Top Tech Trends

This was a great session even if I didn't quite know 100% of the stuff they were talking about. But I usually don't in those. Mantra for session - "OPACS SUCK!". Or mostly suck.

Sarah H on LITA blog

Pace:
Auto classification and natural language entry
Not landlords of info space

Breeding:
Fewer better ILS products (sounds good to me!)

Lynch:
Net neutrality (this came up a few times and in later presentation too)
Data curation
Institutional repository vendor supported, lets more places offer IR
Content sharing not for preservation (flickr etc)

KGS:
Bite back against opac suckage
Findability
Managed open source
Privacy issues

Morgan:
VOIP
Webpages as blogs and wikis
Open source ideas and concepts moving into other areas
Users want to do more than just find things (more interactivity!)

Tennant:
Next gen finding tools – more than just opacs, stuff regardless of format
Rise of microcommunities – folks w/ arcance interests finding each other online and interacting (I got v cool restaurant recs for nola from garage punk message board)