Beyond Reality: Expanding Your Library‘s Services to the Virtual

Presented at the Sharjah Library Conference, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.It’s no longer enough to build library services around the real world. Technology is enabling an entirely new set of worlds for libraries and our communities to explore and build, through the emergence expanded reality technologies. Augmented, virtual, and mixed reality comprise expanded reality -- collectively, they represent new modes for people to learn, experience, interact with, and explore knowledge, places, and activities that would otherwise be inaccessible. What should libraries be doing today to aide their users in these areas? What are the medium- and longer-term plans we should be making? And what in this brave new world might give us pause?https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151940/1/BEYOND REALITY — Presentation at the 2019 Sharjah Library Conference.pdfDescription of BEYOND REALITY — Presentation at the 2019 Sharjah Library Conference.pdf : Presentation slide