1. The Big Picture: Trends, Technology and Beyond in Libraries Stephen Abram, MLS Florida Library Directors Tallahassee, FL Oct. 13, 2011 These slides are available at Stephen’s Lighthouse blog

2. Change: Are libraries Future Ready? Reducing Suspense: And the answer is . . . . MAYBE

3. Strategic Choice Are there too many choices? Will disagreements about the future freeze the process?

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5. Smelly Yellow Liquid Or Sex Appeal?

6. It’s the Whole Experience

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

8. 7 Gifts to Libraries, Publishers & Booksellers The book isn’t dead or dying. It is evolving. Our users/customers are improving. Technology is going social and can support social acts. The PC isn’t dead, but, again, it’s evolving and more mobile. We know more about our customers than ever before. Talent, Insight, Community, have social value. Opportunities always exist more in times of change

15. Change can happen very fast

16. Gift #1

17. The Evolutionof Books

20. GBS

21. Launched in US on June 30th

23. Back Office: Baker & Taylor Expected Launch Fall 2011

24. Launched July 2011 $15 Billion Franchise

25. Amazon eBook Subscriptions

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

27. Why do people read?

28. Why do people read? To learn To engage in hearing other’s opinions (to agree or disagree or understand) To develop more knowledge about myself and develop as a whole person To be entertained and laugh, to engage and interact To address boredom and the inexorable progress of time To research and keep up-to-date To participate well in civil society (everything from news to voting) To be informed (and maybe smarter) To understand others (individually and culturally) To escape our day-to-day lives To stimulate the imagination and be inspired or spiritual To write and communicate better through reading others To teach To have something to talk about To connect with like-minded people

29. Fiction

30. Non-Fiction

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

36. Gift #2

37. Content Spam

39. Technology literacy

40. Information literacy

41. Media literacy

42. Adaptive literacy

43. Research literacy

44. Academic literacy

45. Reputation, Etc.

46. Reading literacy

47. Numeracy

48. Critical literacy

49. Social literacy

50. Computer literacy

51. Web literacy

52. Content literacy

55. eZine Articles (ezinearticles.com)

56. Find Articles (findarticles.com)

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

58. Hub Pages (hubpages.com)

59. InfoBarrel (infobarrel.com)

60. Livestrong (livestrong.com)

61. Mahalo (mahalo.com)

62. Mail Archive (mail-archive.com)

63. Question Hub (questionhub.com)

64. Squidoo (squidoo.com)

65. Suite101 (suite101.com)

66. Twenga (twenga.com)

67. WiseGeek (wisegeek.com)

68. Wonder How To (wonderhowto.com)

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

70. Xomba (xomba.com)

71. All Experts (allexperts.com)

72. Answers (answers.com)

73. Answer Bag (answerbag.com)

74. Articles Base (articlesbase.com)

75. Ask (ask.com)

76. Associated Content (associatedcontent.com)

77. BizRate (bizrate.com)

78. Buzle (buzzle.com)

79. Brothersoft (brothersoft.com)

80. Bytes (bytes.com)

81. ChaCha (chacha.com)

82. eFreedom (efreedom.com)

83. eHow (ehow.com)

84. Essortment (essortment.com)

85. Examiner (examiner.com)

86. Expert Village (expertvillage.com)

90. The nasty facts about Google & Bing and consumer search: SEO / SMO Content Farms Advertiser-driven Geotagging Whack-a-Mole: Farmer Panda Panda Silver GOOG

91. Gift #3

92. The Evolutionof Answers

93. Sensemaking: Too much choice

94. Why do people ask questions?

95. What are your top 10-20 questions?What is the service portfolio model that goes with those?

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

97. Driving the Knowledge Portal alignment with User Behaviour

100. The Chapter and Paragraph Universe

101. Integrated with Visuals – graphics and charts

102. Integrated with ‘video’

103. Integrated with Sound and Speech

104. Integrated with social web

105. Integrated with interaction and not just interactivity

106. How would you enhance a book?

108. Learning

109. Discovery

110. Progress

111. Research (Applied and Theoretical)

112. Cultural & Knowledge Custody / Conservation

114. Grocery Stores

115. Grocery Stores

116. Grocery Stores

117. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

118. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

119. Meals

120. Gift #4

121. Mobility: Where the Patron Is

122. Mobility

124. Gift #5

125. Libraries are Social Institutions

128. Transparent distrust and radical intellect

129. The Filter Bubble

130. Finding black hole data (like non-digital)

131. Networking with a Closed Circle

132. Beyond search to find/discover, choose/use, understand/internalize and FORGET.

133. Tagging and organizing – offline remembering

134. Information ethics and creation

136. Do you know them? Or do you know retail sales numbers or circulation numbers better?

137. Health . . .

138. Career Advice and Job Finding

139. Genealogy

140. Homework

143. Libraries Are Social Institutions

147. Focus on the Questions (Needs, CRM)

148. Build or Buy Knowledge Portals (Meals)

149. Emphasize Content Quality (not books)

150. Expand Social Media Programs on Information Literacy

151. Advocate and Align with the Listener

152. Tell Stories, Have users tell stories

153. Invest in Strategic Analytics – Measurements of Impact, ROI and Value

155. Focus on the ShiftsAnd Innovate THERE The biggest shift from the internet and the web has been the social web.

157. The power of libraries

158. 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 or Google+: Stephen Abram LinkedIn / Plaxo: Stephen Abram Twitter: sabram SlideShare: StephenAbram1