Stephen Abram, VP, Innovation May 17, 2006

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Thinking Ahead News 2.0

• Stephen Abram, VP, Innovation May 17, 2006

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News Priorities

• Community
• Advertising
• Information
• Entertainment

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Preparing for the Inevitable
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The Scary re-wiring of the Millennials and
post-Millennials
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Usability The A frame adopted from newspaper
layout is not what works. Eyetools
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Wow! 150,00-250,000 A DAY!
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Teen SL Library services meeting, Sun 5/7/06 
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Second Life Library Reading Room
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Second Life Library
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Second Life Library eBooks
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The Long Tail of QUESTIONS
libraries
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Great Expectations

• The future is already here, its just not evenly
  distributed yet!

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Expectations 1.0

• Search
• Retrieve
• View
• Print
• Link
• Navigate
• Read
• . . .

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Pandora
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Darlene Fichter, 2006
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WEB 2.0

• RSS really simple syndication

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WEB 2.0

• Wikis

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WEB 2.0

• New Programming Tools
• AJAX, API, Mash-ups, Java, widgets, wizards

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WEB 2.0

• Blogs and blogging

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WEB 2.0

• Commentary and comments

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WEB 2.0

• Personalization and My Profiles

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WEB 2.0

• Podcasting, P2P and MP3 files

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WEB 2.0

• Streaming Media audio and video

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Video iPod etc.
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WEB 2.0

• Reviews and User-driven Ratings

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WEB 2.0

• Recommender Functionality

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WEB 2.0

• Personalized Alerts

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WEB 2.0

• Web Services

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WEB 2.0

• Instant Messaging and Virtual Reference

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WEB 2.0

• Device Neutral and Independent

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Nano Phone, Cardphones, ...
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Google invests in wired wireless
A 189,000,000.00 pilot
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Bidirectional wireless module
Hydro Broadband Toronto
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WEB 2.0

• Folksonomies, Tagging and Tag Clouds
• Visualization

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WEB 2.0

• Photos (e.g. Flickr, Picasa)

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WEB 2.0

• Social Networking

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WEB 2.0

• Socially Driven Content

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General
Tag User
Scholarly
Web Pages
Links
Content Creator
Source DLIB
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WEB 2.0

• Open Access, Open Source, Open Content

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WEB 2.0

• Social Bookmarking

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Library 2.0

• Learning
• Community
• Productivity

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Librarian 2.0

• The Guru of the Information Age!

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Librarian 2.0

• Understands the power of the Web 2.0
  opportunities

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Librarian 2.0

• Is device independent and uses and delivers to
  everything from laptops to Smartphones to PDAs to
  iPods

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Librarian 2.0

• Connects people and technology and information in
  context

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Librarian 2.0

• Doesnt shy away from non-traditional cataloguing
  and classification and chooses tagging,
  folksonomies and user-driven content descriptions
  where appropriate.

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Librarian 2.0

• Embraces non-textual information and the power of
  pictures, moving images, sight and sound

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Librarian 2.0

• Understands the long tail and leverages the
  power of old and new content

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Librarian 2.0

• Sees the potential in using content sources like
  the Open Content Alliance, Google Print and
  OpenWorldCat

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Librarian 2.0

• Connects users up to expert discussions,
  conversations and communities of practice and
  participates there as well

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Librarian 2.0

• Uses and develops advanced social networks to
  enterprise advantage

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Librarian 2.0

• Connects with everyone using their communication
  mode of choice telephone,mail, print, Skype,
  IM, SMS, e-mail, virtual reference, etc.

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Librarian 2.0

• Encourages user driven metadata and user
  developed content and commentary

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Librarian 2.0

• Understands the wisdom of crowds and the real
  roles and impacts of the blogosphere, web
  syndicasphere and wikisphere

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Librarian 2.0

• Understands their users at a deep level not
  just as pointers and clickers

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Librarian 2.0

• Librarian 2.0 is where the user is, when the user
  is there. This is an immersion environment.

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Librarian 2.0

• Librarian 2.0 plays.

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Lets Go!
Stephen Abram, MLS VP Innovation, SirsiDynix Cel
416-669-4855 stephen.abram_at_sirsidynix.com http//w
ww.sirsidynix.com Stephens Lighthouse
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