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