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Future of Libraries:
Engines of their
Communities
Portsmouth Public Library Presentation
November 15, 2016
Stephen Abram, MLS
Federation of Ontario Public Libraries
Lighthouse Consulting Inc.
Portsmouth public library evening presentation
Portsmouth public library evening presentation
Portsmouth public library evening presentation
Alone Together Collaboration
Let’s get something out
of the way . . .
Dead Wrong Thinking
Public libraries are growing, doing better than ever.
The Internet and digital world is an opportunity that libraries excel on
riding this mechanical bull!
Portsmouth public library evening presentation
21st Century Vital Literacies
Critical 21st century skills, all agree on four critical areas for development:
 Collaboration and teamwork
 Creativity and imagination
 Critical thinking
 Problem solving
 Flexibility and adaptability
 Global and cultural awareness
 Information literacy
 Leadership
 Civic literacy and citizenship
 Oral and written communication skills
 Social responsibility and ethics
 Technology literacy
 Initiative
Literacy:
Reading literacy
Print literacy
Computer literacy
Web literacy
Device literacy
Tool literacy
Information literacy
Cognitive literacy
Credulity
“Information literacy is a crucial skill in
the pursuit of knowledge. It involves
recognizing when information is needed
and being able to efficiently locate,
accurately evaluate, effectively use, and
clearly communicate information in
various formats.”
Wesleyan University
Proven Public Library Impact
The Public Library value proposition is strong and includes (but
isn’t limited to):
 Excellent Return on Investment
 Strong Economic Development
 Great Employment Support
 Welcoming New Americans
 Provable Early Literacy Development
 Ongoing Support for Formal Education and Homework Help
 Serve the whole community equitably
 Affordable access to community resources
 Access to Government Services and e-government
 Questions Deserve Quality Answers
 Support Cultural Vitality
 Recognized and Valued Leisure Activities for the majority
Current Proofs on Having an Impact (just
a selection)
 Fiction and Empathy
 School Readiness
 College Readiness
 Social Isolation
 Different Abilities
 Economic Impact
 Entrepreneurs
 Lifelong learning, adult education, e-learning
 Access of all kinds – leveling the playing field
“How will we describe the nature of
libraries in the future? Should they be:
 Baby friendly
 Pet friendly
 Food friendly
 Beer, wine, and alcohol friendly
 Event friendly
 Party friendly (should they provide a list of approved catering companies)
 Homeless friendly
 Privacy advocate friendly
 Business friendly
 Casual user friendly
Should they have facilities for:
 Traveling museum exhibits
 Private meetings
 Aerobic reading
 Taking a shower
 Preparing and serving food
 Taking a nap
 Storing personal items
 Sending money or making payments
Traditional Information Archive – Over the years libraries
have expanded their collections. Certainly not all are large
enough to manage every item on this list, but most have a
majority of them.
 Print books
 Digital books
 Audio books
 Newspapers
 Magazines
 Music
 Movies
 TV shows
 Radio broadcasts
 Presentations
 Courseware
 Audio materials (discs, tapes, talking
books and other recorded formats)
 Maps
 Microforms
 Videos (film, television broadcasts,
DVDs)
 Sheet music
 Photographs, posters, prints, and
drawings
 Apps and mobile apps
 Social media archives
 Artwork
Portsmouth public library evening presentation
Non-Traditional Archives
Libraries also have an obligation to archive their local communities. Some of the non-
traditional archives may include:
 1. History of every business in region.
 2. Overview of every graduating class in every school.
 3. History of local infrastructure including bridges, tunnels, waterlines, sewer
lines, fire stations, water towers, police stations, schools, etc.
 4. Aging of the community done through sequential photo queues.
 5. The sound of the city in the form of audio recordings over the years.
 6. Cultural influence timelines.
 7. Local archive for emergency equipment such as emergency generators when the
power does down, or emergency lighting, emergency cots, etc.
 8. Record of every law, ordinance, and regulation affecting every member of the
community
Search Command Centers
Most people entering a library are searching for something. Over the coming years search technology will become
increasing complicated, but at the same time we will have far more capabilities to use in our search.
Video Search – When it comes to video search, we still struggle with attributes like context, style, circumstances, and a
variety of situational details. Examples of future video searches may include:
 9. Bring up every public video of Jane Doe (average person) between 1980 and 2005 when she was in Manchester,
England.
 10. What are the top 20 most watched videos of an audience laughing at someone who is in the process of dying
from a fatal accident?
 11. Show me the top 10 Twitch tournament videos of Korean players playing Destiny version 4.3.
 12. What are the 12 common features of low grossing movies produced by Paramount Pictures in 1978?
Drone Search – It may seem unlikely today that libraries will have their own fleets of drones to deploy for physical
search inquiries, but that will change over the coming decades.
 13. Using thermo scans, what houses in my city have the least amount of insulation in the attic?
 14. Where is the hole in the fence that is allowing livestock to enter the Eagle Ridge Neighborhood and cause
damage?
 15. Which areas in my city are least likely to get flooded when the river overflows its banks?
 16. Give me a 360-degree views of the three major sculptures erected in my city last year?
Demographic Search – The demographics of the world is changing and we need better tools for monitoring it.
 17. Show me a heatmap of the world, broken down by 1 square mile regions, showing highest to lowest birthrates
 18. What regions of the world are most like Winnipeg, Canada (pick any city) based on climate, age demographics,
political views, education levels, scientific interests, personal health, etc.
 19. Who is the most knowledgeable person in the world on acidic soil types?
 20. Show me a decade-by-decade breakdown of increasing average incomes in Africa since 1900.
Complex Searches
Over time search engines will deploy a combination of techniques for
finding the answer to complex questions.
 21. Interactive map of the world highlighting regions currently at 10
degrees Celsius?
 22. What world leaders are currently in NYC?
 23. Interactive map of butterfly migrations in Panama?
 24. What movie has Harrison Ford wearing a blue sweater while
chewing gum?
 25. Why is this object (hold up an object) important?
 26. How famous am I compared to other people in my community?
 27. Timeline Search – How have recipes for bread changed over the
past 300 years?
 28. Who else in the world has a disease like mine?
Future searches
As we enter the age of quantum computing, far more search attributes
will become quantifiable. Someday soon we will be able to search for:
 29. Smells
 30. Tastes
 31. Harmonic vibrations
 32. Reflectivity
 33. Specific gravity
 34. Chemical composition
 35. Textures
 36. Viscosity
Fussy search features
 37. Looks like
 38. Smells like
 39. Feels like
 40. Tastes like
 41. Sounds like
 42. Absorbs like
 43. Echoes like
 44. Coats like
Spherical Displays
Spherical displays in the future will have the ability to give an accurate
perspective of planet earth.
 45. Track pollution flows across the ocean in real-time
 46. Monitor major hurricanes from satellites and track new developments on a
minute by minute basis
 47. Book a complex travel itinerary from a spherical perspective
 48. Show how warm water currents have changed over the past two decades.
Maker Spaces
Libraries are rapidly transitioning from a place for passive visitors who
consume information to active participants who would much rather produce
it. Areas to include:
 49. Potters wheel and workshop for mixing the mud and making pottery.
 50. Growing vegetables using aquaponics.
 51. Video studio for both shooting and editing a video.
 52. A production area for both recording and editing a virtual reality
experience
 53. IoT workbenches complete with Internet of Things help desk
 54. Access to 3D scanners and printers capable of printing items out of
several hundred different materials.
 55. Laser cutters for etching/cutting wood, glass, metal, and ceramic.
 56. Jewelry making stations
Creative Spaces
These types of spaces will come complete with all the tools, technologies,
and supplies for creative people to get creative.
 57. Produce art
 58. Produce music
 59. Produce games
 60. Produce podcasts
 61. Produce webcasts
 62. Produce VR experiences
 63. Host IoT workshops
 64. Create & print with 3D printers
Mini theaters
It’s important for groups have a place to gather for such things as:
 65. Watching movies
 66. Playing video games
 67. Watch live events such as concerts, sporting events, NASA landings, etc.
 68. Watch YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and more
Live webcast studios
While we no longer need a studio for doing live webcasts, the age of the
studio is far from over.
 69. Book reviews
 70. Game reviews
 71. App reviews
 72. Course review
 73. Chatbot review
 74. Tech reviews
 75. 50 years ago today
 76. “How to” accomplish something
3D Printing
As the process of additive manufacturing improves, it will begin to enter all of
our lives in unusual ways:
 77. 3D printer lending
 78. 3D scanner lending
 79. 3D printer workshops
 80. 3D scanner workshops
 81. 3D design competitions
 82. 3D printer-scanner help desks
Flying Drones
In much the way kids that lived a century ago wanted to learn how to fly, young
people today are enamored with flying and driving drones.
 83. Drone lending
 84. Flying drone flight simulators
 85. DYI drone workshops
 86. Drone competitions
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is already in existence and already knows far more about
you than any person alive today. Will future libraries offer:
 87. AI lending
 88. AI workshops
 89. AI competitions
 90. Monitor and anticipate visitor usage
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Both will become far more pervasive in the future.
 91. VR & AR hardware lending
 92. VR & AR software lending
 93. VR & AR production studios
 94. VR & AR search engines
Robotics
Robots will become far more common in the future.
 95. Robot lending
 96. Robot rodeos
 97. Robot workshops
 98. Robot competitions
McMaster University’s Hitchbot
Internet of Things
As more of our devices join the connected world we will see an increase in
demand for:
 99. IoT device lending
 100. IoT prototyping workshops
 101. IoT competitions
 102. IoT expert speaker sessions
Equipment Archive
Most people have old forms of information on disks, cartridges, stick
drives, and tapes, and many are looking for a place to convert it to a new
medium that people today can access.
 103. Read and print microfiche
 104. Both read and convert 8”, 5.25”, and 3.5” disks to the cloud
 105. Convert photos to video
 106. Convert from VHS to DVD
 107. Digitize and repair old photos and documents
 108. Old gaming consoles to play programs and games on cartridges,
apps, stick drives, and CDs
Global Library Projects
 109. VR chat rooms with people in other counties
 110. Cross cultural lending programs (i.e. books written in Japanese, not
translated, about Ben Franklin)
Video and Non-Video Games
Games are quickly becoming the cultural norm for most young people today.
 111. Game tournaments
 112. Game lending
 113. Game builder workshops
 114. Game expert events
New Facilities
Most major libraries will be testing out a host of new options to make their
facilities relevant for next generation users.
 115. Mini Planetariums
 116. Robotic storytelling centers
 117. VR dating stations
 118. Time capsule room
 119. Drone lending program
 120. Pet lending program
 121. Expert events – meet the experts
 122. Community archives – let the community decide
Portsmouth public library evening presentation
Portsmouth public library evening presentation
Now over to you . . .
Throw Your Pebble!
Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA
Consultant, Lighthouse Partners
CEO, Federation of Ontario Public Libraries
Cel: 416-669-4855
stephen.abram@gmail.com
Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog
http://stephenslighthouse.com
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Portsmouth public library evening presentation

  • 1. Future of Libraries: Engines of their Communities Portsmouth Public Library Presentation November 15, 2016 Stephen Abram, MLS Federation of Ontario Public Libraries Lighthouse Consulting Inc.
  • 6. Let’s get something out of the way . . .
  • 7. Dead Wrong Thinking Public libraries are growing, doing better than ever. The Internet and digital world is an opportunity that libraries excel on riding this mechanical bull!
  • 9. 21st Century Vital Literacies Critical 21st century skills, all agree on four critical areas for development:  Collaboration and teamwork  Creativity and imagination  Critical thinking  Problem solving  Flexibility and adaptability  Global and cultural awareness  Information literacy  Leadership  Civic literacy and citizenship  Oral and written communication skills  Social responsibility and ethics  Technology literacy  Initiative Literacy: Reading literacy Print literacy Computer literacy Web literacy Device literacy Tool literacy Information literacy Cognitive literacy Credulity
  • 10. “Information literacy is a crucial skill in the pursuit of knowledge. It involves recognizing when information is needed and being able to efficiently locate, accurately evaluate, effectively use, and clearly communicate information in various formats.” Wesleyan University
  • 11. Proven Public Library Impact The Public Library value proposition is strong and includes (but isn’t limited to):  Excellent Return on Investment  Strong Economic Development  Great Employment Support  Welcoming New Americans  Provable Early Literacy Development  Ongoing Support for Formal Education and Homework Help  Serve the whole community equitably  Affordable access to community resources  Access to Government Services and e-government  Questions Deserve Quality Answers  Support Cultural Vitality  Recognized and Valued Leisure Activities for the majority
  • 12. Current Proofs on Having an Impact (just a selection)  Fiction and Empathy  School Readiness  College Readiness  Social Isolation  Different Abilities  Economic Impact  Entrepreneurs  Lifelong learning, adult education, e-learning  Access of all kinds – leveling the playing field
  • 13. “How will we describe the nature of libraries in the future? Should they be:  Baby friendly  Pet friendly  Food friendly  Beer, wine, and alcohol friendly  Event friendly  Party friendly (should they provide a list of approved catering companies)  Homeless friendly  Privacy advocate friendly  Business friendly  Casual user friendly
  • 14. Should they have facilities for:  Traveling museum exhibits  Private meetings  Aerobic reading  Taking a shower  Preparing and serving food  Taking a nap  Storing personal items  Sending money or making payments
  • 15. Traditional Information Archive – Over the years libraries have expanded their collections. Certainly not all are large enough to manage every item on this list, but most have a majority of them.  Print books  Digital books  Audio books  Newspapers  Magazines  Music  Movies  TV shows  Radio broadcasts  Presentations  Courseware  Audio materials (discs, tapes, talking books and other recorded formats)  Maps  Microforms  Videos (film, television broadcasts, DVDs)  Sheet music  Photographs, posters, prints, and drawings  Apps and mobile apps  Social media archives  Artwork
  • 17. Non-Traditional Archives Libraries also have an obligation to archive their local communities. Some of the non- traditional archives may include:  1. History of every business in region.  2. Overview of every graduating class in every school.  3. History of local infrastructure including bridges, tunnels, waterlines, sewer lines, fire stations, water towers, police stations, schools, etc.  4. Aging of the community done through sequential photo queues.  5. The sound of the city in the form of audio recordings over the years.  6. Cultural influence timelines.  7. Local archive for emergency equipment such as emergency generators when the power does down, or emergency lighting, emergency cots, etc.  8. Record of every law, ordinance, and regulation affecting every member of the community
  • 18. Search Command Centers Most people entering a library are searching for something. Over the coming years search technology will become increasing complicated, but at the same time we will have far more capabilities to use in our search. Video Search – When it comes to video search, we still struggle with attributes like context, style, circumstances, and a variety of situational details. Examples of future video searches may include:  9. Bring up every public video of Jane Doe (average person) between 1980 and 2005 when she was in Manchester, England.  10. What are the top 20 most watched videos of an audience laughing at someone who is in the process of dying from a fatal accident?  11. Show me the top 10 Twitch tournament videos of Korean players playing Destiny version 4.3.  12. What are the 12 common features of low grossing movies produced by Paramount Pictures in 1978? Drone Search – It may seem unlikely today that libraries will have their own fleets of drones to deploy for physical search inquiries, but that will change over the coming decades.  13. Using thermo scans, what houses in my city have the least amount of insulation in the attic?  14. Where is the hole in the fence that is allowing livestock to enter the Eagle Ridge Neighborhood and cause damage?  15. Which areas in my city are least likely to get flooded when the river overflows its banks?  16. Give me a 360-degree views of the three major sculptures erected in my city last year? Demographic Search – The demographics of the world is changing and we need better tools for monitoring it.  17. Show me a heatmap of the world, broken down by 1 square mile regions, showing highest to lowest birthrates  18. What regions of the world are most like Winnipeg, Canada (pick any city) based on climate, age demographics, political views, education levels, scientific interests, personal health, etc.  19. Who is the most knowledgeable person in the world on acidic soil types?  20. Show me a decade-by-decade breakdown of increasing average incomes in Africa since 1900.
  • 19. Complex Searches Over time search engines will deploy a combination of techniques for finding the answer to complex questions.  21. Interactive map of the world highlighting regions currently at 10 degrees Celsius?  22. What world leaders are currently in NYC?  23. Interactive map of butterfly migrations in Panama?  24. What movie has Harrison Ford wearing a blue sweater while chewing gum?  25. Why is this object (hold up an object) important?  26. How famous am I compared to other people in my community?  27. Timeline Search – How have recipes for bread changed over the past 300 years?  28. Who else in the world has a disease like mine?
  • 20. Future searches As we enter the age of quantum computing, far more search attributes will become quantifiable. Someday soon we will be able to search for:  29. Smells  30. Tastes  31. Harmonic vibrations  32. Reflectivity  33. Specific gravity  34. Chemical composition  35. Textures  36. Viscosity
  • 21. Fussy search features  37. Looks like  38. Smells like  39. Feels like  40. Tastes like  41. Sounds like  42. Absorbs like  43. Echoes like  44. Coats like
  • 22. Spherical Displays Spherical displays in the future will have the ability to give an accurate perspective of planet earth.  45. Track pollution flows across the ocean in real-time  46. Monitor major hurricanes from satellites and track new developments on a minute by minute basis  47. Book a complex travel itinerary from a spherical perspective  48. Show how warm water currents have changed over the past two decades.
  • 23. Maker Spaces Libraries are rapidly transitioning from a place for passive visitors who consume information to active participants who would much rather produce it. Areas to include:  49. Potters wheel and workshop for mixing the mud and making pottery.  50. Growing vegetables using aquaponics.  51. Video studio for both shooting and editing a video.  52. A production area for both recording and editing a virtual reality experience  53. IoT workbenches complete with Internet of Things help desk  54. Access to 3D scanners and printers capable of printing items out of several hundred different materials.  55. Laser cutters for etching/cutting wood, glass, metal, and ceramic.  56. Jewelry making stations
  • 24. Creative Spaces These types of spaces will come complete with all the tools, technologies, and supplies for creative people to get creative.  57. Produce art  58. Produce music  59. Produce games  60. Produce podcasts  61. Produce webcasts  62. Produce VR experiences  63. Host IoT workshops  64. Create & print with 3D printers
  • 25. Mini theaters It’s important for groups have a place to gather for such things as:  65. Watching movies  66. Playing video games  67. Watch live events such as concerts, sporting events, NASA landings, etc.  68. Watch YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and more
  • 26. Live webcast studios While we no longer need a studio for doing live webcasts, the age of the studio is far from over.  69. Book reviews  70. Game reviews  71. App reviews  72. Course review  73. Chatbot review  74. Tech reviews  75. 50 years ago today  76. “How to” accomplish something
  • 27. 3D Printing As the process of additive manufacturing improves, it will begin to enter all of our lives in unusual ways:  77. 3D printer lending  78. 3D scanner lending  79. 3D printer workshops  80. 3D scanner workshops  81. 3D design competitions  82. 3D printer-scanner help desks
  • 28. Flying Drones In much the way kids that lived a century ago wanted to learn how to fly, young people today are enamored with flying and driving drones.  83. Drone lending  84. Flying drone flight simulators  85. DYI drone workshops  86. Drone competitions
  • 29. Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is already in existence and already knows far more about you than any person alive today. Will future libraries offer:  87. AI lending  88. AI workshops  89. AI competitions  90. Monitor and anticipate visitor usage
  • 30. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Both will become far more pervasive in the future.  91. VR & AR hardware lending  92. VR & AR software lending  93. VR & AR production studios  94. VR & AR search engines
  • 31. Robotics Robots will become far more common in the future.  95. Robot lending  96. Robot rodeos  97. Robot workshops  98. Robot competitions McMaster University’s Hitchbot
  • 32. Internet of Things As more of our devices join the connected world we will see an increase in demand for:  99. IoT device lending  100. IoT prototyping workshops  101. IoT competitions  102. IoT expert speaker sessions
  • 33. Equipment Archive Most people have old forms of information on disks, cartridges, stick drives, and tapes, and many are looking for a place to convert it to a new medium that people today can access.  103. Read and print microfiche  104. Both read and convert 8”, 5.25”, and 3.5” disks to the cloud  105. Convert photos to video  106. Convert from VHS to DVD  107. Digitize and repair old photos and documents  108. Old gaming consoles to play programs and games on cartridges, apps, stick drives, and CDs
  • 34. Global Library Projects  109. VR chat rooms with people in other counties  110. Cross cultural lending programs (i.e. books written in Japanese, not translated, about Ben Franklin)
  • 35. Video and Non-Video Games Games are quickly becoming the cultural norm for most young people today.  111. Game tournaments  112. Game lending  113. Game builder workshops  114. Game expert events
  • 36. New Facilities Most major libraries will be testing out a host of new options to make their facilities relevant for next generation users.  115. Mini Planetariums  116. Robotic storytelling centers  117. VR dating stations  118. Time capsule room  119. Drone lending program  120. Pet lending program  121. Expert events – meet the experts  122. Community archives – let the community decide
  • 39. Now over to you . . . Throw Your Pebble!
  • 40. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA Consultant, Lighthouse Partners CEO, Federation of Ontario Public Libraries Cel: 416-669-4855 stephen.abram@gmail.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http://stephenslighthouse.com Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr: Stephen Abram LinkedIn / Plaxo: Stephen Abram Twitter: @sabram SlideShare: StephenAbram1