- # of cells in rural china outnumber desktops; often the only way for 3rd world countries to access internet\n- US now over 50% smartphones\n- Canada 2011, over 23 million cell phones, 33% smartphones; 37% with data plan\n\n- mobile phone for library card; West Vancouver public library, King Township, Boulder public library: cardstar or key ring app\n- issue, scanners - can they read the barcode properly\n\n- qr codes: \n- start with definite, who's used?\n- what are libraries doing: link to services, link to online resources, qr codes in catalogues, qr code at point of need (scanners, audio tours, in bookstacks), scavenger hunts\n-US 2012 - 20% scanned, up 5%, mostly 25-44 age range (16% 18-24); 2010 - 20% students could actually scan, highly unlikely to. limit to amount of info you can put in\n- get outside; link to mobile; provide alternatives; size and location matters; keep it short; add value; save time; don't over do it; don't end up on wtfqrcodes\n- rectennas - cheap way to transmit data from objects when swiped (less than 1 penny to produce, radio waves emitted from a smartphone to transmit data to it from a tiny chip.\n- near field communication - wireless tech, proximity based: google wallet, mc pay pass\n- internet of things: linking devices and physical assists (tv connected to internet), network aware smart object - physical world with info world\n\n- augmented reality: library shelf reading ShelvAR (Miami university augmented reality research group), Layar: locations of libraries and bookstores. \n- TagWhat - Virginia Beach Public Library, Chesterfield County Public Library - add location data to digital objects in a collection, combines on a map )history, oral history, images, etc)\n- historical tours, book tours?, added value: next seminar on subject, next book in series coming out, etc. \n- Gartner things 5-10 years before plateau of productivity, past peak of inflated expectations.\n\n- apps vs browsers: go browser based, make it look like an app\n- device divide\n\n- touch screens: playing cards that interact with iPad screen: nuko cards. uses Touchcode, capacitive inks (act like fingers)\n\n- mobile means get out! library hot rod: Fraser Valley Regional Library, not just about books\n\n
- huge interest in coding, creating, hacking\n- 3d scanners - expect productive 5-10 years. Dalhousie working on a project with 3 scanners\n- 3d printers - much more common. MakerBot just out with another model, opened up a storefront. peak of inflated expectations\n- Lafayette Public Library: Fab Lab\n- Innisfil, hired librarian to work towards digital media lab\n- huge interest in coding: 100 000 in 2 days for Code Year; raspberry pi sold out in minutes ($35); arduino boards - cheap and easy to play with\n
- already using it\n- from managing/deploying/procuring to provision and management\n- ias (vm ware, amazon cloud)\n- pas (ILS)\n- sas (discovery layers, im, libguides, sharepoint, opacs, resolvers, etc) \n- garnet - 2-5 years\n- benefits: cost, scalability, flexibility, reliability, collaboration, green\n- privacy, security, reliability, data ownership, control\n- chrome book, chrome box, bookmarking, mail, etc\n- (remember the milk, iCloud, email; dropbox, gdocs, gcal, doodle, slideshare, prezi, evernote, pinterest, delicious, inboard)\n- rise of mobility, more reliance on cloud computing\n
- print on demand: espresso machines. Windsor Public Library, TPL, Sacremento and others. Pharmacies in US getting print on demand\n- mobile printing - community printing. Lethbride working for new bookmobile with mobile printing\n
- prices going up. random house - 3xs; hatchet 220%; \n- ownership vs renting random house limit # of loans\n- new players all the time\n- adding value/features: links, graphics, interactive, gamification\n- device dependencies\n- walmart no longer selling kindles, 2nd store to drop\n- training big issue\n
- largely academic\n- creating data at amazing rate, what will we do with it, do we support it, how do we support community data\n- do we create space for it, save it?\n- expecting productivity in 2-5 years\n
- bullied bus monitor - 2 days, 500K, 700K total, original goal 5K\n- telsa museum - 850K goal, 1million in 9 days rather than 45 (Matthew Inman)\n- kick-starter - hackerspace in iran; literary studio in serialized fiction \n- new way to fund community projects??\n
Don’t do it all\n\n
Don’t change technology just to change\n
Look ahead but focus on needs of your community\n\n
Make it meaningful for your users - add value to their lives, not bling\n
CiL 2011 - Rebecca Jones\nstrategically decide what’s best \nstart with pilot projects\nOLA discovery fund\n