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Michelle Kraft MLS, AHIP
Midwest Chapter MLA
October 6, 2013 Peoria, IL
 Spread of electricity
 Power plants
 Houses
 Sleep patterns changed
 24 hour work
 Decoration
 Wireless
 Available outside of home/office
 Smartphones
 Mini computer
 24 hour access
 Maps
 Less talking
 Data doubled in one year
 Voice increased by 1%
2000
 2 Million payphones
 110,000 cell phone
subscribers
2012
 500,000 payphones.
 321 Million mobile
subscribers
 US population 313.9 Million
 As technology emerges it changes society
 Society evolves with the technology
 The library evolves with society
Lightsaber Holo / Arca Jeth
Do or Do Not Lightsaber Techniques / Yoda
Midi-chlorians: Physiology, Physics
& the Force / Qui-Gon Jin
Unauthorized lightsaber use…
Master Nu, Librarian contacted
Bexar County Texas
All digital library
10,000 Titles
600 e-readers
200 pre-loaded enhanced e-readers
48 computer stations
10 laptops
40 on site tablets
Opportunistic
 "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The
most certain way to succeed is always to try
just one more time.“
-Thomas Edison

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Emerging Technologies & Evolving Library

  • 1. Michelle Kraft MLS, AHIP Midwest Chapter MLA October 6, 2013 Peoria, IL
  • 2.
  • 3.  Spread of electricity  Power plants  Houses  Sleep patterns changed  24 hour work  Decoration
  • 4.
  • 5.  Wireless  Available outside of home/office  Smartphones  Mini computer  24 hour access  Maps  Less talking  Data doubled in one year  Voice increased by 1%
  • 6. 2000  2 Million payphones  110,000 cell phone subscribers 2012  500,000 payphones.  321 Million mobile subscribers  US population 313.9 Million
  • 7.
  • 8.
  • 9.  As technology emerges it changes society  Society evolves with the technology  The library evolves with society
  • 10.
  • 11. Lightsaber Holo / Arca Jeth Do or Do Not Lightsaber Techniques / Yoda Midi-chlorians: Physiology, Physics & the Force / Qui-Gon Jin Unauthorized lightsaber use… Master Nu, Librarian contacted
  • 12. Bexar County Texas All digital library 10,000 Titles 600 e-readers 200 pre-loaded enhanced e-readers 48 computer stations 10 laptops 40 on site tablets
  • 13.
  • 14.
  • 15.
  • 16.
  • 18.
  • 19.  "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.“ -Thomas Edison

Notas do Editor

  1. light and fire had always been the same thing. So when the electric light comes along, here's something that doesn't smoke. Here's something that doesn't burn any oxygen. It doesn't seem to burn out. It doesn't have any of the characteristics that we associate with fire. And for those people who saw it, they said, "This violates the natural order. This is not the way light is supposed to be." After Edison, light and fire are always going to be separate, and that's a major shift in the way people see things. In 1880 in New York City, Edison set about installing the first commercial electric utility. It was in a cheap waterfront building near Wall Street. This first central station would provide power to a square-mile area which included some very wealthy and influential customers –J.P. Morgan, the Stock Exc
  2. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bosses-pick-phone-225200364.html
  3. http://www.apcc.net/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=40 http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/a http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0933563.html
  4. http://darwinslibrary.com/2010/04/evolution-not-extinction/
  5. http://darwinslibrary.com/2010/04/evolution-not-extinction/
  6. Content and technology has changed.
  7. predominately Hispanic, low-income neighborhood on the South Side, where 75 percent of the population lacks Internet access.