Top Technology Trends

A few panelists from the ALA Annual Top Tech Trends session have posted their trends to the LITA blog. Be sure and check out their posts for full explanations of each trend, but here’s a quick run-down of what each listed as their top technologies for libraries to watch.

Karen Coombs

• APIs Galore
• Virtual Participation in Classes and Conferences hits its Stride (Maybe).
• Mobile devices and technologies

Sarah Houghton-Jan

• Bandwidth
• Sustainability
• Looking away from the bright shiny things and at ourselves instead
• Catalogs
• Open Access Content

Eric Lease Morgan

• “Bling” in your website
• Data sets
• Institutional repositories
• Mobile devices
• Net Neutrality
• “Next generation” library catalogs
• Open Access Publishing
• Social networking
• Web Services-based APIs

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