9. You don't know what to do

10. You don't know how to do it

11. You don't have the authority or the resources to do it

12. You're afraid

13. Once you figure out what's getting in the way, it's far easier to find the answer (or decide to work on a different problem).

16. Buildings

17. Search

18. Reading is Fundamental

19. Patrons

20. Outreach

21. Circulation

23. Bricks and Clicks and Tricks

24. Communities of Knowledge and Practice

25. Research Impact

26. Relationships & Partnerships

27. Information Literacy Programs

29. Discovery

30. Progress

31. Research (Applied and Theoretical)

32. Cultural & Knowledge Custody

33. Economic Impact

44. Physical access and basic reading has already evolved to intellectual access with new competencies

45. Libraries at the heart of the campus? Nope.

46. Students are focused at the lesson and event (essay, test, exam) level

57. Take Out

58. Private Dining Rooms

59. Private Chefs

63. Technology literacy

64. Information literacy

65. Media literacy

66. Adaptive literacy

67. Research literacy

68. Academic literacy

69. Reputation, Etc.

70. Reading literacy

71. Numeracy

72. Critical literacy

73. Social literacy

74. Computer literacy

75. Web literacy

76. Content literacy

80. Answers (answers.com)

81. Answer Bag (answerbag.com)

82. Articles Base (articlesbase.com)

83. Ask (ask.com)

84. Associated Content (associatedcontent.com)

85. BizRate (bizrate.com)

86. Buzle (buzzle.com)

87. Brothersoft (brothersoft.com)

88. Bytes (bytes.com)

89. ChaCha (chacha.com)

90. eFreedom (efreedom.com)

91. eHow (ehow.com)

92. Essortment (essortment.com)

93. Examiner (examiner.com)

94. Expert Village (expertvillage.com)

95. )

96. Experts Exchange (experts-exchange.com)

97. eZine Articles (ezinearticles.com)

98. Find Articles (findarticles.com)

99. FixYa (fixya.com Helium (helium.com)

100. Hub Pages (hubpages.com)

101. InfoBarrel (infobarrel.com)

102. Livestrong (livestrong.com)

103. Mahalo (mahalo.com)

104. Mail Archive (mail-archive.com)

105. Question Hub (questionhub.com)

106. Squidoo (squidoo.com)

107. Suite101 (suite101.com)

108. Twenga (twenga.com)

109. WiseGeek (wisegeek.com)

110. Wonder How To (wonderhowto.com)

111. Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com)

116. Encyclopedia.com

117. HighBeam & Questia

118. WorldCat

119. AccessMyLibrary iPhone App for public, school and higher ed – iPhone, iPad, iTouch and Droid!

120. Geo-IP features and measures

131. Educational attainment up, a lot

132. Reading up, markedly

133. Brain & Developmental Changes

134. Eye Movement Changes

135. Massive Behavioural Changes

136. Major Decline in Crime Rates – down 65%

138. Gaming too. . . Mothers in their 30’s

139. Social networks fastest growing populations are seniors and is more international and less urban and less English dominated.

140. eBook reader usage is largely middle-aged.

142. 71% of instructors that rated student engagement levels as “high” as a result of using technology in courses.

143. 71% of students who are employed full-time and 77% of students who are employed part-time prefer more technology-based tools in the classroom.

144. 79% of instructors and 86 percent of students have seen the average level of engagement improve over the last year as they have increased their use of digital educational tools.

145. 87% of students believe online libraries and databases have had the most significant impact on their overall learning.

146. 62% identify blogs, wikis, and other online authoring tools while 59% identify YouTube and recorded lectures.

147. E-books and e-textbooks impact overall learning among 50% of students surveyed, while 42% of students identify online portals.

148. 44% of instructors believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

149. 32% of instructors identify e-textbooks and 30% identify interactive homework solutions as having the potential to improve engagement and learning outcomes. (e-readers was 11%)

150. 49% of students believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

152. 59% are female.

153. 29% are college students.

154. 5% are professors and 6% are teachers.

155. On any given day, 35% of our users are there for the very first time!

156. Only 29% found the databases via the library website.

157. 59% found what they were looking for on their first search.

158. 72% trusted our content more than Google.

177. fMRI and The Brain

178. Cloning

179. Trucking and GPS

180. Wind and other energy

181. Nanotechnology

182. Robotics

183. Massive Book Digitization

184. Music

185. Translation

186. Streaming Media

191. The Chapter and Paragraph Universe

192. Integrated with Visuals – graphics and charts

193. Integrated with ‘video’

194. Integrated with Sound and Speech

195. Integrated with social web

196. Integrated with interaction and not just interactivity

207. Net neutrality, kill switches . . .

208. Local wired, mobile access ‘everywhere’ to the home and workplace on a personal basis

209. Geo-awareness: GIS, GPS, GEO-IP, etc.

210. Wireless as a business strategy (Starbucks)

260. Who are our core virtual users? Are there gaps?

261. Does learning happen? How about discovery?

262. What are user expectations for true satisfaction?

263. How does library search compare to consumer search like Google and retail or government?

264. How do people find and connect with library virtual services?

265. Are end users being successful in their POV?