Emerging Library Technologies, written for librarians, information professionals, and graduate students, who are novices and experts alike in emerging technologies, is an introduction to some of the latest and hottest technologies in the news today such as robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, wearable technologies, drones, cyber security, and driverless vehicles. The author shows how professionals can use these technologies to teach other professionals in their academic libraries, forge strategic relationships to collaborate with departments on their campuses to provide research, resources, training, marketing, technology, and other initiatives to prepare students for STEM careers, and librarians and information professionals to keep abreast and build expertise with these emerging technologies. Innovative discussion on various technologies included together for the first time, never before considered for outreach in academic librariesCovers unique insights on how these technologies can be used in academic librariesContains questions for further discussion after each chapter to engage audiences INDICE: Introduction to Emerging Technologies Artificial Intelligence: AI is NearbyIs It a Bird, Is It a Plane: It's a Drone Coming Your WayIf You Print It, They Will Come: 3 D Printing in Your LibraryInformation Seeking with Big Data: Not Just the FactsDriverless Vehicles: Pick Me up at the .?Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality: What is Your Reality?Wearable Technologies from A to Z: In and Out of Academic Libraries
- ISBN: 978-0-08-102253-5
- Editorial: Chandos Publishing
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 180
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2018
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés