Saturday, October 17, 2009

Shift Again! Libraries and the Near Future

In the next few posts, we are going to be examining some technical things that are going to hit libraryland sooner than we think - must sooner.

Why? You don't usually do original content!

Because in 3 hours this past week, I received 5 items via my newsfeeds talking about the subjects we will cover. Libraryland needs to listen up, man up, and brace itself. We're hitting another watermark. And it's happening fast!

We'll be using the following links as well as other materials to explore this phenomenon.

http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/06/03/the-user-is-not-broken-a-meme-masquerading-as-a-manifesto/

Single purpose e-readers dead
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/?p=329#

WiFi
http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2009/10/wifi_between_de.html

Mobile Internet
http://librarylandroundup.blogspot.com/2009/10/2020-mobile-internet.html

Trendwatching
http://trendwatching.com/briefing/

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