Implications of AI, Blockchain & other technologies for academic, public, corporate & healthcare libraries, & how libraries need to be at the table - so get in the restauarant!

1. TO NEXT
FROM NOW
Rebecca Jones
Dysart & Jones Associates
rebecca@dysartjones.com
@rebeccajonesgal

2. What do you see happening with
jobs, stores & malls, life,
neighborhoods, education?

3. “Libraries
have what it
takes to
survive, and
thrive.”
• Look at the emerging environment
• Call on the muscle, know-how and know-that
we have to survive and thrive
• Do a bit of action planning
• Position ourselves as progressors
• Commit to action

4. Knowing that I
stand between
you and lunch

5. PROGRESSORS?
@lenneek

6. AND
BUT Clint Adair@clintadair

7. CURRENT &
EVOLVING
ENVIRONMENT
@garciasaldana_

8. 1978
“The past quarter
century has been a
period of unprecedented
change…”
Robert McNamara

9. “THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE IT’S
JUST NOT EVENLY DISTRIBUTED”
WILLIAM GIBSON

10. "To remain what they
are, libraries must change;
if they do not change, libraries
will not remain what they are.“
Dr. David Penniman, Bell Research Labs 1992

12. Updated July 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwtS6Jy3ll8

13. IF YOU WATCH NOTHING
ELSE
Gartner Top 10 Tech Trends
Every autumn – October 18th, 2018

14. TECHCRUNCH

15. INTERNET OF
THINGS,
SERVICES, &
PEOPLE
Facilitating exchange of
knowledge, services, goods
https://taazaa.com/the-technologies-that-enable-the-internet-of-thin

16. BLOCKCHAIN
http://www.spendright.io/
https://www.g2crowd.com/categories/blockchain

17. Hitesh Choudhary@hiteshchoudhary

18. CHATBOTS
Interacting with students,
patrons, faculty, clients
where they are

19. ROBOTS

20. Western Michigan University’s Waldo Library

21. SMART
CITIES &
CAMPUSES
Built by IoT
Fueled by data
@wrwhite3

22. DATA
The collection, use and control of data have become the
most important issues for governments, companies and
citizens across the world. Our cities depend on this digital
infrastructure, making data management, privacy, and
security of key public policy concerns.
Future Cities conference https://futurecitiescanada.ca/events/summit/sessions/#strategies-for-inclusive-economies

23. TECHNOLOGY IS NEUTRAL Not good or bad

24. community
librariescampus
company

25. WHY WERE LIBRARIES CREATED?

26. LIBRARIES
To underpin learning & democracies
for all people to:
 Learn something
 Make a decision
 Solve a problem

27. Reading?

28. LIBRARIES –
FUTURE READY?

29. HE** YEAH!

30. What was a
significant change for
libraries?

31. IF YOU BEGAN WORKING – ANYWHERE - IN:
1970’s 1980’s
1990’s 2000-
2009
2010 –
2018
Transportation: how did you get to work
when you started? What type of vehicle?
How has your form of transportation
changed?
Technology: what was the first device
(technology) you used – at home? What
about at work? How has that technology
changed?

32. How are your Library’s strategic
plans – or plans – addressing
these shifts to ensure the Library’s
continued success?
What specific issues – or goals –
does your Library need the most
support with? (and it can’t be
funding!)

33. Where to from now?

34. "The past cannot be changed.
The future is still in your power.“
Hugh Lawson White (1773 - 1840)
The now cannot be changed.
The next is in our power.

35. OODA Observe
Orient
Decide
Act

36. PURPOSEFULLY SEE & HEAR
Our stakeholders
Our R&D
Our data

37. |SOWOT
Analyze
Interpret
Integrate
Test assumptions
Prototype & pilot
Orient

38. |DIVEST TO INVEST
In people for people
In managing our portfolios
In positioning ourselves as solutions Decide

39. |DO
In fast-cycle iterations
With failure as an option
Evaluation & data management built in
Observation as the next step
Act

40. Connect the
life stages
for people

41. ▪ Use voice to find, write, & talk
▪ Decipher hype
▪ Transform Maker & Create spaces to
“solvespaces”
Connect
people,
know-how &
know-that
with
technologies
for
solutions

42. Connect people, services & spaces for
learning

43. Connect technologies to improve our capabilities

44. Connect our
distinctive,
essential role to
community
priorities

45. Those of us working in libraries weren’t created with
a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, we can
build it up, draw on it when needed.
As we do so, we will keep our focus on what
libraries really are – and they just might become
the very best version of what they can be.
Adapted from Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook
Address to Class of 2016 University of California at Berkeley

46. What one (1) action will you
take as a result of this short
discussion?

47. TALK WON’T MOVE US
FORWARD
Your
actions
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48. Thank you
@rebeccajonesgal
rebecca@dysartjones.com