This is a presentation on the future of libraries and trends for colleges for the library team at Seneca College in Ontario.

1. Future Library Stuff:What are the Top Trends? Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA Seneca College January 5, 2010

2. Slides available soon on SlideShare & at Stephen’s Lighthouse blog

3. How do we really feel about technology?

6. The BIG Insight “The Internet has now progressed to its infancy” Search, Social Networks, Learning, Commerce

7. Shift Number 1 The Transmogrifying Book and Periodical

8. How many articles did it take? How many books does it take?

10. Is the traditional book now a hollow experience?

11. Are we ready for a truly post print world? http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=book+sculpture&page=44

12. Can we get our heads out of book-centric experiences?

14. Can we design a 21st Century book experience?

16. Will Reading Matter?Are your staff confusing books and reading? Audiobooks, Cengageand eBooks . . . And Google

17. How many dead ends in your library? On your website? In your OPAC?

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/keeping-it-real/160822516/

20. Can you link to book chapters or paragraphs? Is your Community different? http://www.flickr.com/photos/blu_blue/262096844/in/pool-booksandportraits

21. What does your book and article or website recommendation blog/RSS feed look like? Who is your star recommender or liaison? http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthk/2054262239/

22. How do your community content reviews do? http://www.flickr.com/photos/cjanebuy/340249608/in/pool-booksandportraits

23. How are your web based communities doing? How many hundred are there? http://www.flickr.com/photos/mthiesson/176153663/

24. What knowledge portals have you created? Experiences? Advanced pathfinders? eLearning? http://www.flickr.com/photos/lori_an/319433801/

25. Do you offer Podcasts? Webcasts? LibGuides? Streaming? Do you record and index every lecture?

27. ChiliFresh

28. LibraryThing for Libraries

29. SOPAC, VuFind, Endeca, etc.

30. Delicious

31. Digg

32. YouTubehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/lori_an/319433802/in/photostream/

33. Are we going to a totally build it yourself world? Imagine IKEA merging with GM...

36. Newspapers: Assemble them yourself. Re-imagine the textbook, coursepack, etc.

37. Shift Number 2 Islands in the Stream: DVD, CD, and death thereof

42. What is the scariest scenario for libraries?I have an archaeology background . . .

44. Shift Number 3 Smart Kids & Employees

45. Literacy = Life Success News literacy Technology literacy Information literacy Media literacy Adaptive literacy Research literacy Academic literacy Etc. Reading literacy Numeracy Critical literacy Social literacy Computer literacy Web literacy Content literacy Written literacy

46. Play

48. Shift Number 4 Mind Share and Libraries

49. What Are Libraries Really For? Special Libraries Hospitals, Police, Fire, Ambulance and Libraries “Everything is there on the Internet for free!” Economic Impact – ($6.50 per $1, workforce preparedness, industrial attraction, quality of life, etc.) Equity (digital divide, integrating population growth, generations, etc.) Student Performance (up to 25 point increase) Competitive Advantage (Canada, EC, India, China, etc.) Social Glue Community Learning Interaction

51. Shift Number 5 Bricks, Clicks and Tricks: Physical Space

52. Bricks, Clicks and Tricks:Knowledge Commons

53. Comfort

54. What’s Your Experience Look Like?

55. What’s Your Experience Look Like?

56. What’s Your Experience Look Like?

57. Shift Number 6 Social Libraries

58. Or will we defend a 16th Century vision?

60. Community

61. Life

62. You can’t wait for everyone to change at once.

63. Shift Number 7 Partnerships, CollaborationsCooperation

64. Community Networks

65. Do we truly understand their goals?

66. Conversations

67. Relationships

68. What do libraries want? Relevance Making a Difference

70. Connection

71. Personalization

72. Personalization

73. Shift Number8 An E-learning World

74. You all know e-learning... Key strategies that must happen... There is an imperative that the library and institutional and provincial/national strategies align quick ly. Liaisons need to be prioritized over service Self service needs to be thought through Niche priorities over service for all On demand content Copyright, etc. Puzzle experiments – i.e. How does the espresso book machine puzzle into our strategies

75. Shift Number 9 A Volatile World

77. Discovery & Ideas

85. The Future Discovered Stem Cells fMRI and The Brain Cloning Wind and other energy Nanotechnology Robotics Book Digitization Music Streaming Media Seed Bank

87. Eye Movement Changes

88. Learning Styles Visual/Spatial (Picture Smart) Verbal/Linguistic (Word Smart) Musical/Rhythmic (Music Smart) Logical/Mathematical (Number Smart) Bodily/Kinesthetic (Body Smart) Interpersonal (People Smart) Intrapersonal (Self Smart) Piaget, Bloom, Gardner, etc.

91. Diabetes Online Yes, Stephen did just say Lizard Spit

92. Volatility Especially in Education and Research

93. Major Shifts Afoot Cloud computing Repository integration Metadata plateau Excessive Mobile Bandwidth bottlenecks SmartWeb Sensors Everywhere The ‘new’ Privacy Decentralization of Education Decentralization of R&D Internet of Things Content price wars – eg. eBooks Collaboration via Wave, etc. Asia Centricity Discovery on Steroids (genome, brain, nano, green, climate,...) Less search, more context and display delivery Social web dominant Ultimate network = phone + mobile commerce Augmented reality The Real Time Web Experience Portals + e-learning Hybrid content App stores and API stores Cybercrime and Cyberterror

95. & AMAZON

96. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessman/2590572476/

97. http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/

99. The Sharing Economy

100. “Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the WWW that lets people collaborate and share information online.” Wikipedia Shared Pictures = Shared Knowledge = Shared Bookmarks = Shared News = Shared Videos = Shared Everything =

101. Get Good at The Cloud

103. Be Where Your Users Are

104. Credit: Lorcan Dempsey

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

111. What are the Real Challenges? Scalability (and this doesn’t mean web scale) Retreading our colleagues - quickly Prejudice about users & Disrespect of users Demographic Mosaic Change Lack of Accountability and Urgency to Act Demand for Reproducibility and Proofs Coordination and Sharing Vision Leadership Financial Resources (excuse vs. reason)

112. Shift Number 10 The Librarian as Expert Contact& Team Member

115. The thing about success, is that it’s not about things. Or 2.0 Technology

116. Make a list of your last 10 projects. Now describe them in terms that they only solved an end user problem – NOT a library problem. By any chance do you prioritize your needs over end users?

117. What problems do you solve?Are they librarian or end user problems?

118. Draw a 1 to 7 scale.1___2___3___4___5___6___7Plot all initiatives on it.One: Solves end-user problems from the end user’s perspectiveSeven: Solves library staff problems and pain points?

120. LibrariesCreating the Third Path…

121. Vision Will Pull You There

122. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA President 2008, SLA VP Strategic Partnerships and Markets Gale Cengage Learning Cel: 416-669-4855 stephen.abram@cengage.com http://www.cengage.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com