EMPOWERING USERS
AND OURSELVES:
TECH TRENDS IN LIBRARIES
Andy Burkhardt
andyburkhardt.com
Champlain College

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vonburkhardt
@vonburkhardt
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Reader of the
future –
1935 issue of
Everyday Science
and Mechanics

STORIES

CURIOSITY

CREATION

STORIES

“PowerPoint presentations may be
powered by state-of-the-art
technology. But reams of data
rarely engage people to move them
to action. Stories, on the other
hand, are state-of-the-
heart technology—they connect us
to others.”
-PETER GUBER

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/13/business/student-debt-at-colleges-and-universities.html?hp

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/popmap/

DATAVISUALIZATION.CH
http://selection.datavisualization.ch/

DAYTUM
http://daytum.com

TABLEAU
http://www.tableausoftware.com/public

GOOGLE CHARTS
https://developers.google.com/chart

VISUAL.LY
http://visual.ly/

CAL POLY LIBRARY
http://lib.calpoly.edu/about/facts/stats.html

EXPLORE MORE
Data visualization for advocacy – Web
Junction
Data visualization project – NC State

CURIOSITY

http://www.skillshare.com/about/manifesto

SKILLSHARE
http://www.skillshare.com/

P2PU
http://p2pu.org/en/

KAHN ACADEMY
http://www.khanacademy.org/

TED ED
http://ed.ted.com/

ED X
http://www.edxonline.org/

BADGES
http://openbadges.org
A Future Full of Badges –
Chronicle of Higher
Education

EXPLORE MORE
Let’s use video to reinvent education –
Salman Kahn (TED)
Disruptive Educational Models and Open
Education – ALA Techconnect

CREATION

PINTEREST
http://pinterest.com/

KICKSTARTER
http://www.kickstarter.com/

UNGLUE.IT
https://unglue.it/

EXPLORE MORE
We are makers – Dale Dougherty (TED)
20 Ways Libraries Are Using Pinterest Right
Now

“The best way to predict
the future is to invent it.”
- ALAN KAY

QUESTIONS?
COMMENTS?

CREDITS
1. Flickr | journalism students using mac apple | chris.corwin
4. Flickr | Lower School Pajama Night | Santa Catalina School
5. Flickr | Compeled by curiosity | Gabriella Corrado
6. Flickr | Untitled | J. Star
7. Flickr | Our Direction | Brian Talbot
18. Picasa | Champlain Statue News | Stephen Mease
35. Flickr | Graphic Conversation | Marc Wathieu
Colors: COLOURLovers | tech light | COLOURLover