Summary report of ACRL technologies in libraries

Emerging Technologies in Libraries

RLS Forum May 7, 2015

Rebekah Cummings and Anne Morrow

Summary Report of ACRL Webinar on

Secu

rity

and

Priv

acy

Password Systems● LastPass● Dashlane● KeePass● 1Password● RoboForm

Privacy ● VPN (virtual private

network)○ Private Internet

Access○ CyberGhost○ TorGuard

● Privacy-based browsers

○ Tor○ Epic○ Comodo

UIT Knowledge Basehttps://uofu.service-now.com/cf/

Self / Micro Publishing

○

Crowd*-ing Crowd*-ing

Mobile

Wearables

3-D Minecraft

Virtual Mission to Mars

Holographic computer screens

HoloStudio compatible with 3D Printer

Live demonstration at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6sL_5Wgvrg

Internet of Things

Library Beacons

● Circulation notifications● Event notifications● Shelving notifications● Opt-in

Keeping up with Technology● Library Journal

● Social Media

● Tech magazines and websites -

Gizmodo, Engadget, LifeHacker,

TechCrunch

● Tech sections of major news

sources - New York Times, Time

Magazine, BBC, CNN, The

Economist

● Technical conferences - session

topics

● Gaming conventions

● South by Southwest

● Google I/O - developer conference

from Google - pre-recorded

sessions online

Keeping up with technology

● Don’t try to know everything● Take time in your current professional

reading schedule● Focus on learning one tool at a time - learn

about it and play with it

Things we might want to take action on...

● Imprint services

● Crowd*-ing

● Technology petting zoo

● Library beacons

● Expertise inventory

webinar archived at: https://youtu.be/_mfa8JBYwrg