Top Tech Trends from the American Library Association

The 'Top Tech Trends' session at a mid-Winter ALA meeting convened five experts to share the latest trends and observations about what they call issues "affecting patron access and services." Joshe Hadro reports on it in Library Journal. Almost anyone would find this report interesting, but it is especially useful for those who do variations on learning space design. The categories discussed included:

• Discovery Systems;
• User Experience Across the Breadth of Library-Based Interactions;
• The Need to Embrace 'Mobile';
• Augmented Reality;
• End of Apps: "2010 is the year that the app dies."; and
• The Reinvention of the Book.

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• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
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