The New Wave in Libraries: Channeling the Information Surge Stephen Abram, MLS April 19, 2006

Isn’t this just the e time to be in libraries?

Resistance is NOT futile!

The Virtuous Triangle Where am I coming from...? All Users Library Users Academic College Public School (pre-K-12) Special, i.e. Government Military Medical Corporate Global Non-users

University and Colleges Schools and Public Libraries Card Holders Content & e-Resources: eGov, Programs & Alliances Local and Government Partners DE Learning & Education Future Component Community Groups Future Components Collections Connections & Resources Emerging Model for Community, Learning and Research Enterprises FacultiesStudents Researchers Clubs Hobbyists Credit: adapted from Rick Luce, LANL

Usability The A frame adopted from newspaper layout is not what works. Eyetools

Normative and Market Data Personas Usability Tests The Library World

Normative Data Personas Usability Tests The Library World The Real World

What is context? It’s not about the Library! It is about five very specific user spaces, communities: Learning Research Entertainment Neighbourhood Workplace

Source: Lorcan Dempsey

Content Map Source: AISTI

Classic Technology Adoption Source: Geoffrey Moore. Crossing the Chasm, Where Are We?

What if... You can find 15,000,000 books through the Google 5 and the Open Content Alliance?

What if... Does your 5 year plan consider this eventuality?

What if... I can find a locally engaging experience through Google Maps and Google Local?

Google & Kansas City

books Books

Google and 3D San Francisco first…

When SmartPhones become the dominant device…

Nano Phone, Cardphones,...

What if... An easy seamless DRM Payment system develops through PayPal / Verisign / eBay / Google Wallet? 99¢

Get your Texthead to Nexthead MP3’s Streaming Media Voice search

Next Massive Wave of Broadband Expands Secure Broadband Wireless Low-Power- Consumption Mobile/Display Devices Real-Time Infra- structure Transition to Service-oriented architecture 2006/7

Google Wireless San Francisco…Philly, Fredericton, And more SEC Filing in 2005 – 18 more cities now.

Google invests in wired … A $189,000,000 pilot

Bidirectional wireless module Hydro Broadband

What if... Users have materially changed?

The Scary re- wiring of the Millennials and post-Millennials

Principled / Values More FriendsMore DiverseRespect Intelligence Optimistic / Positive Internet NativesMore ChoicesFormat Agnostic Balanced LivesAdaptive / FlexibleCivic MindedHigh Expectations CollaborativeNomadicGamersExperiential IndependentConfidentDirectMore Liberal Multi-taskersInclusivePatrioticEntrepreneurial Healthy LifestyleFamily OrientedGraphicalAchievement Oriented Millennial Characteristics Credit: Richard Sweeney, NJIT

Reminder: 150,00-250,000 A DAY!

What if... The entire entertainment world mutates? Streaming everything everywhere.

What if... CD-Rom and DVD retire in 2012? How will you handle the new non-containers?

Podcasting

Video iPod etc.

What if... Google Scholar and Google College actually work?

Add hundreds of database Suppliers (MS already has about 120. Make it OpenURL compliant Make it Browserless Add a toolbar that behaves in a research way Integrate e-commerce for articles, standards, etc. Predict their needs through mining of Gmail, surfing, and behaviours Personalize it and track your needs and Add alerts … Add for online discussions, communities of practice, group and Individual blogs and connections through social networking software Add tools – citation, RefWorks, ProCite, stat packages, Add virtual reference Do OCLC stuff

Add hundreds of database Suppliers (MS already has about 120. Make it OpenURL compliant Make it Browserless Add a toolbar that behaves in a research way Integrate e-commerce for articles, standards, etc. Predict their needs through mining of Gmail, surfing, and behaviours Personalize it and track your needs and Add alerts … Add for online discussions, communities of practice, group and Individual blogs and connections through social networking software Add tools – citation, RefWorks, ProCite, stat packages, And then ally with Sun to build a new OS for wireless world… Writely! Add virtual reference Do OCLC stuff

Can Google keep up this much change?

What if... Everything goes personal?

Personalization

What if... Search gets better and needs new hooks?

Are you up on tagging? How about folksonomies?

The Long Tail of QUESTIONS libraries

Great Expectations The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

Expectations 1.0 Search Retrieve Print Link Navigate Read...

WEB 2.0 RSS – really simple syndication Wikis New Programming Tools: AJAX, API Blogs and blogging Recommender Functionality Personalized Alerts Web Services Folksonomies, Tagging and Tag Clouds Social Networking Open access, Open Source, Open Content Commentary and comments Personalization and My Profiles Podcasting and MP3 files Streaming Media – audio and video User-driven Reviews Rankings & User-driven Ratings Instant Messaging and Virtual Reference Photos (e.g. Flickr, Picasa) Socially Driven Content Social Bookmarking

Pandora

6 specific Areas to Focus on Lesson level implementation Mandate integration (workflow) Supporting Edgelessness Seamless find (OpenURL) Social spin (data-driven) Get beyond lists

The power of libraries

It’s an Information Ocean, not a Highway.

It’s an “Exploration Space” not a collection space.

Stephen Abram, MLS VP Innovation, SirsiDynix Cel: Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog Let’s Go!