2022-08-12 SPLAT Curiosity Report: Volume 12, Issue 5
Featured Story
Global Trends
I google-searched “Predicted Global Trends”. Stay curious, reflect on predictions, think about what they may mean for your library and patrons? Consider the list from the American Library Association Future Trends:
1. Society
2. Technology
3. Education
4. Environment
5. Politics and Government
6. Economics
7. Demographics
These big trends are broken down into focused areas:
1. Aging Advances
2. Anonymity
3. Artificial Intelligence
4. Badging
5. Basic Income
6. Blockchain
7. Co-Working Co-Living
8. Collective Impact
9. Connected Learning
10. Connected Toys
11. Corporate Influence
12. Creative Placemaking
13. Data Everywhere
14. Design Thinking
15. Digital Natives
16. Drones
17. Emerging Adulthood
18. Experiential Retail
19. Facial Recognition
20. Fandom
21. Fast Casual
22. Flipped Learning
23. Gamification
24. Haptic Technology
25. Income Inequality
26. Internet of Things
27. Maker Movement
28. Micro-mobility
29. Privacy Shifting
30. Resilience
31. Rethinking Rural
32. Robots
33. Self-Driving Cars
34. Sharing Economy
35. Short Reading
36. Smart Cities
37. Subscription Boxes
38. Unplugged
39. Urbanization
40. Virtual Reality
41. Voice Control
42. Worker Activism
If you want to look at them more in depth, here is the site.
I wanted to see what other places in the world were looking at so I found Ipsos, a data analysis company out of Turkey who researched and analyzed data about global trends. These are what they said were the top 10 global trends.
1. Dynamic Populations and the aging population.
2. Growing Opportunity and Growing Inequality, the left behind.
3. Megacities people moving to urban population is it a necessity or a choice?
4. Increasing connectedness and decreasing privacy online changing our behavior?
5. Healthier and sicker new illnesses, tired planet?
6. Rise of individual choice and fracturing of the mass market
7. Rise of the individual and decline of social cohesion
8. Cultural convergence and increasing extremes in politics, more tension?
9. Always on versus off the grid
10. Emergence of public opinion as a revolutionary force
Here is the site
I then searched somewhere in Asia to see their global trends. I found in Japan Sustainable Development Goals for the country.
1. No poverty
2. Zero hunger
3. Good health and Well-being
4. Quality Education
5. Gender Equality
6. Clean Water and Sanitation
7. Affordable and Clean Energy
8. Decent work and Economic Growth
9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
10. Reduce Inequalities
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
12. Responsible Consumption and Production
13. Climate Action
14. Life Below Water
15. Life on Land
16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
17. Partnerships for the the Goals
Here is their site.
Reviewing all three future predictions, there are some things they all have in common. “Inequality” is mentioned numerous times. “Life in Cities”, “Climate Change”, and “Health & Well Being of the Population”. Do you see other common worldwide issues? What issues are your library and patrons experiencing? Are there things we can do in our little corner of the world? Stay curious! It’s wise to look at the bigger picture.
By Eric Hovey
Fail Forward
We’ve all been there. You pour your heart into a program, and no one shows up. You try something new, and you fall on your face. Sound familiar? Fail Forward is the place to share your failures, and give you the opportunity to share what you learned from them. Did you promote your program in a different way after no one showed up? Maybe you took a new approach to the new thing you were excited about? Awesome! Share your story via our online form so others can learn, and realize that failure is often part of the process.
Approaching forward failing
Continual coincidental success doesn’t lead to much learning. I am constantly learning, and part of that can be failing. Working in libraries for almost 10 years, I’ve recently accepted a position that requires a deep dive into the unknown. You’re not growing unless your brain hurts, right? Well, it’s working! I hope I’m able to continually fail forward in this position, always taking inspiration from my sister’s high school yearbook quote circa 1997- Failure isn’t the worst thing in the world, not trying is worse.
By Mariah Farmer
Crush Corner
Is there a library you follow on social media who is always doing new and exciting things? How about a blog you follow that inspires you? What about a new idea, book, or resource that you want to share? Library Crush Corner is a place for those working in Idaho libraries to share what inspires them, and who or what they’re crushing on… in a professional sense. Share your story via our online form so we can publish it in a future issue!
Caldwell High School Library
I recently did some outreach at Caldwell High School to promote Summer Reading, Summer Reading Volunteer opportunities, and library card sign up. While I was there I was able to take a peek at their school library and talk to school librarian Cheryl Griebenow (she was the one who invited us out). I had recently read an article about how she redesigned the space to be more of a learning commons environment, so I was excited to see the changes. It looks amazing! There were a fair amount of students lounging around and enjoying the space. Great work, Caldwell High School!
By Monique Gaddy
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