Infohio feb 2013

What’s going on in the world of digital learning and libraries?

Stephen Abramstephen.abram@gmail.com

InfOhioFeb. 26, 2013

Starlings on the MoorA metaphor for schools, public, and other libraries…

http://kottke.org/13/02/the-dance-of-a-murmuration-of-starlings

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It’s simple really, shift happens, gedoverit• Users & Communities will continue to be diverse in the

extreme• Expectations around timeliness will increase• We will have a foot in both camps for many, many years to

come: digital and physical• Content will (is already) be dominated by non-text

(gamification, 3D, visual, music, video, audio, etc.)• Search will explode with options and one-step, one box

search is for dummies• The single purpose anchored device declines as a target

environment• Devices will focus on social, collaboration, learning, sharing,

multimedia, creation and successful - Services will align with that

• Librarians will need to focus primarily on professional service(s) and strategic alignment (reduced roles in organizing knowledge and step&fetchit politeness): Service Professionals NOT Servants

• Users will NOT differentiate public from school libraries• E-Learning, collections and metadata will go to the cloud

massively

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Black and White

•The polarization of discussionDogmatic vs. Professional positions on: eBooks, access, copyright, etc.

Political and social value systems in confl ict

Black & White

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• Examples of B&W discussions

• These can sometimes lack professional perspectives, be politically dogmatic and belief driven, and use metaphors symbolic of death~!

• E-books versus Physical Books• Textbooks – eTextbooks - Coursepacks – Learning Objects• Open access versus Proprietary Content• Free versus Fee• Business Models versus Social Models• Apple versus Microsoft PC• Desktop vs. Laptop vs. Tablet vs. Phone vs. Phablets• Privacy and Confidentiality

• Make no mistake. I’m not saying the discussions are wrong or taking sides, I just think professionals see colours and shades of gray.

Are you locked into library financial mindsets?

What about value and impact?

Or shall we stick with this?

Grocery Stores

Grocery Stores

Grocery Stores

Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

Meals

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Here’s the list from me . . .

School Library focus• NCLB, Testing, Common Core, 21stC, • Tech change• E-Learning• MOOCs• Learning and Experience Portals• What is happening with the textbook?• Discovery versus Search• Non-Text: Video, audio, read-speak, etc.• Tuning – Lexiles, sentiment, visual, semantic• Advanced stuff – 3D printing, Gamification, …• Partnerships, alliances, mergers, …

Deer in headlamps slide here.

There’s always another view…

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Definitions

•Discovery•Search – known item retrieval•Topical or Subject Search•Research• Immersive Learning•Assembly•Two step discovery: discover, searching,

finding, use•The pressure is ON for librarians to scale up

their information fluency training initiatives

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Double a penny every day for a month =Over $1 billion in just 30 days

What are the real issues?• Craft versus Industrial Strength• Personal service only when there’s impact•Automated personalization and archiving• Pilot, Project, Initiative versus Portfolio Strategy• Hand-knitted prototypes versus Production• e.g. Information Literacy initiatives• Discovery versus Search versus Deep Search• eLearning units• Citation and information ethics• Repository archipelagos

• Strategic Analytics• Value & Impact Measures, Behaviours, Satisfaction

• Policy, economic and strategic alignment

NMC Horizon Report:K-12 Edition 2012

http://www.slideshare.net/nmc/nmc-horizon-report-2012-k12-edition-slide-deck

What does Sustainability

Mean?

What Does Boundarylessness

mean?

Do You Feel Poor?

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SmellyYellowLiquid

OrSex

Appeal?

Until lions learn to write their own story, the story will always be from the perspective

of the hunter not the hunted.

Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAConsultant, Dysart & Jones/Lighthouse Partners

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