Top Technology Trends

3 Trends and a Baby

This is my first foray into the top technology trends arena. I am not at ALA this time around – see http://flickr.com/photos/frumkin for the reason why – I hope you find the reason a good excuse 🙂 – but I will try and add to the conversation here. Due to my new time commitments, I won’t be able to discuss all the areas that I find interesting, but I will relate three topics here. There is quite a deal of activity happening within discovery-to-delivery (D2D). OCLC’s WorldCat local has produced a big splash with its initial release at the University of Washington, and I expect that OCLC will leverage the WorldCat data to help provide better and more consistent access to information, at least information that falls within the world of information OCLC provides. Other efforts, such as the University of Rochester’s eXtensible Catalog project, my own institution’s LibraryFind, and…