Rapid technological changes are requiring libraries and information professionals to constantly adapt and evolve. This document highlights many new technologies and trends from the past month that will impact libraries, such as the growing use of smartphones, tablets, cloud services, social networks and location-based applications. It also discusses how libraries can leverage new tools like Pinterest, Google Drive and mobile payments to better connect with patrons and provide innovative services.
1. Alive on Arrival
Surviving Rapid Tech Change
This impressive logo was
designed by Elin Glenn,
Wendy Geist, and Mike
Benson. All from the
Hoover Public Library.
Joe Murphy
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Alabama Library Association Convention 2012
2. Rock like a library
star. Be a rock star
like those heroes
among us who
give, and are led
by compassion.
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3. 104 million smart phones in America
Mobile Market Share Report From
comScore
- “234 million Americans age 13 and
older used mobile devices” in the
last three months
- 14% rise in US smartphones in last
5 months
• Google’s Android operating
system now boats 50% of
Here are the percentage rates of total mobile
the platform share users who did the following activities on their
• Apple claims just under 30% devices.
•Sent Text Messages – 74.8%
• Apple iOS is 3rd in mobile •Downloaded and Used apps – 49.5%
subscribers •Mobile browser – 49.2%
•Social networking – 36.1%
• Mobile content usage is up •Mobile gaming – 32.3%
cross the board. •Music - 24.8%
http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2012/4/comScore
Twitter: @libraryfuture _Reports_February_2012_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share
4. Tool for creating digital student portfolios with a Smartphone
http://www.threering.com/
Discovered via http://mashable.com/2012/04/24/three-ring/
The mobile as creation and curation tool
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5. Google Drive – Cloud Storage
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6. Google Drive brings cloud storage services to the masses (at least to their awareness)
Social collaboration
Access anywhere, Access on any device, share by link, 5GB free, web and client access,
5 years n the making
https://drive.google.com/
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7. Self publishing app mashes up w/ Google Drive
http://www.lulu.com/drive
“Lulu is also working on expanding its content creation and
Collaborate on a piece of work in distribution options for the app, with plans to add the ability to
create print books directly from Google Drive, as well as sell titles
Google Drive and publish with Lulu created on Google Drive through other outlets such as
Amazon.com, iBookstore, and the Nook Bookstore.” -
Twitter: @libraryfuture http://mashable.com/2012/04/24/lulu-google-drive/
8. Now Share
Dropbox files
with a link
Also for streaming sharing, works
around down/uploading
1 year ago ..
http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=1138
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9. Facebook is now the 3rd most populous country
with 901 Million monthly active users
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/04/23/facebook-passes-the-900-
million-monthly-users-barrier/
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10. Apple, world’s most
valuable company,
beats estimate again.
Sold in Apple’s most recent
quarter:
•35 million iPhones
•12 million iPads
•iPad sales up 150% year over
year
•international sales account for
Infographic made by Statista posted on
http://mashable.com/2012/04/25/apple-earnings/
2/3 of revenue
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11. Don’t blame mobile tech for too much
Some holes can’t
be seen until we
stumble into
them.
Skill – plan for
stumbles. Assess
the true causes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9222594/Gir
l-rescued-after-falling-through-pavement.html
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12. Google Photos Tours
User added pictures that share the
experience of a location with a 3D photo
scene.
Taps into now common elements:
•Image meets location again
•Mobile
•Visual search
•social sharing to deepen virtual and real
world experience
google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/04/visit-global-landmarks-with-
photo-tours.html
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13. Engages social media rewards for real world benefits
Campaign gives altruistic
excuse to seek self reward
in social network.
Tool to recycle an old
Facebook status to promote
recycling of plastic bottles.
http://www.thegreatrecycle.com/
See http://mashable.com/2012/04/25/honest-tea-facebook/ for more info
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14. Hardware platforms for networked information continue to evolve
Moves the smart
phone access point
to your wrist, closing
the gap of when info
cannot be engaged.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-
paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android “Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using
Bluetooth, alerting you with a silent vibration to incoming calls,
emails and messages. While designing Pebble, we strove to create
a minimalist yet fashionable product that seamlessly blends into
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15. Klout mobile app brings social metrics
to wherever the influencer goes
Twitter: @libraryfuture http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/klout-for-iphone/id517089691?mt=8
16. Lots more original and partner online video
content from AOL
“AOL is a brand company. We offer innovative platforms like the AOL On
Network, along with vibrant and engaging video content that we know
http://on.aol.com/ people are flocking to the Web to consume at an unprecedented
velocity,” AOL CEO Tim Armstrong quoted in http://mashable.com/2012/04/25/aol-newfront/
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17. Facebook partners to protect users from spam & viruses
Partnering with Microsoft, McAfee,
TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec,
adding Antivirus Marketplace, and
bolstering URL blacklist system
(www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150492832835766)
Boasts that “At the
moment, less than 4% of
content shared is spam
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/the-facebook-anti-virus-
marketplace/10150672849230766
(compared to nearly
90% of email)”
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18. Google+
Share Button
out now
http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2012/04/in
troducing-google-share-button.html
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lopers&utm_campaign=shareplugin
19. lest we not
mention
Wikipedia …
Wikipedia user
Justin Knapp is
the first to
make 1 million
edits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Justin_Knapp_Day
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20. Skype comes
to Playstation
Vita
Another notch
in Skype’s
mobile belt http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57421517-
1/skype-lands-on-playstation-vita/
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21. Nook Simple Touch adds GlowLight
to read in the dark
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Catching up with the iPad in freeing readers from reliance on the light
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23. Report by AASL & CoSN on policies about mobile
technologies and social media in schools
Key observations:
•The use of student-owned mobile
devices for classroom instruction
is growing, more schools are
moving from policies that ban
their use to integrating them into
the classroom.
•… substantial educational
benefits through the use of
http://www.cosn.org/Default.aspx?TabId=12543
mobile devices and social media.
•Equity is a vital issue to consider
when establishing policy around
Shared via http://www.infodocket.com/2012/04/23/new-report- social media and mobile
making-progress-rethinking-state-and-school-district-policies-
concerning-mobile-technologies-and-social-media/ technologies
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24. Zombie survival workshops at the library
Not tech – but cool
http://www.acorn-
online.com/joomla15/thebridgeportnews/community/118781-library-
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25. Nelson Mandela’s rich multimedia archive brought
online with help from the Google Cultural Institute
Twitter: @libraryfuture http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/nelson.html
26. British Parliament members may get iPads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17512536
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27. The most visited websites of 2011
Some of the rankings -
• Facebook #1
• YouTube #2
• Yahoo #3
• Wikipedia #5
• Bing #9
• Wordpress #15
• Twitter #16
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/most-visited-sites-
2011_n_883756.html#s297621&title=1__Facebookcom
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28. Database tracking teens' daily text
messages, emails, & IMs over 4 years
“For the past four years, the University of Texas-Dallas
developmental psychology professor has essentially
wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, capturing every text
message, email, photo, and IM sent on Blackberries
that she provided to them, creating a rich database
that now contains millions of funny, explicit, sexual,
and inane messages for academic study. Half a million
new messages pour into the database every month.
This summer, she’s adding Facebook content to the mix
as well. The teens sacrificed their privacy for science…
and a free smartphone, data plan and unlimited text
messaging.”
By Kashmir Hill www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/18/a-texas-universitys-
mind-boggling-database-of-teens-daily-text-messages-emails-and-ims-over-four-
years/
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29. Random news pieces of note
• “AT&T Opening Watson Speech Recognition To
Developers With New APIs In June.” “the release of the
APIs means that developers of every stripe will soon be
able to access AT&T’s voice transcription engine.”
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/att-opening-watson-speech-recognition-to-developers-with-new-apis-in-june/
• Pivoting to adapt to new generations and their
behaviors. “Watch teenagers and see the future of
Intuit, says CEO Brad Smith.” Members of the upcoming
generation “are the ones actually dictating technology
change.” http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/18/mobile-brad-smith-intuit/
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30. Cloud-based phone systems provider adds
management of phone systems from mobile devices.
http://www.ringcentral.com/
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31. PayPal’s in store mobile payment service scores 200
thousand business users
Competitor Square has
1 million merchant users
https://twitter.com/#!/Square/status/146667781255995394
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader
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32. Mobile payments as growing trend
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_F
uture_of_Money.pdf
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33. Foldable
whiteboard to
take creativity
with you.
http://www.rgft.net/
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34. “a new report by Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman
Epps argues that “in three years, wearables will
matter to every product strategist””
Sony SmartWatch
Google’s Project Glass
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/17/report-wearable-computing-will-
soon-intensify-the-platform-wars/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/16/the-
age-of-flexible-electronics-is-upon-us/
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35. For more info:
http://bit.ly/pinterestacademia
http://bit.ly/pinterestwebcast
https://bitly.com/pinterestforinfo
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38. Trends & Information Contexts
• Pinterest succeeds at the juncture of the
major online and content trends of:
– self curation
– image engagement and sharing
– visual search/discovery
– and social discovery
• Holds implications for the way we find, share,
and use online resources
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39. Ethics of Pinterest
• How does Copyright
• Concerns come into play with
• Considerations Pinterest?
• Worries • What can libraries Pin
• Solutions • How to protect
intellectual property
on Pinterest
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/3020135683/
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40. Use Pinterest in Library Environments for
• Providing targeted resources
• Extending the reach of collections and items
• Connecting with researchers
• Collaborative resource guides
• Highlighting services and Outreach
• Visual link collections
• Teaching and learning
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41. RePinning – an example
Choose which Board to repin it on
http://pinterest.com/pin/146578162842265198/
Find something you love Add you own note
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43. Pinterest as Service
• Pin Your Community:
– Pin campus news
– Pin departmental news
– Pin news related to the disciplines served by your
library
– Pin news of awards won by your constituency
– Pin local news events – always of interest
– Pin pictures or works of new students and staff
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44. Meshing Pinterest with other techs
Plays well with all
image based social
networks and
technologies
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45. Pin From your Social Media Content
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46. Further Trends
• Image sharing: in depth Instagram projects
• Content trends
• Location technologies: what’s new in place
engaging.
• 3D Printing and shifting roles of libraries
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47. Learn Together
Grow Together
Tech Trend Spotter for Libraries
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