This document discusses 10 emerging trends in libraries for 2015, including increased use of mobile devices, wearable technology, social media, online video, grassroots technologies like makerspaces and 3D printing, digital media labs, co-working spaces, cloud computing, crowdsourcing, the internet of things, and the quantified self movement. Many of these trends are driven by advances in consumer technology and a move towards online and mobile access. The document suggests libraries consider how to address users' changing needs and update policies and training to engage with these new technologies and trends.

1. Emerging
Trends in
Libraries
for 2015
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5. What’s NEW
for you?

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10 year cycles

7. 1Consumer
Technology
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8. stuff we use
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10. smartphones,
tablets, laptops

11. gaming - HUGE
changes
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15. Television
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16. watching
video
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17. listening
to music

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connected cars

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Batteries!

21. What’s this
mean for the
library?

22. 2
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tech-nology

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Google Glass

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smart watches

27. health monitor
bracelets
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32. what’s this
mean for the
library?
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33. 3mobile
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not a
good
idea

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36. 71% of US Adults own smartphones

39. what do your
mobile users
need?
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what do they
need?
A LOT!

41. design for
mobile

43. teens…

44. cell mostly

45. BYOD
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46. What’s this
mean for
the library?

47. Social 4 flickr.com/photos/daniel_iversen/5440727436/

48. Why?
because of
mobile

49. 72%
of US Adults use social media

50. 29% of US Adults use Facebook
every day!

51. instagram
pinterest
vine
tumblr

52. What’s this
mean for the
library?
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53. visual 5 flickr.com/photos/rammorrison/4704353204/

54. photos
and videos
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56. 78%
of US Adults watch online videos

57. What’s this
mean for the
library?
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58. update policies

59. training

60. how to act
in front of
a camera

61. 6Grassroots Tech
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62. flickr.com/photos/tbisaacs/2641052226/
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63. what’s going
on here?
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64. 3D printers &
makerspaces
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65. makerbot.com

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77. CNC router normal shop tools
drill presses vacuum cleaner
CAD/CAM software computers
more than
3D printers
scroll saws
laser cutters
power tools

78. Digital
Media
Labs
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Co-Working
spaces

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93. other
cool
stuff

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95. check out
guitars!

100. What’s this
mean for the
library?

101. 7The Cloud
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104. webscale

105. http://staging.servercloudcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/define2.jpg

106. 8 Crowdsourcing
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107. examples

108. MOOCs

109. What’s this
mean for the
library?

110. The Internet
of Things
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113. What’s this
mean for the
library?

114. 10quantified self

115. Trends vs. Fads
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116. Fad
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117. Trend
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118. how to
prepare

119. don’t be held
back by tech!

120. thank you!
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