Talk for the Worldwide Library Virtual Conference 2.011

2. The library of the
future will include
the one you make
for yourself
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3. The library of the
future will include
the one you make
for yourself
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Kathleen Johnson
Seattle Academy
Green Librarian

5. BROAD OUTLINE OF TALK:
The LIBRARY of the future will include the
one you make yourself
WHY …will we build our own libraries
o Because we can (and many of us already are)
o Because we‟ll have to
HOW …will we build our own libraries
o Personal Learning Environments
o Tools of the future that haven‟t yet been
invented

6. Definition: LIBRARY
The definition of a library is a rich information
environment customized and optimized by Librarians for
its users.
The definition of a personal library is a rich information
environment customized and optimized by its owner for
his or her specific needs.

7. Three revolutions:
Social
Networking

8. Quiz: How many books (& CDs,
DVDs) do you have on your
shelves at home?

9. In a digital world
your virtual
shelf is
library
unlimited

10. Hey!
Where is
my stuff!

13. BIG SHIFT:
Ownership >>> Access
Local >>> Cloud

14. Transaction
A physical operation,
action, or process of
passing or making over
a thing from one
person, thing, or state to
another.

15. “If you think the internet is just an
extension of how to find the old
stuff more easily, you have
seriously missed the challenge all
of us face.”
- John Seely Brown (10/18/11)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17940819

16. BIG SHIFT:
Stocks
dynamics, J.W. Forrester,
>>> Flows (terms originating in the field of system
The Limits of Growth)
>>> Streams (eg: RSS)
PC Web Cloud
• File • Page • Stream
• Folder • Link • Tag
• Desktop • Web • Cloud
• Real-time
• Web 2.0
Kevin KELLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPfSrmzL

17. “As we continue to move from a broadcast model of information to
a networked one, we will continue to see a reworking of the
information landscape.”
“Previously we focused on information as a destination… accessing information as
a process and producing information as a task.
“In order to take advantage of the streams of information and media we have to
LIVE INSIDE the STREAM. We are
• Adding to it (sharing)
• Consuming it
• Redirecting it”
danah boyd, MS Research
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded
&v=cB_D6FE9z-Q#!

19. I am not a person. I am an RSS feed.
You can use me to train information
-- on any topic or by any person -- to come to you!
(Pull not Push)

20. “Problems cannot be solved by the same
level of thinking that created them.”
- Einstein
“How is the way we are thinking limiting
our future?”
Charlotte Roberts (.biz)

21. Streams that are inherently personal or become so
because an individual sets them up based on personal
interest:
(type on the white board)

22. Information
Containers

23. Conversations: The New Container

24. “The information produced and consumed by humankind
used to vanish – that was the norm, the default. The
sights, the sounds, the songs, the spoken word just
melted away. Marks on stone, parchment, and paper
were the special case. Now expectations have inverted.
Everything may be recorded and preserved, at least
potentially …”
How Information Became Everything (article)
From alphabets to iPhones, humans have experimented with
data storage for millennia. In the modern age, though, information
is beginning to overwhelm the physical world.
By James Gleick
Discover, July/Aug 2011. p. 58-60

25. BIG SHIFT:
Students at the mercy of the
entire Internet
Students build their own
information spaces (library) to
control the internet

26. Horizon Report K-12 Edition - 2009
Overview
The personal web refers to both a collection of technologies and a way of
thinking about online content. Described as part of a trend that began with
simple innovations like personalized start pages, RSS aggregation, and
customizable widgets, the personal web is a term coined to represent a
collection of technologies that confer the ability to reorganize, configure and
manage online content rather than just viewing it; but part of the personal
web is the underlying idea that web content can be sorted, displayed, and
even built upon according to an individual‟s personal needs and interests.
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon-k12-2009/chapters/personal-web/

27. Horizon Report K-12 Edition - 2011
Overview
Personal learning environments (PLEs) are often described as systems for
enabling self directed and group-based learning, designed around each
user‟s goals, with great capacity for flexibility and customization. PLEs are
conceived as drawing on a variety of discrete tools, chosen by the
learner, which can be connected or used in concert in a transparent way.
While the concept of PLEs is still quite fluid, it does seem to be clear that a
PLE is not simply a technology but an approach or process that is
individualized by design, and thus different from person to person. It
involves sociological and philosophical considerations and cannot be
packaged, passed out, and handed around as a cell phone or tablet
computer could. Widespread adoption of PLEs, once the tools and
approaches are clearer, will almost certainly also require a shift in
attitudes toward technology, teaching, and learning.

28. Big List of PLE Diagrams
(note the categories of PLE
conceptualizations)
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

29. PLE
What is it?

30. PLN =
Personal
Learning
Network

31. The institutional library and the professional librarian
of the future will became nodes in an individuals
PLE.

32. Why PLEs?
“…real-world problems are now too
complex to be solved by a single
person. The knowledge and
expertise needed to solve them is
.
increasingly distributed across
networks.”
- Paavola & Hakkarainen, 2005; Nardi, et al, 2000)
“‟What can you do?‟ Has been replaced with „What can you and your
network connection do?‟ Knowledge itself is moving from the individual
to the individual and his contacts.”
--Jay Cross, Informal Learning

33. Another reason for PLEs
“Distributed intelligence means that
resources that shape and enable activity are
distributed in configurations across people,
environments, and situations.”
-- Henry Jenkins, 2007
http://www.projectnml.org/files/working/NMLWhitePaper.p

34. Information is Flowing
Now that knowledge has
moved onto networks and
it‟s flowing, how does this
effect knowledge creation?

35. The Art of Discovery / Inquiry
…is evolving
Brands & Search & Social /
Sharing

36. OLD Knowledge NEW Knowledge
Learning as a transaction Learning as a process
Knowledge is objective and certain Knowledge is subjective and
provisional
Knowledge
Learners receive knowledge Learners create knowledge
Creation
Knowledge is organized in stable Knowledge is organized
hierarchical structures that can be “ecologically” – disciplines are
treated independently of each integrative and interactive
other
We learn best passively by We learn best by actively doing
listening and watching and managing our own learning
Our intelligence is based on our Our intelligence is based on our
individual abilities learning communities
Lee RAINIE
http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2011/Oct/Internet-Librarian.aspx

37. You know what they say about the goldfish. He doesn‟t know
he is swimming because he is surrounded by water.

38. BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS
GOAL
As school librarians we need
to place each student at the
center of their own

39. You are only as smart as your network.
(Distributed Cognition)

40. Being prepared for future work environments will take more
than just learning how to learn.
3 Dispositions will be needed and dispositions cannot be taught.
•Curiosity
•Questing
•Knowing how to connect
--John Seely Brown

42. Coming soon:
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge
Now That the Facts Aren‟t the Facts,
Experts Are Everywhere, and the
Smartest Person in the Room Is the
Room
By David Weinberger
Buy new: $25.99 $17.15
Available for Pre-order.
This item will be released on January 3, 2012.

44. - Clay Shirkey

46. You can add your ideas to this wiki page if you register with Wetpaint.
The “Why Libraries Will Survive” page is here:
http://21stcenturylearning.wetpaint.com/page/Why+Libraries+Will+Survive+the+Big
+Shift

47. A little bit about your presenter:
Kathleen Johnson
Librarian at Seattle Academy
kjohnson@seattleacademy.org
Twitter : @simkathy
• BA: Ethnomusicology (University of Washington)
• MLS: University of Washington,1977 (Minor in Multimedia)
• 3 years in West Africa creating a national cultural archives, recording music and making
documentary films
• Director, Kelso Public Library in SW Washington
• Ran a desktop publishing business from 1985-95
• Worked in several special corporate libraries in a high tech environment and in competitive
intelligence (SCIP)
• Currently a school librarian at Seattle Academy