Maribor 15. November 2011 Technology Trends
Jay Jordan President and CEO OCLC The OCLC Cooperative: a nonprofit, membership organization
Public purposes: Further access to the world’s information Reduce the rate of rise of library costs
72,035 libraries in 171 countries Slovenian libraries and OCLC
COBISS.SI-IZUM Records processed 3,293,776 • Batchload into WorldCat Holdings set 4,496,338
Originals added 3,063,902
Six trends: 2011
1. student-produced apps 2. information habits of young people 3. evolution of search 4. digital books 5. cloud services 6. linked open data
Trend 1 Student-produced apps
Trend 1 Attack of the killer apps! Trend 1 Attack of the killer apps! Trend 1 GetchaBooks
Inc. magazine’s “America’s Coolest College Startups of 2011“ Trend 1 Student apps
OSU Engineering Student Project: Parking Space Availability
Rutgers Washing Machine Availability Trend 1 North Carolina State University
NCSU Computer and Study NCSU Webcams, Hill of Beans NCSU Hill of Beans Coffee Room Availability Coffee line most popular of all Line (of course no line mobile features since it is summer!) Trend 1 North Carolina State University
NCSU Library Mobile Web. NCSU Transportation Mobile NCSU Digital Campus Tour Note that catalog search is Web Site: Exact location of in both mobile web and a minor part of offering every bus on their route iPhone app Trend 1 California Polytechnic State University
Top App in Android App Contest sponsored by Intuit Where’s My Book “It is ideal for students who are borrowing textbooks as well as for those readers who haven’t switched over to a Kindle yet.” The winners!
Henrietta Wong and Adriel Fuad Trend 1 Developer Network
170 registered members 70 applications built 20 million calls/month Most popular WorldCat Search API xISBN, xISSN WorldCat Registry WorldCat Identities QuestionPoint Knowledge Base
xOCLCNUM
Trend 1 Student-produced apps
“Open your API or your customers will”
Trend 2 Information habits of young people Trend 2 K-12 and young adults
E-mail is for grandparents
Twitter is for parents
Texting is for kids Trend 2 Membership Reports/Studies
84% use search engines to begin an information search 2% begin an information search on a library Web site 90% are satisfied with search engines libraries = books Trend 2 Facebook Generation: Who Are They?
Millennials Born 1979—1994 70-80 million strong 17-32 year olds Now outnumber Baby Boomers! Trend 2 Millenials don’t use the library
“The library is a good source if you have several months.” “Hard to find things in library catalog.”
“Yeah, I don't step in the library anymore… better to read a 25-page article from JSTOR than a 250-page book.” Trend 2 They want convenient and quick information
“…first thing I do, is, I go to Google… I don't go into the [library] system unless I have to because there's like 15 logins, you have to get into the research databases. Then it takes you out of that to [the local consortium]…”
Trend 2 Information habits of young people
By understanding them, we can serve everyone better
Trend 3 Google Trend 3 Bing Trend 3 Wolfram Alpha Trend 3 Slovenia demographics on Wolfram Alpha Trend 3 Yebol Trend 3 Maribor on Yebol Trend 3 Aardvark Trend 3 Quora Trend 3 MacArthur Foundation Grant
Syracuse University, University of Washington and OCLC
Web search experience based on expertise from librarians
Credibility engine Trend 4 Managing digital books
Google Book Search HathiTrust Internet Archive Open Content Alliance Project Gutenberg Universal Library
Trend 4 Managing digital books: HathiTrust Trend 4 HathiTrust: WorldCat Local catalog prototype Trend 4 Managing digital books: On-demand book publishing
The Espresso book machine:
“Helps make it possible to connect our users with the information they need, when they need it, and in the form they want it.”
−University of Michigan Library Trend 4 Managing digital books: public libraries Trend 4 Ebooks: projected spending in U.S. libraries
Source: Library Journal Trend 5 Cloud Services Trend 5 Wayne Gretzky on strategic planning
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
“You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take.”
Trend 5 WorldCat Local: More than books!
193 million books and… • 526+ million articles • 11+ million e-books • 1,424 databases/collections Direct links to full-text articles and open-access objects Trend 5 WorldCat Local: Mobile access included Trend 5 Representing the collective collection
2.1 billion items and growing!
Licensed digital Physical holdings content/articles in Local library content in WorldCat library collections being digitized
235 million bib records 530.8 million records 43.7 million items (Google, HathiTrust, OAIster) 1.7+ billion holdings Trend 5 Change in the library: The impact of OCLC Web-scale Management Services
ILS Acquisitions A to Z OPAC Library List Self ERM Service Circulation
Print Users Cataloging Resolver Users Data SuppliersVendors
Meta- search
Institutional Electronic Repository Vendor National/ Cataloging Consortial PartnersGlobal Utility System System Trend 4 WMS early adopters: Norway, The Netherlands, Canada Trend 5 Fred Kilgour’s Strategic Plan—1967
• Online union catalog and shared cataloging • Serials control • Technical processing (acquisitions) • Interlibrary loan • Retrieval by subject (reference) • Remote catalog access and circulation control WorldCat: Happy 40th!
26 August 1971
Trend 6 Linked open data
Definition: “Open data” is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. −from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trend 6 Semantic web
"a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.“ −Tim Berners-Lee Trend 6 GeoNames Trend 6 GeoNames Trend 6 DBpedia Trend 6 Virtual International Authority File
Principals Contributors National Library of Australia • Library of Congress/NACO National Library of the Czech Republic • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt) • Bibliothèque nationale de France Getty Research Institute National Library of Israel • OCLC Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (Italy) Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de España
National Library of Sweden Swiss National Library Vatican Library NUKAT Center (Poland) Library and Archives Canada National Széchényi Library (Hungary) RERO (Switzerland) Russian State Library [Currently in test]
Trend 6 VIAF: Linked data Trend 6 VIAF: Linked data
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