technology trends & the impact on adult service staff

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.

4clambert@sclibnj.org

@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