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"The verbal values of adulthood and adolescence clash, and to enter adult conditions, individuals must leave the verbal mores of high school behind. The screen blocks the ascent."

What frustrates Mr. Bauerlein is not these deficits themselves – it's the way a blind celebration of youth, and an ill-informed optimism about technology, have led the public to ignore them.

Trend #1 = Downloadable or streaming media - ebooks, videos, podcasts, lectures

We’re looking at a September 2007-August 2008 time frame when talking about these trends. There may be some overlap between them, but we’re getting an overview. Broad brush strokes are important.

They provide streaming audio for CE credits at his medical library. The Denver Public Library uses podcasts for storytelling. He polled the audience for how many used this trend and got just a few hands.

Trend #7 = MARC’s Death Knell

Embrace XML or such. LOC working group on the future of bibliographic control. A heated topic. People rethinking the longterm value of other data formats in the context of library information and data. Will be a long and controversial battle.

Trend #8 = Risk Tolerance

It’s OK to try things and even fail. Libraries are fairly traditional places that make sure they have every i dotted and t crossed before they introduce things. But we’re seeing from some successful commercial tools the idea of perpetual beta. We need to challenge the status quo, to be willing to take some risks and try some things in the library world.

There have been three revolutions in modern children's literature.

The first was instigated by John Locke. In founding a new political and intellectual order—a liberal, tolerant regime—he believed that reforming children's education was of the utmost importance. Notably, he advised against reading Scripture to children, because, as he wrote in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, the Bible was ill-suited to a "Child's capacity" and "very inconvenient for Children." Locke's aim was to take education from the hands of the clerisy, and to overcome its domineering and persecutory spirit.

Contrast Locke's sensibility with that of a contemporaneous textbook. The God-fearing New England Primer (c. 1690), included by the Norton editors, drilled children in their ABCs thus:

A: In Adam's Fall

We sinned all

B: Heaven to find

The Bible Mind

C: Christ crucify'd

For sinners dy'd

Over the years, child support has increasingly functioned less as a way to reduce or recover welfare costs and more as a forced subsidy on middle-class divorce. States are paid by federal taxpayers based on the amount they collect. This encourages them to neglect welfare families, for whom the program was designed, because there is little money to be had. Instead, enforcement agencies have shifted their focus to middle-class families, for whom the program was never intended, because they can collect large sums and, with them, lucrative federal funds, which can then be spent for any purpose. Using child support, state governments found they could raise revenue through the growth of single-parent homes.

The perversity of the incentives is diabolical. States have a financial incentive to generate fatherless children in the middle class, which they procure by providing sweeteners for single motherhood—expedited divorce, automatic and exclusive mother custody (regardless of fault), minimal visitation by fathers—turning as many men as possible into payers (including some who are not even fathers) and setting child-support awards as high as possible. It is hardly surprising that the vast majority of divorces in which children are involved are now filed by women.

he top concern among CIOs is attracting,
developing and retaining business-technology professionals,
according to the 2007 membership survey by the Society for Information
Management.

Don't be surprised if finding and keeping IT pros remains atop the
SIM list for a long time. The pool of potential IT pros won't grow if we
depend on our schools to produce the next generation of business technologists.
We have a literacy problem in the United States, especially in
math and sciences, and that doesn't bode well for the IT profession. The
U.S. ranks 24th out of 29 in math literacy among industrialized nations.
We're as math literate as Latvia. "Literacy is the price of admission for
competitiveness,"

Sam
loves math, and scored a 5—the top grade—in a calculus AP exam. He excels
in courses that require analytical thinking. But Sam's deeper passion is
composing classical music, and that's what he wants to study in college.

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While many parents steer their kids toward college programs that
promise relatively steady and lucrative careers, including those in IT management
and computer sciences, my wife—a longtime IT professional—
and I have been Sam's biggest champions in his pursuit of his passion,
though we know that few people earn a good living composing classical
music. The median annual salary of a classical music composer is $36,571,
according to Pay.com. Sure, Sam realizes to make a decent salary he'll need
to earn a doctorate and get a college professorship, yet there's no guarantee
he can land a job in academia because of stiff competition.

Ustream

If you haven't yet tried this new production and sharing tool, it's absolutely time to explore. Ustream is:

platform that provides live interactive video for everyone. Anyone with a camera and an Internet connection can use Ustream to broadcast to a global audience.