technology trends & the impact on adult service staff
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This presentation was given on October 8, 2014 for the Adult Services Forum of Somerset County Library SystemTRANSCRIPT
Technology Trends & The Impact on AS
Staff….Cynthia M. Lambert
SCLS AS ForumOctober 8, 2014
Agenda
• What’s Happening In the Profession
• What’s Urgent & Important• What’s Urgent & Unimportant• What’s Not Urgent & Important• What’s Not Urgent & Not
Important
Library Technology Trends
CHANGE
Change/Makerspace/Social Media
• Makerspaces• Silly Name• More than Technology
• Impact on AS Staff• Your Choice!
• Social Media• Facebook is far less
effective if only using the free portion
• More Use of Specialized SM
• Visual Content
• Impact on AS Staff• Unknown, It’s still the
wild west
Wearable Technology/BYOD/Customization
These trends will and do impact us!
So What do We Do?
Urgent &
Important
Urgent & Not
Important
Not Urgent,
But Importan
t
Not Urgent,
Not Importan
t
Organize Your POV
Ask for Help
Share Resources
Accept Your Limitations
Urgent & Important
SCLS Initiativ
es
SCLS Resourc
es
Your Sanity
Your Skills
Do ItAsk for Help
Give Help Graciously When Asked
Overdrive Partners PortalLibraryLinkNJ TechEx
Tech Soup
Your Co-Workers
BBC Technology NewsNew York Times Bits Blog
Change
Change
Change
Change
Core Mission
Core Values
Customer
ServiceYou!
Kid who mocks your
phone
My Mother
In-Law’s
Opinion
Guilt Shame
Cynthia Lambert609-924-7073, ext.
@LibraryCynthia
Call Me…..
Resources:Crazy, the Future is Yesterday:
Gizmag (http://www.gizmag.com/)MIT Technology Review (http://www.technologyreview.com/)
Library Related:Digital Shift (http://www.thedigitalshift.com/)Information Today (http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/)David Lee King (http://www.davidleeking.com/)Tech Soup (http://www.techsoup.org/)Pew Internet Project (http://www.pewinternet.org/)
Resources:
E-book Related: Digital Book World http://www.digitalbookworld.com/) The Digital Reader (http://the-digital-reader.com/) Huffington Post (http://
www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/ebook-news)
General Tech: Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com) New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/) CNET (http://www.cnet.com/news/)
Wonk & Roll Code Academy (http://www.codecademy.com/) Google Training (https://www.google.com/edu/training/) Lynda (http://www.lynda.com/)
Attribution:• All content was created by Cynthia Lambert as an agent of
SCLS. As such, this belongs to SCLS and should not be shared, used, or changed without the permission of SCLS. A copy of this presentation can be found on SlideShare under LibraryCynthia.
• Slide 3:• http://www.makerbot.com/• http://letterboxd.com/• https://www.facebook.com/PeeweeHerman• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer• https://ringly.com/• Cynthia Lambert via http://www.wordle.net/
• Slide 4: http://art-of-kawaii.deviantart.com/art/Technology-153245413
• Slide 5: https://www.facebook.com/PeeweeHerman• Slide 8: http://crossfitmoontown.com/author/andrew/• Slide 10:
http://thelife-animal.blogspot.com/2012/04/bulldog.html