This document discusses several topics related to digital technology and libraries. It begins by covering digital delivery and the rise of smartphones and apps. It then discusses the maker movement and how libraries can support it by providing digital media labs and equipment for content creation. The document also notes a lack of computer programming education and proposes free online resources libraries can offer. It concludes by looking towards future technologies like gamification, near-field communication, and Google Glass.

2. Today’sTopics
• Digital Delivery
• Maker Movement
• Next generation of computer programmers
• Looking towards the future

3. Digital is the new
delivery

4. “I think there is a world market for
maybe five computers.”
IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

5. Poll
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81752595@N00/61706536/

6. Nearly 419 million devices were
sold during the Q1 2013, with more
than 216 million, or 51.6%, being
smartphones.
International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker,
April 2013

7. Challenge:
Over700,000apps

8. There’s an app for that…
MP3 Music Language
Learning
Audiobooks eBooks &
Audiobooks
Magazines

9. LibrarySolution:
Library In Your Pocket

10. Flickr Credits
Slide one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/6
495437857/

11. LibrarySolution:
Buildyour ownapp

12. AppArchitect

13. Challenge:
Streaming Content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeljscott/3214363620/sizes/m/in/photostream/

14. Current^marketplace:

15. Current^marketplace:

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/69135870@N00/4850482798/
Breaking news:
amazon enters market

17. LibrarySolution:
Hoopla

19. LibrarySolution:
LendaRokubox

20. Ephrata Public Library

21. LibrarySolution:
Lend atablet

23. MakerMovement

24. Poll
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81752595@N00/61706536/

25. 58% of Americans age 16 and older
reported that they are totally likely
to use a digital media lab to create
and upload new digital content.
Pew Internet & American Life Project
January 2013

26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/69135870@N00/4850482798/
Digital Media Labs
http://blogs.skokielibrary.info/medialab/

27. FabLabs&MakerSpaces

28. Challenge:
BudgetConstraints
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4896996561/sizes/l/in/photostream/

29. Library Solution:
Buildyour own

30. Digital media lab
Equipment

31. Digital media lab
Software
• Windows Movie Maker
• iMovie (Mac)
• Audacity (Audio)
• Blender (Graphics)

32. Fab Lab&Maker Space
Equipment

34. Future programmers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85638073@N00/8667388406/

35. “9 out of 10 schools don’t teach
computer programming. At the college
level, 2% of students graduate with
computer science degrees”.
Hadi Partovi, Code.org

36. Challenge:
Staffexpertise
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76261353@N00/7491311/

37. Library Solution:
Free online resources &
tools

42. Looking towards the future
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h-k-d/5093579727/sizes/l/in/photostream/

46. Gamification

47. NearFieldCommunication

48. GoogleGlass

50. Thanks for
attending!
Let’s stay connected.
Email:schada@sanduskylib.org
Twitter:@samchada
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