Born With A Chip Bricks Clicks and Tricks

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Born With A ChipBricks Clicks and Tricks

• Stephen Abram
• President, Canadian Library Association
• VP Innovation, Sirsi Corporation
• April 19, 2005

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GoogleZon

• Check out
• http//www.robinsloan.com/epic/

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Which one is Sergey and which one is the other
guy?
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1905 1955 2005

• Five key papers from 1905, Einstein's "annus
  mirabilis" or miracle year
• Quantum nature of light
• Dimension of molecules
• Brownian motion
• Special relativity
• Mass-energy equivalence (Emc2)

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Light
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2000 Light Stopped
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2001 Light Sent into Future
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2002 Light Slowed to Bicycle Speed
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2003 Light Sent into Future
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AddAds
Add tools citation, RefWorks, ProCite, stat
packages,
Add 200 database Suppliers (MS already has 120
Personalize it and track your needs and Add
alerts
And then make Google your operating system
like Windows
Make it OpenURL compliant
Add for online discussions, communities of
practice, group and Individual blogs and
connections through social networking software
Integrate e-commerce for articles, standards,
etc.
Make it Browserless
Add a toolbar that behaves in a research way
Predict their needs through mining of Gmail,
surfing, and behaviours
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WARNING Image contains hidden message Google
Scholar
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Print

• 250,000 Books . . .
• How does that compare
• to your library?

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Google Ocean Digitized Libraries
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OCLC Toolbar
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RSS
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Ford and Lincoln?
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Is Google that 5 inch wave. . . ?
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Happy 10th Birthday
6 years old
Born Feb. 2, 2005
Search
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Is Google that 5 inch wave. . . ?
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Information Engagement Levels
Stimulate/Live
Present/Teach
Argue/Defend
Act on/ Discuss
Content Source Situation
Read/View
Dr. Thomas Davenport
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Intelligence and Learning Styles

• Visual/Spatial (Picture Smart)
• Verbal/Linguistic (Word Smart)
• Musical/Rhythmic (Music Smart)
• Logical/Mathematical (Number Smart)
• Bodily/Kinesthetic (Body Smart)
• Interpersonal (People Smart)
• Intrapersonal (Self Smart)
• Piaget, Bloom, Gardner, etc.

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Information Literacy

• Standard Curriculum Components
• Mathematics / Arithmetic
• Science, Biology, Physics Chemistry
• English, Languages
• History, Geography, Politics, Sociology
• Music, Art, Phys ed.
• Guidance, Religion

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Information Literacy

• Information literacy is integrally tied every
  aspect of the curriculum
• Mathematical logical thinking skills - Math and
  Arithmetic
• Scientific method - Sciences
• Criticism, interpretation and comprehension -
  English and languages
• Analytical thinking - History, Geography
• Interpretive and imaginative- music, art phys
  ed.
• Inter and Intrapersonal skills - Religion,
  Guidance, etc.
• There is an imperative for people to have a
  lifelong curriculum - a personal learning strategy

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Taking The Knowledge Positioning
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MILLENNIAL CHARACTERISTICS
Principled / Values More Friends More Diverse Respect Intelligence
Optimistic / Positive Internet Natives More Choices Format Agnostic
Balanced Lives Adaptive / Flexible Civic Minded High Expectations
Collaborative Nomadic Gamers Experiential
Independent Confident Direct More Liberal
Multi-taskers Inclusive Patriotic Entrepreneurial
Healthy Lifestyle Family Oriented Graphical Achievement Oriented
Credit Richard Sweeney, NJIT
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Key Changes in Millennials

• Format Agnostic

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Growth
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2003 2004
Sirsi SingleSearch
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Visualization Display
Belmont Abbey College

• Supports Context
• Text independence
• Visible contextual taxonomies
• Learning Styles

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Invent targeted search

• Federated search can be tuned to
• Subject domain, age, literacy,
• and more.

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Key Changes in Millennials

• Nomadic

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The Smartphone Emerges
Symbian Mainstream mfg. - Enterprise software
PalmOS First to market - Back-end systems
Windows CE Enterprise software - Mainstream mfg.
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Everythings getting smaller

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Wireless
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Key Changes in Millennials

• Multi-tasking

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Key Changes in Millennials

• Experiential

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EverQuest
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Center of Computer Games Research
And the OCLC Gamers session at ALA Or the book
Got Game
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Key Changes in Millennials

• Collaborative

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Simple Collaboration Tools

• MSN .NET Messenger
• AOL Internet Messenger
• ICQ
• Yahoo! Messenger
• Yahoo! IMvironments
• IRC
• Trillian by Cerulean

Messenger
85 of people from ages 15-25 have at least one
IM account - only 5 of over 30s
Most now with voice, video, co-browsing
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IM

• Aaron Schmidt. . . At Thomas Ford PL
• Pennsylvania State University pilot

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Key Changes in Millennials

• Integrated

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Browserlessness

• Browserlessness can equate to Boundarylessness
• Opera, Mozilla Firefox, MSIE, etc.

Netscape
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Make the library discoverable
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SanDisk BookLocker

• SanDisk BookLocker22/02/2005Ready for little
  tykes to cart USB thumbdrives instead of huge
  tomes of textbooks to school? SanDisk, which
  recently launched SD cards with built-in USB and
  translucent flash memory cards, aims to change
  the face of textbooks as we know it, while
  reaping a few e-publishing profits along the way.
  Its Cruzer USB drive strives to pack e-books into
  a special secure drive called BookLocker. While
  this is unlikely to raise eyebrows, the
  BookLocker begs to differ with enhanced software
  that securely provides electronic texts for
  educational applications and markets (albeit via
  proprietary DRM). Of course, unlike readily
  accessible paper-based books, users will still
  need a PC or notebook to read off the BookLocker

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SanDisk SD card with USB

• SD card with built-in USB11/01/2005Time to
  retire your memory card reader. Amazingly,
  SanDisk has managed to embed high-speed USB 2.0
  connectivity into an SD card, bringing
  plug-and-play convenience to a new level. Now all
  you have to do is plug your SD card direct into
  any USB port to begin transferring your data,
  images, audio or video between devices. The new
  mechanical design does away with the need for a
  removable cap and even features an LED that
  blinks when data transfer is taking place--all on
  the tiny foam factor. Hopefully, twice the
  convenience won't mean twice the price.

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Tinyapps.org

• Add applications to your USB
• Tiny Firefox
• Tiny Trillian
• Tiny Text
• Tiny Spreadsheets

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Key Changes in Millennials

• Principled

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Kids Blog
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Key Changes in Millennials

• Adaptive

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Federated Identity Management

• Biometrics eyes, fingerprints
• Smartcards deep and shallow
• U of Toronto and the Faculty of Information
  Studies Adaptive Technology Research Centre

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Podcasting
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Podcasting
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Key Changes in Millennials

• Direct

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Build context first
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Persona Project

• Usability vs. Satisfaction
• Real needs
• Transactions vs. transformations

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What is context?

• Its not about the Library! It is about five very
  specific user spaces, communities . . .

Learning
Research
Entertainment
Neighbourhood
Workplace
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Its an Information Ocean, not a Highway.
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• Libraries are an Exploration Space not a
  collection space.

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The tornado is coming
First stop OZ, Emerald City or the root cellar
in the dust bowl?
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So, how should Info Pros react?
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BRAINS

• We KNOW more than they do!
• We have VERY high information literacy skills.

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HEART

• We care about excellent customer service.
• We strive to meet their REAL needs.

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COURAGE

• Were out there every day doing this.
• We will survive and thrive.

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Because
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Librarians are
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The Light
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At The
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Beginning of the Tunnel
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Thanks
Stephen Abram, MLS VP Innovation, Sirsi
Corporation Cel 416-669-4855 stephen.abram_at_sirsi.
com http//www.sirsi.com Stephens Lighthouse Blog
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