Best bit of today was the Top Technical Trends panel discussion with five trend setters including Michelle Kraft who many of you will know from her ‘Krafty Librarian’ blog. Lively and fun discussion fom all panel particpants. trends we should be aware of/making use of include: flip cameras to produce our own videos simply and cheaply, our Generation X and millenial users like visual info and are youtube users. iPhone/iPod Touch – these are replacing the PDA technology. Libraries can optimise webpage info for use on these small screen technologies. If creating apps libraries should: tailor the look of apps to be similar to those already available, think about the info that students may want to access, don’t just throw everything from the website at your users in this form, and always let users access the full webpage if they want to. University of Virginia have produced http://mobile.hsl.virginia.edu. Twitter – suggested that tweeting will replace texting. Tools such as Tweetdeck can help you manage your Twitter.
That was just a taster of the discussion – phew!
Went along to hear about Endnote x3 which will be released June 2009. Some new bits and pieces include; compare duplicate records side-by-side for easy review, use EZProxy to find full text when off campus, arrange groups with simple drag and drop, Endnote web included for all Endnote users and the Cite while you write facility will be available to those using OpenOffice.org Writer 3 and Apple Pages 09.
Just to make you feel a little better about not being in Hawaii, it was cloudy today and we even had a brief shower 
May 19, 2009 at 4:44 pm |
Wow! All sounds very interesting. I expect you will be buzzing with Web 2.0 ideas when you get back.
The EndNote / Ezy Proxy thing sounds interesting. Will have to ask you more about it when you get back!