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Scott Peterson

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Professional Development

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  • Scott Peterson on 14 Jun 12
     
    Pricewaterhouse Coopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook predicts that E-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016. Total book spending is predicted to be relatively flat, with the total spending on print books declining while e-books will grow fast enough by 2013 to offset the decline. E-book spending is predicted to skyrocket in North America, but will grow slower in Europe and Asia, with Japan and South Korea as notable exceptions.
anonymous

Why Your IT Spending Is About to Hit the Wall - Wall Street & Technology - 0 views

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technology spending

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  • Between 2006 and 2010, demand for processing cycles (MIPS, servers and the like) has slowly approached an 18 erpcent annual growth rate in the big banks. Storage, by the way, has hit 45 percent per year -- the advent of Big Data is here -- and although the unit cost of storage is still dropping, storage cost pools around the financial industry are expanding out of control. The growth phenomenon is now exacerbated by market conditions, and Moore's Law just isn't enough.
  • Taking a step back, you will likely ask, "How can this be true?" The answer involves yet another "law" -- actually, a paradox observed in the late 1800s -- "Jevons paradox," which states:Technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource. William Stanley Jevons developed this hypothesis in 1865, based on his observations of coal consumption vis-à-vis the technology advances designed to improve the efficiency of coal usage. It was his argument that these improvements alone could not be relied on to reduce consumption; rather, they would lead to increased consumption -- and he was right. Today we talk about elastic computing; in 1865 Jevons focused on "elastic coal" – well, at least the demand was elastic.
  • So the aforementioned growth in demand (passing the 20 percent mark per year) is actually fueled in part by the inherent efficiencies created by Moore's Law. Through 2010 we were in the Moore's Law zone of managing IT costs downward. Now we are a new world governed by the effects noted by Jevons.
  • anonymous on 14 Apr 12
     
    Because of Moore's Law - the decreasing costs of computing power, we've become a world of Big Data and are now consuming ever more computing power at a rate that exceeds Moore's Law.
adrienne_mobius

New 'Digital Divide' Seen in Wasting Time Online - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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digital divide

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  • adrienne_mobius on 30 May 12
     
    Librarians may find this paragraph interesting: The new divide is such a cause of concern for the Federal Communications Commission that it is considering a proposal to spend $200 million to create a digital literacy corps. This group of hundreds, even thousands, of trainers would fan out to schools and libraries to teach productive uses of computers for parents, students and job seekers.
adrienne_mobius

Seven Top Trailers to Hook Kids on Books - The Digital Shift - 0 views

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book trailers

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  • adrienne_mobius on 13 Jul 12
     
    "Today publishers are spending as much as $20,000 a pop to create book trailers-30- to 90-second teasers, à la movie trailers, designed to generate virtual and word-of-mouth buzz and, of course, to sell titles."
Sharla Lair

Before You Innovate, You First Must Kill Your Company | trainingmag.com - 3 views

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Professional Development innovation

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  • Companies are investing major resources in training employees to“think big,” “get inspired,” and nimbly embrace change. Some have made significant progress in the last several years, but most innovation initiatives fall flat. Why? Because too many change initiatives simply add another layer of processes to the to-do lists of already overwhelmed and tired employees. Rather than piling on more, you must begin by getting rid of things rather than continually building on what doesn’t work. In effect, you must “kill” your company.
  • Therein lies the dilemma, because even as we shunt aside innovation in favor of more immediately gratifying business initiatives, most of us know that innovation—the ability to develop novel and useful ideas with a business purpose—is what will really drive growth and carry our organizations into the future. It’s, therefore, imperative that we better balance how much time we spend working internally on ways to make the status quo more efficient with time we spend examining what’s changing externally so we can start questioning the status quo altogether. We need to accept some risk, because innovation requires taking risks. We need to find ways to develop and support a culture that makes room for innovative insight. A company mired in complicated processes and short-term results is simply not in a position to encourage innovation, no matter how many new programs its leaders talk about or implement, or how often they demand innovation from their employees. It just won’t work. To create the company of tomorrow, you must break down the bad habits, silos, and inhibitors that exist today. That’s why you have to kill the company first. It’s probably the most innovative thing a leader can do.
  • The challenge for most companies isn’t how to get people to be more innovative; it’s how to stop paying lip service to innovation and create a structure and culture in which it actually can flourish and deliver results.
  • Sharla Lair on 26 Sep 12
     
    Do not ignore this article!  This article is quite timely with the all of the changes occurring in MOBIUS.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    Hm. If you see your company on the road, kill it? More seriously, this reminds me of some of the readings I had on library management back in graduate school-- how after awhile, a workflow begins to exist only to preserve itself, not to further the goals of the organization. In order for said organization to remain relevant, it's necessary to occsionally review workflows and procedures to see which ones are working and which aren't-- and can thus be dropped.
  • Sharla Lair on 28 Sep 12
     
    Spot on, Jennifer! Spring cleaning!!! The trick is to not wait too long to do it.
Donna Bacon

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  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
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