5 tech trends for libraries

5 TECHNOLOGY TRENDSPrepared for the Global Libraries Annual Technology Work Group Convening

FIRST, AN INTRODUCTION

This is who I am:

This is who I work for:

This is how I understand libraries:

Libraries provide access.

Libraries are places where people can engage

in the civic life of their community.

Libraries are physical spaces of innovation.

NOW, A FEW TRENDS.

1. Resilient Cities.

2. Complex data.

3. MOOCs.

4. DIY Hardware.

5. Privacy.

BUT HOWCreating a culture that can innovate on trends

Encourage and reward curiosity.

Everyone needs to have a point of

view.

Share and share widely (and wildly).

AND ALSOQuotes, General Resources and Articles

“And as the novelist Zadie Smith lamented last year in the New York Review of Books, apropos the closing of neighborhood libraries in London, libraries are ‘the only thing left on the high street that doesn’t want either your soul or your wallet.’”- Next Time, Libraries Could Be Our Shelter From the Storm by Michael Kimmelman for the New York Times

“Books lost their chains and the library remains one of the few spaces in which we can feel we are citizens rather than consumers, a place to which access is free, in which we ourselves become free.” - A new chapter for libraries by Edwin Heathcote for the Financial Times

Articles• MOOCs Try to Break the Language Barrier

http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/mooc-providers-break-language-barrier.html

• Librarians Discuss Privacy, MOOCs, and More at LITA Top Trends Panel | ALA 2013http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/07/ala/librarians-discuss-privacy-moocs-and-more-at-lita-top-tech-trends-panel-ala-2013/

• Computer Science Pioneer Jaron Lanier Discusses Big Data, Privacy at NYPLhttp://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/10/social-media/computer-science-pioneer-jaron-lanier-discusses-big-data-privacy-at-nypl/

• Technology for Good: Innovative Use of Technology by Charitieshttp://www.techsoup.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/technology-for-good-report.pdf

• Technology News and Trends from TechSoup.orghttp://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/b/tsblog/archive/tags/nptech+news/default.aspx

• American MOOC Providers Face International Competitionhttps://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/american-mooc-providers-face-international-competition

• The Library as Lifeline: Getting Past Superstorm Sandy: How Queens Library is stepping up in the Rockawayshttp://www.ilovelibraries.org/library-lifeline-getting-past-superstorm-sandy-how-queens-library-stepping-rockaways

• The Internet of Things: Sizing up the business opportunitieshttp://www.zdnet.com/the-internet-of-things-sizing-up-the-business-opportunities-7000009301/

• Edward Snowden Breaks Silence, Says He’s Still In Hong Konghttp://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-breaks-silence-2013-6

IN CLOSING

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