GOING MOBILE, GOING GLOBAL
• Managing the growing complexity of delivery channels (desktop, web, mobile,
smartphone, tablet (and organising knowledge for multiple audiences and channels)
• New services and resources via apps:
- QRcodes and NFC
- Mobile search and Geo-location
- Mapping services
• Enterprise mobility: Intranet apps and collaboration
• Challenges around information access on devices: sustainability, viability, security of services
• Issues around licensing of products on devices e.g. security
• Mobile working and libraries
• Librarian focus: New roles and skills – mobile literacy
• Managing user expectations
• New role of the library: library as a space
eBOOKS: A NEW MODEL FOR PUBLISHING
• Social eReading
• eBooks and the user experience:
- using multimedia
- eReading apps
• eBooks and libraries
• eBook business models: e.g. Apple vs. Amazon vs. Sony vs. Publishers
• Print vs. digital: Managing Information assurance, access, accuracy and authenticity
• Open access/Open Standards (e.g. ePub)
• Emerging ecommerce models for digital lending
• Digital Rights Management (DRM)
SEARCH AND INFORMATION DISCOVERY
• Open source
• Mobile search
• Social & real time search
• Managing privacy
• Identifying, evaluating, incorporating reliable content/resources
• Semantic search and discovery
• Multimedia search
• Embedded search
• New and alternative search engines
SOCIAL MEDIA, COMMUNITY AND COLLABORATION
• Leadership: skills and capabilities for 21st century working
• Personal vs. professional use of social media
• Working outside the corporate firewall
- Balancing privacy and personalisation when using social tools
- Collaborating in the workplace
• Globally distributed team working
• Using SharePoint
• Knowledge sharing and creating trusted environment
• User generated content
• Crowdsourcing
• The role of the internet in society: eDictatorship and eDemocracy
• eScience/eResearch - partnering to provide shared services
• New and emerging business models around Twitter, e.g. Quora.com
THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSION
• Diversification of the profession: evaluating changing roles
• Working creatively with social media for value and efficiency
• Aligning with the organisation: New roles to remain in current job
• Options for "independent information professionals”
• Information Professionals as content curators
• Librarians and the impact of self service
• Proving value: how information and knowledge management skills create value for organisations
• Management, marketing and negotiation skills for information professionals
• Information Governance
• Shared services and outsourcing
SEMANTIC WEB, OPEN AND LINKED DATA, OPEN STANDARDS
• Open and linked data creating new resources for improved information delivery
• Open standards
• Open and linked data in Government - where next?
• Training to use and interpret: skill sets and capabilities
• Licensing and business models in a world of linked data
• Apps and Visualisations
• Mash Ups
• Taxonomies, folksonomies and enterprise semantics
INNOVATION IN SERVICE PROVISION
• Smarter working: service provision with fewer resources and staff
• Libraries working with museums and archives in new ways: future roles of information
Institutions
• Collaboration models
• Big Society
• Smart Cities: joined up services
• New models for delivering public services (LC comments: moved from above theme)
CLOUD COMPUTING
• New roles for libraries and librarians
• Issues of: Responsibility, ownership and trust
• Moving to Google Apps
• The ‘G’ Cloud
• Software as a Service
• Platform as a Service
• Infrastructure as a Service
