ALA2008: Top Technology Trends

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Sandy Swanson

LITA Blog has posted summaries of ALA 2008’s Top Technology Trends presentations. Interesting reading, for those of us treading water to keep up…

Sarah Houghton-Jan‘s trends:

  1. Bandwidth
  2. Sustainability
  3. Looking away from the bright shiny things and at ourselves instead
  4. Catalogs
  5. Open access content

Virtual Karen’s Top Tech Trends

  1. APIs
  2. Virtual participation in classes & conferences
  3. Mobile devices & technologies

Eric Lease Morgan’s trends

  1. Bling in your website
  2. Data sets
  3. Institutional repositories
  4. Mobile devices
  5. Net neutrality
  6. Next generation library catalogs
  7. Open access publishing
  8. Social networking
  9. Web-services based APIs

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