Emerging Trends in Librarianship (2008)
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This document discusses emerging trends in librarianship and technologies in libraries. It covers topics like library automation packages, storage technologies, identification technologies, information capture and retrieval technologies, and features of technologies like storage, speed, ease of use, and integration. Specific emerging technologies highlighted include collaboration technologies like peer-to-peer networking, desktop search, podcasting, RSS, corporate blogging, and wikis. It also discusses technologies enabling next generation architectures like service oriented architecture and real world web technologies like location-aware and RFID applications. The document concludes with discussions on emerging trends in the user environment, internet, library management, and challenges and opportunities for libraries.
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Emerging Trends in Librarianship (2008)
- 1. H. Anil Kumar Librarian, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad August 9, 2008 Emerging trends in Librarianship
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- 5. Is this the library of the future? By Megan Lane BBC News Online • The word library is set to fade from our vocabulary - but not because we've fallen out of love with books. Today's libraries are being made over as "idea stores", complete with cafés, crèches and multi-media offerings. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/2859845.stm
- 13. Librarianship Users Collection Staff Resources Understand and service the needs of users – faculty, students and researchers Librarianship
- 14. Librarianship • Users (Needs) – Identifying and seeking continuously – Designing, delivering and managing services – Matching or facilitating access – Interaction VALUE TO THE USER
- 15. Librarianship • Collection – Identify and Seek – Capture, Acquire and Access – Retrieve and Communicate – Manage and Monitor VALUE TO THE USER
- 16. Librarianship • Staff – Identify and Seek – Recruit and train – Facilitate, Manage and Understand – Interact VALUE TO THE USER
- 17. Technologies in Libraries • Library automation packages – CDS/ ISIS, Libsys, Liberty, VTLS, etc – Open Source like KOHA, New Genlib,LearningAccess ILS, etc • Storage – PCs, Floppy disks, CDs / DVDs / etc – Pen drives, Portable HDs, Blu Ray Disk • Identification – Barcode, Tattle-tape, RFID, Biometric, etc
- 19. Technologies in Libraries • Information capture – Key board, Scanner, Digital Cameras, Mobiles, etc • Network – Client-server, P2P, Internet • Databases – Books, articles, reports, aggregators, publishers, IRs
- 20. Technologies in Libraries • Information retrieval – Simple OPAC to Federated searches like a package tour – articles, books, videos, teachers lectures, diagrams, etc – Seamless integration of various sources – Remote login / VPN • User need not worry where the information is located • Online Usage statistics • User customized displays • User Identification is simpler and secure
- 21. Technologies in Libraries • Features – Storage – Speed – Ease of use – Handling large volumes of information – Interoperability – Integration
- 22. Technologies in Libraries • Networking or connecting technologies is easier – Open Standards - well defined interface – Componentization developments – Service oriented convergence • Wireless • Mobile • Integration of Capture – Store – Authenticate – Retrieve • Location and distances don’t matter for access
- 23. Emerging Trends - Technologies • Technologies that will enable the development of Collaboration, Next Generation Architecture and Real World Web are highlighted as being particularly significant. – Collaboration • Peer to Peer (P2P) • Desktop Search • Podcasting • Really Simple Syndication (RSS) • Corporate Blogging • Wikis Gartner Highlights
- 24. Emerging Trends - Technologies • Next Generation Architecture – Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – Web Services-Enabled Business Models – Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) – Business Process Platforms (BPP) • Real World Web – Location-aware applications – Radio Frequency Identification – Mesh Networks — Sensor Gartner Highlights
- 25. P2P • A sharing and delivery of user specified files among groups of people who are logged on to a file sharing network. Napster was the first mainstream P2P software that enabled large scale file sharing. www.mp3-cdburner.com/MP3-glossary.shtml • Peer-to-peer networking (P2P) is an application that runs on a personal computer and shares files with other users across the Internet. P2P networks work by connecting individual computers together to share files instead of having to go through a central server. www.netalert.net.au/01990-Glossary.asp Emerging Trends - Technologies
- 26. Desktop Search • Desktop search is the name for the emerging field of search tools which search the contents of a user's own computer files, rather than searching the Internet. The emphasis is on data mining all the information that is available on the user's PC, including web browser histories, e-mail archives, word- processor documents, and so on. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_search Emerging Trends - Technologies
- 27. Podcasting • Podcasting, a portmanteau of Apple's "iPod" and "broadcasting", is a method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. It first became popular in late 2004, used largely for audio files. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting • Podcasting entails audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed presenting a downloadable or streaming file (often mp3). Emerging Trends - Technologies
- 28. Blogs • A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). • Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs Emerging Trends - Technologies
- 29. Wikis • A wiki (pronounced , or ; see Pronunciation below) is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website (see Wiki software). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikis Emerging Trends - Technologies
- 30. RSS • RSS is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs. They are used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content. This information is delivered as an XML file called RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) • (Rich Site Summary or RDF [Resource Description Framework] Site Summary). An XML format for sharing content among different Web sites such as news items. How does it work? A Web site can allow other sites to publish some of its content by creating an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A web publisher can post a link to the rss feed so users can read the distributed content on his/her site. ... mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/netterms.htm Emerging Trends - Technologies
- 31. Emerging Trends - User Environment Instant messaging SMS MMS Blogs Social networking sites a very different communication environment forcing librarians to rethink their communication strategies
- 32. Emerging trends - Internet • Beyond connectivity and bandwidth • Social networking – Orkut, facebook, myspace, etc • Blogs • Sharing of files and information – Open access – IR • No physical carrying of files – Mail sites – Box.net – Mediamax.com • Personal information management – Del.icio.us – similicio.us – Google – desktop search, earth, scholar, video, organiser, biorythm, news, etc • Simple / interesting tools – Google pages – Chacha.com – Deep web – closerlook, northernlights – stumbleupon – cuil
- 33. Emerging trends - management • Space – digital and physical • SUSHI - standardised usage statistics harvesting initiative • Archiving Institutional Knowledge • Outsourcing • Lib 2.0 • Long Tail
- 34. Lib 2.0 • Any service, physical or virtual that successfully reaches users, is evaluated frequently and makes use of customer input is a Library 2.0 service. • Library 2.0 will be a meeting place, online or in the physical world, where [library users’] needs will be fulfilled through entertainment, information and the ability to create (their) own stuff to contribute to the ocean of content out there. Library 2.0 by Michael E. Casey and L.C. Savastinuk – www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html
- 35. Chris Anderson’s Long Tail
- 36. Long Tail • 80 – 20 principle (Pareto) • Chris Anderson “The Long Tail” in Wired magazine (10/05) • Selling fewer of a larger variety of objects to more people than a brick-and-mortar store • Amazon will have more than just best sellers (20%) • Libraries follow this for time immemorial as they would not have survived otherwise Serving the Niche: Katherine Mossman – www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349032.html
- 37. Long Tail • Best sellers drive the demand for towards special interests like ‘read-alike lists’ ‘books bought by buyer who bought this book’ • Net facilitates this for libraries like ‘whatdoireadnext.com’ • Filters technology or slick technology – People or software that help you find what you want in the long tail, driving demand from hits to niches • Amazon makes more money in niche items rather than best sellers Serving the Niche: Katherine Mossman – www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349032.html
- 38. Long Tail: Eight lessons • Be responsive to your customers • Locate, define and reach underserved • Find ways to solve all problems related to access • Librarians are not information brokers but information filters • You can compete with free • Embrace the paradox that internet (google, wiki) is our competitor and also not our competitor • Capitalize on all types of service points, ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ to the patrons greatest end • Using Google for research is like “working for less than minimum wages” Serving the Niche: Katherine Mossman – www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349032.html
- 39. Challenges & Opportunities • Open Access • Legal Issues (DMCA,..) • Reading Space • Indian Reading habits NOP Index • Institutional Repositories
- 40. Watching TV Listening to Radio Reading Computer/Internet (Not for Work)*** 16.6 (Av.) 13.3 8.0 (Av.) 4.1 6.5 (Av.) 8.9 (Av.) 7.9 Mean Hours Mean Hours Mean Hours Mean Hours Thailand 22.4 Argentina 20.8 India 10.7 Taiwan 12.6 Philippines 21.0 Brazil 17.2 Thailand 9.4 Thailand 11.7 Egypt 20.9 South Africa 15.0 China 8.0 Spain 11.5 Turkey 20.2 Czech Republic 13.5 Philippines 7.6 Hungary 10.9 Indonesia 19.7 Thailand 13.3 Egypt 7.5 China 10.8 USA 19.0 Turkey 13.3 Czech Republic 7.4 Hong Kong 10.7 Taiwan 18.9 Poland 12.5 Russia 7.1 Poland 10.6 Brazil 18.4 Hungary 12.1 Sweden 6.9 Turkey 10.6 U.K. 18.0 Germany 11.5 France 6.9 Brazil 10.5 Japan 17.9 Australia 11.3 Hungary 6.8 Egypt 10.3 http://www.nopworld.com/news.asp?go=news_item&key=179
- 41. • Resources’ Usage and Usage Evaluation • Library Users – virtual users –interact with the profiles • Seamless integration • Information Literacy and Personal Counseling • Professional Management Challenges & Opportunities
- 42. Useful Resources for librarians …