Knowledge, Information Knowledge, Information and the 21st Century

Sept. 24, 2008Dallas, TX

Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAVice President, Innovation, SirsiDynix

Chief Strategist SirsiDynix InstituteChief Strategist, SirsiDynix Institute

So what So what should we b i be paying attention attention

to?

•You can’t •You can t wait for everyone to change at change at once.

Let’s Look At the Supposed Limits to the Supposed Limits to the

Future

Happily There Are NoneHappily, There Are None.

Or, sadly, there are a lot.• National Debt and National Borrowing• Sub-prime Mortgage Crises and Property taxes• Bankruptcies corporate and personal• Bankruptcies – corporate and personal• Gold Prices• Oil Prices and supplypp y• War and Famine• Ignorance and Prejudice

Gl b li ti d ld t d• Globalization and world trade• Global Warming and weather – floods, hurricanes• Mergers and AcquisitionsMergers and Acquisitions• Technoschism and Technolust

The Perfect Storm?• Facebook gets a $750 000 000 00 equity investment from • Facebook gets a $750,000,000.00 equity investment from

Microsoft and two equity capital firms.• Facebook et al introduce social ads and their F8 development

platform (Beacon)• Google heads past 10,000 licensed traditional publishers• Google adds new libraries all the time to Google BookSearch and

APIs• MySpace acquires Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal and soon • MySpace acquires Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal and soon

more.• Thomson acquires Reuters.• Google announces that everyone except Microsoft and Facebook g y p

have joined Google’s OpenSocial - their new "open" platform for development anywhere.

• Just about everyone like MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo! and Google are cooperating on identity management through OpenIDare cooperating on identity management through OpenID

• Google introduces Google OpenMobile Open Handset Alliance / Android development platform and first phone out this week

• The Canadian dollar has soared past the US $• Massive interest in copyright, IP and patent law…• The first US Boomer applied for their pension in November 2007.• Strap yourself in, 2009 is going to be a fine ride. Enjoy.

On Target

Minus 25%!!!!!

Plus 20%

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Global Change (China India EMEA)Global Change (China, India, EMEA)

Stuff Will Change Much Faster NowO h 13 i d i d i ill h ld• Over the next 13 years an iPod size device will hold:

• iPods can hold year’s worth of video by 2012• Or ALL the commercial music ever created by 2015y• Or ALL content ever created (in all media) by 2020• Videogames outsell most content – combined!• Jeez – Ringtones are even big• Jeez – Ringtones are even big• Amazon + Audible + OpenSocial, F8, MySpace

Developer, Android . . . Microsoft + Yahoo + Facebook + 40 ads engines? Or AOL!!Facebook + 40 ads engines? Or AOL!!

• Pocket-sized devices will dominate• Your avatar will parallel your life by IBM – Gartner

predicts 85%predicts 85%...

What’s New (or new enough)?( g )• Semantic Web (Twine)• The Cloud (Google, Amazon, Zoho and MS etc.)• No choice search engines• GIS oriented search and ads • Virtually unlimited fulltext booksVirtually unlimited fulltext books• Streaming media and spoken word search• Personalization 3.0• Microblogging (Twitter)• Microblogging (Twitter)• SaaS and Registries• Open Source, Open Access, Open Content• Device proliferation (Kindle, iPhones, etc.)• What’s old? Attacks on research, rights,

intellectual freedom, access, filters, blacklisting, h b lcopyright balance, privacy, DRM, patents,

trademarks, voice, etc.

Our Careers Have Seasons

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Retail Sales Down?

Titl D ?

NO

NOTitles Down?

Circulation Down?

NO

NOCirculation Down?

Reading Down?

NO

NO

Teen Reading Down? NO

Academia? ?

Will Reading Matter?g

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What do the world do?

• K-12 schools• Hospitals• GovernmentGovernment• Public Libraries• Academia• Academia• Colleges• Government and Business• Government and Business

The Pattern Effect

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Nano LightNano, Light, BioTech GenomeBioTech, Genome,

Web 2 0Web 2.0

2000 Light 2000 Light Stopped

2001 Light Slowed to Bicycle Speed

2002 Light Sent into Future

2003 Light Transported (in Australia!)(in Australia!)

2006 Light Goes BackwardsBoyd's team collected data showing light traveling 'backwards,' seemingly fasterthan light speed. Image credit: Univ. of RochesterImage credit: Univ. of Rochester

Romulancloaking

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What Does It AllWhat Does It All Mean?Mean?

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The Emerging Landscape

Can WeCan WeInvent the

F t e?Future?

• WiMax, WiFi, G3/G4• Copper/Telco/cable• Fibre• Dark fibre• Satellite• Wireless• Wireless• Hydro• ‘Baseballs’• Baseballs• TV Whitespace• Starbucks

Google invests in wired …g

Bidirectional wireless module

What’s Normal Now?

• RSSRSS• Blogs• YouTube• Social

Networks• Tagging• Facebook

M S• MySpace• Wikis• SEO• GIS• GIS

Libraries & Universities

are Social

InstitutionsInstitutions

Scholars’ Citations Go SocialScholars Citations Go Social

And, what does social mean?,• Sharing• Networking• Networking• Collaboration• Learning together• Learning together• Shared discovery• Democracy• Democracy• The Invisible College• Telling others of progress• Telling others of progress• Publishing in any way

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TheSharingSharing

Economy

95% of students in clients likeclients like

U of Toronto, NCSU, Stanford, etc.

Over 80% of all college and University studentsy

In North America.

A sustainable socialnetwork for life.

Alliance, Charlotte,

San Jose SUEurope (2X)McMasterMcMaster

Wild CardsAmazon, MS/Yahoo!

The User-Centered Universe

Millennial BehavioursMillennial Behaviours

Principled /Values

More Friends More Diverse

Respect IntelligenceValues Diverse Intelligence

Optimistic /Positive

Internet Natives

More Choices

Format Agnostic

Balanced Lives Adaptive / Flexible

Civic Minded

High Expectations

Collaborative Nomadic Gamers ExperientialCollaborative Nomadic Gamers Experiential

Independent Confident Direct More Liberal and more conservative

Multi-taskers Inclusive Patriotic Entrepreneurial

Healthy Lifestyle

Family Oriented

Graphical Achievement Oriented

Credit: Richard Sweeney, NJIT

Learning StylesLearning Styles

• Visual/Spatial (Picture Smart)• Visual/Spatial (Picture Smart)• Verbal/Linguistic (Word Smart)• Musical/Rhythmic (Music Smart)/ y ( )• Logical/Mathematical (Number Smart)• Bodily/Kinesthetic (Body Smart)• Interpersonal (People Smart)• Intrapersonal (Self Smart)

Pi t Bl G d t– Piaget, Bloom, Gardner, etc.

Information Literacy• Standard Curriculum Components

–Mathematics / Arithmetic–Mathematics / Arithmetic–Science, Biology, Physics & Chemistry

English Languages–English, Languages–History, Geography, Politics,

SociologySociology–Music, Art, Phys ed.

G id R li i–Guidance, Religion

Information Literacy• Information literacy is integrally tied every aspect of the

curriculum:– Mathematical logical thinking skills - Math and Arithmetic– Mathematical logical thinking skills - Math and Arithmetic– Scientific method - Sciences– Criticism, interpretation and comprehension - English and

K-12 Information Lit R b ilanguages

– Analytical thinking - History, Geography– Interpretive and imaginative- music art & phys ed

Literacy Rubrics

Interpretive and imaginative music, art & phys ed.– Inter and Intrapersonal skills - Religion, Guidance, etc. – There is an imperative for people to have a lifelong curriculum - a personal

learning strategylearning strategy

OhioBoston +PhiladelphiapDelawareCaliforniaSouth Carolinaetcetc.

Here's What They Expect and and Keeping Them Motivatedand Keeping Them Motivated

• 1. 'TEACH ME.'• 2. 'MENTOR ME.'• 3. 'THIS JOB IS NOT MY LIFE.'• 4. 'TRUST ME.'• 5. 'REWARD ME.'• 6. 'DON'T TAKE ME FOR GRANTED.'

Be More Open to New Paths

Be More Open to the Users’ Paths

Start Your Mobile• Up 30% in

Q2/08Q2/08• Japanese

top 10 bestsellersbestsellers

• iPhone hacks

• TV in Korea• TXT focus

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• TXT trumps voice callsvoice calls

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Be Where Your Users AreBe Where Your Users Are

How does your presence appear?Personal, Professional, Departmental, Institutional

Get Good at The CloudGet Good at The Cloud

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Google Calendar Google BaseGoogle Maps

Google Wallet / CartG-MailGTalk

G l S h lG l S f f Google ScholarGooglePhone

iGoogleGoogle Presentations

Google States for freeGoogle Librarian

Google Educator CertificationFool me once Google Presentations

YouTubeOrkut

Hundreds more

Fool me once …Do No Evil?

Hundreds more

Get Serious about eLearning

Just ExpandJust Expand

Understand Influence & Politics1 YouTube1. YouTube2. Second Life3 MySpace3. MySpace4. Facebook5. Wikipedia

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Humans are our Competitive Edge

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Be Important

Honest to G*d – Have FFun

We must learn that when we study something to death, Death was not our g ,

original goal.

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Stephen Abram, MLSVP Innovation, SirsiDynix

Chief Strategist, SirsiDynix Instituteg , yCel: 416-669-4855

stephen.abram@sirsidynix.comhttp://www.sirsidynix.com

Stephen’s Lighthouse Bloghttp://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com

Open Source QuestionsOpe Sou ce Quest o s• Scalability

S S• Architectural flex

K l i• SaaS• API• Portlets (JSR168)

• Kernel persistence• Developer market• Hiring( )

• Speed• Support – size and

dimensions

g• Indemnification• Sustainability• Cost investmentdimensions

• Financial Auditability• Military partnerships• Contracts

• Cost, investment• User experience• Testing

T i i• Contracts • Training