Notes from: http://www.oclc.org/reports/2004format.htm
Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers
- Big change since previous report
- ‘unbundling’ of information
- Change from traditional containers (books, CDs, journals)
- Big impact on search process
- Content being provided by sources outside of the library
- Format matters less
- Format agnostic- people don’t care what containers their content comes from
- Lots of experimental forms are being tried
- Major trends are social and technological
- Emergence of Smart Phones- how can libraries find a way to give into them
- Social publishing is widely accessed via the internet (emergence of blogs/ wikis)
Useful for news and opinion, more honest
- Print isn’t disappearing but everything now seems digital
EBooks- Fastest growing publishing industry
Increased digital audio books
-Libraries are not the only collectors of content- all over new media
-Libraries are still gold standard of information, but people are still finding info other places, and so libraries have to compete.
Need to work on providing authenticity of internet media
Increase quality of information available
Notes From: “Information Literacy and Information Literacy: New Components in the Curriculum for a Digital Culture”
(1998) Opinion position paper
- Information Technology- understanding technology infrastructure, understanding technology tools, understanding legal, social, economic and public policy issues that affect the use of the technologies themselves
- Information Literacy- content and communication, authoring, info finding, organization, research process, information analysis, assessment and evaluation. Can take many forms and serve many purposes and goes beyond traditional literacy
- Both forms are essential to function and succeed now
- Inter-related but distinctly their own
- Information technology literacy
- Two perspectives
1. Skill in using tools, such as computers and basic functions
- Fluency in your skills, and confidence (learning new ones as well as basic skills)
- Communication
2. Understanding how different infrastructures work
- Broad view of those infrastructures that support our society
- Technological issues as well as history, economics, social and public policy
-This information is now critical to success as an informed citizen
Information Literacy
- “the body of knowledge related to text”
- Full understanding and use of visual and multi-media communication devices
- Legal, social, economic issues and ethical, privacy, etc. (wide range of issues)
Notes from: Lied Library @ 4 Years: Technology Never Stands Still
- Challenges of a library to keep up with technology
- Maintaining old systems and creating new (constantly adding and updating software and programs)
- Single systems grow and expand, and Lied Library is constantly trying to maintain and keep up.
- Many of the new technological innovations help reduce physical work in the library and give librarians more control over printing, etc.
- Outlines Lied Library and what it’s been through to technologically keep up.
- Financial burdens of technology
- Computing resource management, virus and spy-ware issues, space limitations, security, general software and hardware problems, temperature control
- Staff must embrace technology- for themselves and to help patrons
- Could mean an increase in staffing
- Goals for big campus projects
- Replacement cycles- hopeful every 3 years
- Extending office hours
- Creativity
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As information is becoming more and more avaliable by a variety of sources, do you think that libraries have to change how they market themselves? Could the general public perception of libraries (ie serious) have a detrimental effect instead?
ReplyDeleteIf done correctly and in the same 'serious' nature that libraries have always functioned I think new marketing schemes could be highly successful and not detrimental. But, just like the example from Lied Library- it will take a lot of work.
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