Top Tech Trends - 2013 Annual

Program Date & Time

Video Recording

Trends

  • DIY Library eBook Platforms
  • Digital Rights Management
  • Discovery and rights determination
  • MOOCs, flipped classrooms, and gamification fatigue
  • Linked data
  • Makerspaces
  • Data collection and data mining

Trends by Panelists

  • Loran Dempsey: 

    Trend one: Discovery and rights determination

    Others:  Managing down print and analytics. Linked data. Author services in libraries

  • Char Booth: Instruction Services Manager and E-Learning librarian at the Claremont Colleges Library

    Trend one: MOOC/flipped/gamification fatigue

    Others:
    - Learner implications of open courses, etc. (e.g., the "bill of rights and principles for learners in the digital age")
    - Badges & social learning
    - Wikipedia education program & other tech-facilitated open publishing opps
    - OA and Open education
    - Learning analytics and data dashboards for assessment

  • Aimee Fifarek: Library Technologies & Content Senior Manager at City of Scottsdale @aimeelee

    Trend one: DIY Library eBook Platforms and associated issues (publisher relations, self-publishing and collection development, creation of social spaces around eBooks, etc.)

    Others: Data collection and mining for evidence-based decision making, specifically in collections; Tiny/invisible personal technology and omnipresent data gathering - opportunities and risks for libraries DIY in the library (3-D printers, robotics, advanced crafts and building) as complement to traditional education. Something on my mind but don't have answers for: statistics and how to measure outcomes rather than just outputs

  • Sarah Houghton: Director, San Rafael Public Library @theLIB

    Trend one: Digital Rights Management (the pending death of)

    Others: mobile everything, doing less with less (tech), hackerspaces, makerspaces, building stuff yourself that IT won't build for you, augmented reality, appropriate tech for young children, privacy and tech

  • Brewster Kahle: Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive @brewster_kahle

     
  • Clifford Lynch: Director, CNI

    Trend one: The recalibration of privacy and its implications for libraries, consumers and the cultural record

    Others: Special collections moving from one institution to another. Implications of software turning into software as a service (software in the cloud).

  • Gary Price: Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal's INFOdocket.com

    Trend one: Mining of Open Web Resources (aka Open Web Collection Development) and Value of Specialty Databases

    Other: User Privacy (recent NSA story, also w/ overdrive and amazon) Need for Marketing e-books in libraries  user privacy/access to

     

Panelists Bios

  • Loran Dempsey:  Chief Strategist, OCLC (Moderator) @lorcanD

    Bio:  Lorcan is VP, Research, at OCLC, and oversees Research’s contribution to community and OCLC developments. He also has a planning role. Before this, he oversaw the information portfolio of Jisc, the national provider of networking, information, and innovation services to UK higher/ further education. He worked for many years at The University of Bath, latterly as Director of UKOLN. Lorcan began his library career in public libraries in his native Dublin.
     
  • Char Booth: Instruction Services Manager and E-Learning librarian at the Claremont Colleges Library

    Bio: Early riser, devoted oceanite, and advocate of radical neutrality, Char Booth explores the integration of education, research, technology, and design in libraries. Char is the Instruction Services Manager and E- Learning Librarian at the Claremont Colleges, and is on the faculty of the ACRL Information Literacy Immersion Institution. An ALA Emerging Leader and Library Journal Mover and Shaker, Char blogs at info-mational and tweets @charbooth. Her publications include Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators (ALA Editions, 2011) andInformation Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies (ACRL, 2009)
     
  • Aimee Fifarek: Library Technologies & Content Senior Manager at City of Scottsdale @aimeelee

    Bio: Aimee has worked in library technology in academic and public libraries since 1997, doing ILS systems administration, network management, web development, and other duties as assigned and needed. She continues to be involved in LITA, Advocacy and Intellectual Freedom Issues, and was 2012 Chair of the Innovative Users Group. Aimee most recently served as project manager for the Digital Arizona Library working group, exploring the creation of a statewide eBook lending program for Arizona.
     
  • Sarah Houghton: Director, San Rafael Public Library @theLIB

    Bio: Sarah Houghton is the Director for the San Rafael Public Library in California and otherwise known as the Librarian in Black. She eschews DRM, filtering, and societal norms.
     
  • Brewster Kahle: Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive @brewster_kahle

    Bio: Brewster is the Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, and has been working to provide universal access to all knowledge for
     
  • Clifford Lynch: Director, CNI

    Bio: Clifford Lynch has led the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award.
     
  • Gary Price: Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal's INFOdocket.com

    Bio: Gary Price is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.
     

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