[WEB4LIB] Re: next big thing?

[Matt Theobald]

My three cents...

- Invisible/deep web projects.
- Increased individual access to information vendor chain.
- Distributed sharing models for Knowledge Management.
- Reference Interview integrated into profiling for intelligent agents.
- The human roles in each of the above.

-Matt

Matthew Theobald
Information Specialist
Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System
theobald at ihets.org
(317) 263-8919

At 2/20/01 12:13 PM, you wrote:

>Big things:
>- e-ink/paper, ebooks that feel like regular books..and can get content by
>subscription wirelessly
>
>- something like a napster model of distribution
>
>- tremedously concentrated batches of information on DVD's  e.g. 10,000+
>American History books, documents, journals, bibligraphies, oral archives,
>image galleries..done serially or topically (the Roaring 20's..all related
>documents from the 1970's..with updates done by decade and every 2
>years!?)...if you specialized in the field what would you pay?  $500.00
>for such a disc...$5,000?  (I read once that a double sided, double
>density DVD (~17+Gigs) is equivalent to something like a stack of phone
>books like 112 stories high (a lot'a books!)
>
>-thinking way out...data havens with virtual collectives that build their
>own virtual libraries (either legally, illegally or more likely
>.negligently)..think Los Alamos Physics stuff x10 (make your own DVD!)
>
>of course these are not necessarily technologies that Libraries adapt and
>buy into..more of a competitive sort of thing..of course someone has to
>index the material whether it is wirelessly delivered or on a DVD
>
>Reminds me a quote I read in a cyberpunk book once (Heavy Weather I
>think), (paraphrased)
>"They'll get my 2017 Library of Congress (DVD) when they peel it out of
>cold dead hands!"
>
>I believe that there are some schools that are prototyping services in
>which they make a DVD with ALL textbooks, syllabi etc for the whole year for
>particular programs.
>
>.what next after that?   holodecks?   how about one UN sponsored
>worldwide, multilingual library with millions of e-books free (merely
>because you are a carbon-based lifeform on earth?)
>
>-Sam
>
>On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Drew, Bill wrote:
>
> > What will be the next "big thing" in information delivery that librarians
> > should watch out for?  I am thinking in terms of things of such import as
> > the World Wide Web and gopher.  Both changed how we deliver information.
> > ___________________
> > Wilfred (Bill) Drew
> > Associate Librarian, Systems and Reference
> > SUNY Morrisville College Library
> > drewwe at morrisville.edu
> > Home: http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/
> > Not Just Cows: http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/njc/
> > Library: http://www.morrisville.edu/library/
> > Have Laptop -- Will Travel.
> > "The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!" --
> > Author Unknown
> >
>
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