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Lib iLibrariesBibliotheek Rotterdam / DOK, Aug. 27, 2008

Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAPresident 2008 SLAPresident 2008, SLA

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New Paradigms?Paradigms?

What’s Normal Now?What s Normal Now?

Stuff Will Change Faster NowStuff Will Change Faster Now

• Over the next 13 years an iPod size device will hold: • iPods can hold year’s worth of video by 2012• Or ALL the commercial music ever created by 2015Or ALL the commercial music ever created by 2015• Or ALL content ever created (in all media) by 2020• Videogames outsell most content – combined!

J Ri t bi• Jeez – Ringtones are even big• Amazon + Audible• OpenSocial, F8, MySpace Developer, Android . . .• Microsoft + Yahoo + Facebook + 40 ads engines? Or AOL!!• Google + everyone else rumours (Plaxo, LinkedIn, Sprint, • CNET Yell and ?)CNET, Yell, and ?)• Pocket-sized devices dominate

What’s New (or new enough)?What s New (or new enough)?

• Semantic Web (Twine)Semantic Web (Twine)• The Cloud (Google, Zoho and MS etc.)• No choice search engines

GIS i t d h d d• GIS oriented search and ads • Virtually Infinite fulltext books• Streaming media and spoken word search• Personalization 3.0• Microblogging• Device proliferation (Kindle iPhones etc )Device proliferation (Kindle, iPhones, etc.)• What’s old? Attacks on research, rights, intellectual

freedom, access, copyright balance, privacy, DRM, patents, trademarks, voice, etc.patents, trademarks, voice, etc.

Resist the library culture of poverty, victimization, risk aversion, and passive resistance

• You can’t wait• You can t wait for everyone to change at once.once.

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L i h• Learning together• Shared discovery• Juries• Juries• The Invisible College• CommunitiesCo u t es• Telling others of progress• Publishing in any way

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SEO and GIS

Federated Search

Custom Search

Next Generation Content• 150,000,000 eBooks• Article and chapter level text economy

E t f di id d t t• Emergent merger of audio, video and text• User created content, preprints, data, digital only• Curating behavioural data• Curating behavioural data

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Two Kinds of LibrariansTwo Kinds of Librarians

Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAStephen Abram, MLS, FSLAPresident 2008, SLA

VP Innovation, SirsiDynixChief Strategist, SirsiDynix InstituteChief Strategist, SirsiDynix Institute

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