drones and libraries: is the future now, or simply the future?

Drones and LibrariesDrones and LibrariesIs the Future now, or simply the Future?Is the Future now, or simply the Future?

What are Drones, anyway?

Are these Drones?

Defined • An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),

commonly known as a drone and also referred by several other names is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. The flight of UAVs may be controlled either autonomously by onboard computers or by the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle

What are some uses for Drones?• Aerial Photography• Movie/Music Industry• Farming/Agriculture• Building and Equipment inspections• Education• Sport

Aerial Photography

Movie/Music Industry

Farming/Agriculture

Waypoints for autonomous Flight

Inspections

Education

Sport .

What about Amazon ?!?

Drones and the Future

Legal Issues

Section 333

Privacy Issues

Quit Droning on, what about Libraries ?

• Drone lending program• Makerspace • Education• Library tour• Meeting space / Drone clubs

Drone Lending Program

Makerspace

Education

Library Tour

Drone Club

What are your ideas?

Resources• Drones and Libraries

– http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/future/trends/drones – http://www.centerdigitaled.com/k-12/Drone-Design-Program-Flies-Students-Toward-STEM-Careers.html– http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/21/us/college-lends-drones-to-students/– http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/blog/what-are-the-strangest-things-libraries-lend-drones– http://knowbeforeyoufly.org/– https://www.faa.gov/uas/legislative_programs/section_333/– https://www.faa.gov/uas/regulations_policies/– http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/getting-a-drone-s-eye-view-of-the-toronto-reference-library-1.2770472

• Thank you!• Gary Browning• Twitter: @Gary_TheTech• gary@iu.edu