[OPLINTECH] Fwd: Question about trends

[Laura Solomon]

Another response--Bryan said it was OK to share.


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From: Bryan Harris <bharris at starklibrary.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Question about trends
To: Laura Solomon <laura at oplin.ohio.gov>


Haven’t seen this yet, so I’ll toss it in……

Federated searching, coupled with, better searching.

As we add services, programs, and stuff (physical and electronic), it’s
getting more and more difficult for a patron to find what they are looking
for.  A search that returns 20,000 results is just as bad as one that
returns 0 results.  There’s more information, it is spread across multiple
services and it’s, in some ways, more difficult to find exactly what you’re
looking for.

Bryan


W. Bryan Harris P.E. RCDD
Technology Director
Stark County District Library
The Smart Store, where everything is free
715 Market Avenue North
Canton, OH 44702
330-458-3145


From: Laura Solomon <laura at oplin.ohio.gov<mailto:laura at oplin.ohio.gov>>
Date: Friday, September 11, 2015 at 1:26 PM
To: "oplintech at lists.oplin.org<mailto:oplintech at lists.oplin.org>" <
oplintech at lists.oplin.org<mailto:oplintech at lists.oplin.org>>
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Question about trends

So far, here are the thoughts I've gotten to my previous question (tech
trends--what's important to pay attention to right now?).  Agree? Disagree?
Add others?


  *   Device training for public
  *   Public "copier" services; wireless printing, scanning, faxing
  *   Maker spaces, particularly 3d printing
  *   Service mobility, making services available whenever, wherever, on
whatever device
  *   Virtual servers
  *    Digital content in story times. Smart Boards, iPads, etc.Children's
librarians are starting to do app reviews and recommendations
for parents.
  *   Responsive design
  *   Digital collection management. Rhetoric around the battle over library
terms and pricing for ebooks has cooled, but the war wages on. More
and more content is moving to author-controlled, and we struggle to have
the mechanism to collect and disseminate it.
  *   Integration. API's are making it easier for libraries to make access
to our disparate digital collections more seamless. This will add more
energy to the increasing use of digital purchases and the declining
circulation stats of our physical collections.
  *   Coding. We need our own developers. Admin commitment to
this still lags behind.


On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Laura Solomon <laura at oplin.ohio.gov<mailto:
laura at oplin.ohio.gov>> wrote:
Here's a question:

What do you think are the most important 3-5 tech trends in libraries (any
kind, not necessarily just public) right now?


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