1. Library as Future
Joe Murphy @libraryfuture Australia 2014

2. Art by Tara Radniecki
@libraryfuture

3. The outside world is burning the
ways that we have done things
@libraryfuture

4. @libraryfuture

6. She who has more curiosity
has more strength
@libraryfuture

7. Joe Murphy
Director, Library Futures
• Hopes
– Expand library creativity
– Multiply instances of
library innovation
– Empower future leaning
library projects

8. The future of libraries is a
question
The question is do libraries
have a future?
@libraryfuture

9. The future of libraries is a question
Posing a question invites investment into its answer
The ask has power as a story

10. One more thing …
Diffusion

11. Library as Future
@libraryfuture

12. The Future as Platform
@libraryfuture

13. What gets us to the future?
An idea and an ounce of heart

14. there is no map to the future

15. The future library identifies & supports local moonshots
the long goals that create side
benefits for the community future
@libraryfuture

17. The library
sprouts life

18. Internet of Everything
• When more than our devices are
data points
– The Internet of Things is about to
explode in libraries
A Nest
for
Google

19. New roles serve as
bubbles of creativity
New roles -
Chief Creative Officer -
Director of Makerspaces

20. Four directions for libraries for 2014
Libraries as
change entities
@libraryfuture

21. “Really more of a lab than a library”

22. Boil it down and we are left with change
Libraries = pivot engines

23. Partnerships as growth

24. Partnerships – coders and more

25. New platforms for libraries
Cars – TVs – Wearables

26. More through formerly passive platforms

27. Wearable technology
• From palm to body
• Not a tangential fad
– will want it to fold into library
services, work-flows, content
provision

28. Battle for the Living Room

29. Libraries as gap filler

30. Now Accepting Bitcoin

31. Bitcoin ATM

32. Mobile now
Mobile usage grew 115%
in 2013
– Messaging rose 203%,
content increased only 31%
for magazines & news &
78% for other media.
– Messaging even beat out
gaming.
– Productivity was #2.
(According to Flurry
http://blog.flurry.com/bid/103601/Mobile-UseGrows-115-in-2013-Propelled-by-Messaging-
)
Apps
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/flip-phone-return_n_4518592.html

33. Mobile Messaging
•
•
•
•
Snapchat
Jelly
Instagram Direct
WhatsApp

34. Snapchat – More than Sexting
Impermanence
Primacy of privacy
Photo as conversation

35. Jelly
Big tech
playing in
library areas
Klout’s Cinch?
Google’s Helpouts?

37. Google Helpouts
Social & expertise
- ahem … libraries
https://helpouts.google.com/home

39. Art by Tara Radniecki

40. The Most Disruptive Content Technology …
is from old media
https://www.aereo.com/

41. Content Today
– Print Starts to Settle
Into Its Niches - "Print
is not dead, it simply
has some very specific
attributes” – NYT
– Library publishing
services are on the rise
– to serve local/campus
publishing needs
Association of
American Univ Presses
Study

42. Netflix(S) for Books
- 24Symbols – Oyster – Scribd –
- Streaming – Subscription – Freemium -

43. Drones + ecommerce + content

44. 2nd Screen folding back

45. Sharing

46. SX
SW
Libraries at SXSW
Positioning Libraries as part of the
technology conversation
Austin, TX March, 2014

47. You front line librarians. You are the ones in trouble. …
- your new job description, “sees & accepts change, redirects the library
work to be the change we need to see”
You new/young/newly curious
librarians, keep pointing us in new
directions

48. Proximity

49. Hyperlinking reality
QR Codes and
Clickable Paper
NFC

50. A virtual reality wearable
Oculus Rift
Virtual reality headset
Hardware catches
up to 2008 dreams
Key points –
• Wearable
• SDK

51. The 1st question should
not be how do we apply?
It should be, “what are
the impacts on the info
environment?”
And “what opportunities
does it provide?”

53. The wrong questions:
Do libraries have a future?
What is the future of libraries?

54. There is nothing to fear but death and obsolescence

56. There is nothing to fear but trying & missing

57. There is nothing to fear but unoptimistic visions
of our future

58. Not all who wonder are lost
@libraryfuture

59. I want to hear, “I wonder if …”
Look at disruptions & ask
“what will this mean for library
growth opportunities?”
@libraryfuture

60. Ecosystems

62. Facilitating Creation
Also - 3D Printing fossils at the University of
Oregon science library

63. Creation

64. Making

66. Privacy debate
• Privacy becomes a different type of
conversation, when the primacy of patron
privacy is balanced with (challenged by?) a
preference for / prioritization of customization
over strict privacy controls.
– Privacy having been “irreparably harmed” will this
mean A) a closer guarding of trust AND B) a more
realistic placement of levels of trust on institutions
like libraries

67. Library of the future =
= HEART + GUTS + VISION

68. The joy & inspiration libraries bring
simply by having a familiar title
@libraryfuture

70. Do not speak of library futures until
you know the love of miles Davis

71. Library as Future
Joe Murphy
@libraryfuture
libraryfuture@gmail.com
Art by Tara Radniecki