<div dir="ltr">Susan approved me sharing with the listserv--Laura<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:sallen@worthingtonlibraries.org">sallen@worthingtonlibraries.org</a></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sallen@worthingtonlibraries.org">sallen@worthingtonlibraries.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 1:53 PM<br>Subject: RE: [OPLINTECH] Question about trends<br>To: Laura Solomon <<a href="mailto:laura@oplin.ohio.gov">laura@oplin.ohio.gov</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Things that I don’t hear libraries doing much with that I think we should be paying attention to are developments in the Internet of Things and wearable technology.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org" target="_blank">oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org" target="_blank">oplintech-bounces@lists.oplin.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Laura Solomon<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 11, 2015 1:26 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So far, here are the thoughts I've gotten to my previous question (tech trends--what's important to pay attention to right now?). <b>Agree? Disagree? Add others?</b><u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Public "copier" services; wireless printing, scanning, faxing</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Maker spaces, particularly 3d printing</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Service mobility, making services available whenever, wherever, on whatever device</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Virtual servers</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> Digital content in story times. Smart Boards, iPads, etc.Children's librarians are starting to do app reviews and recommendations<br>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Responsive design</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Digital collection management. Rhetoric around the battle over library<br>
terms and pricing for ebooks has cooled, but the war wages on. More<br>
and more content is moving to author-controlled, and we struggle to have<br>
the mechanism to collect and disseminate it.</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Integration. API's are making it easier for libraries to make access<br>
to our disparate digital collections more seamless. This will add more<br>
energy to the increasing use of digital purchases and the declining<br>
circulation stats of our physical collections.</span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Coding. We need our own developers. Admin commitment to<br>
this still lags behind.</span><u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Laura Solomon <<a href="mailto:laura@oplin.ohio.gov" target="_blank">laura@oplin.ohio.gov</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS</b><br>
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<b>Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS</b><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-- <br><b>Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS</b><br>
<i>Library Services Manager,</i> Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)<br>
(614) 752-0792 (voice) | (614) 728-5256 (fax)<br>
<a href="mailto:laura@oplin.org" target="_blank">laura@oplin.org</a> |<a href="http://www.oplin.org" target="_blank">http://www.oplin.org/</a><br></div></div>
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