1. The Perfect Storm: Libraries in the Google™ Age Stephen Abram President, Canadian Library Association VP Innovation, Sirsi Corporation Computers in Libraries 2005 March 18, 2005

2. Which one is Sergey and which one is the other guy…?

3. Add 200 database Suppliers (MS already has 120+ Make it OpenURL compliant Make it Browserless Add a toolbar that behaves in a research way Integrate e-commerce for articles, standards, etc. Predict their needs through mining of Gmail, surfing, and behaviours Personalize it and track your needs and Add alerts … Add for online discussions, communities of practice, group and Individual blogs and connections through social networking software Add tools – citation, RefWorks, ProCite, stat packages, Add Ads And then make Google your operating system – like Windows…

6. Print Print 250,000 Books... How does that compare to your branch?

7. Google Ocean

8. & OCLC Toolbar

10. Sooooo… where are they?

12. RSS

16. Is Google that 5 inch wave... ?

17. So what do we do…? So what do we do…?

18. Reinvent the librarian

19. Know your market

20. Normative Data Project http://www.librarynormativedata.info

21. Rethink the repository

22. Push

23. Get on the wagon early

24. Invent targeted search

25. Lead the wireless revolution

26. Get into the community

27. Make the library discoverable

28. Build context first

31. Stephen Abram, MLS VP Innovation, Sirsi Corporation 416-669-4855 stephen.abram@sirsi.com http://www.sirsi.com How will you shape the future?