Future of Libraries

1. Libraries
Next
Big
Thing
Wajdi
Tahmoush
Tech. Manager
Naseej

2. • Let’s brainstorm what could be the next big thing for our Libraries
• Discuss the theories and concepts: Technological convergence and
augmented reality.
• Influence the adoption of a particular emerging Technology.
• Simulate strategic thinking on which technology is suitable for a
particular library.
• How New Technologies can help Libraries meet users’ expectations.
• Required technical skills among librarians.

3. Mobile Apps Promises
Internet of Things (IoT)
Future Technologies
Flexible Display Glass

4. Mobile Promises
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PERSONALIZED
SUSTAINABLE
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5. User Services
• OPAC Search
• My Account
• Holds/Requests
• eBooks, eRes.
Mobile Apps Promises
Staff Services
• Inventory
• Paging Lists
• Checkouts/Checkins/Renewals
• Manage Item/Patron Records

6. • Everyone is on a mobile
device these days.
• Patrons can hold your
library’s resources in
their hands, wherever
they are.
• Self-service app
provides article, print,
and eBook real-time
availability in a single
integrated interface.
• Patrons can directly
access and checkout the
resources from their
device.
• Mobile Apps brings the
library to patrons’
fingertips

7. Mobile Worklists for Staff
• Weeding
• Searching projects
• Placing items on display
• Moving items to and from storage
• Moving items between branches
• Managing new collections
• Generating lists of course reserve items
• Labelling projects
• ILL delivery tracking
• Inventory projects

8. Patron Services On-the-Go

9. Mobiles will be connected to every human Arm
• Patrons can be identified remotely using their devices’ IDs.
• Like RFID for item, Device ID can be used as patron ID.
• Library services can be delivered remotely to patrons using their devices.
• Indoor GPS, iBeacon, Bluetooth, or GPS can be used to identify patrons.
• Mobile Apps deliver patron services to patrons identified by their devices’ IDs
• When all devices are connected, services can be delivered not only to Mobile, but to any device.

10. In a well connected World,
What can be Done?
IoT is the network of physical objects—
devices, vehicles, buildings and other items—
embedded with electronics, software, sensors,
and network connectivity that enables these
objects to collect and exchange data.

11. LIBRARIANS AND IoT : SURVEY RESULTS
• OCLC conducted a brief in late 2014 to
assess librarians’ familiarity with and
views about the Internet of Things and
related technologies.
• Several librarians indicated that libraries
should wait until the technology is more
widely adopted and available until
investing time, effort and money into
developing IoT services.
• One respondent succinctly put it: “For
now, sit and watch what develops!!”

12. Libraries and the Internet of Things
• What does a world where billions of
objects connect to each other and ready
to share information mean for libraries?
• IoT connects very much with the
Semantic Web and with Linked Data.
• With Linked Data you’ve got the ability to
give a thing a URI.
• The Semantic Web is a Web of things,
conceptually.
• Tying an actual thing down to a part of
the Web is the last mile.

13. • Will connected objects—clothes, cars,
plants, utilities, factories, homes,
buildings—fundamentally change the
way libraries serve their users?
• Is it simply more about hype than
reality?
• IoT is becoming a reality than a hype.
• We should be ready for IoT.
• Sit and watch is a self suicide!
Should we sit and watch?

14. WHAT’S PROMISING ABOUT IOT TECHNOLOGIES
FOR LIBRARIES?
• Inventory control
• Mobile payments, ticketing and event registration
• Access and authentication
• Climate and room configuration, accessibility and
way-finding
• Mobile reference
• Resource availability for both content and physical
plant (rooms, AV equipment)
• Smart books (features activated/enhanced by other
IoT-enabled systems)
• Gaming and augmented reality
• Object-based learning
• Assistive technology

15. Libraries and IOT
• LIBRARY’S ROLE IN SUPPORTING USERS’ ADOPTION OF IOT?
• General knowledge, training, demonstrations, etc…
• Education regarding privacy and security issues
• Providing accessibility, compatible devices, and resources
• How Much more IoT can do is left to your imagination and your Budget
• AREAS OF CONCERN:
• Privacy, security and hacking (by far the largest concern)
• The expense of participating in IoT technologies
• Staff support and training
• Decline in use of library resources

16. Libraries and Display Glass
Glass display cases have long
been a stock feature of libraries
where we use them to educate
and inform our patrons about
all sorts of things.
Flexible Display Glass opens
new doors for Libraries to
outreach its content to Patrons.

17. Libraries used to maintain a display of “Recent Faculty Publications”
in a closed box tables.
When a professor has a new publication, the library exhibits a copy
in one of the display tables.
Tables are usually located in a very high-traffic areas, yet most
publications are went unnoticed!
Whole concept of showing books in glass display cases seems so…
20th century.
Display Glass vs. Closed Box Glass table
Display Glass open doors for Libraries to deliver its content to patrons.
Imagine all tables in your library, in the classrooms, and even in the
cafeteria are all made of display Glass.
Libraries can out-reach its content to its patrons wherever they are.
This is only possible if your Library system is capable of such delivery!
APIs, web services, and systems built on latest technologies….

19. Mobile Apps, IoT, and Display Glass are Libraries
new Challenges
• Mobile Apps, APIs, and Web-services will enable libraries properly
interoperate with other systems and services.
• IoT platforms will give us revolutionary new ways to create smarter
overlapping connected environments.
• Display Glass is the future for delivering Libraries resources to Patrons.
• Soon IoT and Dsiplay Glass will be an infrastructure that’s as much a part
of our world as electricity, indoor plumbing, and highways.
• At this point, libraries will have as much stake in the day-to-day use of
these technologies as every other business.

21. • How Libraries will look like in the near future?
• What will be the new roles for Libraries and
Librarians?
• Should Libraries keep trying to attract
Patrons? Or Should they reach-out their
services to patrons?
• How can Libraries benefit from new
technologies in serving its users.
The contribution of new technology into Libraries evolution can only be realized when and
if the new technologies is widely diffused and used.
Diffusion itself results from a series of librarians decisions to begin using the new
technologies; decisions are often the result of a comparison of the uncertain benefits of
the new invention with the uncertain costs of adopting it!
In all cases we can’t sit and wait! We have to prepare for adopting new Technologies!