Virtual Reality and Libraries

Remember when we discussed presentation tools in libraries?  Well, picture this....

You're at the library, taking a tour, being delivered a presentation by a librarian, except you aren't. You're sitting on your sofa, in your home, cuddled up between the cats seeing the library and learning about all the incredible ways it can enhance you life.

The world of virtual reality will bring that to us.  We'll be walk around within the stories we're reading.  We'll receive virtual classes and presentations.  Do you ever become touring foreign lands on Google Earth?  Imagine what you'll discover when you can walk around in far away places with nothing more than a small piece of hardware and an internet connection.

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Facebook's recent acquisition of Oculus Rift to the tune of a cool $2Billion (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/22/facebook-oculus-rift-acquisition-virtual-reality) indicates that virtual reality is about to BLOW UP and become THE WAY we discover information.  Information discovery is the library's business and so what all that means is that the cultivation of VR technology puts libraries in the direct path of the VR trajectory.  Looking forward to it!

Digital Storytelling

This video sums up, pretty perfectly, the evolution of storytelling.  Mediums were left out, sure;  styles and aesthetics are skipped; though this is a digital video here we see a representation of the progressions from cave drawings, to sketches, to animation, to the digital result.

Digital story telling takes art and technology and blends them into a creation that neither could ever be capable of making without the other.

This company used digital story telling to help sell its product.  Digital story telling isn't something you can only do if you land a gig at Pixar anymore.

Libraries use digital story telling to engage young readers and entice artists of all ages.  Digital story telling is a creative outlet and a teaching tool.

Presentation Tools in Libraries

Presentation Tools in Libraries

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You guys. We don't have to live like this anymore!  Information is always with us.  We just have to seek it.  Have you heard that the library can offer you wonderful services?  Are you interested in learning about them, but just can't put yourself through a slow, boring presentation?  Never fear, Information Seeker!

Presentation tools used in libraries are as informative, convenient, and intriguing as libraries themselves are.  I present to you, in this blog you're reading, more on presentations by libraries.

Where do you happen to be, right now? At home? Ubering to the airport? On your lunch break? At the library?  It doesn't matter!  You can be in any of those places, or at any other place where you can access the internet and read this presentation.  And many other types of presentations offered by libraries.

Libguides, library websites, and social media are a few examples of access to library presentations that won't leave you looking like the young lady on the bottom, right-hand corner of the photo above, considering all the better ways you could have been spending the time you just gave to a power point presentation.

Check this out...
Super-awesome, mega-sweet libguide page

The Super-awesome, mega-sweet libguide page presents titles and information on books that librarians and book lovers choose to feature and highlight for readers' information.  Social media sites, like youtube, made distributing and accessing presentations simple.  Creativity and innovation is the new power point and accompanying speech is the limit.

I added a Popular Posts gadget so that new viewers can see what our blog community has taken a particular interest in seeing on our page.  This could be useful in case a reader can't quite recall a date or blog title but is trying to find a particular post with limited information.

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