1. 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
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2. 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.
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3. Changing Times for Sharing Information
2000 years ago: ? (hint, after dinosaurs )
1000 years ago: ?
500 years ago: ?
50 years ago: ?
15 years ago: ?
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4. 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
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5. 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.
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6. 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)
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7. 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?
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8. Possibilities… Video display glasses that show you anything…
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9. Possibilities…
Audio Implants that allow you to invisibly listen to other things…
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10. Possibilities…
sensors that record everything and see everything (LifeBits); clothes that display pictures
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11. 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…
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12. 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?
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13. 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.
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14. 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?
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15. 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
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16. 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?
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17. 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.
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18. 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).
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19. Answers Monet’s picture: Saint Lazare Station Favorite Librarian Movie
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
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