. Putting web services to work
•Curate
•Create
•Collaborate

35. 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/visitflanders/7507529682/
3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/6142740109/lightbox/ ; http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiaragwin/5513297013/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awhitis/790857513/ ; http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordjerome/127381557/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamendoza/3150313038/
4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorensztajer/4197723837/
5. http://pinterest.com/search/boards/?q=health+and+fitness ; www.crossfit.com ; www.liftinglibrarians.com
www.tracker.dailyburn.com ; www.fitbit.com
7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/silversprite/5120507383/
8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/calsidyrose/4925267732/
9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogil/1507585665/
10. www.amazon.com, through www.listenupvermont.org
11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/therealdavidfrancis/5660728511/ ; http://www.flickr.com/photos/kodomut/6737153061/
12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeguitar/3506922726/
13. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu
14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rishon-lezion/2554023977/
15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadianveggie/6890089077/ ; http://thedigitalshift.com/2013/02/mobile/mobile-evolution/
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-520862.html
16. http://ocln.org/wp-public/?p=1774 ; http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/redlaser-iphone-app-adds-library-listings-through-worldcat-apis
http://www.mcfls.org ; http://www.carnegielibrary.org/eCLP/apps/ ; http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=174869&sid=1481866
http://usm.maine.edu/library/mobile-apps ; http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/03/06/top-25-library-apps-for-the-ipad/
17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/artberri/6979916400/
18. http://www.oclc.org/developer/applications/ids-project-peer-reviewer
19. http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/ ; https://www.stanford.edu/group/cubberley/node/15455 ; http://lib.calpoly.edu/find/googlescholar/
20. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheetara/264192472/
21. http://web.archive.org/web/20100705005853/http://www.cii.illinois.edu/
24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookwood/5050325223/
26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/4669071555/
27. OCLC, Libraries at Webscale, p. 9.
28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/vigo74/2580016402/
29. http://macaulaylibrary.org
30. http://libguides.ucmercedlibrary.info/scvngr
32. OCLC, Libraries at Webscale, p. 11.