Chapter 5. Future Directions

Authors

  • Jason Griffey

Abstract

Chapter 5 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 54, no. 1), “Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design”

Chapter 5 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 54, no. 1), “Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design,” provides a forecast of the future of IoT technology and smart buildings, looks at the challenges of having too much data, especially as they relate to privacy concerns, and concludes with the potential benefits that smarter buildings and objects can have on improving library spaces, services, and offerings.

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.

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Published

2018-01-04

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 1 (2018): January

Section

Chapters