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Poll Results: What Technologies will impact libraries in 2-5 years?
There were an amazing 395 responses to last week’s poll question: Which new technology(ies) do you think will have the most impact on libraries over the next 2-5 years? e-Books, mobile, and cloud computing technologies dominated the responses. Here are the results:
e-Books: 79 votes, 20%
Mobile Apps: 68 votes, 17.22%
Cloud Computing: 60 votes, 15.19%
Semantic Web: 31 votes, 7.85%
Social Publishing Applications (blogs, wikis, Twitter, YouTube): 30 votes, 7.59%
RFID: 25 votes, 6.33%
Social Networking Applications (Facebook): 23 votes, 5.82%
Augmented Reality Apps: 19 votes, 4.81%
QR Codes: 18 votes, 4.56%
Social Bookmarking (Pinterest): 18 votes, 4.56%
Location-Aware Technology (Foursquare): 12 votes, 3.04%
Other: 12 votes, 3.04%
And here are the results of the “Other” category
- Discovery Services
- HTML5 as an app platform
- Book scanners for ILL and photocopier replacement
- GIS
- iPad
- Mobile devices
- moble web
- large screen, gesture-based info exploration
- linked data
- None of the above
