This is the keynote address for the SWFLN 2018 Staff Development day. We talked about how to be on the cutting edge of providing library services to the public without forgetting who you are and what you do best.
2. THIS IS A DISCUSSION, NOT A LECTURE
โข I hope it will be a very back and forth conversation
โข I am going to take up about a half hour of our time
โข So you can ask questions and add ideas during our time
together
โข We come up with ideas together that work for you
3. QUOTE
The future is already here,
it is just not evenly distributed โ William Gibson
4. THOUGHT
โข Be comfortable with looking forward without giving up what
you have
โข We should not be about waiting for something to be mainstream we
should be making it mainstream
โข You do not need to be cutting edge, you do not need to make
your self bleed but you do not want to be run over by the future
โข No one is future proof, how do we help people, and ourselves, prepare
โข Being on the cutting edge does not mean thoughtlessly slicing
off what already works.
โข It's about moving forward and adding to what we know and do best
5. WHAT TECHNOLOGIES ARE CHANGING
LIBRARIES?
โข Three โnewโ technology ideas to be aware of
โข Voice assistants
โข How do you feel about customers talking in the library?
โข Virtual Reality
โข How do you feel about cleaning keyboards? Face masks?
โข Augmented Reality
โข How do you work with someone who sees something different than you do?
11. THOUGHT
โข You do not need to embrace everything in the future
โข How do you know what will be important in the future?
โข You do not need to be everything to everyone
โข Who will be there for what someone needs?
13. WHAT CREATION STATION OFFERS
โข 3D printers
โข ~300 items a month typically, should that be free$
โข Design Studio
โข Adobe Creative Cloud, what about 3D design, Coding, Unity,
etc.
โข Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality
โข Rift, Vive VR & HoloLens, Meta2 AR
โข Sewing Machines, Quilting rack, White Boards, Legos
โข Counting pieces when things return
โข Gear to check out
โข Wacom tablets, Sphero, Cameras, etc.
14. POP QUIZ!
โขHenry Ford Invented
โขA. Automobile
โขB. Assembly Line
โขC. Both A & B
โขD. None of the Above
15. POP QUIZ!
โขHenry Ford Invented
โขA. Automobile
โขB. Assembly Line
โขC. Both A & B
โขD. None of the Above
16. THOUGHT
โข Helping customers reach the future they want to
โข What do you see coming that they might not be aware of?
โข Be comfortable with looking forward without giving up what
you have
โข What are you good at now that people will still need in the future?
17. DEMOCRATIZATION OF
INFORMATION
โข Books
โข Computers
โข Databases
โข Internet access
โข Shared Resources
โข Website & App
โIf information is the currency of
democracy, then libraries are its
banks.โ
18. THOUGHT
โข Being on the cutting edge does not mean thoughtlessly slicing
off what already works.
โข What is still needed and what are you keeping just because it has been
there?
โข It's about moving forward, growing and re-examing our
mission
โข Libraries are going to be relevant in the future, if we make them that way
19. QUOTE
โข Do not ask for a rocket, ask for the moon and let me worry
about the rocket
โข Rowan Cota, software engineer
โข How are you helping your customers build their rockets?
21. THE CUTTING EDGE
WITHOUT BLEEDING
BOB
ranstett@broward.org
creationstation@broward.org
www.robertanstett.com
Editor's Notes
"Tomorrow's Lawyers: access to justice in the online future - extract" by Richard Susskind, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.ย
Are you sure librarians are ok with all this blood? Sure they even let us have sharp scissors!
Voice โ ease of access, learn to be nice, bone induction is coming too
VR โ a new way to use a PC and have a much greater access to immerse in everything, what content will we curate?
AR โ replaces phones, computers, becomes our new interface with the world, combines with Voice
Letโs go back to the first technological revolution
Back to the 15 centuryโฆ
Around the year 1440, Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press. Before the press, books were hand copied and extremely expensive. The press spread throughout the world and around 200 million copies of books were printed in the 16th Century alone. The printing press was an information revolution. With the printing press, books were more affordable, and available to the masses.
Why is this important now? Name a new invention that we have because of the printing pressโฆโฆ eyeglasses
We give you the space, We give you the Technology and you Create your own future.
Could you have guessed Glasses? What is the next thing coming from Augmented Reality? Tasting colors (synesthesia for everyone)
Libraries missed out on eBooks and establishing how they should be treated, what are we missing out with about VR, AR, Voice?
People that actually read in libraries should be treated like smokers in restaurants /sarcasm
(quote was missing the โshould not be treated likeโ but I took it and made it into sarcasm
Are we going to be an interactive space? Are we going to be a teaching space? Werenโt we that already?
What do you want to check out versus what you want to only use in your building?
He brought the automobile from France and the assembly line from England and combined them in Detroit. He picked a place on the Detroit River where the ships coming from the Great Lakes flowed past on their way to Pennsylvania and New York.
It comes down to democratization of information and evolving demands of technological literacy. It may not be as important for librarians now to know how to use a microfiche machine as it was 30 years ago. Are students today ok with knowing how to use a word processor, or would it be beneficial for them to learn about video/audio production and evolving 3D printing technologies? What might their jobs look like 10 years from now?
You can be cutting edge without cutting your fingers off
Why would you want to cut peopleโs fingers off? How could they swipe right!