2. Becoming Academic Library 2.0: The Librarian 2.0 in Your Future Stephen Abram, MLS Vice President, Innovation SirsiDynix Imperial College Staff Away Day Sept. 28, 2006

8. Library Here?

9. Library Here?

10. Library Here?

11. Do you feel poor?

13. I  my customers

14. Resistance is NOT futile! Charges: Ads SEO Boolean +++

16. Isn’t this just the best time to be in libraries?

17. Ten Questions to Provoke Some Thinking And a few potential solutions...

18. Question #1 How will academic libraries address the localization of search?

19. Yesterday Google was 8

23. 200 years of news NYT, WSJ, Guardian, more Free out of Copyright books More content Real databases For free Recommenders: All Consuming Suggestica Inside a Dog

26. Question #2 How will academic libraries address scholarly search?

27. 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 (Google Cart) 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 like WorldCat, etc.

28. 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! Spreadsheets Google Office Add virtual reference Do OCLC stuff

29. Question #3 How will academic libraries cooperate with blended learning initiatives?

30. eLearning Blackboard WebCT MIT Learning Space Distance Ed Continuous Learning Copyright and Licenses

31. Question #4 How will academic libraries evolve to include next generation communication technologies?

32. Google & Kansas City, Turin and You

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

35. Bidirectional wireless module Hydro Broadband

36. When SmartPhones become the dominant device… XML, Fluid Portals, Portlets… Texting

41. http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/pcpen.asp

44. Question #5 When will academia as a whole address the changes inherent in the Millennials and post-Millennials?

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

46. 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

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

49. Question #6 When will academic libraries focus as much on the user experience as they do on their own needs?

50. Of all of your development initiatives… Whose pain is being assuaged?

51. Solutions Federated search Targeted search OpenURL Portals and portlets RSS Blogs

52. Question #7 When will the real questions of governance, organization and productivity be debated?

53. It’s about Relationships IT – hardware and pipes and rules Leadership Web Design Institutional Portal HR systems Registration systems

55. Bag of URLs Blogmarks Del-icio.us Feed Me Links Frassle Linkfilter Livemarks Stumble Upon Wists Dude, Check This Out! openIBM Simpy Flickr FURL Spurl Connotea Unalog CiteULike (ArXiv) (Merlot) Links Web Pages Scholarly General Source: DLIB Academic Tagging

56. Question #8 Where will we find the risk- takers and pilots and innovators to follow, copy and lead?

57. Reminder: 200,000-250,000 A DAY!

58. Reminder: 15 million daily users, and 30 billion page views a month

62. Library MySpace Sites Hennepin County Library http://www.myspace.com/hennepinco untylibrary Thomas Ford Memorial Library http://www.myspace.com/thomasford Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenberg County http://www.myspace.com/libraryloft Brooklyn College Library http://www.myspace.com/brooklyncoll egelibrary Lansing Public Library http://www.myspace.com/lansingpubli clibrary Morrisville College Libraries http://www.myspace.com/morrisvillec ollegelibrary Westmount PL http://www.myspace.com/westmontlibra ry Goshen PL http://www.myspace.com/goshenpublicl ibrary University of Illinois Undergrad Library http://www.myspace.com/undergradlibr ary Albany County PL http://www.myspace.com/acplwy UT Austin Library http://www.myspace.com/utlibraries Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh http://www.myspace.com/clpteens

63. My Smarter Space

64. Harvard, Yale,…

66. 95% of students in clients like U of Toronto, NCSU, Stanford, etc. 80% of all college and University students In North America. A sustainable social network for life.

70. Harvard

72. Teen SL Library services meeting, Sun 5/7/06

73. Second Life Library eBooks

74. Second Life Library Reading Room

78. Question #9 What are the Benefits of the Web 2.0 / Library 2.0 Initiatives?

81. 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 Screencasting 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

82. Get your Texthead to Nexthead MP3’s, Streaming Media, Voice search Near term Death of physical DVD and CD’s iTunes (Nature magazine)

83. Podcasting: Duke University

84. Video iPod etc.

87. Pandora

90. Credit: Lorcan Dempsey

91. http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2006/09/01/music-inspires-library-20-matrix/

92. Question #10 Where will we find the vision?

93. Information Density and Tufte’s work

94. Librarian 2.0 plays

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

97. Stephen Abram, MLS VP Innovation, SirsiDynix Mobile: 416-669-4855 stephen.abram@sirsidynix.com http://www.sirsidynix.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com

98. The power of libraries