Tag Archives: trends

QR Codes: A Technology Without a User Base? | Information Space

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There is an ongoing debate on whether QR codes are dying, or are still of value to marketers. Recent statistics from eMarketer.com show that 39% of US citizens between 18-24 have used QR scans in magazines, 38% in mail, 35% on posters, and 21% on websites. But these statistics are based on people scanning a QR code at least once. These statistics may be based heavily on curiosity rather than continual usage. 

[The author] lists reasons why QR codes could be on a steady decline, what they’re competing with, and some examples of creative ways to use them.

via QR Codes: A Technology Without a User Base? | Information Space

How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library | Publishers Weekly

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According to old stereotypes, it shouldn’t work—serious librarians should want nothing to do with the raucous, pulp world of comics—and for a long time it didn’t. But over the past decade, the graphic novel genre has become one of the fastest-growing at libraries of all kinds, as a new generation of librarians adopts the category as a means to energize collections and boost circulation and patronage via How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library  | Publishers Weekly.

What is Text Mining? | Information Space

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Text-mining programs go further, categorizing information, making links between otherwise unconnected documents and providing visual maps via What is Text Mining? | Information Space.

Text mining, or the indexing of content, is important because it allows us to make sense and extract meaning out of large amounts of data. Text-mining is an activity also related to data curation, the semantic web, big data and bioinformatics. Its becoming more popular as a way to conduct research and information retrieval within databases.

Here is an informative presentation called The Library as Dataset: Text Mining at Million-Book Scale from Yale University, which discusses a text mining method, digital humanities and libraries.

Here is an article with an information science perspective called Text Mining and Information Retrieval, Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 2011, 35(3), pp. 223-227, if you have access to scholarly databases.

WorldAffairs 2013 Keynote: Chris Anderson – The Maker Revolution | Stephen’s Lighthouse

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WorldAffairs 2013 Keynote: Chris Anderson – The Maker Revolution | Stephen’s Lighthouse

Insightful keynote and Q&A discussing topics including industrial revolutions, manufacturing, machine power and brainpower. Desktop, digital and cloud = the third industrial revolution. Also some great anecdotes and stories on creating “things,” intellectual property, uses for drones, education and digital design, and more.

“Anything you can imagine you can make real.” – Chris Anderson

Collection of Links: eBooks

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I find it challenging to keep up with eBook news and resources, since it seems there are updates on an almost daily basis. I have provided links to the most informative and newsworthy below.

eBooks & Publishing

eBooks, Libraries & Publishers

Review of 2012 and Trends to Watch in 2013 – Stephen’s Lighthouse

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Review of 2012 and Trends to Watch in 2013 – Stephen’s Lighthouse.

Stephen’s post summarizes the original post by Paula  J. Hane at Information Today, Inc.

Emerging Technologies in Libraries…02.19.13 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

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Emerging Technologies in Libraries…02.19.13 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

Slide presentation which covers digital delivery of products (such as library websites on mobile devices), gamification, cloud computing and makerspaces. Ideas including “third places,” massive online open courses (MOOCs) and hackathons are also highlighted.

The Top 5 Website UX Trends of 2012 | UX Magazine

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The Top 5 Website UX Trends of 2012 | UX Magazine.

  1. Single Page Sites
  2. Infinite Scrolling
  3. Persistent Top Navigation or “Sticky Nav”
  4. The Death of Web 2.0 Aesthetics
  5. Typography Returns

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SLJ’s Top 10 Tech: 2012 | The Digital Shift

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SLJ’s Top 10 Tech: 2012 | The Digital Shift

Trends include curation for discoverability, online open courses, flipping and makerspaces.

We practiced flipping in my Emerging and Innovative Technologies LIS class. Through flipping I have increased my ability in critical thinking, assessment and evaluation, but this method did make the class more burdensome on the students to generate discussion in class and complete required readings before class.

10 Great Technology Initiatives for Your Library | American Libraries Magazine

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These are all great ideas but I particularly like “use crowdsourcing to create a collection.” With this initiative you can invite employees and patrons/visitors to participate and the collection can have a local or community focus as a result.

10 Great Technology Initiatives for Your Library | American Libraries Magazine.

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THE TECH SET® #1-10 – Edited by Ellyssa Kroski from ALA TechSource

The newest TECH SET® offers 10 guides to today’s best library technologies – ALAnews