emerging technologies in the library - a presentation at the msu emerging technologies summit, 2011
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Primary Speaker: Duncan Aldrich, @One Administrator Supporting Speaker: Tod Colegrove, Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library Session Title: Emerging Technologies in the Library: “Toys”? or “Potent Tools for Student Engagement”? Synopsis: Since its opening in 2008, the Mathewson-‐IGT Knowledge Center has deliberately promoted and supported experimentation and active engagement with new and emerging technologies as fundamental to its core mission – despite the tendency among library domain defenders to dismiss many of the potentially disruptive emerging technologies adopted as "toys." Actively redefining the library from a quiet warehouse into a lively place of learning, technological engagement, and knowledge production, the emerging technologies working group of the library is leveraging in-‐person connections with students and faculty to build vibrant collaborative communities around a deliberately expanded conception of the library collection. Some of the "toys" include: Microsoft Surface workstations, a variety of tablet computers and eReader devices, wireless drone quadricopters, Arduino Pro development kits, Kinect sensors, LEGO robotics kits, large-‐format printers and scanners, and even a button-‐making machine. Steal some of our ideas: using unconventional library materials in tandem with a wide array of production audio and video equipment and software, delivering just-‐in-‐time student and staff support; discover how these powerful tools of engagement and outreach transform the high-‐ tech @One floor from "toy box" to hotbed of 21st-‐century literacies.TRANSCRIPT
Emerging Technologies in the Library
‘Toys’? Or ‘Potent Tools for Student Engagement’?
Aldrich & Colegrove, August 12, 2011University LibrariesUniversity of Nevada, Reno
• Basic Language Literacy• Visual Literacy• Historical Literacy• Cultural Literacy• Information Literacy• Political Literacy and News Media Literacy• Scientific Literacy• Mathematical Literacy
21st Century Literacies
Selected literacies from “Teacher Resources Overview”, retrieved from http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/
•Basic Language Literacy•Cultural Literacy•Information Literacy•News Media Literacy
Traditional Library Supported:
• We’re talking about change here• So let’s try something new (to me)
New Directions:
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
Time lapse sequence of entrance available at: http://bit.ly/msu-clip1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
(Interactive Prezi “Toys or Tools” available at http://bit.ly/msu-prz1
Where we’re going:(Tod Colegrove, Ph.D., MSLIS [email protected], @pcolegrove)
Text from proposal:“Actively redefining the library from a quiet warehouse
into a lively place of learning, technological engagement, and knowledge production, the emerging technologies working group of the library is leveraging in-person connections with students and faculty to build vibrant collaborative communities around a deliberately expanded conception of the library collection.”
In other words…
“Be where the conversation is.”1
Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/10557450@N04/5595378373/
“My Very Own Copy of The Atlas of New Librarianship by Dr. R. David Lankes! my section I wrote begins on page 369 :-)”
1 Lankes, R. D., Silverstein, J., Nicholson, S. & Marshall, T. (2007) “Participatory Networks: the library as conversation.” Retrieved from http://informationr.net/ir/12-4/colis05.html
“Be where the conversation is.”11 Lankes, R. D., Silverstein, J., Nicholson, S. & Marshall, T. (2007) “Participatory Networks: the library as conversation.” Retrieved from http://informationr.net/ir/12-4/colis05.html
Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenerdsangle/200807167/lightbox/Raphael’s “School of Athens” – a depiction of an athenaeum of the Alexandrian Library; note the prominent placement of the figure representing Hypatia of Alexandria,mathematician , philosopher, and the last Librarian of the Library at Alexandria in the mid lower-left of the painting.
What exactly is “the collection”?
Artist's impression of a manuscript storage room in the ancient Library of Alexandria. Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmos television program (1980).Retrieved from http://www.sacred-destinations.com/egypt/alexandria-library-bibliotheca-alexandrina
Ania Gilmore, Lexington, MA & Warsaw, PolandLibrary of AlexandriaAltered book, burned pages, wax, shellac. One of a kind. 5 x 7.5”Retrieved from http://papermakingresources.blogspot.com/2010/08/wax-and-artist-book-ii.html
Library Books Chained, Wimborne Minster http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitjohnson/5327572838/sizes/l/in/photostream
Where’s the conversation?
Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/259408258/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Where’s the conversation?
What is “technology” anyway?
“The word technelogos is nominally Greek. When the ancient Greeks used the word techne, it meant something like art, skill, craft, or even craftiness…it was in Aristotle’s treatise Rhetoric that the word
techne was first joined to logos(meaning word or speech or literacy)to yield the single term technelogos.”
Itself a technology:
Even Displays!“Little Boy – the device”
(Inspired by the movieDr. Strangelove…)
An electric vehicle built for theBurning Man festival… on displayIn the library.
Even Displays!“Little Boy – the device”
That’s a conversation starter.
Serious engagement…
Last Fall on the quad in front of the librarystudents and faculty – over 200 in all – engagedbecause of “the Device”.
“21-st Century Literacies”?
Bears mention: the number of posters printed has more thandoubled – every year for each of the past five years.
Time-lapse clip on vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip1 Note clip was filmed, edited, andproduced using equipment, software, and literacies in use every day @One.
“21-st Century Literacies”?
(The University Computer Gaming Club meets everyThursday night for a 6-hour gaming event: “fragfest”)
A recent FaceBook post by one ofthe student communities that calls
@One “home”: )
The Microsoft Surface:(a.k.a. “the giant iPod thingy”)
Retrieved from:http://www.flickr.com/photos/007kn/3878378782/
An Anatomy application, developed in-house to leverage the Surface as a learning tool, handled as a type of e-reserve, has been in daily use by students for several years now. Students report the app is a real game-changer in their learning!
On YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip0
Hands-on with tablet computers and eReader devices:
(currently: iPad, Nook Color, Sony PanDigital Touch, Kindle 2, iPod Touch –video clip available on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip3 )
Over a three-day period, 1 out of 37 through the gatewent “hands-on” with at least one of the devices.
Clip on Vimeo
Kinect Xbox Sensor:(now with an official software development kit!)
Student developing with the sensor just last week…
On Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip4
Kinect Development:
A student work in progress… demo of multiple modes with Kinectsensor – working, in the library.
On Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip5
Wireless Remote-Control Drone Quadricopter (with an API!):
Unsolicited FB postBy a student:
Wireless Remote-Control Drone Quadricopter (with an API!):
In use at the Smallwood Multimedia Boot camp (yikes! In the atrium of the library!)
The Library - in the “Flagship Course of the CSE Department”:
One of Two CSE Senior Projects…(developed in the library, in conjunction with library faculty!)
The “Drone Object Tracking System” – a robot controlled quadricopter, that tracks and autonomously follows…
On YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip6
LEGO MindStorms Robotics kits:“Toy”? Or “Serious tool for engagement”?
In thecollection…
Clip on YouTube: http://bit.ly/msu-clip7
In the hands of a couple of “kids”:
Required skills:Time-lapse photography.Video assembly, editingAudio curation, integration.Robot design & assembly.Programming.Creativity.Information & media literacy.
Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip8
A “Duct-Tape” version of Google Liquid Galaxy (think Google Earth plus):
Clip on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/msu-clip9