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Welcome to Liblog 1 - a weblog of current web sites and stories dealing with the interface between technology and libraries. Sometimes the connection to the sphere of the library is tenuous... but in today's world, everything has an impact on libraries, on librarians... and on library users. If you find this weblog of interest, you may enjoy these other library weblogs as well.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Monday Keynote - Lee Rainey, PEW Internet Project
2.0 and the Internet World
8 Hallmarks of the new Digital ecosystem:
- Ubiquitous gadgets are part of everyday life - interesting charts on home media ecology, showing how it has grown in last few years
- Internet especially broadband connectivity, at center of this revolution - 73% of adults use Internet (93% teens) with over 50% now on broadband. And broadband users create stuff
- New gadgets allow people to enjoy media, gather info, and create ... - wireless connectivity growing, and wireless users more likely to be content creators - 88% of college students own cell phones, 81% own digital cameras
- Ordinary citizens have chance to be publishers, movie makers, artists, story tellers - 55% of american teens have created profiles on social network sites (20% adults). Social networks are the social dashboards of teens lives - pictures, videos, etc. posted, mass messaging to networks of friends, etc. 33% of college students keep blogs and regularly post (adults 12%). 19% of young people online have created avatars thast interact with others online (8% adults).
- All those creators have an audience. Even more internet users are consuming this stuff than creating - 54% college students read blogs (35% all adults read them).
- Many sharing whatv they know and do online, creating communities - 34% of young adults online have tagged online content (28% adults)
- Online Americans are customizing their online experience thanks to 2.0 tools - 40% younger internet users customize news and other info. pages; half on specialty listservs. What does this mean in terms of balkanization of experience?
- Different people use these technologies in different ways - Assets, Actions, Attitudes toward gadgets show 10 types of users (one is non-user)
High End:
Group 1 - Omnivores (8% of population). Have most info. gadgets, participate online voraciously. Tend to be late 20's, male dominant.
Group 2 - Connectors. Don't crete at the same level as Group 1, but connect with others with their gadgets. Late 30s, female dominant.
Group 3 - Lackluster Veterans (5%). Frequent users of internet, less avid about cell phones. Not thrilled with ICT technologies. 40s, Male
Group 4 - Productivity Enhancers (9%). Like technology for how it lets them keep up. Gender parity.
Middle End:
Group 5 - Mobile Centrics (10%). - Love cell phones. Early 30s. Gender parity. Skews towards minorities.
Group 6 - Connected But Hassled (10%). - Have invested a lot in tech., but find it intrusive and somewhat of a burden.
Low End:
Group 7 - Inexperienced Experimenters (9%). 50-ish, Female dominant, Will give stuff a try.
Group 8 - Light But Satisfied (15% of pop.). mid-50s, gender parity, white. Traditional media occupies their time.
Group 9 - Indifferents (11%). 40s, gender parity, white. Despite having tech. stuff, dislike having to use it.
Group 10 - Off The Network (15%). mid-60s+, female, diverse (laening toward blacks). Don't have Internet, don't have cell-phones.
Surprises:
Large low-tech crowd (49%)
Small technophile group (8%)
Far from the "mature phase" of ICT adoption and use in U.S. (though lots of tech capability, much of it idle in people's hands/homes)
Demand "pull" dimension of technology adoption lags "supply push" considerably.
Connectivity changes relationships to info and each other:
- Volume of info grows - "long tail" expands.
- Velocity of info increases - "smart mobs" emerge.
- Venues of intersecting with info and people multiply - place shifting and time shifting occurs... "absent presence" occurs
- Venturing for information changes - search strategies and search expectations spread
- Vigilance for info transforms - attention is truncated ("continuous partial attention") and elongated ("deep dives")
- Valence (relevance) of info improves - "Daily Me" and "Daily Us" gets made
- Vetting of information becomes more "social" - credibility tests change as people ping their social networks
- Viewing of info is disaggregated and becomes more horizontal (Allen Renear, UI-Champagne-Urbana) - new reading strategies emerge as coping mechanisms
- Voting and ventilation of information - user ratings, etc.
- InVention of info and the visibility of...
Be confident in what you already know about how to meet people's reference and entertainment (enlightenment) needs.
Labels: IL2007, Keynote, Lee Rainey, PEW
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Other web logs with links to library issues:
- Lori Bowen Ayre's Library Technology Musings provides "Hopes, dreams, wild ideas and practical solutions for libraries."
- Marylaine Block's Neat New Stuff I Found This Week (and her Ex Libris E-Zine for librarians.)
- Tara Calishain's Research Buzz, "news about search engines, databases, and other information collections."
- Blake Carver and Steve Galbraith's LISNews.com, focuses on (as the subtitle puts it), "news for information professionals."
- Steven M. Cohen's Library Stuff, provides readers with information on the wonderful and exciting world of librarianship.
- Gary Frost's Future of the Book, looks at "preservation and persistence of the changing book."
- Michael Gartenberg (an analyst with Jupiter Research, a market research and advisory firm focused on emerging technologies and the Internet) is one of several Jupiter researchers producing an Analyst Weblog.
- Brend Hough and Liz Rea's NEKLS Technology Weblog, "50 Feet From the Cutting Edge in the Northeast Kansas Library System."
- Sarah Houghton's Librarian In Black, has "resources and discussions for the 'tech-librarians-by-default' among us..."
- Jenny Levine, the original bloggin' librarian, is back with the Shifted Librarian, working to make libraries more "portable... to serve our remote patrons."
- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (one of the Institute for the Future's research team) is producing Future Now, which looks at emerging technologies and their social implications.
- Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy's ResourceShelf has "resources and news for information professionals" (including the latest scoops on what's what with the invisible web).
- Michael Stephens' Tame the Web includes, "current technology uses in libraries, training tips and various other interests concerning library settings."
- Sandra Stewart at San Jose Public Library is producing a Library Tourguide to Blogs and Technology.
- Jessamyn West's librarian.net, keeping track of the nifty reference sites - and library references - she finds.
- Stephanie Wright's TechnoBiblio, where librarians and technogeeks speak the same language.
Not a weblog, but a very funny look at libraries:
- Unshelved - Bill Barnes' and Gene Ambaum's library comic strip (formerly known as Overdue.)
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