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Mobile technologies in libraries
From the Freepint FUMSI website
When we look at the take-up of mobile technologies in libraries, especially compared with the use of the Internet, it is a little puzzling how little it is taken advantage of. The start of the World Wide Web (with browsers such as Mosaic in 1993) from the existing base of the largely text-based Internet was echoed by the introduction of text messaging (SMS) in 1993, on the early mobile phone networks. Yet while libraries were falling over themselves by 1995 to create web pages, only now do we seem to be cottoning onto the use of mobile technologies such as text messaging. This is even though for years most of our users have owned mobile phones, increasing numbers of which are now smartphones capable of accessing the Internet. Perhaps we'd better start, at last, taking advantage of these near ubiquitous devices?
The future of publishing: Libraries and the changing role of creators and consumers
From the OCLC website
From newspapers to popular magazines, from scholarly journals to e-books, from smart phones to print-on-demand “vending” machines, publishing is more complicated than it once was. The Internet has created new patterns of using information - both in terms of creating content as well as consuming it. Publishers are blending their print business with new digital brands, adding a new level of engagement. Thousands of individuals, companies, schools and businesses have taken the tools of literary and scholarly production into their own hands. Creating a blog or Web page, uploading a photo or video - even designing and publishing a print-on-demand book - are no longer unusual, niche activities, and anyone can create, or even publish, personal content.
Two leaders from different sides of publishing were asked to comment on the future of publishing and how libraries can fit in.
How the internet is rewiring our brains
From The Monthly Magazine website
It's no-one's idea of news that the internet is changing the way we live. But could it actually be fostering ignorance? Nicholas Carr is one of the world’s most ground-breaking thinkers on technology and its impacts. In this conversation with journalist Gideon Haigh, he describes how internet use is changing our brains. Distraction, skim-reading and instant information - all hallmarks of the new technology - have real potential to reduce our capacity for deep concentration and deep reading.
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