Emerging Technologies in the Library

‘Toys’? Or ‘Potent Tools for Student Engagement’?

Aldrich & Colegrove, August 12, 2011University LibrariesUniversity of Nevada, Reno

• Basic Language Literacy• Visual Literacy• Historical Literacy• Cultural Literacy• Information Literacy• Political Literacy and News Media Literacy• Scientific Literacy• Mathematical Literacy

21st Century Literacies

Selected literacies from “Teacher Resources Overview”, retrieved from http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/

•Basic Language Literacy•Cultural Literacy•Information Literacy•News Media Literacy

Traditional Library Supported:

• We’re talking about change here• So let’s try something new (to me)

New Directions:

Where we’re going:(Tod Colegrove, Ph.D., MSLIS dstl@unr.edu, @pcolegrove)

Text from proposal:“Actively redefining the library from a quiet warehouse

into a lively place of learning, technological engagement, and knowledge production, the emerging technologies working group of the library is leveraging in-person connections with students and faculty to build vibrant collaborative communities around a deliberately expanded conception of the library collection.”

In other words…

“Be where the conversation is.”1

Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/10557450@N04/5595378373/

“My Very Own Copy of The Atlas of New Librarianship by Dr. R. David Lankes! my section I wrote begins on page 369 :-)”

1 Lankes, R. D., Silverstein, J., Nicholson, S. & Marshall, T. (2007) “Participatory Networks: the library as conversation.” Retrieved from http://informationr.net/ir/12-4/colis05.html

Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenerdsangle/200807167/lightbox/“School of AthensAn awesome painting by Raphael. It depicts a bunch of ancient philosophers (Plato, Socrates, etc), but he used Renaissance artists as models for the faces.”

What exactly is “the collection”?

Artist's impression of a manuscript storage room in the ancient Library of Alexandria. Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmos television program (1980).Retrieved from http://www.sacred-destinations.com/egypt/alexandria-library-bibliotheca-alexandrina

Ania Gilmore, Lexington, MA & Warsaw, PolandLibrary of AlexandriaAltered book, burned pages, wax, shellac. One of a kind. 5 x 7.5”Retrieved from http://papermakingresources.blogspot.com/2010/08/wax-and-artist-book-ii.html

Library Books Chained, Wimborne Minster http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitjohnson/5327572838/sizes/l/in/photostream

Where’s the conversation?

Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/259408258/sizes/l/in/photostream/

What is “technology” anyway?

“The word technelogos is nominally Greek. When the ancient Greeks used the word techne, it meant something like art, skill, craft, or even craftiness…it was in Aristotle’s treatise Rhetoric that the word

techne was first joined to logos(meaning word or speech or literacy)to yield the single term technelogos.”

Itself a technology:

Even Displays!“Little Boy – the device”

Inspired by the movieDr. Strangelove…

An electric vehicle built for the Burning Man festival…

That’s a conversation starter.

Serious engagement…

From left to right:Head of Library’s Technical

Services, Paoshan Yue.Associate Dean of the College of

Science, Gina Tempel.Regent’s Professor Richard Schultz.

Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library, Tod Colegrove.

The Creator of “the device”,Bill Brinsmead…

“21-st Century Literacies”?

The number of posters printed has more than doubled –every year for each of the past five years.

This clip was shot, edited and produced using equipment,software, and literacies supported every day @One.

Link to clip on vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip1

“21-st Century Literacies”?

(The University Computer Gaming Club meets everyThursday night for a 6-hour gaming event: “fragfest”)

A recent FaceBook post by one ofthe student communities that calls

@One “home”: )

The Microsoft Surface:(a.k.a. “the giant iPod thingy”)

Retrieved from:http://www.flickr.com/photos/007kn/3878378782/

The Anatomy application – developedin house to leverage the Surface as a learning tool – has been in daily use by students for several years now…

Clip on YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip0

Hands-on with tablet computers and eReader devices:

(currently: iPad, Nook Color, Sony PanDigital Touch, Kindle 2, iPod Touch)

Over a three-day period, 1 out of 37 through the gatewent “hands-on” with at least one of the devices.

Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip3

Kinect Xbox Sensor:(now with an official software development kit!)

Student developing with the sensor just last week…Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip4

Kinect Development:

A student work in progress… interrupted to demomultiple modes working to date!

Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip5

Wireless Remote-Control Drone Quadricopter (with an API!):

Unsolicited FB postBy a student:

One of Two CSE Senior Projects…(developed in the library, in conjunction with library faculty!)

The “Drone Object Tracking System” – a robot controlled quadricopter, that tracks and autonomously follows…

Clip on YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip6

LEGO MindStorms Robotics kits:“Toy”? Or “Serious tool for engagement”?

They’re in thecollection…

Clip on YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip7

In the hands of a couple of “kids”:

Required skills:Time-lapse photography.Video assembly, editingAudio curation, integration.Robot design & assembly.Programming.Creativity.Information & media literacy.

Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip8

Similarly: a “Duct-Tape” version of Google Liquid Galaxy:

Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip9