Emerging Technologies

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EMERGED AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: MEETING THE EXISTING AND FUTURE NEEDS OF YOUR LIBRARY’S COMMUNITY Prepared by Andrew Wesolek March, 2011

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Prepared March, 2011

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EMERGED AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES:

MEETING THE EXISTING AND FUTURE NEEDS OF YOUR LIBRARY’S COMMUNITY

Prepared by

Andrew Wesolek

March, 2011

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WHAT ARE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES?

• For many of our students, social media has emerged

http://www.scribendi.com/advice/understanding_social_networking_websites.en.html

• What about emerging hardware?

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A VISION IN TWO PARTS:

• Becoming part of the existing Digital Landscape

• Identifying themes in anticipation of future trends

• Keys:

• Access and Outreach• Aesthetics• Aggregation and Convergence

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WHO NEEDS THE LIBRARY?

When I can…

Or

•http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/different_strokes_for_differen_1.php

•http://www.wikipedia.org/

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HOW DO WE CONVINCE RESEARCHERS TO USE THE LIBRARY’S RESOURCES?

• Outreach Reference?

• Information Commons?

• Digital Outreach!

•http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/berks/about/the_ask_cart_with.html

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DIGITAL OUTREACH:MEETING RESEARCHERS WHERE THEY ARE

• Librarians need not be in competition with free online resources

• Libraries must become part of the Digital Landscape

• Emerging technologies offer us tremendous opportunities to support meaningful research

• Like outreach reference, we need to go to researchers, rather than try to lure them to us.

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A COLLECTION GATHERING DUST…

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BECOMING PART OF THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE:

• Wikipedia

• Flikr

• Facebook

• Issuu

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MAINTAINING AWARENESS OF MULTIPLE AUDIENCES

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KEY POINTS:

• Emerging technologies allow us to meet researchers where they spend a great deal of time—online!

• The allow us to draw researchers to us

• They allow us to correct problematic research strategies

• They allow us to facilitate collaborative communities.

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BUT WHAT ABOUT EMERGING HARDWARE TECHNOLOGIES?

http://blog.tigglobal.com/index.php/uncategorized/eye-on-the-industry-the-next-wave-in-the-mobile-boom-are-you-ready/

CONFLUENCE IS KING!

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SHORT TERM GOALS?

• Smartphones replace ID cards

• CardStar

• Key Ring

http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/02/08/scanning-library-cards-on-smartphones/

• QR codes will allow us to connect Syllabi with subject guides

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LONG TERM GOALS

• Smartphones will allow us to go “meta”

• They will allow us to aggregate existing metadata

• Enhance user experience!

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THANKS!

• Presentation may be found here:• http://www.slideshare.net/awesolek2/