Presentation by Stephen Abram at the 2011 SLA Conference in Philadelphia, PA, June 13, 2011

1. Future Ready: Getting Out In Front of the Curve Stephen Abram, MLS SLA Annual Conference Government Information Division June 13, 2011

2. Change These slides are available at Stephen’s Lighthouse blog

3. We Only Get So Many Once-in-a-Lifetime Chances To Do Great Things

4. News Flash “The Internet and technology have now progressed to their infancy”

5. Change can happen very fast

6. Sensemaking

7. News Flash News Flash Tech Shift Happens

9. You don't know what to do

10. You don't know how to do it

11. You don't have the authority or the resources to do it

12. You're afraid

13. Once you figure out what's getting in the way, it's far easier to find the answer (or decide to work on a different problem).

16. Buildings

17. Search

18. Reading is Fundamental

19. Patrons

20. Outreach

21. Circulation

23. Bricks and Clicks and Tricks

24. Communities of Knowledge and Practice

25. Research Impact

26. Relationships & Partnerships

27. Information Literacy Programs

29. Discovery

30. Progress

31. Research (Applied and Theoretical)

32. Cultural & Knowledge Custody

33. Economic Impact

35. -

36. Cook’s Voyage

37. Columbus, Cabot, Cortes

38. Magellan Columbus Cook

41. Questions for Libraries Today: Are our priorities right? Are learning, research, discovery changing materially and what is actually changing? Books. Meh. What is the role for librarians in the real future (that is not an extension of the past)?

44. Physical access and basic reading has already evolved to intellectual access with new competencies

45. Libraries at the heart of the campus? Nope.

46. Students are focused at the lesson and event (essay, test, exam) level

48. Grocery Stores

49. Grocery Stores

50. Grocery Stores

51. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

52. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

53. Meals

54. The new bibliography and collection development KNOWLEDGE PORTALS KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, INFORMATION & RESEARCH COMMONS

55. Chefs, counsellors, teachers, magicians Librarians play a vital role in building the critical connections between information , knowledge and learning.

57. Take Out

58. Private Dining Rooms

59. Private Chefs

61. Stop Making it so Hard!

63. Technology literacy

64. Information literacy

65. Media literacy

66. Adaptive literacy

67. Research literacy

68. Academic literacy

69. Reputation, Etc.

70. Reading literacy

71. Numeracy

72. Critical literacy

73. Social literacy

74. Computer literacy

75. Web literacy

76. Content literacy

78. Steal This Idea

80. Answers (answers.com)

81. Answer Bag (answerbag.com)

82. Articles Base (articlesbase.com)

83. Ask (ask.com)

84. Associated Content (associatedcontent.com)

85. BizRate (bizrate.com)

86. Buzle (buzzle.com)

87. Brothersoft (brothersoft.com)

88. Bytes (bytes.com)

89. ChaCha (chacha.com)

90. eFreedom (efreedom.com)

91. eHow (ehow.com)

92. Essortment (essortment.com)

93. Examiner (examiner.com)

94. Expert Village (expertvillage.com)

95. )

96. Experts Exchange (experts-exchange.com)

97. eZine Articles (ezinearticles.com)

98. Find Articles (findarticles.com)

99. FixYa (fixya.com Helium (helium.com)

100. Hub Pages (hubpages.com)

101. InfoBarrel (infobarrel.com)

102. Livestrong (livestrong.com)

103. Mahalo (mahalo.com)

104. Mail Archive (mail-archive.com)

105. Question Hub (questionhub.com)

106. Squidoo (squidoo.com)

107. Suite101 (suite101.com)

108. Twenga (twenga.com)

109. WiseGeek (wisegeek.com)

110. Wonder How To (wonderhowto.com)

111. Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com)

116. Encyclopedia.com

117. HighBeam & Questia

118. WorldCat

119. AccessMyLibrary iPhone App for public, school and higher ed – iPhone, iPad, iTouch and Droid!

120. Geo-IP features and measures

122. Have Users Changed?

123. YES (duh!)

129. My son: Zachary

131. Educational attainment up, a lot

132. Reading up, markedly

133. Brain & Developmental Changes

134. Eye Movement Changes

135. Massive Behavioural Changes

136. Major Decline in Crime Rates – down 65%

138. Gaming too. . . Mothers in their 30’s

139. Social networks fastest growing populations are seniors and is more international and less urban and less English dominated.

140. eBook reader usage is largely middle-aged.

142. 71% of instructors that rated student engagement levels as “high” as a result of using technology in courses.

143. 71% of students who are employed full-time and 77% of students who are employed part-time prefer more technology-based tools in the classroom.

144. 79% of instructors and 86 percent of students have seen the average level of engagement improve over the last year as they have increased their use of digital educational tools.

145. 87% of students believe online libraries and databases have had the most significant impact on their overall learning.

146. 62% identify blogs, wikis, and other online authoring tools while 59% identify YouTube and recorded lectures.

147. E-books and e-textbooks impact overall learning among 50% of students surveyed, while 42% of students identify online portals.

148. 44% of instructors believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

149. 32% of instructors identify e-textbooks and 30% identify interactive homework solutions as having the potential to improve engagement and learning outcomes. (e-readers was 11%)

150. 49% of students believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

152. 59% are female.

153. 29% are college students.

154. 5% are professors and 6% are teachers.

155. On any given day, 35% of our users are there for the very first time!

156. Only 29% found the databases via the library website.

157. 59% found what they were looking for on their first search.

158. 72% trusted our content more than Google.

162. 5 Things have Changed . . A LOT! Cardholders, Users, Members, Patrons, Clients, Customers, Learners, Students, Scholars, Researchers, Teachers, Professors Books & Media & Collections Mobility Learning & Research Government The History of Unintended Consequences & Unpredictability

163. “Strategy is a Choice. . . To be a victim and feel these changes are fated and blamestorm OR Create the future we need and take collective responsibility for the conversation and development of the future.” Find Reasons not Excuses.

164. As technology advances

165. Emboldened Librarians hold the key

166. So how must librarian and Infoprostrategies change?

167. Discovery & Ideas

168. Has academic research focus shifted entirely?

169. Has the future changed?Has our future changed?

172. COWS, etc.

177. fMRI and The Brain

178. Cloning

179. Trucking and GPS

180. Wind and other energy

181. Nanotechnology

182. Robotics

183. Massive Book Digitization

184. Music

185. Translation

186. Streaming Media

187. Seed BankInter-disciplinary Cross-Disciplinary Integrated

188. Books

189. We have a shallow understanding of the Codex – the book format(s)Transition from scrolls – illumination – codex – and beyond

191. The Chapter and Paragraph Universe

192. Integrated with Visuals – graphics and charts

193. Integrated with ‘video’

194. Integrated with Sound and Speech

195. Integrated with social web

196. Integrated with interaction and not just interactivity

201. So how must library and educator strategies change?

202. Mobility

203. A 1965 iPhone

207. Net neutrality, kill switches . . .

208. Local wired, mobile access ‘everywhere’ to the home and workplace on a personal basis

209. Geo-awareness: GIS, GPS, GEO-IP, etc.

210. Wireless as a business strategy (Starbucks)

212. The Fanboys are failing us.

213. The Physical Act of Reading

221. Speaking of e-Books...

224. Borders Kobo, B&N Nook, Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, Sony, etc. . . .

234. GBS

249. Can we frame the e-book issue so that it can be addressed rationally?

250. Books

251. Fiction

252. Non-Fiction

253. E-Learning

256. What do we need to know? What are we going to do next?

257. StrategicAnalytics

260. Who are our core virtual users? Are there gaps?

261. Does learning happen? How about discovery?

262. What are user expectations for true satisfaction?

263. How does library search compare to consumer search like Google and retail or government?

264. How do people find and connect with library virtual services?

265. Are end users being successful in their POV?

267. Save the User!

268. What Would You Attempt If You Knew You Would Not Fail?

269. The power of libraries

270. A Third Path

272. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA VP strategic partnerships and markets Cengage Learning (Gale) Cel: 416-669-4855 stephen.abram@cengage.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http://stephenslighthouse.com Facebook: Stephen Abram LinkedIn / Plaxo: Stephen Abram Twitter: sabram SlideShare: StephenAbram1