Emerging Technologies in Libraries

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Please allow us to introduce ourselves.

1. Audio & Video

2. Self/Micro Publishing

3. Mobile

Queens Public Library Tablet Lending Program

Created after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, combines device lending and a library platform to provide a full library experience via mobile device to users who don’t own their own.

www.whereinqueens.org

4. Crowdfunding

LibraryBox 2.0

Kickstarter campaign to design and produce a new version of the LibraryBox device which allows you to “share files with anyone, anywhere...off the Internet, even off the power grid.”

Raised $33,116 of $3,000 requested.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/griffey/librarybox-20

Bring the Hulk to theNorthlake Public Library

Indigogo campaign to “Help the Northlake Library get a 9 foot tall Hulk statue, digital media creation station and many more graphic novels.”

Raised just $4262 of $30,000 but was still able to bring the Hulk to the library.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bring-the-hulk-to-the-northlake-public-library

5.Wearables

6. The Internet of Things

Libraries and the Internet of Things

• http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/11/marketing/beacon-technology-deployed-by-two-library-app-makers/

• BluuBeam - bluubeam.com/pages/libraries

• Capira - www.capiratech.com/products/capiramobile/ibeacon/

• http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/04/technology/beacon-developer-netobjex-enters-library-market-with-smartlibrary

• NetObjex - netobjex.com/

• Browsa! - www.getbrowsa.com/

7. Security & Privacy

8. Keeping Up With Technology

Keeping Up

• Social media – friends & colleagues

• Popular magazines & websites, pop culture sites

• Gizmodo, Engadget, CNet, Slashdot, Lifehacker, ZDNet, CityLab (from The

Atlantic), ThisIsColossal

• Major news sources: New York Times, BBC, CNN, Time, Huffington Post,

The Economist Tech Quarterly

Keeping UpTechnical conferences – even if you don’t attend, skimming the session topics will tell you

what’s important / coming

• Tech: Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , Interop (general IT), Macworld, Velocity (web

optimization), Defcon (security), NANOG (networks), LISA (sysadmin)

• Gaming conventions: E3, Gaming Developers Convention (GDC)

• Manufacturer and platform conventions: Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

(WWDC), Microsoft’s TechEd for developers & IT professionals, Google I/O

• South by Southwest (SXSW), TED / TEDx talks

Google I/O 2014

Google I/O 2014

• Read as you can, or set aside time to read each day.

• Use your current "professional reading" schedule and change the sources you read.

• Try to read any source relative to its posting frequency. More frequent posts = more frequent reading.

• Be careful of falling down rabbit holes of information and fun stuff – your time is precious.

Don’t Try to Know Everything

Learning a New Tool

• Read about it online, then play with it

• Read the screen

• Push the buttons

• Take your time

• Don’t be afraid

• Do the ‘driving’ yourself

Jennifer Koerber, Public Instruction Curriculum Development CoordinatorBoston Public Libraryjennifer.koerber@gmail.comhttp://www.jenniferkoerber.com

Michael Sauers, Technology Innovation LibrarianNebraska Library Commission

msauers@travelinlibrarian.infohttp://www.travelinlibrarian.info/