2007

Top Technology Trends at ALA Annual

Hi All, I’m a student as Syracuse University attending my first ALA and am very excited to be able to blog the Top Technology Trends (TTT) Panel. I see the discussion has already started so I’ll try to keep this short, but there were a lot of ideas discussed. I am also going to break this into two parts- part one will be the presenters trends and part two will be the audience questions and discussion. Marshall Breeding, the Director of Innovative Technologies and Research at the Vanderbilt University Library: 1. Library Automation a. The changes in the marketplace especially those related to mergers have caused many libraries to reconsider their choice of provider and to look at open source products b. New commercial companies are looking at ways of interfacing with open source products and creating new ways of thinking about automation and systems c. Better front ends are…