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Technical/Tangible/Social AND Picture the Impossible: A Technical, Tangible, Social Game

Technical/Tangible/Social
Elizabeth Lane Lawley
RIT Lab for Social Computing
Her presentation is on SlideShare.

What if computing stops meaning being behind a screen, but rather improves our experience
iPhone as tangibly appealing. A companion. We carry it and pet it.
Showed emotionally tangible technology
Botanicalls twitters you when it needs watering.
Arduino board connects physical world with the virtual.
Showed Make and Craft magazine
Lots [...]

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Next-Gen Catalogs Are Only Part of the Solution

Andrew Nagy, Serials Solutions
Scott Garrison, Western Michigan University

OPAC silo…

Hasn’t kept up with Web, users’ expectations
Limited customization
Antiquated, rigid search technologies
Designed for known-item searching
Libraries have set expectations, learned to compensate accordingly

Ejournal and database silos

More every year in multiple packages
More alternatives, more confusion
Multiple A-Z lists to maintain, use
Interfaces change regularly
Query syntax varied, requires instructions???
“The version of ____ I [...]

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The Future of Libraries is IT (and some people just don’t get IT)

Kenning Arlitsch (University of Utah) Kristin Antelman (North Carolina State University)

Conducted a survey of 240 future leaders with a 72% response rate
Their questions: Are future leaders satisfied with org style? How impact effectiveness?
Maloney, Antelman, Arlitsch, Butler. “Future Leaders’ Views on Organizational Culture.” College and Research Libraries, May 2010.
Preprint: http://bit.ly/futureleaders
What they learned:
Librarians prefer more flexible and [...]

Posted 03 October 2009 † lauren pressley § conferences ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

LITA Lighting Talks

Mobile Access to E-Books at Yale
Lisa Carlucci Thomas from Yale University

Ebooks increased more than 110% in four years (until 2009)
Asked what percentage of ebook collections can be accessed using mobile devices? (Kindle 2.0, Sony Reader PRS-500, iRex Iliad 2nd edition, iPod Touch)
Tested: could you access ebook using the device? Could you use additional method to [...]

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David Weinberger’s Knowledge in the Age of Abundance

David Weinberger
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
& 4 ways the Internet is  making us dumber (though overall it’s making us smarter)

Information abundant, but also abundance of crap.
Organizations premised on the good stuff having to redefine.
Age of information: finding out information, narrowing down to good stuff.
Today: abundant information (showed a profile page to demonstrate)
Exited [...]

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