1.
Agenda
• Intro
• Some facts and figures
• Mobiles = The interface to
information
• The future of „Books“
• Library as a networked service
• Library as „a place“
• The outcome…
• Outro
Les bibliothèques à l’ère du
numérique : problèmes et
perspectives
Dr. Klaus Ceynowa
Journées ABES,
Montpellier, 26-27 May 2010

2.
Intro

3.
Foretelling the Future?

4.
http://www.globecartoon.com, 27. Juli 2009 Patrick Chappatté, in: „Le Temps“ (Genf)
Digital Natives…

5.
Our Digital Lifes…

6.
And where
is the
Library…?

7.
Some facts
and figures

8.
72%
14%
10%
2%
2%
Information Behavior

9.
Advanced Information Behavior

10.
Sharing, privacy and
trust in our networked
world – OCLC report,
2007
http://www.oclc.org/
reports/sharing/defa
ult.htm
Library Web Site: Point of Sale?

11.
Library Catalogs vs. Google Book Search

12.
Mobiles =
The
Interface to
Information

13.
“By 2013,
mobile phones
will overtake
PCs as the
most common
Web access
device
worldwide.”
Mobiles …Mobiles …

14.
Mobiles …
“Regarding pace of
change, we believe more
users will likely connect
to the internet via
mobile devices than
desktop PCs within 5
years…”.
“Rapid ramp of mobile
internet usage will be a
boon to consumers and
some companies will likely
win big (potentially very
big) while many will
wonder what just
happened...“
Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report, 15.12.09 (www.ms.com/techresearch).

15.
“For many people all
over the world, but
especially in
developing countries,
mobiles are
increasingly the access
point not only for
common tools and
communications, but
also for information of
all kinds, training
materials, and more.“
Mobiles …

16.
“When we get to a point that a mobile
version is expected of whatever content
we want to interact with, not having a
mobile version may cut-off desire to
consume that content.”
Inside Higher ed: Challenges and opportunities of
the small screen, November 19, 2009
Foto: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc964299.aspx
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenickster/2952878107/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yzo/2987127062
Whatever we want whenever we want…

17.
WorldCat
Library of Congress
Stanza
textunes
Shortcovers
Wattpad
Eucalyptus
Information Services on Mobiles:

18.
OPAC of the
Bavarian State
Library as
Smartphone
Application
(opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de)

19.
„Bavarian State Library Top100“ as iPad-App:
Starting End of June

20.
The future of
“Books”

21.
A. L. Penenberg: Amazon Taps Its
Inner Apple, In: Fast
Company,July/August 2009
“The decay of the printed word on
paper is part of a predictable pattern
of development.
Taking on the characteristics of our
present online habits, and riding a
wave of rapid innovation in screens and
microprocessors, books may soon
become multimedia events.”
Books = „Multimedia Events“ ?!

22.
Steve Haber on the Future of Books…
“It's paper, it's heavy,
it's environmentally
taxing. When we
introduced our Reader,
the biggest resistance I
heard was, 'I like the
smell of books, and I like
the smell of paper. I
can't go digital.' That was
the confirmation for me
that this change will
happen. If the smell of
paper is the biggest push
back, then we're good to
go.”
Fastcompany: May 2009

23.
E-Book Universe
iPad

24.
Flexible E-Book Reader

25.
University of
Washington,
Electrical
Engineering
Department:
“Virtual Retina
Display (VRD)”
Library on a Lense?!

26.
Google Editions (Starting June 2010)

27.
Multimedia Content
from the Cloud,
accessible on any web-
enabled device
The Future of Books…

28.
Library as a
networked
service

29.
…to design solutions that help
users to achieve their desired
outcomes in research, study and
learning
Our job is…

30.
User Workflow and Digital Library Services
Don‘t try to adapt the user-workflows
to the digital library!

31.
Do: Adapt the digital
library to the user-workflows
• Disintegration of all digital
services…
• …by integration into individual
digital user environments
– digital research
environments
– virtual learning spaces
– social networks etc.
• and into the huge
gravitational hubs
on the web
The One-and-only “Point of Sale”:
User Workflow

32.
OPAC
Virtual
Libraries
Virtual
Research
Environments
Regional
Catalog
„German
Digital
Library“
Regional
Portals
Content: Local – Coverage: Global

33.
The „brand“-problem…
“WorldCat.org,
the destination
for search and
discovery of
library materials
on the web.”

34.
Library as
“a place”

35.
Library as „a place“?!
“The library‘s leaders are seeking ... to
become vague learning environments
which, when boiled down to their
essence, are nothing more than
computer labs with sofas and coffee.”
Inside Higher ed: Reviving the Academic Library,
November 19, 2009
Bild: Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle: (c) Ingo Gottlieb

36.
Place for culture
and communication
Place for concentration
(learning & thinking)
Location for Events,
Exhibitions, Meetings etc.etc.
The “physical” library does not work as a
“library” anymore, but as a
Library-as-place: Functional Change

37.
Architecture as “unique selling point”
Library-as-place: the wow! factor

38.
Library-as-place - the future?!
reliability communication
real-time-independence
contemplation thinking/reading
authority exclusiveness
discussion reflection precision
concentration serendipity

39.
Library-as-place - the future?!
“Always-on backlash: In reaction to
increased, pervasive connectivity, there
must be an 'always-on backlash' en masse.
There will not just be niche communities
choosing to 'opt-out', but it will
become culturally, socially necessary and
desirable to be offline. The ability to
gracefully disconnect and go 'dark' must
become a USP for many products and
services.”
Timo Arnall
Design Researcher at Oslo School
of Architecture and Design

40.
The
outcome…

41.
Libraries – in the future…
To go:
Library as an
institutional,
organisational und
functional
entity
To come:
Variety of diversified
services in an
all-inclusive, mobile digital
information infrastructure
To stay:
„A place” in cultural life

42.
Imperative 1:
Library as a service – become invisible!
(and deal with the “brand problem”)
Imperative 2:
Library as a place – become visible!
(and deal with the problem of not
being perceived as “a library”)

43.
• Accessing information
will be by web-enabled
mobile devices only…
• And mainly via the huge
gravitational hubs on
the web…
• or via highly specialized digital
workplaces.
But all these “nomadic workers“ need a
place…
for inspiration, communication,
concentration…
Imagine the future…

44.
Wired US, Aug 2009
Library
Everywhere/
Anytime

45.
Outro

46.
No problems at all?!

47.
Does the Bavarian State Library
make you happy?

48.
Relax... Future is bright for information
professionals!

49.
But if you
strongly
disagree…
M. Pamela Bumsted Bumsted, Biocultural Science & Management,
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/50-reasons-not-to-change/

50.
Thank you
very much
for your
attention!