Converging on the Universal Library: from Memex to Googolplex / Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institute Libraries.
Memex
Googolplex
Libraries and library work will change more rapidly in the next few years more than in the past 100. Major initiatives to digitize collections will see the formation of large, easily available (sometimes fee-based) online libraries.
Examples of digitalization: Million Book Project, Google Book Project, Open Content Alliance and Biodiversity Heritage Project.
The memory institutions libraries / museums / archives are running out of space. Museums and libraries will be coming together enabling all material pertaining to specific subjects being brought together. This will enable once inaccessible material accessible, create a deepened sense of history and comprehensive and topical material.
The user will be able to slice / dice / reformat / reuse / repurpose material.
Factors that will allow greater information access and use:
Decrease cost of storage, cheap scanning, cheap on demand printing. However, there may be copyright issues that will have to be dealt with.
“Future of audio books” & MyLibrarydv, Video on Demand / Matt Walker, Recorded Books.
Through a partnership arrangement between MyLibrarydv and many public libraries throughout the US, library patrons are able to access movies and TV programs like ‘Antique Roadshow’ and other programs relating to cooking, travel and home renovations. The service is provided to the library for a fee, a quoted fee for a small group of libraries was $550 (US) per annum.
Usually there is a link from the library website to the MyLibrarydv site to download the initial operating software and once that is installed the movies and TV programs are able to be downloaded to patrons own computer. The videos stay on the computer for 7 days and then deleted. Libraries can use the site put up their own videos such as, homework help or information literacy.
The MyLibrarydv company also sell self contained audio books called, ‘Play Away’. The units are completely self contained so that all the user has to do is plug in their own earphones. The ‘Play Away’ audio books are particularly popular with young adults.
Tour of the Supreme Court and Library
The group participated in the public tour of the courtroom where the guide told us of the function and operation of the court, as well as ‘who sits where’ and information about the artwork around the room.
Memex
Googolplex
Libraries and library work will change more rapidly in the next few years more than in the past 100. Major initiatives to digitize collections will see the formation of large, easily available (sometimes fee-based) online libraries.
Examples of digitalization: Million Book Project, Google Book Project, Open Content Alliance and Biodiversity Heritage Project.
The memory institutions libraries / museums / archives are running out of space. Museums and libraries will be coming together enabling all material pertaining to specific subjects being brought together. This will enable once inaccessible material accessible, create a deepened sense of history and comprehensive and topical material.
The user will be able to slice / dice / reformat / reuse / repurpose material.
Factors that will allow greater information access and use:
Decrease cost of storage, cheap scanning, cheap on demand printing. However, there may be copyright issues that will have to be dealt with.
“Future of audio books” & MyLibrarydv, Video on Demand / Matt Walker, Recorded Books.
Through a partnership arrangement between MyLibrarydv and many public libraries throughout the US, library patrons are able to access movies and TV programs like ‘Antique Roadshow’ and other programs relating to cooking, travel and home renovations. The service is provided to the library for a fee, a quoted fee for a small group of libraries was $550 (US) per annum.
Usually there is a link from the library website to the MyLibrarydv site to download the initial operating software and once that is installed the movies and TV programs are able to be downloaded to patrons own computer. The videos stay on the computer for 7 days and then deleted. Libraries can use the site put up their own videos such as, homework help or information literacy.
The MyLibrarydv company also sell self contained audio books called, ‘Play Away’. The units are completely self contained so that all the user has to do is plug in their own earphones. The ‘Play Away’ audio books are particularly popular with young adults.
Tour of the Supreme Court and Library
The group participated in the public tour of the courtroom where the guide told us of the function and operation of the court, as well as ‘who sits where’ and information about the artwork around the room.
We then had a tour of the Library, showing us the reading/research room, technical services and the basketball court.
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