Not Evenly Distributed
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The document discusses how technology is changing expectations for libraries and access to information. It notes that libraries serve to balance unequal access to information by distributing costs across the public. However, technology is disintermediating libraries as people now expect access over ownership of content. The digital divide also affects how technology impacts different groups. The document argues that libraries must adapt services to focus on access via licensing rather than owning content directly. It suggests the future of libraries involves providing services around user experiences and digital devices rather than just collections.
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- 1. Not Evenly Distributed what technology means to the future of libraries Jason Griffey Maine Regional Fall Council September 23, 2011
- 2. The future is already here...
- 3. The future is already here... ...it just isn’t very evenly distributed. - William Gibson
- 4. Effect of the Digital Experiences & Expectations Access & Divide The Future
- 7. Photo by Stian Eikeland - http://flic.kr/p/6CCWXH
- 9. The Library
- 10. The Library • Archive • Collect • Describe • Insure Equality of Access • Distribute Financial Burden • Instruct • Inform
- 11. “Libraries, especially public libraries, exist in order to balance the inequality of information access due to economic or other pressures. No single average member of the public can afford to purchase all of the potential information they may want to access, and so libraries distribute that financial burden across the public as a whole, acting both as collective buyer for their community and as access point.”
- 14. in other words... libraries are a middleman
- 17. Ready Reference Reader’s Advisory Bibliographic Information Periodical Indexes
- 24. Services
- 25. Photo by HackingNetflix - http://flic.kr/p/5rQKpe
- 35. Devices
- 36. Photo by thekellyscope - http://flic.kr/p/96nYuV
- 38. Access
- 40. 42.1% of all Internet traffic at UTC was streaming media
- 41. Photo by HowardLake - http://flic.kr/p/8zSXff
- 44. Digital Divide
- 52. Photo by Vermin Inc - http://flic.kr/p/4yxj6u
- 54. “When your old world is collapsing and everything is changing at a furious pitch, to start announcing your preferences for old values is not the act of a serious person. It is frivolous, fatuous...
- 56. ...If you were to knock on the door of one of these critics and say “Sir, there are flames leaping out of your roof, your house is burning,” under these conditions he would then say to you, “That’s a very interesting point of view. Personally, I couldn’t disagree with you more.”...
- 58. ...That’s all these critics are saying. Their house is burning and they’re saying, “Don’t you have any sense of values, simply telling people about fire when you should be thinking about the serious content, the noble works of the mind?” Value is irrelevant.”
- 65. future of the book
- 68. “...some of the most significant aspects of the new medium are yet to be recognized. Guessing: There may not be hypertext sequels so much as the instantiation of new windows on the "reality" of the story. Group participation both during initial construction and in expanding the ongoing reality may be one of the most striking features of the art form.”
- 70. “I believe hypertext fiction will ultimately be an entirely new art form, as different from novels as motion pictures are from oil paintings.”
- 71. moving forward
- 73. “The movement of information at approximately the speed of light has become by far the largest industry of the world. The consumption of this information has become correspondingly the largest consumer function in the world...
- 75. ...The globe has become on one hand a community of learning, and at the same time...the globe has become a tiny village. Patterns of human association based on slower media have become overnight not only irrelevant and obsolete, but a threat to continued existence and to sanity.”
- 76. ?
- 77. Marshall McLuhan McCluhan Hot & Cool 1967
- 79. Douglas Adams said... 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- 80. Douglas Adams said... 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- 81. Douglas Adams said... 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- 84. If I’d asked them what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse. - Henry Ford
- 86. The best way to predict the future is to create it. -Peter Drucker
- 87. thank you
- 88. Jason Griffey Email: [email protected] Site: jasongriffey.net gVoice: 423-443-4770 Twitter: @griffey Other: Perpetual Beta ALA TechSource Head of Library Information Technology http://pinboard.in/u:griffey/ University of Tennessee at Chattanooga