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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
About
Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
Reading
Ullman, Ellen. Close to the machine : technophilia and its discontents : a memoir. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.
Quotables
“The new skills needed to preserve digital information are the same ones that librarians have always employed to serve users: selection, acquisition, and local knowledge.”
– Episode 3
16 April 2007
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