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February 15, 2010

• ALA core competencies
• Librarian 2.0 interviews
• School Library Journal – Things that keep us up at night
• Brewster Kahle at TED
• Institute for the Future of the Book
• CommentPress
• Sports Illustrated tablet demo
• Sophie
• 10 questions about books, libraries, librarians, and schools
• The (un)certainty of professional persistence
• Many service jobs will become globalized piece work
• Does your school organization [library!] reflect our new digital information landscape?
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – Librarians

Resources

• CASTLE
• Dangerously Irrelevant

Recommended reading

• Here Comes Everybody
• Everything is Miscellaneous
• What Would Google Do? 
• Blown to Bits 
• Everyware 
• Wikinomics 
• Born Digital 
• Grown Up Digital  
• Growing Up Digital  
• The Global Achievement Gap
• Curriculum 21
• 21st Century Skills
• Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
• Disrupting Class
• Tough Choices or Tough Times
• A Whole New Mind 
• and more…

Recommended viewing

• 21st century pedagogy
• Learning to change
• Did You Know? 4.0
• Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
• Information Revolution
• Generation We
• Digital Kids @ Analog Schools
• Welcome to Your World
• We Think
• A Brave New World-Wide Web
• Networked Student
• A View of 21st Century Learners
• Kevin Kelly at TED
• Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF
• Sir Ken Robinson at TED
• Free Range Learning
• The Human Network
• The Fourth Screen
• The Essay

What will the future of libraries look like? 

How similar? 

• People still interested in adult/children programming
• A gathering place (we are more so than others)
• Will always have an interest in books
• Always face to face storytelling (free)
• We will be constantly evolving
• Will still be a place where people gain access – a community equalizer
• Essential in a down economy
• Training customers so they can adapt to new technologies, particularly those that are economically disadvantaged
• Will continue to have more tech
• Always a challenge to work to meet people’s demands
• People will still want a human interaction
• Will still be an education center
• Will maintain the role of those that know and those that don’t / haves and don’t haves in the community
• Will continue to be guided by customer service and what our Ames constituents want

How different?

• Greater proportion of materials will be downloadable – offering more devices to download them onto – Kindles, etc.
• Technology is more self-centric – will be more interactive with both devices and people – community-oriented
• We will be globally-oriented and networked
• Bigger virtual presence – Twitter, texting, etc. – how we communicate
• More off-site services
• More open times
• More difficulty maintaining privacy of customers
• Will be providing more tech to equalize digital divide
• Will be sharing resources more with other libraries
• Services may not rely on a building
• Will be more automated – fewer librarians / staff
• More flexibility within the building – furniture, collections, etc.
• Better use of tech for checking in /out and inventory (RFID)
• Staff will be better facilitators at bringing people together
• Working with other agencies more closely to provide information beyond library walls
• People will expect more personalized / individualized service
• More eco-friendly
• Providing programming through live streaming
• We will be able to provide access to more info because more is online – e.g., print on demand