Chapter 1. Introduction

Authors

  • Jason Griffey

Abstract

Chapter 1 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 54, no. 1), “Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design”

Chapter 1 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 54, no. 1), “Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design,” introduces space metrics and smart buildings and discusses how recent technological advances can help librarians measure use in their library spaces. Having solid data that looks at use of library spaces, such as data collected by sensors, can provide librarians an ability to answer questions about how their space is used and with insight on planning for the future. The chapter introduces you to the technology that makes this possible—Internet of Things, computer vision, and artificial intelligence—and presents an overview of what’s covered in the report.

Author Biography

Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey is a librarian, technologist, consultant, writer, and speaker. He is the founder and principal at Evenly Distributed, a technology consulting and creation firm for libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other nonprofits. Griffey is an Affiliate Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and was formerly an associate professor and Head of Library Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Griffey was a winner of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries in 2015 for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. Griffey is also the creator and director of the LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open-source portable digital file distribution system. Griffey has written and spoken internationally on topics such as the future of technology and libraries, personal electronics in the library, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property.

References

Marilyn Strathern, “‘Improving Ratings’: Audit in the British University System,” European Review 5, no. 3 (July 1997): 308, http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1062798700002660.

Kristin Hohenadel’s article “The Library of the Future Is in Denmark,” Slate, August 25, 2016, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2016/08/25/dokk1_in_aarhus_denmark_is_the_best_new_public_library_of_2016.html.

James B. Hunt, Jr. Library at North Carolina State University’s video, “The Library of the Future” https://www.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary/watch/.

Gordon E. Moore, “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits,” Electronics 38, no 8 (April 19, 1965).

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Published

2018-01-04

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 1 (2018): January

Section

Chapters