Context, Content, Contraptions

Speakers: Paulette Hasier, DARPA/Advanced Resource Technologies Inc.
Tim ...?
Sponsored by LITA
Sunday, June 26, 2011 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

The environment in which we are operating:

• Users still want the dual worlds of print and online
• in 2010, Amazon announced kindle book sales overtook hardcover book sales 105 ebook to 100 print
• Garner Analysis reports 65% of users have paid for online content (music, articles, newspapers, etc)
•  in 2011, worldwide smart phones sales will pass worldwide PC sales in units

The contraptions people use are not only to read books, but to enhance learning and provide interactive learning.

• Scan on demand and digitization (this was a new feature of the scanning devices being sold by the vendors in the stacks)
• iPads for reference
• Loan of e-readers

The Tim speaker (from Research Services?) shared the goals his library wanted in order to support their users in the field:

• Make the subscription resources search-able through a mobile app. This entailed creating one app which held the logon info to authenticate the user for all the databases.
• Make news updates dynamic. This was solved by making a web design which allowed the user to select the organizational view they wanted based on their science research. For example, the chemists would get the view with links to the chemistry databases and their departmental news, etc. The physicists would get the web view which supported their research needs. 

Websites/ Places etc. mentioned in the session

• Goddard Library: http://library.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/