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What are emerging technologies ?

Start with why.

Core business. Our core business is linking information and people. There are new and better ways to do this and we need to know how.
Understanding all formats. Users will ask us about these information sources. Are we serving them well if we say “sorry I only know about information in some formats?”
Our users are required to keep up. In academic and special libraries, our users are required by our organization to keep up to date with technology in their fields. To support them, we need to know what that is.
Dealing with vendors and IT departments. If we know what tools are out there and how to use them, we can set some things up for ourselves and know how to specify what we need to others.
Can’t predict the future, so need to experiment. Without crystal balls, we don’t know for sure what will be widely used. We need to try and assess many services to find what works for our users.

1. You want to be able to serve your clients in 5 years time.

2. Understand the changes to what we do:

3. Personal benefits

It's taking responsibility for your own professional development

"You have time if you stop doing something else" Web 2.0 Questions I'm most often asked from Phil Bradley.
"there was enormous teamwork involved to ensure that everyone made the time to learn. That in itself is a major accomplishment in cultural change in creating a value system around progress, innovation and learning and having all staff, including management, visibly demonstrate support." 15 minutes per day - Stephen Abram

Not good swap:

1. Easy ways to learn:

2. Just choose 2 tools that suit your interests and use those. You don't have to know it all

3. Get a support network to share discoveries

4. Subscribe to these Library blogs

5. Subscribe to these non-library blogs:

6. Listen