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2010 Midwinter Meeting Highlights • BOSTON Cognotes • Page 9 Integrated Systems Topic of LITA’s Top Tech Trends Discussion Group By Stacy L. Voeller Minnesota State University Moorhead he Top Technology Trends Discussion Group was held on Sunday, January 17. David Walker, Web Services Librarian, California State University System discussed the idea of using integrated systems for indexing of content in libraries. According to Walker, these would be “systems that take content form a variety of places and bring them together and index them prior to even making them available to users. This is a tech trend that can address a fundamental problem in libraries because right now we have systems that are disconnected. Bringing the data together into aggregated indexes will give users one place to look for RSS, for example, and one place for mobile feeds. Amanda Etches-Johnson, User Experience Librarian, McMaster University, talked about how user experience was a buzz word for 2009. “Like most buzz words,” said Etches-Johnson, “no one quite agrees what user experience really means. User experience design encompasses everything from building design to interface and web design. In the library world, we’re not ready to think about how users feel, we are worried about them finding what we need.” Etches-Johnson also indicated that T what is happening with mobile design will impact web design in the future. Lauren Pressley, Instructional Design Librarian, Wake Forest University, discussed augmented reality. Pressley said augmented reality is the “idea of blending virtual data with the real world. It’s a combination of the real and virtual that happens in real time and in a 3-d nature. A basic example is seeing the first-down line on the football field on television, but they don’t see it at the actual physical game.” Pressley also discussed the Horizon Report for 2010, and how the report is “predicting augmented reality will have an impact, and that you can get educational data through this augmented reality. In libraries, you could be in the stacks of the physical library and have this augmented app open and have specific titles jump out at you virtually.” Jason Griffey, Head of Library Information Technology, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, discussed how 2009 was “definitely the year for the iPhone and its app store. The apps store opened in mid-2008, and by January of 2009 they had downloaded 500 million applications. Today, there are 134,000 applications available, but only a few for libraries. These include the Washington, D.C. Public Library, OCLC, and Library Thing’s Local Books.” Griffey said even with this popularity, he believes 2010 is the year the app dies because of HTML 5 and CSS 3 who use description languages for writing for the web. In HTML 5, when you write it once, it will work on the phone, the desktop, everywhere. Anyone writing an app now needs to look at HTML 5.” New Research Topics Announced at DiversiTEA By Adrienne Chamberlin Simmons College n January 17, the ALA’s Committee on Diversity held its annual DiversiTEA, a proper tea party complete with sandwiches and assorted snacks. Veronica L. C. Stevenson-Moudamane, Chair of the Diversity Research Grant Advisory Committee, led the meeting. In 2002, the Diversity Research Grant program was started to address “critical gaps in the knowledge of diversity issues within library and information science.” The grant awards each recipient $2000 for original research, plus $500 for travel expenses to present their findings at the ALA Annual Conference. Two of the 2009 recipients spoke about the topics they are currently researching. Clayton Copeland from USC is exploring how to increase accessibility in libraries to everyone who is “differently-abled’, helping those with challenges become those with special abilities. Copeland is conducting studies where she asks people who are “differently-abled “about their library O experiences, learning about problems of access from their personal perspectives, or lived experiences.” She wants to get those who are “typically-abled” together with those who are “differently-abled” to discuss where libraries are now in terms of accessibility, and how to move forward with better solutions. Stephanie Maata Smith is working with two colleagues from Alabama in her research. She is learning from students with disability issues about what they need, and is forming strategies to adapt teaching styles to address those needs, particularly with technology that can sometimes pose challenges for the students. Smith sees two main problems, which are “the need to have trained library staff to serve users with disabilities, and how to make the technology already at hand more accessible and userfriendly.” She and her colleagues have set up two case studies to watch and learn from, with a view to effectively learning how best to serve users with disabilities. The results of these research projects will be presented at ALA’s Annual Conference in Washington, D. C. Attending the ALA Annual Conference in June? Come early so you don’t miss the . . . Announcing 2010 CIP SYMPoSIuM Choose PrivaCy Week May 2-8, 2010 Choose Privacy Week is a new initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the resources they need to educate and engage their users, helping citizens think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy. Print and online tools provide libraries with out-ofthe-box programming and outreach. Choose Privacy Week is a project of the aLa Office for Intellectual Freedom. For more information about Choose Privacy Week, visit www.privacyrevolution.org. For more Choose Privacy products, visit www.alastore.ala.org. 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