——————————————————————– In 1908, Thomas Edison stated “Anything, Everything is Possible.” According to Smithsonian Magazine, the events and innovations that occurred a century ago marked America’s entry into the modern world. The innovations in 1908 literally put us in motion. Wilbur Wright flew 2 hours and 20 minutes. Henry Ford introduced the Model T to the masses. The First Skyscraper – the Singer Building was built in NYC. ——————————————————————- At ALA’s Annual Discussion, K.G. Schneider said there were two ways to look at this years library tech trends. – Architecture of Aesthetics – Architecture of Participation Below are a few new concepts Alexander Cohen collected for LITA that affect the Library of the Future and its’ Architecture of Aesthetics… Google’s Library Digitization Projects, Artificial Intelligence / Web Search Projects Virtual Streetscapes Kindle Amazon’s Ebook Reader Harvard’s Green Campus: LEED Status Bibliotheca Alexandrina “recapture the spirit of openness and scholarship” British Library…
Category: Top Technology Trends
Trends from John Blyberg
I’ve posted my ALA Midwinter trends as well. They can be found over at blyberg.net. Many thanks to my fellow trendsters for a really great discussion!
Trends from Karen Coombs
I’ve posted some trend thoughts for Midwinter over at Library Web Chic. Please feel free to comment on what I’ve said either here or there and I’ll look forward to seeing you all bright and early tomorrow (1/13/2008) morning at 8 am!
Sarah Houghton-Jan’s Top Tech Trends for 2008, ALA Midwinter
I have posted my Top Tech Trends on LibrarianInBlack.net. Feel free to comment either here or there (though actually reading the trends first is preferred).
Trends from K.G. Schneider
I just posted my trends over at Free Range Librarian. I realize I left off OPACs, after writing about them all fall. I’ll keep those thoughts as a extra-speshul treat for our meeting this Sunday morning at o’dark-thirty. See you all then!
Top technology trends: ALA Mid-Winter 2008
Here, listed in no priority order, is a set of top technology trends/predictions for fellow librarians to chew on during the ALA Mid-Winter Meeting, 2008. The use of Linux as a server platform as well as a desktop platform will increase – The latest version of Windows seems to have gone over like a lead balloon. Institutions still have server-class needs. Add these two things together, and you will see more IT shops considering and adopting Linux for their operating system. At a much slower pace, Linux will increasingly appear on user desktops because retailers are selling dirt-cheap computers with Linux pre-installed. Ubuntu, a particular Linux distribution, gets rave reviews for its user interface. Clean. Easy to use, and easy to learn. As Linux becomes more predominant, so will the concept of open source software, and that is an additional ball of wax that has already been mentioned numerous times….
Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 7
The final of our Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! Now that all of the Trendsters have spoken their minds, we give them a chance to challenge each other and respond to the audience. Next week, we’ll begin rolling out more podcasts from ALA Annual 2007, including the audio of the LITA President’s program as well as the Great Debate. Stay tuned! If you’re enjoying the podcasts, and want to make sure that this sort of thing continues within LITA and the ALA, let us know! Leave comments and suggestions so that we know what everyone wants to see moving forward…let us know who you enjoyed the most, and if you’d like to see something done differently in presenting these to you. Thanks for listening to the LITA Top Tech Trends podcasts from ALA 2007, and stay tuned next week for the LITA President’s…
Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 6
The sixth and penultimate of our Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this section is devoted to Joan Frye Williams. The Q & A session from Top Tech will go up here tomorrow, full of interesting differences of opinion from our panelists. Next week, we’ll begin rolling out more podcasts from ALA Annual 2007, including the audio of the LITA President’s program as well as the Great Debate. Stay tuned! Now up: Joan Frye Williams.
Top Technology Trends – ALA Annual 2007, part 5
The fifth of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this section is devoted to Walt Crawford. The remainder will be spread out along this week. Next week, we’ll begin rolling out more podcasts from ALA Annual 2007, including the audio of the LITA President’s program as well as the Great Debate. Stay tuned! Now up: Walt Crawford.
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…