Amazon is exploring using drones to deliver products, while farmers use drones to monitor their crops. Could drones deliver books to patrons? Thought about a drone check out program? Stop by this session if you would like to learn more about drones, whether it’s the basics, the law, or the possibilities for libraries.

1. Drones and LibrariesDrones and Libraries
Is the Future now, or simply the Future?Is the Future now, or simply the Future?

2. What are Drones, anyway?

3. Are these Drones?

4. Defined
• An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),
commonly known as a drone and also
referred by several other names is an aircraft
without a human pilot aboard. The flight of
UAVs may be controlled either autonomously
by onboard computers or by the remote
control of a pilot on the ground or in another
vehicle.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle

5. What are some uses for Drones?
• Aerial Photography
• Movie/Music Industry
• Farming/Agriculture
• Building and Equipment inspections
• Education
• Sport

6. Aerial Photography

7. Movie/Music Industry

8. Farming/Agriculture

9. Waypoints for autonomous Flight

10. Inspections

11. Education

12. Sport .

13. What about Amazon ?!?

14. Drones and the Future

15. Legal Issues
Section 333

16. Privacy Issues

17. Quit Droning on,
what about Libraries ?
• Drone lending program
• Makerspace
• Education
• Library tour
• Meeting space / Drone clubs

18. Drone Lending Program

19. Makerspace

20. Education

21. Library Tour

22. Drone Club

23. What are your ideas?

24. Resources
• Drones and Libraries
– http://www.ala.org/transforminglibraries/future/trends/drones
– http://www.centerdigitaled.com/k-12/Drone-Design-Program-Flies-Students-Toward-STEM-Careers.html
– http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/21/us/college-lends-drones-to-students/
– http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/blog/what-are-the-strangest-things-libraries-lend-drones
– http://knowbeforeyoufly.org/
– https://www.faa.gov/uas/legislative_programs/section_333/
– https://www.faa.gov/uas/regulations_policies/
– http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/getting-a-drone-s-eye-view-of-the-toronto-reference-library-1.2770472
• Thank you!
• Gary Browning
• Twitter: @Gary_TheTech
• gary@iu.edu