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What Im Seeing & Hearing

  1. Print Books on Demand – Espresso Book Machine
  2. ILL Buying instead of Lending
  3. Netflix
  4. Deep Dyve – Much Open Content is valuabvle and
  5. Much Open Content is Good – Mass Amateurization – Open Access Publishing
  6. Libraries are Becoming Publishers via Institutional Repositories
  7. Libraries Still Looking for ways to Effectively Integrate Electronically into Course Content (CMS) .. Is this possible?  Really?
  8. E-Book Readers Catching Up with Reader Expectations – EBooks Exploding Popularity will realize its potential for a market and for research use
  9. Power of Free – Marketing
  10. Libraries “Space” in Blended Learning Environments
  11. Netbooks in Libraries ($389)
  12. Collaborative Spaces In .. Study Rooms Out
  13. Competitors and Strategic Responses – Larry Nash White – (L.E.A.3D.) – Learning, Entrepreneurial, Access, Accountability, Alignment, Demonstration)
    • Libraries (You) are not the ONLY provider of library and information services in your area.
    • Libraries (You) may not even be the BEST provider of library and information services in your area.
    • Libraries (You) may not even be the FIRST provider that your customers think of when obtaining library and information services.
    • Someone would take YOUR customers from you in a minute if YOU let them!
  14. Globalization – will it affect us?
  15. Mobility – It WILL effect us – will we need to be more mobile or will we be simply serving more mobile use
  16. How is the perception of libraries changing?
  17. Changes – Human resources – Staffing, qualifications, generalization vs specialization
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