The Information Tornado: Toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore! Stephen Abram VP Innovation, SirsiDynix Northwest ILL Conference Sept. 15, 2005,

The Information Tornado: Toto I don't think we're in Kansas

anymore!

Stephen Abram

VP Innovation, SirsiDynix

Northwest ILL ConferenceSept. 15, 2005, Portland, OR

Simple Stories From ALA Midwinter

• Florida• Florida's public libraries return $6.54 for

every $1.00 invested from all sources!• South Carolina• The total direct and indirect return on

investment for every $1 expended on the state’s public libraries by SC State and local governments is $4.48—almost 350%!

Simple Stories From ALA Midwinter

• Free = Unfettered Access• Sharon Terry has an amazing story.• Watch a video and hear her tell it

online:• http://arl.cni.org/sparc/meetings/

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Simple Stories From Denver ILL• Professor William (Ned) Friedman

– University of Colorado Friedman Lab – Flowers and spermazones

• Erin Robertson – Center for Native Ecosystems – Endangered plants and animals

• Linda Quirk – University of Toronto– Poet Pauline Johnson

The Qianlong emperor, 1711-1799

Dedication of the Greatest Library in World's History

Mayans and Incas . . .

Flavius Josephus

GoogleZon

• Check out:• http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

GoogleZon

May 2005 - TiVo and Google are talking… May 2005 - TiVo and Yahoo! are talking…

May 2005 - Google gets two patents for a quality algorithm…

May 2005 – U of AZ adds article writing software…

Sept. 2005 – Reuters rumour, eBay buys Skype

May 2005 - Google Offers free homepages, personalizedJune 2005 - Google Wallet “leaked” to WSJ/NYTJune 2005 - Google does a 3D scan of San FranciscoJune 2005 – Office Hunting – Seattle (done) Boston, Chicago

Which one is Sergey

and which one

is the other guy…?

Add 200 database Suppliers (MS already has 120+

Make it OpenURLcompliant

Make it Browserless

Add a toolbar that behavesin a research way

Integrate e-commerce for articles, standards, etc.

Predict their needs through mining of Gmail, surfing, and behaviours

Personalize it and track your needs andAdd alerts …

Add for online discussions, communities of practice, group and Individual blogsand connections through social networking software

Add tools – citation, RefWorks,ProCite, stat packages,Add

AdsAnd then make

Google your operating system – like

Windows…

Add Virtual Reference

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Google Scholar…

Print

250,000 Books . . .How does that compare

to your library?

& OCLC Toolbar

Google & Kansas City

Sooooo… where are we?

3D

RSS

Search

Happy 10th Birthday

6 years old

Born Feb. 2, 2005

Grade 4

Newborn

Kindergarten

Is Google (opr MSN orYahoo!) that 5 inch wave. . . ?

Is Google that 5 inch wave. . . ?

The power of libraries

• So what do we do…?

New (newish) now

• E-communities• Virtual communities• Wiki• Dating…• Socially driven everything• Tagging

Your collaboration space

• Calendar• Website• Telephone list• E-mail contacts, nicknames• Buddy lists• Communities of practice• Communities of Interest

Folksonomies