CONSULS Workshop June 17, 2011

1. The Future: Frankenbooks, Social Learning, and the Exploded Library Stephen Abram, MLS Hartford, CT June 17, 2011

2. Change These slides are available at Stephen’s Lighthouse blog

3. We Only Get So Many Once-in-a-Lifetime Chances To Do Great Things

4. News Flash “The Internet and technology have now progressed to their infancy”

5. Change can happen very fast

6. Sensemaking

7. News Flash News Flash Tech Shift Happens

9. You don't know what to do

10. You don't know how to do it

11. You don't have the authority or the resources to do it

12. You're afraid

13. Once you figure out what's getting in the way, it's far easier to find the answer (or decide to work on a different problem).

16. Buildings

17. Search

18. Reading is Fundamental

19. Patrons

20. Outreach

21. Circulation

23. Bricks and Clicks and Tricks

24. Communities of Knowledge and Practice

25. Research Impact

26. Relationships & Partnerships

27. Information Literacy Programs

29. Learning

30. Discovery

31. Progress

32. Research (Applied and Theoretical)

33. Cultural & Knowledge Custody

35. -

36. Cook’s Voyage

37. Columbus, Cabot, Cortes

38. Magellan Columbus Cook

41. Questions for Academic Libraries Today: Are your priorities right? Are learning, research, discovery changing materially and what is actually changing? Books. Meh. What is the role for librarians in the real future (that is not an extension of the past)?

44. Students are focused at the lesson and event (essay, test, exam) level

45. Researchers are connected beyond the host institution.

47. Grocery Stores

48. Grocery Stores

49. Grocery Stores

50. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

51. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

52. Meals

53. The new bibliography and collection development KNOWLEDGE PORTALS KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, INFORMATION & RESEARCH COMMONS

54. Chefs, counsellors, teachers, magicians Librarians play a vital role in building the critical connections between information , knowledge and learning.

56. Take Out

57. Private Dining Rooms

58. Private Chefs

61. Technology literacy

62. Information literacy

63. Media literacy

64. Adaptive literacy

65. Research literacy

66. Academic literacy

67. Reputation, Etc.

68. Reading literacy

69. Numeracy

70. Critical literacy

71. Social literacy

72. Computer literacy

73. Web literacy

74. Content literacy

76. Stop Making it so Hard!

78. Steal This Idea

80. Answers (answers.com)

81. Answer Bag (answerbag.com)

82. Articles Base (articlesbase.com)

83. Ask (ask.com)

84. Associated Content (associatedcontent.com)

85. BizRate (bizrate.com)

86. Buzle (buzzle.com)

87. Brothersoft (brothersoft.com)

88. Bytes (bytes.com)

89. ChaCha (chacha.com)

90. eFreedom (efreedom.com)

91. eHow (ehow.com)

92. Essortment (essortment.com)

93. Examiner (examiner.com)

94. Expert Village (expertvillage.com)

95. )

96. Experts Exchange (experts-exchange.com)

97. eZine Articles (ezinearticles.com)

98. Find Articles (findarticles.com)

99. FixYa (fixya.com Helium (helium.com)

100. Hub Pages (hubpages.com)

101. InfoBarrel (infobarrel.com)

102. Livestrong (livestrong.com)

103. Mahalo (mahalo.com)

104. Mail Archive (mail-archive.com)

105. Question Hub (questionhub.com)

106. Squidoo (squidoo.com)

107. Suite101 (suite101.com)

108. Twenga (twenga.com)

109. WiseGeek (wisegeek.com)

110. Wonder How To (wonderhowto.com)

111. Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com)

115. The nasty facts about Google & Bing and consumer search: SEO / SMO Content Farms Advertiser-driven Geotagging GOOG

116. Have Students Changed?

117. YES (duh!)

123. My son: Zachary

125. Educational attainment up, a lot

126. Reading up, markedly

127. Brain & Developmental Changes

128. Eye Movement Changes

129. Massive Behavioural Changes

130. Major Decline in Crime Rates – down 65%

132. Gaming too. . . Mothers in their 30’s

133. Social networks fastest growing populations are seniors and is more international and less urban and less English dominated.

134. eBook reader usage is largely middle-aged.

137. 59% are female.

138. 29% are college students.

139. 5% are professors and 6% are teachers.

140. On any given day, 35% of our users are there for the very first time!

141. Only 29% found the databases via the library website.

142. 59% found what they were looking for on their first search.

143. 72% trusted our content more than Google.

145. 71% of instructors that rated student engagement levels as “high” as a result of using technology in courses.

146. 71% of students who are employed full-time and 77% of students who are employed part-time prefer more technology-based tools in the classroom.

147. 79% of instructors and 86 percent of students have seen the average level of engagement improve over the last year as they have increased their use of digital educational tools.

148. 87% of students believe online libraries and databases have had the most significant impact on their overall learning.

149. 62% identify blogs, wikis, and other online authoring tools while 59% identify YouTube and recorded lectures.

150. E-books and e-textbooks impact overall learning among 50% of students surveyed, while 42% of students identify online portals.

151. 44% of instructors believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

152. 32% of instructors identify e-textbooks and 30% identify interactive homework solutions as having the potential to improve engagement and learning outcomes. (e-readers was 11%)

153. 49% of students believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

158. Encyclopedia.com

159. HighBeam & Questia

160. WorldCat

161. AccessMyLibrary iPhone App for public, school and higher ed – iPhone, iPad, iTouch and Droid!

162. Geo-IP features and measures

164. “Strategy is a Choice. . . To be a victim and feel these changes are fated and blamestorm OR Create the future we need and take collective responsibility for the conversation and development of the future.” Find Reasons not Excuses.

165. As technology advances

166. Emboldened Librarians hold the key

167. So how must library and educator strategies change?

168. Discovery & Ideas

169. Has academic research focus shifted entirely?

170. Has the future changed?Has our future changed?

173. COWS, etc.

178. fMRI and The Brain

179. Cloning

180. Trucking and GPS

181. Wind and other energy

182. Nanotechnology

183. Robotics

184. Massive Book Digitization

185. Music

186. Translation

187. Streaming Media

188. Seed BankInter-disciplinary Cross-Disciplinary Integrated

189. Books

190. We have a shallow understanding of the Codex – the book format(s)Transition from scrolls – illumination – codex – and beyond

192. The Chapter and Paragraph Universe

193. Integrated with Visuals – graphics and charts

194. Integrated with ‘video’

195. Integrated with Sound and Speech

196. Integrated with social web

197. Integrated with interaction and not just interactivity

202. So how must library and educator strategies change?

203. Mobility

204. A 1965 iPhone

208. Net neutrality, kill switches . . .

209. Local wired, mobile access ‘everywhere’ to the home and workplace on a personal basis

210. Geo-awareness: GIS, GPS, GEO-IP, etc.

211. Wireless as a business strategy (Starbucks)

213. The Fanboys are failing us.

214. The Physical Act of Reading

222. Speaking of e-Books...

225. Borders Kobo, B&N Nook, Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, Sony, etc. . . .

235. GBS

250. Can we frame the e-book issue so that it can be addressed rationally?

251. Books

252. Fiction

253. Non-Fiction

254. E-Learning

257. What do we need to know? What are we going to do next?

258. StrategicAnalytics

261. Who are our core virtual users? Are there gaps?

262. Does learning happen? How about discovery?

263. What are user expectations for true satisfaction?

264. How does library search compare to consumer search like Google and retail or government?

265. How do people find and connect with library virtual services?

266. Are end users being successful in their POV?

268. Save the User!

269. What Would You Attempt If You Knew You Would Not Fail?

271. Buildings

272. Search

273. Reading is Fundamental

274. Patrons

275. Outreach

276. Circulation

278. Bricks and Clicks and Tricks

279. Communities of Knowledge and Practice

280. Research Impact

281. Partnerships

282. Information Literacy Programs

284. A Third Path

286. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA VP strategic partnerships and markets Cengage Learning (Gale) Cel: 416-669-4855 stephen.abram@cengage.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http://stephenslighthouse.com Facebook: Stephen Abram LinkedIn / Plaxo: Stephen Abram Twitter: sabram SlideShare: StephenAbram1