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Tech in libraries
This document summarizes a discussion about technology in public libraries. The discussion covered emerging technologies like voice assistants, virtual reality, and augmented reality. It explored how libraries can help patrons prepare for technological changes without abandoning existing services. The discussion also addressed challenges like privacy concerns with voice assistants and ensuring equal access to information as technologies change. The goal is for libraries to help patrons navigate new technologies while maintaining core services and remaining relevant in the future.
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- 2. THIS IS ADISCUSSION, NOT A LECTURE • I hope it will be a very back and forth conversation • I only want to take up about a half of our time • So you can ask questions and add ideas during our time together • We come up with ideas together that work for you
- 3. QUOTE The future isalready here, it is just not evenly distributed – William Gibson
- 4. THOUGHT • Be comfortablewith looking forward without giving up what you have • We should not be about waiting for something to be mainstream we should be making it mainstream • You do not need to be cutting edge, you do not need to make your self bleed but you do not want to be run over by the future • No one is future proof, how do we help people, and ourselves, prepare • Being on the cutting edge does not mean thoughtlessly slicing off what already works. • It's about moving forward and adding to what we know and do best
- 5. Climb Aboard theTime Machine!
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- 10. WHAT TECHNOLOGIES ARECHANGING LIBRARIES? • Three ‘new’ technology ideas to be aware of • Voice assistants • How do you feel about customers talking in the library? • Virtual Reality • How do you feel about cleaning keyboards? Face masks? • Augmented Reality • How do you work with someone who sees something different than you do?
- 11. VIRTUAL REALITY VERSUSAUGMENTED REALITY
- 12. THOUGHT • You donot need to embrace everything in the future • How do you know what will be important in the future? • You do not need to be everything to everyone • Who will be there for what someone needs?
- 13. VOICE ASSISTANTS • Amazon,Google, Apple • Examples of Machine Learning, Deep Learning • Natural Language Processing • How do they work? • Assisted machine learning
- 14. AMAZON VOICE SERVICESIN THE LIBRARY • Alexa for Home • Most current Alexa Enabled devices • Privacy • Alexa for Business • More control and a dashboard to ease of use, with a fee • Amazon.gov
- 15. POP QUIZ! •Henry FordInvented •A. Automobile •B. Assembly Line •C. Both A & B •D. None of the Above
- 16. POP QUIZ! •Henry FordInvented •A. Automobile •B. Assembly Line •C. Both A & B •D. None of the Above
- 17. THOUGHT • Helping customersreach the future they want to • What do you see coming that they might not be aware of? • Be comfortable with looking forward without giving up what you have • What are you good at now that people will still need in the future?
- 18. DEMOCRATIZATION OF INFORMATION • Books •Computers • Databases • Internet access • Shared Resources • Website & App “If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.”
- 19. THOUGHT • Being onthe cutting edge does not mean thoughtlessly slicing off what already works. • What is still needed and what are you keeping just because it has been there? • It's about moving forward, growing and re-examing our mission • Libraries are going to be relevant in the future, if we make them that way
- 20. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE • Ifpeople think Google already replaced libraries what will they say when AI is omnipresent? • AI versus AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is a huge leap • Will we have a mission? • How do libraries teach society how to transition? Is that our job?
- 21. QUOTE • Do notask for a rocket, ask for the moon and let me worry about the rocket • Rowan Cota, software engineer • How are you helping your customers build their rockets?
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Editor's Notes
- #4 "Tomorrow's Lawyers: access to justice in the online future - extract" by Richard Susskind, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013. The digital divide is still very real, not everyone has access to the technology. I posted about a young girl I had in one of my career day events who was disappointed about an AR app I showed her because she did not see her self having a phone to be able to use it.
- #5 Are you sure librarians are ok with all this blood? Sure they even let us have sharp scissors!
- #8 Back to the 15 century…
- #9 Around the year 1440, Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press. Before the press, books were hand copied and extremely expensive. The press spread throughout the world and around 200 million copies of books were printed in the 16th Century alone. The printing press was an information revolution. With the printing press, books were more affordable, and available to the masses. Why is this important now? Name a new invention that we have because of the printing press…… eyeglasses
- #10 We give you the space, We give you the Technology and you Create your own future.
- #11 Voice – ease of access, learn to be nice, bone induction is coming too VR – a new way to use a PC and have a much greater access to immerse in everything, what content will we curate? AR – replaces phones, computers, becomes our new interface with the world, combines with Voice Let’s go back to the first technological revolution
- #13 Could you have guessed Glasses? What is the next thing coming from Augmented Reality? Tasting colors (synesthesia for everyone) Libraries missed out on eBooks and establishing how they should be treated, what are we missing out with about VR, AR, Voice?
- #17 He brought the automobile from France and the assembly line from England and combined them in Detroit. He picked a place on the Detroit River where the ships coming from the Great Lakes flowed past on their way to Pennsylvania and New York.
- #19 It comes down to democratization of information and evolving demands of technological literacy. It may not be as important for librarians now to know how to use a microfiche machine as it was 30 years ago. Are students today ok with knowing how to use a word processor, or would it be beneficial for them to learn about video/audio production and evolving 3D printing technologies? What might their jobs look like 10 years from now?
- #20 You can be cutting edge without cutting your fingers off Why would you want to cut people’s fingers off? How could they swipe right!
- #21 You can be cutting edge without cutting your fingers off Why would you want to cut people’s fingers off? How could they swipe right!
- #22 Quote by Rowan Cota @sweetpavement on twitter