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Technology Forum Keynote - Good for Whom?

Matthew Reidsma
October 04, 2013

Technology Forum Keynote - Good for Whom?

As libraries evolve, technological solutions for many of the problems librarians face on a daily basis become more and more enticing. While many of the technological wonders do make our work lives better, they often affect our members in ways that are not well understood. How do we find solutions to our problems that are good for everyone? This is not a new question. Libraries can learn from how others have balanced the effects technologies have on people throughout times of great change.

Matthew Reidsma

October 04, 2013
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  1. These wonderfully intricate things we build have become part of

    people’s lives, things they use every day. “ Trent Walton “Tongue-Tied,” The Manual, Vol. 2, 2011. p.70
  2. “ Indifference towards people and the reality in which they

    live is the one and only cardinal sin in design. Dieter Rams
  3. In an email to me, March 21, 2013. So how

    do you fix this if your tool is, indeed, just a label-maker? “ William Keillor, Bethel University
  4. Welcome to OPAC Catalog of Your Local Library You may

    search for: A > AUTHOR T > TITLE J > JOURNAL B > AUTHOR/TITLE SEARCH S > SUBJECT W > KeyWORD C > LC CALL NO P > Repeat PREVIOUS Search R > RESERVE Lists I > Library INFORMATION O > OTHER Libraries F > Campus/Faculty Information database V > VIEW your circulation record D > DISCONNECT Choose one (A,T,J,B,S,W,C,P,R,I,O,F,V,D)
  5. FUNCTIONAL 1 WHAT CAN THIS DO FOR US? Powers, William.

    Hamlet’s Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. p.160.
  6. BEHAVIORAL 2 HOW DO BEHAVIORS CHANGE? Powers, William. Hamlet’s Blackberry:

    Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. p.160.
  7. “ The library world has been far too gullible, far

    too willing to regard any technical advance as a service advance. Jonathan D. Lauer & Steve McKinzie Lauer, J. & McKinzie, S. (2002/2003). Bad moon rising: a candid examination of digital reference and what it means to the profession. The Reference Librarian, 79/80, 46..
  8. HUMAN 3 HOW DOES THIS AFFECT HUMAN EXPERIENCE? Powers, William.

    Hamlet’s Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. p.160.
  9. Your members don’t come to the library to find books,

    or magazines, journals, films or musical recordings. “ Hugh Rundle http://hughrundle.net/2012/04/04/libraries-as-software-dematerialising-platforms-and-returning-to-first-principles/
  10. They come to hide from reality or understand its true

    nature. They come to find solace or excitement, companionship or solitude. “ Hugh Rundle http://hughrundle.net/2012/04/04/libraries-as-software-dematerialising-platforms-and-returning-to-first-principles/
  11. http://nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/how-not-to-be-alone.html?_r=o Each step “forward” has made it easier, just a

    li le, to avoid the emo onal work of being present, to convey informa on rather than humanity. “ Jonathan Safran Foer
  12. “The Space Between You and Me,” The Manual, Issue #1,

    2012. The web is not an interlinking of servers and scripts. Each node is a person. “ Frank Chimero
  13. Designing for Emotion “ Aarron Walter We [should] stop thinking

    of the interfaces we design as dumb control panels, and think of them as the people our target audience wants to interact with.
  14. Junod, Tom. “Can You Say...Hero?” Esquire. November, 1998. We make

    so many connec ons here on earth. Look at us—I’ve just met you, but I’m inves ng in who you are, and who you will be, and I can’t help it. “ Fred Rogers