'Through the looking glass: envisioning new library technologies' social media trends that inform emerging technologies

摘要

All of these social media trends have both direct and indirect implications for libraries. Libraries already use these platforms to market and reach their patrons. Looking forward, how these platforms develop will transform how libraries and their patrons communicate. Indeed, they will likely continue to transform the dynamics of social interactions and the resulting public record. As they develop ways of sharing and filtering, they will also continue to transform how information of all kinds, from news and movie reviews to cutting-edge academic research, reaches an audience. Libraries that could access and effectively use data about the social and entertainment habits of their community would be able to create new services to meet their community's needs. Indeed, while Google is not currently sharing the raw data it collects, Google is positioning itself as a service that can help institutions interpret this kind of data. As the platforms evolve, they will inform our search engines, our news filters, our physical spaces and ultimately the nature of our public discourse.