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What’s Going On Out There?What s Going On Out There?Ohio Library Council’s

Innovative Environments ConferenceInnovative Environments ConferenceColumbus, OHNov. 5, 2008

Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAPresident 2008, SLA

Vice President, Innovation, SirsiDynix

Chief Strategist, SirsiDynix Institute

SlidesSlides

• These PPT slides will be at my blog ‘Stephen’s Lighthouse’

http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com

RetronymsRetronyms• The top retronym terms that were submitted for a p y

non-Internet librarian were:1. Shelf-pointer librarian2 Analog librarian2. Analog librarian3. Librarian unplugged4. 3×5 Librarian5. Internot Librarian6. Retrobrarian7 [insert supervisor's name] Librarian7. [insert supervisor's name] Librarian8. Wallenda Librarian (flying high without a 'net)9. Winner10.Librarian 1.011.Or Unemployed

Let’s Look At the Supposed ppLimits to the Future

Happily There Are NoneHappily, There Are None.

Libraries Need to be Ahead of the Curve

What’s New (or new enough)?What s New (or new enough)?• Socially aligned apps for Social Institutions• Semantic Web (Twine)• Semantic Web (Twine)• The Cloud (Google, Zoho and MS etc.)• No choice search engines• GIS oriented search and ads • Virtually unlimited fulltext books – searchable from the

OPAC• Streaming media and spoken word search• Personalization 3.0 like MyFace• MicrobloggingMicroblogging• Registries and SaaS• Device proliferation (Kindle, iPhones, etc.)

What’s old? Attacks on research rights intellectual• What’s old? Attacks on research, rights, intellectual freedom, access, filters, blacklisting, copyright balance, privacy, DRM, patents, trademarks, voice, etc.

• You can’t wait• You can t wait for everyone to change at once.once.

Being Globally CompetitiveOn Target

Minus 25K!!!!!

Plus 20%

!!!!!

Global ChangeGlobal Change

Be a Lab Rat!Be a Lab Rat!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessman/2590572476/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/2735401175/

Be Where Your Users AreBe Where Your Users Are

Get Good at The CloudGet Good at The Cloud

TheSharingSharing

Economy

2 0 Influencers2.0 Influencers1. YouTube2. Second Life3. MySpace4 F b k4. Facebook5. Wikipedia6 Ning

Top 10 Most Influential web tools for the

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FREE6. Ning7. Twitter8. Mozes

2008 US electionsFREE

8 o es9. NowPublic10.MyBlogLog

How many are wealready using?

DeviceDevice Agnostic &DRM Wars

AAMainlyMainly Mobile FFocus

Our Careers Have Seasons

AssociationsAssociations

What’s happening pp gin your user groups

User Expectations 2.0

• Tell me your• Tell me your demographic profile

• Tell me your top 20Tell me your top 20 Reference questions

• Tell me your 100 mostTell me your 100 most borrowed books

• Tell me what circulates after one year in DVDs

• Tell me each item by its market

Tradition

• Is it workin’ for ya?D fi i• Define it.

• What exactly does it deliver?

• If it works, why can’t it , ywork better with 2.0 ideas?

Traditional Value

• Can this be a strength?g• Dos anyone in your community not know

you do books?C d ib i t ibl l ?• Can you describe your intangible value?

Studying theStudying the Future

• How much time do you spenddo you spend having a clear view?view?

• How is it shared across the organization?

Your Website –S lSooooo last century

Innovation for Lib iLibraries

• RSS feedsRSS feeds• Delicious + Wikis

Bl Fli k• Blogs + Flickr• Tags + Recommendations• Streaming Video• Author InterviewsAuthor Interviews• YA Podcasts

St t lli• Storytelling• Etc.

EnergizingEnergizing The Library

Be More Open to New Members (and their cel phones, skateboards, coffees, juice, backpacks, and thecoffees, juice, backpacks, and the whole messiness of humanity…)

2 0 is about play2.0 is about play

A Key InterventionA Key Intervention

Blowers’ 23 Learning 2.0 Things• Week 1: Introduction and Adult Learning

• Week 2: Blogging• Week 2: Blogging

• Week 3: Photos & Images

• Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders

• Week 5: Play Week• Week 5: Play Week

• Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati

• Week 7: Wikis

• Week 8: Online Applications & Tools• Week 8: Online Applications & Tools

• Week 9: Podcasts, Video & Downloadable audio

Learning 2.1T h l P tti Z

Technology ScholarsTechnology Petting Zoos

5 Weeks to a Social LibraryTechnology Scholars

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The Internet Can Change Your LifeThe Internet Can Change Your LifeSirsiDynix Institute, WebJunction, y , ,

OPAL, etc.

Build a Petting ZooBuild a Petting Zoo

• Real devices: iPods MP3 players videoReal devices: iPods, MP3 players, video, smart phones, texters, etc.

• Special PC’s: disability compliance• Special PC s: disability compliance, streaming media, IM groups, VR (both kinds)kinds)

• Gaming stations• Free SirsiDynix Institute in November

Build a SandboxBuild a Sandbox

It can’t work without you

Sh Id

It can t work without you

Share IdeasComment

PlaySupportSupportRespectIterate

CollegialityCollegiality

Can we start a major post 1972 big cooperative . . . ?j p g p

Be the Change You Want to Seeg

Remove the Borders In the Lib C itLibrary Community

Remove theBorders BetweenBorders Between Library Members

Be the Change We Want to See.

Be The Change WeChange We Want to See

Remove the Borders Between Librarians and Influencers

Be Important

K Wh t M k U ( dKnow What Makes Us (and You) DifferentYou) Different

Fi d O V i d U ItFind Our Voice and Use It

Honest to G*d – Have FunHonest to G d Have Fun

Being Open to Standing OutBeing Open to Standing Out

We librarians must learn that when we study something to death, Death was not our original g ggoal.

Just do itJust do it

A Third Path

Be The Change You Want To See

Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAStephen Abram, MLS, FSLAPresident 2008, SLA

VP Innovation, SirsiDynixChief Strategist, SirsiDynix InstituteChief Strategist, SirsiDynix Institute

Cel: 416-669-4855stephen.abram@sirsidynix.com

http://www.sirsidynix.comp yStephen’s Lighthouse Blog

http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com