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If you look on the left side of this post, you’ll see a little a counter incrementing at a rapid rate. IDC is highlighting its latest 2011 Digital Universe Study with the World Information Growth Ticker. Look at those numbers whirling by! That’s a live look at how information doubles every 2 years. Doubles.
And yet the investment in structures, staffing & security isn’t keeping pace. IDC has been studying digital information for years; you can either read the paper or view the videos on the site — pick one & do it. We are in the information profession, and we need to be aware of these considerations for the information sector. Librarians in the public and academic sector take note: this isn’t just about “organizational information” — often seen as the domain of records managers, knowledge managers, CIO’s, IT and information managers. This is about information – and as the lines blur between information containers, publishers, creators, curators, “published” content, “unpublished” content – you name it — the roles, responsibilities and considerations of all those in the information profession also blur – or blossom, depending on your perspective. For Jane & I? It’s a time for the profession to blossom.
Here’s an excerpt from the study’s Call to Action:
“Since 2007, IDC’s Digital Universe Study has highlighted the mismatch between the rapid growth of the digital universe and the very slow growth of staff and investment to manage it. This year, the study highlights an additional issue that promises to define
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I am very excited about a new Information Today event being held in Monterey CA at the same time as Internet Librarian 2011.
The Library Directors Digital Strategy Summit being held at the Marriott in Monterey CA on October 17/18 will be hosted by Kim Bui-Burton, Director, Community Services, Monterey CA. This new 2 day event is focused on ”Strategic Choices for 2020″ and provides an interactive forum for library directors, CEOs, and CIOs of academic, public, government and special libraries to problem-solve, discuss, and network with colleagues. It features a mix of high level presentations, chat with business leaders, expert panels, round table and facilitated discussions with lots of networking/peer engagement time.
With exclusive access to world-level and industry thought leaders, leading edge practitioners from all types of libraries, and forward thinking systems and technology experts, participants will have an intimate forum for solutions-finding, strategy building, and more.
Select sponsors will be providing complimentary registrations for key clients but to register and to view more and evolving details, check out the conference website.
NYPL Storytelling App
Fantastic article on the New York Public Library (NYPL) in the Atlantic, What Big Media can Learn from the New York Public Library, is giving me another “whack on the side of the head”. A couple of weeks ago Rebecca and I recognized that databases were just websites; why do we make it more complicated for our clients, patrons, or participants? Who cares if it is a source of information that has a price tag? It still looks and feels like a website! And now, in his Atlantic article, Alexis Madrigal, senior editor at The Atlantic, and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology, is calling the NYPL a social network, and one that has 3 million members. Of course a library is a social network, why couldn’t we see this? Our perspectives are too narrow!! The NYPL is clever the way it integrates other backgrounds/frames with librarians — museum directors, TV producers, and news journalists — storytellers! And I love how Madrigal is “thinking about how the library uses its assets to drive, in the argot of [his] industry, user engagement.”
Adds Madrigal, “The library still lends books, but over the past year, the NYPL has established itself as a beacon in the carcass-strewn content landscape with smart e-publications, crowdsourcing projects, and an overall digital strategy that shows a far greater understanding of the power of the Internet than most traditional media companies show.”
“Everywhere you look within the New
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Rebecca Jones posted this in Web & Social Media on June 18th, 2011 Thanks to Scott Brown (@scbrown5) for pointing us to Tweet Topic Explorer, a tool that sizes & clusters tweeted topics. As you can see in the screen capture below, Tweet Topic visually maps & clusters the topics & then colour-coordinates the topics to the tweets that keep updating on the right side. COOL. Very COOL. I first “explored” Infodocket to see if it would help me quickly scan all those tweets & links I’m supposed to be keeping up with. Voila!
Then I explored #sla2011 (below) – just the cluster.
Thanks to Jeff Clark of Neoformix: Discovering & Illustrating Designs in Data, for using Processing to create a word cluster diagram to quickly & easily view the topics & re-tweets of a specific tweeter or hashtag. Jeff did this to determine who – and what – he wants to follow; his Tweet Topics shows “the most frequently used words in their tweets and how they are grouped together.” Brilliant. Thank you.
Oh, and since many librarians and information professionals use way too much text & not enough images, explore Neoformix &/or follow @jeffclark for a while; his ideas & advice are amazing.
Social media (from Tom Stewart) just pointed me to a fascinating article, Anatomy of a Trending Topic: How Twitter & the crafting community put the smackdown on Urban Outfitters. A great story but what I really loved was the lessons learned:
1. Don’t underestimate the power of Tribes.
2. If you have customers, social media matters.
3. People love a cause.
This is great news for libraries who have a fabulous cause/s — literacy (of words, technology, life and more), who have lots of customers (but could use more champions and supporters), and who certainly know lots about social media. Here is a great story about the impact of social media. Let’s learn from it and get some great impact stories for libraries!
The only problem with Computers in Libraries is that I can only attend one session at a time. There were so many sessions I wanted to be at today, and those I did attend were exactly what I look for in conference sessions: interesting, idea-generating learning events.
What keeps conference organizers awake at night? The nightmare that a keynote speaker may not arrive on time to address several hundred attendees. Although this happened this morning, Jane, Tom Hogan and other Information Today organizers handled the situation gracefully quickly creating a panel with Roy Tennant, Stephen Abram, Marshall Breeding and Dick Kaiser who discussed the issue of e-books-publishers-lending-libraries. My takeaways from this session:
Although many in the library sector have been challenging Harper-Collins, the sector should focusing on Simon and Schuster who won’t license e-books to libraries at all Overdrive has been doing their best with e-books in the library environment Google’s agreement for every library to have “one Google terminal” for Google-digitized content does not include downloading or printing rights.
Madeline Barratt, Strategy & Performance Manager for Enfield Libraries in the UK spoke of London’s Libraries Consortium. Growing from 3 members to 15 in a couple of short years, the Consortium is yielding real benefits for all the boroughs. Madeline’s articulate, humourous delivery was engaging. My takeaways:
“Challenges grow like weeds” even for those who fiercely believe in public libraries, collaboration & consortia One challenge is to maintain a collaborative model as membership grows; they are developing their governance model
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Cisco and the Monitor Group’s Global Business Network today published “The Evolving Internet.” ” The report examines the driving forces and uncertainties that will – in whatever combination – shape the path of the Internet over the next 15 years.
In four scenarios – the result of more than a year’s worth of research, data collection and interviews – different potential pathways are described and detailed. The scenarios suggest how a range of critical factors might play out, such as net neutrality policies, infrastructure investments, consumer response to new pricing models, and technology adoption.
One scenario describes a familiar roadmap in which the Internet continues on its trajectory of unbridled expansion and product and service innovation. The other three challenge that future, and in the process illuminate various risks and opportunities that lie ahead for both business leaders and policy makers.” The scenarios are called: Fluid Frontiers, Insecure Growth, Short of the Promise, Bursting at the Seams.
Five trends with “a common foundation for any scenarios on the Internet’s future relate relate to the global composition and governance of the Internet, generational differences, interface technology, and pricing models for connectivity:
Most growth in the Internet-related market will occur outside of today’s high income, or “advanced,” economies. Global governance of the Internet will remain substantially unchanged. “Digital natives” will relate to the Internet in markedly different ways than earlier generations. The QWERTY keyboard will not be the primary interface with the Internet. Consumers will pay for Internet connectivity in a much wider
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Rebecca Jones posted this in Web & Social Media on February 10th, 2011 Is there any better research house than Pew? Libraries everywhere need to take time to view this webinar & read the research behind it. “Pew Internet findings on teen communication trends and social network site use as part of a joint webinar with the Girl Scout Research Institute. The webinar also features findings from the Girl Scout Research Institute’s latest study of social network site use among teen girls.” (From Kristen Purcell in www.pewinternet.org on Feb 9, 2011).
How do teens communicate? Just as they do in this photo — on video collaborative chat.
Pew Internet/Girl Scout Joint Webinar on Social Media
View more presentations from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
I’m a little late with this — if I’d really looked into Paper.Li I’d have set up this newspaper feed 3 days ago. But here it is, a feed of #sc2011 into a paper.li newspaper — easy to read!
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From Juanita Richardson at OLA 2011 Superconference:
Michael Wesch, cultural anthropology prof at Kansas State University (and creator of “Web 2.0… The Machine IsUs/ing Us,”) was the plenary speaker today. Extraordinary. Here’s his key points:
In February 2005 YouTube was launched. Unfortunately despite all the potential, we’re not living up to this opportunity afforded to us by collaborative media. Too many people still aren’t passionate about what they are learning. Most people in our society don’t know what intellectual property, net neutrality etc means. Media are not just tools -media mediates between people.
Years ago Neil Postman wrote that people have been amused into indifference. People feel they have to be on tv to be significant: the result? reality tv shows. Then came the quarter-life crisis — 25 year olds with a sense of entitlement are surprised when they aren’t famous.
We need critical thinking. It is now “ridiculously easy” to create groups. Literacy must now include video — as video has the power to affect change as much as reading and writing. Video is not a one way conversation. Move from information literacy to digital citizenship. New media can create new forms of freedom -but can also lead to new forms of control. We are on this cusp of one way or another. Libraries need to create people who can harness the power of social tools. What the walls of classrooms say: To learn is to acquire info – but it should be transformative. Libraries are in the
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