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Library Technology Reports archives from April 2012
Gadgets and gizmos: libraries and the post-PC era.(Abstract)
April 1, 2012... Abstract After the publication of "Gadgets and Gizmos: Personal Electronics and the Library" back in 2010, it became obvious that there was a lot to say about the use of personal electronics in libraries from both a patron-support standpoint...
Introduction
April 1, 2012... Abstract Since my first issue on gadgets back in 2010, there's been enormous change in the world of personal electronics. This chapter looks back at the previous "Gadgets and Gizmos" issue of Library Technology Reports, judging how well I did...
The rise of the tablet.(Chapter 2)(Gadgets and Gizmos: Personal Electronics and the Library)(Abstract)
April 1, 2012... Abstract The rise of the tablet form-factor as a computing device reached new heights after the 2010 introduction of the iPad, It wasn't the first tablet but the combination of hardware and software cracked some code for commercial success...
E-Readers Now, E-Readers Forever!
April 1, 2012... Abstract While a tablet is a sort of "magic window" that becomes whatever you want via apps, the e-reader is a device almost entirely dedicated to a single function, that of reading long-form text. E-readers such as the Kindle and the Nook do...
Absolutely Fab-Ulous
April 1, 2012... Abstract Our current levels of technology are enabling many things that were complete science fiction only a decade or so ago, but no modern technology is more capable of inciting futuristic predictions than 3D printing. The very idea that...
It Just Gets Weirder
April 1, 2012... Abstract Chapter 5 is dedicated to general trends that I see coming in technology and computing over the next three to five years, including a ubiquity of cameras, insanely high-density displays, autonomous flying robots, and more. Each trend...
The New iPad
April 1, 2012... [FIGURE E.1 OMITTED] Just as I was about to wrap this LTR up, Apple decided it was time to release the latest version of its iPad (figure E.1), rendering a lot of what I had written somewhat dated. So here's an attempt to at least point out...
