What is a Library in the future? You+Web! Bradley Hemminger School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Informatics and Visualization Lab http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/ 11/17/2018

Libraries—What Purpose? Share information and entertainment Store/safeguard information How do Libraries capture and save information? Printed materials. How do they share? You go to library and check out. 11/17/2018

Changing Times for Sharing Information 2000 years ago: ? (hint, after dinosaurs ) 1000 years ago: ? 500 years ago: ? 50 years ago: ? 15 years ago: ? 11/17/2018

Changing Times for Sharing Information 2000 years ago: mostly oral traditions, memorized news, town criers, bards 1000 years ago: printing with first moveable type (Asia) 500 years ago: first newspaper 50 years ago: TV 15 years ago: Web 11/17/2018

Changing Ways of information Sharing Printing presses allowed your material to be published and seen by the public. This resulted in fewer oral presentations. Web: information is digital, zero cost to publish and everyone does (blogs, MySpace, flickr, YouTube)….Fewer newspapers, printed materials. 11/17/2018

Examples Newspapers (online, customized) Books (Ebooks, GooglePrint <example lookup>) Entertainment (buy from web, iPod) Songs TV shows Movies Games (video, virtual realities, sports) Scholarly research (GoogleScholar) 11/17/2018

What does the future hold? Information delivery is changing…. News, educational materials, entertainment are all delivered digitally to the home, and increasingly to the person. To the home via the internet into computers, and to the person via mobile devices like iPods, cellphones, PDAs (personal digital assistants). How will we personally share and receive information in the future? 11/17/2018

Possibilities… Video display glasses that show you anything… 11/17/2018

Possibilities… Audio Implants that allow you to invisibly listen to other things… 11/17/2018

Possibilities… sensors that record everything and see everything (LifeBits); clothes that display pictures 11/17/2018

Vision All knowledge and information (like what is in libraries today) should be freely available to anyone, anytime, anywhere. The challenge then becomes how to find the information you want from the billions and billions of possibly relevant things… 11/17/2018

Library = You+Web So the information is all out there. But you will need to know better how to search out and find desired information of high quality. What do you need to know? 11/17/2018

Searching How do you search for information when doing research for your school projects? (Maybe a search engine like Google?) New things coming….structures that contain information and allow it to evolve—dynamic living storehouses of knowledge, for example wikipedia. 11/17/2018

Searching Know How: WebSites Quality Checklist Credibility, Accuracy : author listed, cite sources, document further information? Bias: objective, selling something? Audience: appropriate to your needs? Currency: when published, when updated? 11/17/2018

Search Tips Searching on search engines Search Engine Math Use terms that will appear in documents Use more terms to narrow search Search Engine Math Addition: Use +term to require term (hemminger +global knowledge) Subtraction: Use –term to not include term Multiplication: Quote “runescape shortcuts” Exclude/include site types -:com 11/17/2018

Let’s Play If you needed to write a summary of Claude Monet, how would you search? If I want to find a high resolution image of the following painting by Monet where could I find one? 11/17/2018

Let’s Play My cousin has diabetes and I want to learn more about it. What sources do I turn to? I want a list of what quests are available to Runescape members; and I want to know how to do two quests, one involving a Brain Robbery, and one about Ghosts. 11/17/2018

What’s Next? Who will be the next Larry Page and Sergey Brin (founders of Google)? What innovation will they think of? Clustered search (clusty.com) Image/video searching Bringing information to the person (personal agents that remind you about things, track your schedule, tell you where your friends are, help you navigate, tell you sports results). 11/17/2018

Answers Monet’s picture: Saint Lazare Station Favorite Librarian Movie The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004) 11/17/2018