Primary Speaker: Duncan Aldrich, @One Administrator Supporting Speaker: Tod Colegrove, Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library Session Title: Emerging Technologies in the Library: “Toys”? or “Potent Tools for Student Engagement”? Synopsis: Since its opening in 2008, the Mathewson-­‐IGT Knowledge Center has deliberately promoted and supported experimentation and active engagement with new and emerging technologies as fundamental to its core mission – despite the tendency among library domain defenders to dismiss many of the potentially disruptive emerging technologies adopted as "toys." 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. Some of the "toys" include: Microsoft Surface workstations, a variety of tablet computers and eReader devices, wireless drone quadricopters, Arduino Pro development kits, Kinect sensors, LEGO robotics kits, large-­‐format printers and scanners, and even a button-­‐making machine. Steal some of our ideas: using unconventional library materials in tandem with a wide array of production audio and video equipment and software, delivering just-­‐in-­‐time student and staff support; discover how these powerful tools of engagement and outreach transform the high-­‐ tech @One floor from "toy box" to hotbed of 21st-­‐century literacies.

1. Emerging Technologies in the Library ‘Toys’? Or ‘Potent Tools for Student Engagement’? Aldrich & Colegrove, August 12, 2011 University Libraries University of Nevada, Reno

3. Visual Literacy

4. Historical Literacy

5. Cultural Literacy

6. Information Literacy

7. Political Literacy and News Media Literacy

8. Scientific Literacy

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

11. Cultural Literacy

12. Information Literacy

15. (Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1

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17. Time lapse sequence of entrance available at: http://bit.ly/msu-clip1 (Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1

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32. Where we’re going:(TodColegrove, 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…

33. “Be where the conversation is.”1 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/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 :-)”

34. “Be where the conversation is.”1 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/ Raphael’s “School of Athens” – a depiction of an athenaeum of the Alexandrian Library; note the prominent placement of the figure representing Hypatia of Alexandria, mathematician , philosopher, and the last Librarian of the Library at Alexandria in the mid lower-left of the painting.

35. What exactly is “the collection”? 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 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

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

37. Where’s the conversation? Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/259408258/sizes/l/in/photostream/

38. Where’s the conversation?

39. 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 tologos (meaning word or speech or literacy) to yield the single term technelogos.” Itself a technology:

40. Even Displays!“Little Boy – the device” (Inspired by the movie Dr. Strangelove…) An electric vehicle built for the Burning Man festival… on display In the library.

41. Even Displays!“Little Boy – the device” That’s a conversation starter.

42. Serious engagement… Last Fall on the quad in front of the library students and faculty – over 200 in all – engaged because of “the Device”.

43. “21-st Century Literacies”? Time-lapse clipon vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip1 Note clip was filmed, edited, and produced using equipment, software, and literacies in use every day @One. Bears mention: the number of posters printed has more than doubled – every year for each of the past five years.

44. “21-st Century Literacies”? A recent FaceBook post by one of the student communities that calls @One “home”: ) (The University Computer Gaming Club meets every Thursday night for a 6-hour gaming event: “fragfest”)

45. The Microsoft Surface:(a.k.a. “the giant iPod thingy”) Retrieved from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/007kn/3878378782/ On YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip0 AnAnatomy application, developed in-house to leverage the Surface as a learning tool, handled as a type of e-reserve, has been in daily use by students for several years now. Students report the app is a real game-changer in their learning!

46. Hands-on with tablet computers and eReader devices:(currently: iPad, Nook Color, Sony PanDigital Touch, Kindle 2, iPod Touch –video clip available on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip3) Clip on Vimeo Over a three-day period, 1 out of 37 through the gate went “hands-on” with at least one of the devices.

47. Kinect Xbox Sensor:(now with an official software development kit!) On Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip4 Student developing with the sensor just last week…

48. Kinect Development: On Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip5 A student work in progress… demo of multiple modes with Kinect sensor – working, in the library.

49. Wireless Remote-Control Drone Quadricopter (with an API!): Unsolicited FB post By a student:

50. Wireless Remote-Control Drone Quadricopter (with an API!): In use at the Smallwood Multimedia Boot camp (yikes! In the atrium of the library!)

51. The Library - in the “Flagship Course of the CSE Department”:

52. One of Two CSE Senior Projects…(developed in the library, in conjunction with library faculty!) On YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip6 The “Drone Object Tracking System” – a robot controlled quadricopter, that tracks and autonomously follows…

53. LEGO MindStorms Robotics kits: “Toy”? Or “Serious tool for engagement”? Clip on YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip7 In the collection…

54. In the hands of a couple of “kids”: Required skills: Time-lapse photography. Video assembly, editing Audio curation, integration. Robot design & assembly. Programming. Creativity. Information & media literacy. Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip8

55. A“Duct-Tape” version of Google Liquid Galaxy (think Google Earth plus): Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip9