The Future of the School Library

Reasons Why They should Stay
Reasons They Should Change
1. Tell the Shirky Mouse Girl Story
Gutenberg
1. functional qualities
  1. Cheap
  2. Abundant
  3. Commercially Democratic
  4. Organized
    1. Dewey Decimal
  5. Print
Post Gutenberg
1. Disruptive Qualities
  1. Free
  2. Hyper-abundant
  3. Democratic
    1. Statistics showing traditionally published compared to Self-Published
  4. Searchable
  5. Bits
2. Change will Continue
  1. Applications don't start getting interesting until the tools become technically boring -- Clay Shirky
focal points
1. Literacy -- Using Information to accomplish goals
  1. Gutenberg
    1. Printed
      1. accessing the information
        Reading
      2. working the information
        arithmetic
      3. Expressing the Information
        writing
      1. The Traditional Library
        A Place to go find & read information
        This is not to say that libraries are limited to these activities. However, it is the public's view of the library...
  2. Post-Gutenberg
    1. Bits
      1. Networked
        accessing the information
        Exposing What's True
      2. Digital
        working the information
        Employing the Information
      3. Hyper-Abundant
        Expressing the Information
        Expressing Ideas Compellingly
    1. Post-Gutenberg Library
      1. A Place for...
        Accessing Information
        Supervised Research
        Scanners
        Cameras
        Still
        Digital
        Working the Information
        Computer Workstations for...
        Programming
        Data Analysis
        Data Visualization
        Organization
        Digital Image Editing
        Digital Audio Editing
        Digital Music Production
        Work Stations for Working with Print-based Information
        Drafting
        Printing
        Painting
        Cut & Paste
        Space & Furniture for Meetings
        Face 2 Face
        Virtual
        Expressing the Information
        Stage
        Large Screens
        Plasma/LCD
        Projectors & Screen
        Basic Musical Instruments
      2. A Message That..
        Portrays The School Library Like a Corporation
        Should be part of the school but also distinct from the school (not limited to school)
        Corporate facade
        Digital Corporate Presence
        Catalog & Definition of Services
        Corporate Reports
        Portrays an Active, Inviting, Social, & Highly Productive Place
        Catalog of Services
        For Students
        Teachers
        Parents
        Community
        Schedules
        Check-outs
        Pictures & Videos of Work & Presentations
        Go Social
        Run a Library Blog
        Run a Library Twitter Feed
        Run a Flickr Feed
        Podcast Interviews with students & teachers
        Encourage Students to
        Blog
        Photo
        Podcast
        Consider a Webcam
      1. A Library that Shines A Library that Glows
A Library Turning Back Into Itself
1. Archiving & cataloging traditionally published content
  1. Books
  2. Maps
  3. Databases
  4. Periodicals
  5. Videos
  6. Audios
2. But also archiving & cataloging locally published content
  1. Student & Class Produced
    1. Books
    2. Articles
    3. Videos
    4. Presentations
  2. Recordings of Student & Class
    1. Presentations
    2. Performances
1. Should be Social, giving audiences the opportunities to comment on and tag locally produced or captured content
Web 3.0 & the School Library
1. Web 2.0 is not about the web, it's about how people are using it...
2. The Web..
  1. Will understand itself
  2. Will organize iteself
  3. Will Grow from it's own use
  4. Will wrap around us
  5. Will listen to us
  6. Will disappear
3. The Web will Ride with us
  1. Phones & other devices
  2. RFID Chips
  3. Profiles
4. We will ride the web (Ubiquitous Computing)
  1. Cars
  2. Refrigerators
  3. Vacuum cleaners
  4. Plants that Twitter
5. The Web will learn us
  1. Personal assistants
  2. Context - based
  3. Place-based Computing
  4. Our interaction with the web will enrich the web knowledge of itself
    1. Context-based Use
      1. Bing Demo
    2. Person-based Use
      1. Siri demo
    3. Place-based Use
      1. Foursquare
      2. Yelp
      3. Augmented Reality
        Yelp demo
6. How will it change the Library? (Assuming that the library survives)
  1. The library looks the same
  2. The information Changes
    1. Books & other information includes RFID chips
    2. Digital networked information become semantic
    3. Patrons are identified by profile or RFID chips
  3. Our going preference for smaller mobile computing devices will actually be a good thing for libraries
    1. There will continue to be things we'll want to do that require larger tools
    2. We'll continue to want to be social
  1. Information becomes intelligent