Dangers and Opportunities: Challenges for Libraries in the Digital Age
Many of our library “crises,” whether institutional or personal, can be tied directly to the information technology changes that have occurred in the past 20 years - changes that continue and are accelerating. Three factors that are creating a dangerous perfect storm of societal changes that will impact libraries. Only by actively addressing the challenges each of these dangers pose, will libraries survive and thrive. Seven opportunities libraries and librarians are taking advantage of to remain relevant in the digital age concludes the presentation.
Slides for this session in DropBox
Are Libraries (and Librarians) Heading Toward Extinction? Teacher-Librarian
Dangers and Opportunities: Challenges for Libraries in the Digital Age Minnesota Media
Managing Digital Resources, LMC
Things that keep us up at night (with Joyce Valenza) School Library Journal
Letter from the Flat World Library Corporation, LMC
Turning the Page (E-books and their impact on libraries) School Library Journal
Skills for the Knowledge Worker Teacher-Librarian
Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text, The Onion
School librarian numbers decline. Library Journal, Jul 30, 2012
E-book video sources:
- iPad Imagineering (DK Books)
- HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 (Holt McDougal math e-text) No longer available online (at least that I can find)
- Amazon KIndle Fire
- iBook Creator
- Is it broken?