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It’s Griffey’s first time in Canada! Welcome!

• stats…

  • 4.1 billion people have a cell phone

  • 2.4 billion people use cell phones for texting. texting is by far the most used communication method

• trends…

  • most of these phones are currently  “dumb phones”

  • by 2011, most phones will be smart phones

  • Nokia largest global manufacturer of smartphones 2009

  • before the iPad launched in Canada, there were over 6000 already in use in Canada

  • Canada only has a 67% cell phone penetration rate, while Ireland has a 120% cell phone penetration rate. The US is at 91%

  • MIFI from Sprint and Verison. 3 credit cards thick. Be your own portable hot spot. About $100 in US.

  • Notionink (same peops that made XO “One laptop per Child” ) Cool screen technology for use in sun, etc.

  • Verizon is interested in working with Google and leveraging Chrome as a web based operating system

  • 2 million ipads sold in 60 days!

  • new iphone 4 has a gyroscope in it: to tell where in “space” it is.

• future…

  • Gibson quote: “the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed”

  • in five years, the iphone is going to be “in cereal boxes”, so accessible

  • 4G technology = WiMax & LTE

    • 3G gets about 5MB/sec downloading

    • LTE STARTS at 100MB/sec “like walking around with an ethernet cord in your pocket”

  • flip scanning for books: 200 pages a minute by flipping through the book. researcher was asked where he saw it going, he said “it’s going to be a cell phone”. how does this change the library world? walk in, sit down, rip a book, walk out with it!

  • Google goggles: take a picture of something and Google figures out what it is you’re looking at by object recognition, then search, then results return. leverage this into the Google translation device: take a picture of a different language, and get a translation result. combine THAT with flip scanning! woah.

  • Clay Shirky: “technology doesn’t become socially interesting until it becomes technologically boring”

• issues…

  • privacy, bien sur!

  • DRM (Digital Rights Management)

For more and for slides, etc.: www.delicious.com/griffey/olita

askON CALL CiL prez

Presented By Joan Goodbody and Laura Hjerpe

1. Human Powered Search
Using human intervention.

• OAIster
• citeulike
• Onlinebooks
• LibraryThing

Human Powered + Social Web = Real Time Search

• yauba

2. Semantic Search
works best with deep web to get best results.

• sensebot
• wolfram|alpha
• bing
• cognition

3. Federated Search

• Scirus
• DeepWeb
• Science Research.com
• Mednar
• Biznar
• WorldWideScience
• Science Accelerator

4. Vertical Search
Domain-specific search, part of a larger sub-grouping known as “specialized” search. Some overlap with Federated search.

• Truevert

Presented by Mary Ellen Bates of Bates Information Services at BatesInfo.com

1. Newsy.com:
The Week meets YouTube. Human editors summarize the news. One-sentence summary.

2. Google Buzz:
Access via Gmail. Has Google stars. Rudimentary search. No date sort of results. Includes other social media sources.

3. Buzzzy.com:
Searches Google Buss plus other social media. Results are chronological. Limit by language.

4. Factery.net:
Searches Yahoo Boss and Twitter. Ranks by FactRank and includes tweeted urls. SERP has facts, not extracts.

5. Technorati:
Authority search is GREAT! Search by blog title or post. Shows hottest posts in various channels.

6. SlideFinder.net:
Search tool for searching slide decks. Crawls through content in PPT pages. Search for words in the notes. Add-in lets you search while in PowerPoint.

7. World Govt Data:
Compiled by The Guardian. Focus on gov data sources US, UK, Australia, NZ. Downloadable data sets.

8. Factual.com:
Like Wolfram|Alpha, but as a wiki. Now primarily Wikipedia content.

9. Twitter lists
Create and publish an RSS on your faves. Can see whose list a user is on. Like a “super follow”.

10. Listorious.com:
Spiders public Twitter lists. Find lists on a topic. ID experts.

Slide deck at Batesinfo.com/extras

I’m here in sunny Crystal City, Arlington Virginia! CiL 2010 is off to an incredible start. People keep knocking my socks off by their friendliness and special knowledge in so many facets of librarianship.

Not a lot has been written about inappropriate behaviour in virtual reference. The askON service only receives about 6% inappropriate behaviour in the public sector. There is only 1% in the academic sector.

askON has visitor and staff policies and protocol for inappropriate behaviour, but we are interested in developing further training for best practices in identifying and managing visitor behaviours that run the gamut between silly and abusive.

Here’s the full speakers list and here’s my session! So many virtual friends to finally meet in person. So fun!

It was also my first official time presenting at a major conference, which was very exciting!

On Wednesday, Kathryn Klages, Klara Maidenberg, and I presented a half-day preconference on “The 23 Skills and Habits of Great Virtual Reference Staff”. Sections consisted of: VR History Overview; askON Operations Overview; askON CALL Pilot Project Overview; RUSA; Inappropriate Behaviour; 23 Behaviours  which were interspersed with four interactive exercises.

On Thursday, Tim Ireland and I presented “Virtual Reference Voice…The Next Frontier” where I was able to report on some initial findings from our ongoing askON CALL pilot project.

The askON CALL pilot will continue through April where I’ll present final results at Computers in Libraries conference in Arlington Virginia on April 13, 2010. I’m SO excited about this because I’ve never been to CiL before and I will be able to “meat” the rest of my personal learning network of librarian rock stars who have been incredible supporters, mentors, and amazing virtual friends!

In this time of economic restraint, Knowledge Ontario must ensure that it can demonstrate the strongest possible case to potential funders of the value of its work. We can make the case that through its provincial partnerships and collaborations, KO services generate significant cost savings. Now we are documenting the value of the services to Ontarians.

While we have a compelling story to tell, the most powerful part of that story is you. That’s what gives us the ability to describe the hundreds of “on the ground” experiences that provide real and lasting impacts in the lives of people in communities across Ontario. We ask your help in telling the stories that demonstrate the value of our work and make it tangible to funders.

Thank you for taking the time to fill out the KO postcard now.