OPENING SESSION
Nancy Flick – Pres. Of IUG Steering Committee
Introduced this year’s IUG Steering Committee
Went over new and different things at IUG in terms of planning
e.g., boxed lunches during forums taking place during lunch on Tuesday, Library Service Live Theatre, which are intense little session on a particular topic done by III
Jerry Kline’s Speech
Corporate Update-
93 new libraries on board with III
III again top in LJ survey from April
III also ARL leader
III is also ULC leader
III also leader in retention, nearly 99% if you go back to InnOPAC
Market Share Academics: 32% of academics using III out of all systems
19% of Public Libraries use III
Over the last two years the mergers have made the market choices very limited. This is may not really be good for libraries. III is not focused on buying other companies to expand, as other ILS vendors have been doing. They believe in growing the product rather then buying other companies to expand the customer base.
82% of people at III are part of services and support. 110 of 350 III staff have MLS.
A product development team – working with libraries on putting out products, like Encore, worked with 13 other libraries to develop this product. Agile R&D – working with libraries. Integrated support team – iterative process like Encore which was done very rapidly. 100 libraries on Encore now.
Development initiative – contentpro, Express Lane self check out, circa hand held workstation.
Betsey Graham introduced innovative award winners
1 – Most innovative implementation of an eresouce discovery Birmingham Public Library
2 – Innovative staff program
Second place -staff wiki at West Palm Beach Public Library
First place – Los Vegas Clark County Library District
3 – Most innovative WebPAC
Second place – Lewis and Clark College Watzek library
Second, second place – eLGAR Library for the greater Auckland Region
First Place – Mid Hudson Library System
4 – Innovative Patron Services
Second Place – Hong Kong
First Place – Ryerson University Library
Larry Irving is the President and CEO of the Irving Information Group – He coined the term the “Digital Divide.” He expanded on this concept and discussed how it effects libraries. In the 90’s Mr. Irving created a web portal with Magic Johnson and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz called UrbanMagic.com, which focused on the African American community. How did the digital divide come about? Irving traveled around the country and saw how most urban areas lacked technology, while places like Cupertino Calf. had lots of new technology. He began to quantify the have nots lack of access to the Internet: lower income, older, etc. To counter this trend, the Clinton administration began to give grants to libraries in order to bring technology to these groups, e.g. New York Public Library, Charlotte’s Web in the Charlotte Public Library, etc. Irving himself was a product of the NYPL. He read a lot and traveled the world through books as a child. Irving notes that libraries have always been the institution that helped even the divide for the have nots.
Every 15 mins. the web now adds as much digital information as the library of congress collected in 200 years. Video is changing the world. Youtube is using 10% of the Internet. Teachertube, Godtube, Pandora, Blinkx, HULU, etc. are examples of the exploding use of video on the web. Video is exploding. We are now talking about exabyte networks to handle web traffic. By the year 2010, 20 households will consume what the entire world in 1998 used. CD and DVD’s are on the way out to be replaced by downloads. But we need massive networks to handle all this. Half the US now has broadband: 48% whites 40% blacks (41% Latinos) have broadband. The bigger factor now is not race but income, geography, and age. Connect Kentucky is a project that mapped the state of Kentucky to find where broadband was lacking. The result was used to increase broadband by 58%. Calif. is doing the same thing now, mapping the state to see who needs broadband and figured out how to get it too them.
The US is behind the rest of the world in terms of fast broadband. While the US talks about 200 kilobit broadband, the rest of the world is way ahead with much faster speeds. Irving believes we need to have a 100-megabit vision! Let’s think big! In 1993 10 million users were on net, in 1999 100 million were on the net, 1.6 billion or 1 in 4 will be on the net by 2010.
3 billion people have cell phones today. China and India have the most cell phones users. 2 billion cell phones were sold last year. 125 million of those were smart phones. This means voice and video to cell phones. The largest seller of cameras last year was Nokia, the cell phone maker. 1 in 7 homes do not have wired phones, only cell phones. Kids today are not talking as much as texting. 31% under 30 vs. 6% over 30 access the Internet via their cell phone, or 1/3 18-30 use cell phones to access the internet. Libraries in US, 30% have broadband speeds under 1.5 megabits.
Libraries are so important in terms of helping people sort through all the info, the good from the bad, i.g. information literacy. We need to invest in libraries to keep them open more hours. Otherwise, the technology will not be available to everyone.
Public media in this country is under par. Compare our public broadcasting to Britain’s, where all their programming is available for download. Online access to digital media, digital content, needs to be online for viewing/downloading.
BUSINESS MEETING
2007 1182 members
2008 1227 members
John Culshaw, IUG Programming Committee Chair
1590 attendee this year
462 first time attendees
110 international from 19 countries
153 sessions
79 iug sessions with 22 repeats
32 iii sessions with 20 repeats
125+ Presenters
18 poster sessions
IUG 2009 Program Chair is Carol Gyger for this 17th year.
Anaheim at Hilton May 17-20
IUG 2010 Program in Chicago at the Sheraton.
IUG Beacon Award
Elizabeth Thomsen of NOBLE in Boston.
