Kay Cunningham's List: Trends

"When the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) polled its membership in July, fund raisers expected giving to increase by 5.3 percent over the course of the 2008-9 fiscal year. After wrapping up the 2008 calendar year, however, those sa

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Audio broadcast on the future of the library building

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"a two-year study sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Science (IMLS) that will identify the nature of anticipated labor shortages in the library and information science (LIS) field over the next decade"

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"Most of our information-seeking behaviour on the Web is through keyword search; pulling the information we need to use. The push approach has ended up getting a bad name because of its clumsy and intrusive nature. Think about banner adds and pop-ups; the

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"The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey."

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"Reference and research services, the front line of library service, are dealing with a far-less-predictable future. The asynchronous, asymmetrical threats facing us are very real hydra monsters challenging our roles in many ways, all having some truth. T

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"Let Jason Griffey take you on a guided tour into the future of mobile computing, where access is ubiquitous and librarians ply their trade in the information cloud"

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"TTW’s annual look at the trends and technologies that I believe will impact what we do in libraries and information centers."

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"digital magazine that includes in-depth product reviews and comparisons, interviews with senior information industry figures and monitoring of research to identify future trends"

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Use the database to search for trends affecting public library systems between 2002 and 2006. To get started, choose a state and then a county.

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Website traffic, what's hot, etc.

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Twitchboard and the possible future of social networks

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"The contextual web experience is fundamentally different because there is an understanding of what the user is doing. The combination of the information on the page and the user's behavior creates the context. Once you understand the user's context, you

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"for the 2008 study, we resolved to go beyond the numbers of the Technorati Index to deliver even deeper insights into the blogging mind. For the first time, we surveyed bloggers directly about the role of blogging in their lives, the tools, time, and res

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Create graphs tracking buzz, based on search terms. Click on point of graph to connect to blog postings by date.

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Top web news stories, determined by readers

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"compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames"

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"Trends and Predictions as presented by influencers and experts in different consumer fields" --Social Media

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News and articles and web_apps and trends

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"A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the

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