Mobile Libraries Blog

The Mobile Libraries blog will be of interest to many types of planners: technology, academic, facilities, strategic. It defines itself as:

[D]evoted to documenting any and all topics relating to services provided by libraries to patrons within mobile environments. Library mobile services are defined as any and all library services that are provided via mobile technologies.

While the posts often dig deep into the technology of new hardware and functionalities, on February 6 the post was about a recent article by John Dew in The Futurist. That article requires a subscription or a $3 fee to download a PDF, but the blog author has excerpted much of it and describes it thusly:

An educator and strategic planner outlines the trends leading to a long-forecast future for colleges and universities: Global standardization of education content and accreditation, greater diversity in the student body, and more options for where, when, and how learning takes place.

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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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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA