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Title: Hot Topics Katherine Palmer January 2004


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Hot TopicsKatherine PalmerJanuary 2004
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Session overview
  • Trends
  • Innovative leadership
  • Evaluating ideas
  • Practical tips for getting there
  • Wrap up
  • Interactive format including a group activity

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Demographic trends
  • Increasing numbers of seniors and youth
  • Rural to urban and visa versa
  • Workplace demographics Generation X and
    Generation Y, Boom Echo, traditionalists and
    Millennials

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City of Toronto population
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Business trends
  • Knowledge workers as defined in business sector
  • Competition is just a click away
  • Stress on innovation
  • Organic management, de-layering, collaborative
    groups
  • Impact of technology

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Technology trends
  • Personal digital assistants
  • Visual display search engines
  • Online Publishing- Net Library and the like
  • Instant messaging
  • Broadband Services- increasing need for more
    bandwidth
  • Wireless Networking
  • See also Library Futures Quarterly, October 4,
    2001

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Library Trends
  • Value as public institution in decline
  • Budgets not keeping up with costs, looming
    infrastructure costs
  • Big box bookstore continues to have an impact
  • Fewer reference inquiries, circulation leveling
    off
  • Impact of technology
  • Collaboration and partnership

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What do we do with all this information
  • Summary of trends
  • demographics
  • business
  • library

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Evaluating ideas
  • What could this idea be worth? Will it work?
  • What are the chances that it will work, more or
    less?

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Innovative leaders
  • Fostering creativity
  • Continuous improvement
  • Learning about change- non-user

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Practical tips for getting there
  • Make a decision
  • Change is not equated with success but comes
    through process of moving forward
  • What is your slogan?
  • Customer service
  • Go outside the box outside of library literature

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Remember this!
  • Inuit saying A long time ago in the future
  • It has been suggested that the best way to
    predict the future is to create it.
  • Walter Pitman
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