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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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strategic technologies</span><br>
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alt="" height="114" width="97"></a>Last week,
even though we're still more than two months away
from the New Year, the Gartner Group released
their list of the <a
href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1826214">Top
10 Strategic Technologies for 2012</a>. These
are technologies that they feel will have a high
potential to disrupt business, might require a
large investment of cash, or carry high risk if
the business is late to adopt them. Since this is
the OPLIN <em>4cast</em>, not the "10cast," we're
focusing today on the four strategic technologies
which we think might have the most impact on
libraries: Mobile-Centric Applications; Social
User Experience; Big Data; and the Internet of
Things.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/washburn-io.pdf">Library
mobile applications: what counts as success?</a>
[pdf] (OCLC Research/Bruce Washburn) "Some
library mobile apps concentrate on the library
catalog. Search and discovery of the catalog can
sometimes be implemented relatively quickly, in
particular if the system that supports the
website for the catalog offers an out-of-the-box
mobile solution. In some recent surveys of
mobile users of library services, the library
catalog was not the most used or desired
service. Other services such as looking up
library hours, reserving a study room or
computer, checking out materials, paying fines,
and reading electronic resources were of as much
interest as searching the library catalog; in
most cases much more important."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://tametheweb.com/2011/06/14/what-is-"
social-reading=""
-and-why-should-libraries-care-a-ttw-guest-post-by-allison-mennella="">What
is "social reading" and why should libraries
care?</a> (Tame the Web/Allison Mennella) "To
increase both the library's appeal and stress
its value to users, libraries should consider
implementing customizable and participatory
services for social reading. There are a number
of ways to accomplish the creation of this
social space from designing blogs, podcasts, a
wiki or even using an existing social media
platform like GoodReads. The key is to build and
maintain a site that uses moderated trust to
give patrons a voice in this social space. If
possible, libraries should give patrons the
opportunity to design and manage their own
'space' within the library's broader social
platform."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/salo/">Retooling
libraries for the data challenge</a>
(Ariadne/Dorothea Salo) "Deposit processes in
many institutional repositories assume a limited
number of files to deposit, such that they can
be described and uploaded one at a time by a
human being. Applying this manual process to
datasets is like trying to empty the ocean with
an eyedropper. The SWORD protocol [Simple
Web-service Offering Repository Deposit] holds
potential to ameliorate this problem, but the
protocol has not yet made its way into
researcher or even library tools or processes."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://ryanlivergood.com/?p=173">Buh bye
library card, hello smartphone?</a> (Ryan
Livergood) "Libraries should definitely be
paying attention to apps like Google Wallet that
utilize NFC [Near Field Communication]
technology. Before long, many of our patrons may
begin to abandon their wallets for their NFC
enabled smartphones and expect to be able to use
them at libraries like they can at the Walgreens
or Subway across the street. Hopefully, their
libraries will be 'yes' libraries that allow
their users to store their library card in their
smartphone wallet."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Last
year fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">For those
keeping score, many of Gartner's 2012 strategic
technologies were also in their <a
href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221">2011
list</a>; note that, "Video ... as a standard
media type used in non-media companies..." has
apparently graduated from prediction to fact.
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