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ALA 2006: Top Tech Trends

In yet another crowded ballroom, the men (and woman) of LITA prognosticated on the future of libraries and technology.
Walt Crawford moderated the panel and spoke in absentia for Sarah Houghton. Her trends were:

Returning power to content owners
An OCLC ILS with RedLightGreen as the front-end
Outreach online

Karen Schneider listed four:

Faceted Navigation, from Endeca and others
eBooks–the Sophie project [...]


ALA 2006: Future of Search

This oversubscribed session (I sat on the floor, as did many others) featured Stephen Abram of Sirsi/Dynix/SLA president and Joe Janes of the University of Washington debating the future of search, moderated by LJ columnist Roy Tennant.
Abram asked a pointed question, which decided the debate early, “Were libraries ever about search? Search was rarely the [...]


ALA 2006: Google Book Search

Ben Bunnell, Manager of Google Book Search and author of an upcoming Last Byte column in the July NetConnect (no link yet), described how Google cofounders Larry Page and Marissa Mayer originally conceived of the book scanning project while they were in graduate school at Stanford. Using a metronome, they estimated that a 300 page [...]


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