Categories Emerging Technology

In the new issue of Business 2.0, there’s a brief article on what Google may have up its sleeve. http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1093558,00.html What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user?s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world?s information could become one of the globe?s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it? First it would build a national broadband network — let’s call it the […]

South Bend, IN – It was standing room only in the St. Joseph County Public Library Training Room for a library staff day breakout presentation by Aaron Schmidt entitled 20 Gadgets in 20 Minutes as the room filled with over 40 folks eager to find out about hot new gadgets and implications for library use. Flickr! XBox360! Index cards! All were covered. The presentation was attended by staff from all areas of the library and FIVE ADMINSTRATORS! Just got to say: Hot X 3! Thanks Aaron!

This is going on my “Driving to the Lake” audio list! Amazon Link

http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaresources/toptechtrends/midwinter2005.htm Good stuff… how did I miss this? When did it go up? ISSUE 1: Storage ISSUE 2: Blogs, Libraries and Citizen Journalists ISSUE 3: E-Books ISSUE 4: OPACs, FRBR, and interface design ISSUE 5: WiFi ISSUE 6: Broadband and VoIP ISSUE 7: Google Print, Scholar, and MetaSearching ISSUE 8: Folksonomies ISSUE 9: Digital Rights Management

LiB has posted her Tech Training Competencies! And I am a happy guy! http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2005/05/technology_core.html I did a similar thing a few years ago for SJCPL but this stuff is incredible, current and useful. Read it! Do you have these skills? (SKILLZ) Does your staff? http://www.cla-net.org/included/docs/tech_core_competencies.pdf This set of competencies is intended to serve as a base model for technology competencies among California library workers. California’s libraries are incredibly diverse; there are many different types and sizes of libraries, different staffing, and different technology. The purpose of these competencies is not to be the guidepost by which all libraries measure technology […]

http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/04/28/more-complaints-about-libraries-and-drm/ Thanks Bibliotheke! Please click through and read the article, which includes this: The Fairfax County Public Library system is a large library system in Northern Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC. Leaders of the Fairfax Public Libraries think it’s a good idea to distribute downloadable audio books to the public in Windows Media format. These digital rights managed (DRM) files will not play on Macintosh computers, GNU/Linux computers or iPods. Taxpayer funds are being used to purchase these audio books. Listen to the song! “I much prefer MP3..” 🙂

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WOW! I just installed Tiger for Mac and it is cool… more to come… http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/280475/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/249806/ We meet with Brian again today: our Staff development Librarian, our Web developer and yours truly for another demo. The implications for training intrigue me. Here I’ve set up a session to run through a PPT on the Reference Interview.