Fwd: [lita-l] Why and how librarians have to shape the new cloud computing platforms.

Carl ends this excellent blog post with three recommendations that I 
think are relevant to NGC4LIB:

  * We have to provide *knowledge creation platforms, not just knowledge
    discovery platforms*. This means providing tools to make it easier
    for the user to take existing knowledge and build new knowledge. To
    copy text, pictures, videos or sound recordings into a new work
    while automatically handling copyright clearance and/or creating the
    footnotes and bibliography. Tools that allow us to reach beyond the
    research and use a variety of analysis tools to work with the data
    behind the research, to create our new works using standard tools
    and to seamlessly feed the results of our efforts into the open
    access processes for review, publication and further distribution.
  * We need to provide *contextual support*, the ability for library
    members to, when they're working with existing knowledge, easily
    understand the environment in which it was created, the funding
    sources behind it, and to be able to say, through our technology:
    "Show me an opposing point of view, or show me other critical
    commentary on this view" We don't want to place our user's in a
    "filter bubble", we want to place them in a "learning bubble" a
    place above biases, above unspecified and un-modifiable filtering.
  * Our services also need to pay a lot more attention to the users
    needs and experiences. This is another place where aggregation of
    data about users, their lives and where they are in the continuum of
    their life can be used to help us know what they'll need and when
    they'll need it. Like so many business sectors, we need to use this
    data and analytics to provide our members with better, customized
    and very pro-active services. *Because if we don't businesses will
    provide it direct to our end-users*. Our future rests in providing
    unique services that our users want, need and value.

kc




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Subject: 	[lita-l] Why and how librarians have to shape the new cloud 
computing platforms.
Date: 	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:13:37 -0400
From: 	Carl Grant <carl_r_grant_at_mac.com>
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CC: 	Carl Grant <carl_at_care-affiliates.com>



**Please excuse any cross posting.**

I wanted to share with you all a blog post I've done concerning a topic I addressed at the NISO update at ALA Annual in Anaheim;

"Why and how librarians have to shape the new cloud computing platforms."

If you heard the talk at NISO, you can skip this, but if not, I addressed some topics that deeply concern me about the future of librarianship and these new technology platforms and that I strongly feel need to be thought about and discussed by all of you.  I hope you'll find the post informative and provocative and of course, would be delighted to hear your thoughts/responses on the lists, by email or on the blog.

You'll find the post at:

http://thoughts.care-affiliates.com/2012/06/why-and-how-librarians-have-to-shape.html

Have a great weekend.

Best,

Carl

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