Comments on: Technology Trends: Waxing and Waning

By: Free Range Librarian › Responding to trends, and avoiding the “bash”

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:22:10 +0000

[...] Michael Golrick honed in on the challenge of my presentation: not to point out problems, but to point out responses to those [...]

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:39:43 +0000

Great video! I vaguely remember checkin’ it out back then. It makes some good points about mobility, ubicomp, and becoming more “international.” I do take issue with the “broadband penetration” stats, only because broadband in the U.S. is a lot more challenging than broadband elsewhere (though we did lose a lot of ground in the Previous Administration).

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:54:38 +0000

Oops! This is the video I meant.

This is cretaceously full of awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:49:56 +0000

By 2020, mobile devices are expected to be the way the web is accessed. Great presentation:

Social Media Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

I also recommend frequent monitoring of http://www.trendwatching.com. It’s good for marketing but also gives you a feel for what consumers are looking for

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Add on the waxing list: Digital Rights Management. We’re just seeing the battlegrounds marked out.

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:36:55 +0000

Michael G., that’s the sort of idea I was struggling toward. Terrifically useful. I would also think training and enabling are key to social networking as well.

This also raises the trend of blurred public/private personae.

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:20:52 +0000

Mike, thank you so much! The DL side of things is a good one to bring in. Excellent set of slides.

By: Michael Golrick

Michael Golrick — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:39:06 +0000

I would lobby for including creating an organizational “communication policy” to cover library participation in social networking. Since specific technology choices will change, it should be written generally. See my post and the comments, on Twitter policies: http://michaelgolrick.blogspot.com/2009/09/twitter-policies.html

Have fun with it, too! (As you usually do.)

By: Craig A. Summerhill

Craig A. Summerhill — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:45:58 +0000

A second issue which is clearly waxing is the issue of outsourcing services. I know a few university presidents that would shut down the library in entirety if they could write one check to somebody like Time-Warner for a *comprehensive* information services solution to support teaching. Of course, the demands imposed by research are significantly more intense, and arguably not suitable for complete outsourcing. Nevertheless, many an academic administrator is struggling with issues of competing with U. of Phoenix and similar network based “diploma mills.” See overview and comments in Inside Higher Ed (2009-09-24): http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/24/libraries

By: Mike G.

Mike G. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:40:59 +0000

I’ve got a bunch of digital library trends in some slides I whipped up recently:

http://lackoftalent.org/michael/presentations/sdll2009/

Definitely geared towards the digital library side of things, but HTH! It meshes pretty well with your list of waxings.