Presented at the LG Web Network We Believe in Community Conference Sydney, 18-19 August, 2011
Opportunities and challenges that digital technology presents for local government and the future of public libraries.
Online and on track: delivering solutions for public library clients now and into the future
1. Online and on track delivering solutions for public library clients now and into the future CC-BY-NC-SA Mylee Joseph, Consultant Public Library Services, State Library of NSW LG Web Network We Believe in Community Conference Sydney, 18-19 August, 2011
14. Source: Road Map for the Digital City: Achieving New York City’s Digital Future http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/media/PDF/90dayreport.pdf
15. e-publishing and the book industry epublishing and book industry http://ebook-reader-review.toptenreviews.com/kobo-wireless-ereader-review.html
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17. ( Borders is closing down image by Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0
18. REDgroup went into voluntary administration earlier this year, trailing debts of $170 million. By mid-July, all of its 26 Australian-based Borders stores, along with 114 Angus & Robertson shops , had been shut down, with the loss of more than 2000 jobs. Together, these chains accounted for 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the nation's retail book sales. Source: Neill, R. (August 13, 2011) Paging all authors in The Australian http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/paging-all-authors/story-e6frg8n6-1226111025099
22. Source: Gottliebsen , R. (2011, Aug 1) Hurtling towards a retail cliff. Business spectator. Online purchasing of books from overseas has had a significant effect on the local market.
35. The beautiful Montbretia flower photo shown here is our 6 billionth photo ! ... Over the last 5 years uploads have been increasing 20% year-over-year and we love hitting a milestone like this. Source: Kremerskothen, K. (April 4, 2011) 6,000,000,000 in Flickr Blog http://blog.flickr.net/en/2011/08/04/6000000000/
41. http:// www.conviz.info A web app mashing up data from the British Convict Transportation Registry (123,000+ entries) http://libraryhack.org/2011/05/30/conviz/
42. Going mobile Picture credit http://techgenie.com/wp-content/uploads/Smartphones8.jpg
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45. Games and gamification Picture credit: Ellen Forsyth http://gamesandlibraries.wetpaint.com/photo/10093212/Group+picture#fbid=iw1NpcW3h8g
46. Source: Gartner Emerging Trends and Technologies http://www.gartner.com/
we’re delivering over 5 Million newspaper pages through Trove, which is 600k pages more than the 4.4M we’re due to digitise by the end of this financial year.
This is the course we offered: It’s designed to introduce tools, show how libraries are using them and encourages participants to use the tools. Everyone set up a blog which was their learning diary to keep track of their journey. The course looks at more than 25 web 2.0 tools and to date more than 1,000 library staff have participated.
NYPL launching their new app... August 12, 2011 http://www.facebook.com/newyorkpubliclibrary http://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/2011/08/08/nypls-new-app-now-android-and-iphone
craigthomler. (2011, August 9). Minister says that #SM is central to QLD Premier's day - requests for info, bouquets & brickbats. She personally responds to many #sm4qgov [Twitter post]. Retrieved from http://twitter.com/#!/craigthomler/statuses/100704988719886337