the future is here, so now what?
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With our rapidly increasing and instantaneous access to information it can be difficult to slice through the “data smog” and become truly information fluent while becoming active participants in an era of continuous technological change. Join Chad Mairn as he introduces what various libraries are successfully doing to integrate technologies that help construct a learning environment, online or face-to-face, that is conducive to information discovery, sharing, and lifelong learning. This was presented August 20, 2010 for PLAN/FLA Unconference. The Future is Here, So Now What? A Living Document is available at: http://bit.ly/cDgVTj.TRANSCRIPT
The Future is Here, So Now What?
Presentation slides are available at: http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn
Source: http://library.otterbein.edu/Information_literacy/images/infolit.jpg
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/value/futures2025.pdf http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2010-Horizon-Report.pdf
Some Scenario Highlights From “Futures Thinking …”
A college degree for every citizen
Archives on demand
Breaking the textbook monopoly
Bridging the scholar/practitioner divide
Community over consumerism
I see what you see
Increasing threat of cyberwar, cybercrime, and cyberterrorism
Kinesthetic fluency
Money makes the world go around
No need to search
Out of business
Pop-up campus
Renaissance redux
Right here with me
Scholarship stultifies
Sign on the dotted line
Think U
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Woven learning
Staley, D. J. (2007). History and future: Using historical thinking to imagine the future. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Predicting the future is not a precise science and David Staley aptly said
that futurists “should view the future in the same way that a historian views the past – aiming for representation
and understanding” (2007, p. 2).
Source: http://bit.ly/1a1CM1
Libraries are like bridges that help connect their users to high-quality information and provide a social space for users to consume, repurpose, and to share content.
Social Media
According to Wikipedia, “Social media is a term used to describe the type of media that is based on conversation and interaction between people online.”
Sharing is a huge component!
Use Facebook to reach out to your users and share your library. You can even talk to your users with the free Vivox Voice application!
http://www.parature.com
Mobile
Why libraries should have a mobile presence.
“Mobile phones create new kinds of bounded places that merge the infrastructures of geography and technology, as well as techno-social practices thatmerge technical standards and social norms." (Moll, 2007, p.12)
The mobile web is connecting people to information while they are on the go, so this is a great space for libraries!
Plus mobile phones have surpassed PCsand landline phones combined, so your potential audience is huge!
Uploaded to Flickr on November 8, 2007 by Travelin' Librarian
Uploaded to Flickr on November 29, 2006 by Michael Casey
QR (Quick Response) Codes
Note: My ID badge, my office door, my handouts, and some new books are using QR Codes to provide easy links to online content.
Google ‘qr code generator’ to get a list of resources. I use BeeTagg and NeoReader.
Some sample mobile applications
• Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone to store, fax, email or publish!http://www.qipit.com/
• Create audio broadcasts. http://www.gcast.com/
• Deliver audio content directly to your cell phone. http://foneshow.com/
• Create voice-to-text notes. http://jott.com
• Share Live Video From Your Mobile Phone. http://qik.com/
• Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your phone. http://www.tumblr.com/
• Poll your audience. http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Future considerations: library advocacy, librarian as app, fingerprint-proof touch screens,
face recognition, voice capabilities (translation, VoIP,
Foursquare Voice, in-car systems, Vivox etc.), push technologies,
augmented reality and reference, mobile browsers, text-to-speech,
speech-to-text, humanity, culture, dialogue, …
How can you use Twitter?
Note: only 138 characters (with spaces)
Promote the library via various channels!
Add a Twitter widget to your web site
Using Twitter for class conversationsExtra credit: Ask students to use Twitter.http://twitter.com/cmairn/my-students
DM @cmairn
Does Twitter, Facebook, and others have a future?
Books
Video
Create the Future …
• Look to other industries for ideas for libraries.• Become indispensible (Seth Godin):– Make a difference, lead, and connect with others.– Hierarchy of value: lift, hunt, grow, produce, sell,
connect, create/invent. [Where are you in this?]– "People want to be told what to do because they
are afraid (petrified) of figuring it out for themselves.“ [Is this true?]
Contact Information
(727) 341.7181
+ 1 (727) 537.6405
With your phone take a quick photo of this code and you’ll be directed to my mobile contact page. For the software, visit http://www.beetagg.com
@cmairn