Welcome to this Information Services Today webinar on Engaging Information Users. This webinar addresses content from Part 3, Information Services, specifically focusing on chapters 14, 17, and 18. This webinar is part of a 10 webinar series representing the diverse authors and topics of the second edition of my book, Information Services Today in Introduction. As the editor, I am thrilled to be presenting this webinar series in conjunction with my textbook, Information Services Today in Introduction. Hearing directly from the contributing authors as they reflect and share their insight on today's information landscape is a unique opportunity to glean from their expertise both the opportunities and challenges that lie on their horizon. In this article titled, Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google, John Palfrey states that the library is an institution, the library is an institution has been fundamental to the success of our democracy. Libraries provide access to the skills and knowledge necessary to fulfill our roles as active citizens. Libraries also function as essential equalizing institutions in our society. Part 3, Information Services, Engaging, Creating, and Collaborating via Technology highlights the various roles both in person and behind the scenes that guide users through the information seeking process. The roles information professionals perform in providing information technology literacy instruction is ought and to assist the user are also explored. In this webinar, we'll focus on three chapters. Chapter 14 explores user experience with an emphasis on how to design services, programs, and spaces to meet the needs of a variety of users. Chapter 17 focuses on the hyperlink library and the challenges and opportunities of an anywhere, anytime information access model. Chapter 18 introduces the concept of creation, culture, and maker spaces in information organizations and offers strategies for leveraging the desires of patrons and shared resources to engage users. Of tremendous value to this book are its contributing authors. These authors were specifically chosen for their expertise, passion, and commitment, not only to the field of information science, but also to the professional development of tomorrow's information leaders. I would like to now introduce the panel of authors for this webinar. Courtney McDonnell, librarian and author of Putting the User First defines user experience, explores user-centered design principles and excellence in practice and highlights essential techniques for identifying, implementing, and assessing improvements in user experience, both for online and in-person experiences. Courtney is the author of Chapter 14, User Experience. Dr. Michael Stevens, author of The Heart of Librarianship and the particular office hours column for Library Journal, emphasizes that the ability to share, collaborate, and reflect with information users while quickly responding to new technologies has become a necessary component of the information professional skill set. He is the author of Chapter 17 on the Hyperlink Libraries. Dr. Christian Fonticero, coordinator of the University of Michigan's space project, dives into maker programming, which brings together technologies of the past with innovative cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. She is the author of Chapter 18 on Creation, Culture, and Maker Spaces. There are six key themes for the second edition of Information Services Today in Introduction. Chapters 14, 17, and 18 address four of these themes. These chapters all provide a key overview of the state of the field beginning with the history of the information organization and key influencers to forecasting future trends and issues that will require information professionals to remain forward-thinking. They also address how libraries and information centers will remain valuable entities in their communities, but to thrive they will need to remain creative, innovative, and technologically advanced. Additionally, they address new competencies, roles, and opportunities for information professionals, and they address challenges and key issues of the field and for the sustainability and essentialness of information organizations. So Courtney, Michael, and Kristen, what is your interpretation of these themes and how do they specifically relate to your chapter's content? Courtney, let's begin with you. Thanks, Sandy. As I was thinking about these themes, especially in the context of user experience, one of the things that I think a lot about, I feel like the conversation about user experience has been one that has been growing in libraries and certainly in the general market. And it's a thing that we have really talked about mostly in terms of the web first, I think. It felt like a technology thing, but to me we really try to focus a lot here and I try to focus on my own thinking about really thinking about the user and the experience and its sort of totality and understanding that, you know, I used the idea of a sort of like if you think about film strip or something like that, you can see the story happening with these journey maps. People are coming and going through their lives. They're spending time in the library and the information organization and then they're going on with the rest of their journeys. And so for that reason, most people that are not information professionals are spending most of their time in the sort of general commercial web, the open web, it could be anything. So when I say in the slide that the commercial market tends to set the mental models and expectations for how things work on the web and in person, I'm talking about how much time and how many products do you use from Google? How often are you in Amazon? How often are you in Apple or any other, one of sort of the tech giants that people are using just for their day to day life, their to-do lists and to connect with their family and wish them happy birthday and all of those things. It's not necessarily a question of whether this is better or worse or setting us up as some sort of an opposition to these types of commercial entities, but just to know that that becomes sort of the new normal for how people think about email or they think about communication or how a button should look or their phone behaves, right? So all of those things I think are important for us to take into practice or into consideration in our own practice because our services, our information, our people, our collections are hugely important and valuable to all the different patrons that we serve throughout the community. I think also one of the things that I see happening in terms of these themes and talking about the sort of global and diverse nature of today's information landscape, I feel like the sort of larger global perspective takes things up to a much larger scale than perhaps information professionals have been accustomed to having to think at all times. And certainly the question of user experience is one where I think you're always, in my mind, I'm always sort of switching between our very localized user experience of who are the people who are physically coming into, you know, my reference task or whatever it is in this specific geographic location right here that are enrolled in this school, what have you, versus sort of like who are the ones maybe are part of my community, but they might not come in and see me versus my potential group of users, which could be anyone all around the world, which I'm sure Michael will talk about when he talks about hyperlink libraries. It's hard for us to tell now who our users are, so we have to be really thoughtful about what sort of characteristics and what our mission is and organization. And then that kind of, I think, helps tell us what our our theme should be. But when this happens in a global environment, you know, and you're switching back and forth between like, it's these people, it could be everyone, it could kind of make you feel like, ah, you know, how do you serve everyone? My advice to you in the chapter is don't think about it as serving everyone in that way of to sort of, you know, amorphous, you know, everyone to really start to engage with your community and find out what are those characteristics that are the things that they want to accomplish the things you can help them with. And that will both enable you to be, you know, keyed in to the sort of diverse characteristics while at the same time not having kind of a vague, anonymous sort of a user, right? So I think the methods that we do are different, but obviously the types and values that we have of what we're doing these things for endure. And that's how I've kind of anchored my user experience work where things change kind of all the time. And then how do we engage with this in an environment where I think risk has not typically been part of the portfolio of something that information organizations have focused on. I mean, we talk about preservation of content and all these things. And so it can feel risky to think about how do we change all of our methods. But I don't know that it has to be scary. I think it can be an opportunity. Thank you so much, Courtney. And so, Michael, what are your thoughts? Well, I wanted to highlight two of the key themes. The first one is how libraries and information centers are going to remain viable. And I see three things happening here. I see an increase in the library perceived as a community space. And here you're looking at the Dock 1 library in Orhus, Denmark, where, and this is a quote from one of the leaders of this library, we designed this brand new library. We designed our library for people, not books. And that's really, that's kind of a statement that makes you think. But it might be a little rattling as well to librarians, but it really says that they designed this building for the community. The next area is the library as classroom. And that's within the library walls or virtually there are opportunities of all kinds to learn. Formal learning, informal learning, via technology around the globe, connecting to other places, virtual field trips, as well as hands-on learning with all the different technologies that we're reading about in the chapters and learning about as we look at creation culture and maker spaces, et cetera. Third, because we talk so much about technology, I want to remind everyone that hyperlinks are people too. And having people come together and make connections can be so important. So let's switch a little bit from the viability of libraries to what roles we should play. And just very quickly, number one, I think we need to be curious as information professionals, curious about our users, curious about the world and curious about technology. Second, we need to be as creative as possible. And that might be thinking outside of the box or changing up services. And third, and this one's very important, and this is sort of the emotional heart of what I write about in the chapter is that's empathy. And that's understanding where our users come from and putting ourselves in their shoes. Thank you so much, thank you so much, Michael.  So I want to draw on the big theme of community. Michael talked about it in terms of empathy. I really want to talk about how excited I am about libraries and information centers really focusing not on what outside institutions say is important, but on what our own community wants and needs are given the huge diversity we have in this nation. If we look on the next slide, you'll see a little bit about some ideas that I think we want to pay attention to as we think about our libraries as situated within communities. And we talk about creation spaces or design labs or studios or maker spaces. And one is the reality that library maker spaces are evolving in ways that are distinct from other kinds of maker spaces, distinct from the community model or the industrial model or even K-12 maker spaces or higher education ones. And so it's important when we are engaging in this kind of work that we're really tuned into what does this community want and need? How is this community already served in those dimensions? And that helps us avoid what I like to call the legend of the dusty 3D printer, which is we bought this thing because everybody said we needed one, but it turns out there's almost nobody in the community who uses or needs a 3D printer and they have their own. Really making sure that that sort of corner of shame that's in a work room in every public library doesn't also contain choices that were maybe made with a little bit of poor skills. And knowing where there are opportunity gaps and where you can fill in. The other thing I think that's emerging as these progress is that we're seeing that there's some power in traditional practices that some people are looking for a break from technology and so in some communities those classic things like Michael showed in his video make a big difference. It looked like knitting in his group could be whittling. I'm also noticing that a lot of the early rhetoric about entrepreneurship and career development in early maker space discussion has sort of gotten lost in the shuffle and I want to suggest that that might be a place to revisit. You could tell we're very energy efficient here and also this concern about beware the magical object. This idea that one special kit that we buy is going to by itself be transformative. So that's my thinking about the theme of community. Thank you so much Kristen and also Michael and Courtney. I just wanted to see if you had some of the comments of that the other speakers maybe triggered some thoughts or ideas. Do you have any responses or things you'd like to contribute? I totally agree that we're sort of coming back around to that idea of the knitting group and the more the things that libraries have done so well for so long and people may be looking for those things as a break from technology. It's a very good point. I would add on to that as well that I think for a little while we may have conflated sort of the danger of the shiny thing, which I think both Kristen and Michael have touched on, that we may have accidentally conflated technology or some sort of mediated experience through technology for connection and those are not the same things and all information organizations are a place where people can come together and connect with each other, they can connect with materials, they connect with a 3D printer, whatever it is it's meaningful but that there's all of these levels of that sort of tangibility versus the onlineness and I think in order to be able to serve people in the way that it's going to be the most meaningful to them, we have to think at all of those levels and that's what I was sort of trying to touch on, we talk about user experience, it's like this online thing that's just out there but when people come in your building they're having a user experience with the chair that they're sitting in and with the lighting and with how quiet or loud it is and how they can make those choices so I thought all of those points were really interesting that you made, thank you. Yeah and I love the idea of user experience porting itself out of just evaluating websites and apps and thinking about sort of the overall experience, if we're entering the experience economy then the ways in which people interact, not just with our stuff but with our staff with our building is so critical. Thank you so much, those are really great points. So let's now move on to direct our attention to today's information landscape. The first edition of this book came out three years ago and as you know the field of library and information sciences in constant flux. So what are some of the key changes as they relate to your chapter's topic that have occurred since the first edition came out three years ago? Let's start with you Courtney. Thanks Sandy. So a couple of these have actually come up in our conversation thus far. What I have seen is a noticeable increase in the interest in and attention to user experience in libraries and as that interest and attention is increasing we're also seeing the focus getting broader from being really a question of like usability which is a different sort of a question of whether something is usable per se rather than the sort of entirety of the user experience and that's something that I touch on in my chapter but if you walk into your building as if you've never been there before I think you just really notice things in a really different way than you do when you just you know try the same way to work every day you stop noticing a lot of things you know that it takes a lot for you to be like oh my gosh they painted that building blue. Well people are having those experiences every single day in the buildings that we're in as well as I think for our websites and our web applications and I think that that's one of the things I wanted to kind of allude to when we spoke before about the commercial models. These subtle changes in like where a search box works or how much information we have to ask people for versus what they can sort of retain without having to retype it on a small thing these are things I think that are valuable for us the method of how they're getting to the information is really crucial for us to think about and I think we can see this in the field there's more positions with phrases like user experience administrative positions I think going back to Michael's point about buildings there's I think I see a real start to shift in renovations as I observe and the types of buildings and what kinds of spaces we're building and how we're trying to think about them flexibly and not just as a giant container for inventory which frankly you know I work in a building that is a giant cube we call it the Trisket in the sky because it was going to be a closed stack library that's what it was for is for the books not even for the people to be there so it's been a challenge for us to think about how do we make that make sense and then I think as many of us with older buildings get together this community of practices building and when there's conferences like designing for digital or journals the you know we've the journal library user experience which is open access and I'm involved with that group where we're trying to have these conversations with each other about what are these things mean and how do we engage thank you Courtney Michael what are some of the things that you've seen this is so interesting to me to hear everybody coming together and and how the the themes are aligning so well so the first thing I want to say is but when I the chapter that I wrote for the first edition the book was very much focused on technology and mobile technology that has not gone away and these things are still super important and it seems like everybody is carrying them around but if we look at what's happening with the design of buildings and for example the four spaces of the public library model that the doc one library is built on that emphasizes a space for experience a space for user involvement a space where users feel empowered and a space for innovation it's fascinating to think that we're we're sort of back to spaces and as Courtney said back to buildings and redesigning buildings that not only house our collections but if we go a little bit farther that we're we are also providing quiet areas for reflection and I think the next slide has that there it is where sort of providing that balance for folks and it's interesting to think about libraries that have had adult story times where they they just read poetry and let people relax and reflect or even meditation rooms and finally this is such an interesting example I wrote about in the the first chapter and it carries on the first version of the chapter into the second edition spaces in libraries that encourage user creativity this is a variation on the idea box this is at the St. Joseph County Public Library in southern Indiana where people were saying what they were thankful for on little leaves that they could stick up on the wall I'm thankful for new weasel records says that one so it's very interesting to think about how we might inspire folks creativity as well thank you thank you Michael so I actually am a little more literal here than the other two have been because I'm really fascinated by how maker spaces and creation spaces are morphing as libraries adopt them and so we're seeing a couple of national trends that really changed the way I thought about the chapter and one is that the very earliest library based maker spaces were designed to sort of be dropped in any time and what we're really seeing is activity is now being put into the traditional programming calendar which is a big shift one is that we're seeing in a lot of libraries that stem work with youth is the planting creation as a focus another trend was that a lot of early library maker space discussions talked about workforce preparation and talked about new careers are bringing back manufacturing and what we're seeing is that the age range for a lot of maker activities are youth and teens and of course this is all against the backdrop that we expect anytime we change presidential administrations we've gone from an administration that was very passionate about making as a pathway to entrepreneurship and as a pathway to economic jump starting into an administration that doesn't see that so much as the pathway and so I'm really fascinated to watch how we're using the same words maker spaces design labs used in such different ways thank you very much Kristen and to all of you for your thoughts I wanted to see if you had any comments on or any further observations that you wanted to contribute I would just add quickly that I think it's interesting that you're talking about these very like drop-in things and then having programming we've been working with maker space in the context of a large public academic library and I think what we're finding is people like to know the skills but talking about that creativity and sort of thinking on one hand how essential reflection is to creativity but also the sense of play and lack of structure and so what we've been discovering is the people who are attending and many of our maker programs that this is like a welcome antidote to the very extremely task based relationship they have to the academic library the rest of the time we are sort of the people that are involved in all of their deadlines and their papers and so they're like oh man so we think how can we make the academic library fun right like in you can make a light up Valentine for yourself and learn some things about circuits but also not work on your homework right now and so it's been an interesting opportunity to play with this idea of creativity in an environment where mostly we've been interpreted as like the assignment people I think that raises a great point and we see a lot of when we work with communities and with students we see a lot of people who just need like downtime or processing time or to be off a schedule and I think we've really underestimated that in the literature that's a really a good point I I think it was a Madison Public Library in Wisconsin had ambient music in a quiet dark room for folks to relax and sort of clear their brains and things like that I think that's so fascinating to think about wonderful thank you so let's now direct our attention to the future so what trends and emerging issues will impact the field of library and information science as it relates to your chapter's topic Courtney thanks so I'm gonna actually jump down to the middle bullet point that I have here because I think it builds really well on what we were just talking about and that goes to this question of really this trend I see for the maker space for analog for human touch authentic experiences everybody's tired of phone trees when you're trying to get help they want to talk to a person they want to have an actual experience and technology is an isolating force there's been so much conversation and some research done on like social media stress especially since the last election cycle and people are starting to I read some place and I can't cite it so I'm being a terrible information professional right this minute that a lot of millennials are starting to drop out of social media networks because they're just like I can't cope with this right it's just too much to be always on when I first started thinking about the mobile web which is the way I kind of got to the user experience by the side always on kind of meant something different I think now is like an opportunity and sometimes I think like oh you can work from anywhere sad face so I think this balance of being able to give people space being able to be human with them and think like your experience is partially that you're probably just overburdened with everything in your mind how do we create space for people to do those things and then to jump back up to the top I think again kind of to loop back to this bigger theme that I keep bringing up as common on the commercial web as the technologies change and how people are commonly interacting with things change and you go to medium and it tells you how many minutes it's going to take to read the article those sorts of things I think there's an increasing divergence of the library or information professional information organization way by which I mean all of these databases that have these interfaces that are what they are maybe they came from a print interface and then it just got put online and it may or may not connect to the intellectual content so I think people notice these things more it's not as easy to get into books in an academic environment as it is in a public library environment as it is as a private person so there's going to be increasing I think pressure on us to really start to engage with these questions and not make it feel so like a switch has been flipped and they're in like this other way of things being as we want them to have an authentic experience that does not bring them stress and then we've talked about buildings we've talked about some of the things so I'll just I'll stop there. Thank you Courtney and that's all great let's turn it over to Michael. Wonderful I want to highlight and I think we're getting sort of we're aligning so well is just the fact that the information landscape is rapidly rapidly evolving so quickly and my little example like at this absolute moment in time on the next slide is I added these virtual assistant things to my house and it has been so interesting to learn about them and see studies so far just little studies that have come out on how people use these things for information for example Alexa turn off the office lights oh she didn't do it oh there they go yay she turned off the lights what does this mean for the way that people use information I can ask this device a question it is fascinating to me please go to the next slide and we'll actually see the first hint of libraries being incorporated inside and this is very specific to the Amazon Alexa example the echo but there's a little bit of library presence I think this is something kind of interesting to watch and then to tend to bring it back to the focus of the chapter and in this last little bit I want to say is I really believe we are hurtling toward the opportunity for us to learn from anyone in any anywhere that is connected via all these devices and all of all the technology and again to echo what Courtney said is it comes back to that idea of the human touch and in my chapter in the definition of the hyperlink library the hyperlink library is human so thank you very much thank you Michael and now to you Kristen so I want to build on Courtney's ideas about human touch and authentic experiences and really think about where we're going with creation maker spaces so first I think there is a growing recognition that we may need to go move from this is fun and a fad to something that we think is important in our communities and how do we show that and as we sort of double down we may also have to ask ourselves we're generalists what do we do when we run out of STEM gadgets or our code lessons do we stay with librarians as generalists do we bring other folks in and on the next slide we can actually skip forward too one of the big questions that I want to be asking is this question on what kinds of jobs are really going to be needed is it true that coding is where we should be going with all of our maker space stuff there's a I'm going to show you on the next slide this is Bureau of Labor statistics and this is there careers I think will have the most growth and what is so fascinating to me how few of these growth areas are currently being addressed in maker spaces and creation culture about the midway through you see software developers but there's a whole lot of healthcare jobs and so I think that one of the interesting things will be are we only going to funnel our work into creating one kind of worker or are there new needs that are emerging thank you Kristen I think there is a really good synergy of the things that you're talking about was there anything observations or any additional things you'd like to add to the conversation okay well then let's move on to the next section and so we've addressed the changes of the past few years and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead but at the core of the information landscape are the people who work in these organizations just like we've been talking about some of the human element who are providing services to the communities that they serve and that leads us to focus on today's information professional so what advice do you have for the new information professional to meet the needs of tomorrow's information landscape and based on your area of expertise what are some of the key competencies information professionals will need to succeed in meeting the needs of the communities and organizations that they serve so Courtney let's start with you thanks I really interestingly kind of want to build on some of the things that Kristen and Michael were just talking about and I think the most important thing that you can really do is try to learn the foundations and by that I mean in terms of technology not necessarily become a coder you don't and I really think a lot about the generalist versus the expert this is a thing I think about like every day right so where is the place where I often think of my expertise as being as being a generalist and as being able to make those referrals we do a lot of bringing experts into our space and letting people kind of take it to the next level but one of the things I'm observing is as we as technology sort of becomes more abstracted and how these things happen you don't necessarily have to understand what the Linux kernel is on your laptop for it to run right there was a time that this was knowledge that you needed I'm not suggesting that we all go back to needing that knowledge but I think there are some places where having a sense of how those things sketch together and sort of how the larger machine comes together will help you understand why we built a system the way we did at the time that we built it and then that puts you I think in a position as an information professional to be able to ideate forward to take into account the problems and the issues the changes and then to you know benefit maybe from the mistakes that were made in the first version of the system which is something I think about with the technology systems that I use now there's always a reason someone built it that way and sometimes it was because of you know limits of technology at the time but to be able to understand sort of the underpinnings of that to some degree is useful being a keen observer be willing to try things everything doesn't have to be permanent bringing your whole self to work I think being authentic and being able to really connect with people and being a representative of your community sort of bringing your entire self is really so important and I think just keep asking why and how Simon Sinek has that wonderful Ted talk about start with why that he then has the book that comes from it and really thinking about why we're doing what we're doing and being able to center in those important key things then we can sort of determine what are the meaningful for now but we don't have to be defined by our how necessarily we're defined by our why I don't know if that makes sense but I feel like this helps in an environment where it feels like things are changing so much how do you prepare I think you just sort of have to see where these you can and you just plunge out and see what happens thank you so much Michael nice this is a passage out of the chapter where I sort of look back at what we just saw in my last slide about the global classroom and I charge information professionals with constantly working to extend their knowledge and training by sharing collaborating and reflecting again with the global profession and that means looking outside of our organizations and even our national boundaries to look for inspiration and support and on the next slide this is one of the things that I charge my students with that is fundamental to the chapter is that we should always always be learning and take a look at the next slide this is when I get to talk to rooms full of librarians one of the last things I say is we should have this mindset of bring it on you know like come on I'm ready I'm ready to see what this next technology is going to do what this next cool thing we're doing with our building is going to do to the profession to information service into what it means to be in libraries in the 21st century and the last thing I will say is I believe the best librarians will be creative fearless and curious about everything and that I'm just so thrilled at how this all aligns with what the rest of you are saying so thank you very much thank you Michael and great points okay Kristen so I'm going to just echo what Michael and Courtney have already said which is that your MLIS or MSI or masters program is only the start of your lifetime of change and professional learning and that being curious as Michael said and recognizing that you are entering an ever moving landscape is so important and that if you are on the fence about whether you like that that's something to really think about it's always important to be monitoring local employment or education trends so that you can be as in sync as possible with what's going on and also identify those opportunity gaps keep those conversations going with community members and then this is sort of the next slide is sort of the things that as librarians we don't like to do but I think increasingly we have to do which is continuing to think about how do we move from counting the number of bodies in the building or the number of items circulated to really thinking about impact how is the community different we instinctively know that we make contributions whether it's in a special library or in an academic library or a school or public library we I think can do better at articulating that and one of the things I think that's so important as you'll see in the listing at the bottom of the slide is how many resources exist across library types that can help us do that work better and start to see and compare strategies for what might work for us and Courtney is saying in the chat something I think that needs to be said which is be prepared to stop low impact items and that is incredibly hard to do so Courtney I didn't know if you wanted to add anything more at this point to what you were just chatting about. No I thought that was a great point that they are the things that are I think scary and uncomfortable to do and then I think also what we are doing is important and I think sometimes we become so immersed in sort of knowing like knowing that that's important that we forget that by we don't have to prove it to people kind of in that way but we can sort of continue to show that sort of thing but just because we have been doing something it may be that the time for that is past and we need to just let that go. It wasn't that it wasn't important at a time but it is a thing that we need to let go to make room for new. I was curious for the other speakers if you've had experience of the people who are like take something like Alexa for example and that makes them nervous about like well we are librarians and are like how do we cope with that sort of environment when somebody can just ask their personal assistant all of these questions what kind of answer do you give because I do get asked those questions I think that it's a worthy question but I don't have a great I wonder what your answer would be. Actually I just wrote a piece about this on this topic I really believe that ship has sailed that this is not going to go away when I can ask my device a question that I likened it to the reference scavenger hunts we had to do back when reference class was what reference class was that's not there anymore but I think we should find ways to utilize the tech to teach about the tech to put ourselves in the tech like the slide I showed with LA public could we send out a story time that you can make as part of your flash briefing for your children or whatever it might be those are the things that I would focus on the I think that part of information service has sailed long ago with asking sort of those give me a recipe for this and tell me how tall Mount Rainier is type questions I'm going to answer sort of orthogonally or sort of indirectly which is that I think that there are really big issues of artificial intelligence which or AI and privacy that I don't think a lot of consumers have really been thinking about I think we're seeing a change in late 2017-2018 so I think too how we help people be aware of the choices they're making not to tell them that certain devices are good or bad but to make them aware of how data points that used to be disconnected and sitting in different silos and different organizations can now come together I think there's a real important consumer and data privacy piece there that's fantastic thanks so much thanks Courtney for asking that question it's a really interesting question I think there's a lot of changes in store you know to continue as this continues to evolve so I would like to thank Courtney McDonald Michael Stevens and Kristin Fanta Charo for joining us today in this webinar on engaging information users I am grateful and honored for the insights and advice that you've shared in this webinar and for your contribution to information services today an introduction to the listener thank you for joining us I hope you gained a deeper understanding of the changes challenges and opportunities within the field of information science for more information please check out the supplementary materials available to you via the online supplements thank you again


The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has kicked started its 10th annual meeting of the National Council on Land, Housing and Urban Development. The four days meeting is in a quest to bridge the gap in housing sector for job creation and economic development. Jacinta Albuco was there. It's the first day of the meeting of the National Council on Land, Housing and Urban Development. The highest policy advisory body in the housing sector. It is no longer news that there are still challenges in providing adequate housing facilities for the Nigeria's increasing population. The discussion here is to deliberate on the issues and profile solutions and recommendations that will facilitate repositioning of the housing sector for an alternative means of constructions and buildings. There is no gain saying that housing development is a crucial key to achieving the goal of social economic renewal. As a derivative on land and a great component of urban development, housing development, if strategically planned and implemented, can bring good consequences and positive outcomes for all. I like to say that we've been doing a lot to reduce the housing deficits in the nation. It is a great challenge in Lagos State because of our huge population and limited land space. The theme housing development as a catalyst for job creation, social inclusion and economic development was expatiated especially in the area of job creation. Those who will be selling something like the finishing materials, the rocks, the carpet, all of other things that you think that you want to use within that building. Definitely you can see that directly or indirectly, job is created through construction of housing. The enduring housing scheme, though rated low, can get better by working the talk according to the participants. Nigeria is still developing in terms of housing. I'm not sure we really got it correctly because if you look at the way housing is developed in other nations, you see them develop corporately but we develop individually. Nigeria is still in a place where research is ongoing and we obviously need more data, more research and development on alternative wall materials that can better improve the functionality and operations of our buildings. As housing is one of the basic needs of human beings and homes are beautiful legacies, the thrust here is that there is need to rethink planning, constructions and housing away from the traditional means for a greener, better and smart housing scheme. Jacinta Ubuku for PLOS TV Africa. You get notified about fresh news updates.


and then E says the cash budget and debt budget. Now that seems really reasonable except for the fact that we don't usually have you know a debt budget because it's not often we don't have another budget it's just the debt budget so we might have schedules to help us out with the with the debt budget. So the final answer is actually A on this one. So long-term liability data can be gotten from A the cash budget and capital expenditures budget. Next question. Which of the following must be prepared before the direct labor budget? A budgeted income statement. B cash budget. C capital expenditures budget. D production budget or E budgeted balance sheet. Let's go through this again using the process of elimination. Which of the following must be prepared before the direct labor budget either? A budgeted income statement. Now when we see a question like this once again we're thinking about the order of operations the order of the budgets we have to do all the budgets in a certain type of order in order to do them correctly otherwise we will have a mess and it starts with basically we have to start up with a sales type stuff happening first and then go through the order the end items that we're typically going to have are going to be the financial statements which would include the income statements. So which would have to be prepared before the direct labor budget? Well the direct labor budget is not the first thing we do it's somewhere in the middle but the income statement the budgeted income statement it's like the last thing we do so we're probably not going to be doing that before we have to do the the direct labor budget so I don't think it's going to be A. B says the cash budget and the cash budget's pretty close to the bottom again it's kind of like one of the later stuff we do so I would think that the cash budget probably not going to be done before the direct labor budget it's down close to the final product down close to the financial statements or the budgeted financial statements how about C capital expenditures budget and again that's getting kind of low down on the list here I'll keep that one for now but that's pretty down there D says the production budget so the production budget you know that's one's going to be a little bit higher up on the list we got to do that you know somewhat in the beginning of the process so that could quite possibly be it and E says the budgeted balance sheet and again that's kind of like the final product that's like at the end so we're probably not going to be doing the budgeted balance sheet before we do the direct labor budget that would be silly so now we're looking at C and D's between C and D if we just look at the order of operations you got the capital expenditures budget and the production budget usually we would do the production budget before the capital expenditure budget so the fact that the production budget is done after the cap the fact that the capital expenditures done after the production budget means that it's probably not the one and therefore the one would be D we're left with our final answer D and so that would be which of the following must be prepared before the direct labor budget D the production budget


Hello and welcome to the weekly market update with me David Madden. Today's date is Tuesday the 7th of May 2019 and the time is just gone 11 of 55 British summer time Obviously the UK market was closed yesterday because it was the May Bank holiday Whereas mainland Europe was opened And given that the UK was shut yesterday We have see we have seen the UK market play catch up with what's been going on in the financial markets over the last few days Essentially trade tensions between the US and China have heightened again, but they're not as bad as initially has seemed Over the weekend President Trump threatened to increase the levy placed on Chinese Chinese imports from 10% to 25% and they also talked about increase in tariffs on an additional three hundred and twenty five billion dollars worth of imports That is obviously Rocked US-China trade relations in the last few months We've been hearing bits and pieces of information from both sides and it's been largely been positive This could be a move by Trump to try and hurry things along But China did China reacted recently calmly. There was no tit for tat retaliation Chinese trade delegates are still on track to fly to the US this week Including in a delegation is going to be Chinese advice premier and seeing as the country's second More senior politician is included in the trade talks, which will take place in the US this week That's been seen as a sign that China are actually China mean business And what one of the kind of gauges of how well trade talks are going how serious both sides are about trade talks has often been How senior the trade negotiators Happy that are involved the talks have been included. So The vice premier of China is is on is heading to the US this week And that is seen as a step in the right direction that being said we have seen a lot of sell-off London market today London's quite it's the foot two hundred is very international index and it's been very much exposed to what's going on And like I said, the British market was closed yesterday. So Banks like standard Chartered and HSBC, which have large exposure to the fairies there off and also it is worth pointing out the London market is Has a disproportionately large amount of moderated companies being at mining companies and oil and gas companies. So The foot two hundred is underperforming today in comparison with this year It's covered in counterparts, but it is reporting out yesterday We saw alert sell-off in mainland European equity markets and US stocks But the sell-off wasn't as severe as initially as I've actually seen We saw but the mainland European markets and US markets sold off heavily on the open But then managed to recoup some of the losses That's essentially kind of like the big news I've seen in the last few days. Let's take a look at how the markets are fairing out So starting off with the foot see 100 We can see here that the foot see 100 continues to be in its upper trend the one that's been in place Since late December last year obviously a we ate a in late April We had a fresh six-month high on the front 200 and the market has managed to drift lower since then as you can see here We're pretty much sitting on this blue line here the fifth any moving average which comes to play Just in around the kind of seven thousand three hundred mark And if you can hold up of that level we could see further gains we made we could see the market heading back up towards Seven thousand four hundred shouldn't move should we move beyond that we could be looking at targeting that you know the mid April high in around the seven thousand five hundred and twenty five to eight mark and if you go beyond that if you take out the April high we could be looking at targeting at this region here 11 not seen since the late September last year in around the seven thousand five hundred and fifty eight mark If you do manage to push out lower from here We could be looking at targeting this red line here Which is the two hundred moving average and that comes to play in around seven thousand two hundred And if you have a size of the break below that I could take us back down towards the mid-febrile low of our seven thousand and forty Take a look now. What's going on over in Germany with the Dax Simmers division we're buyers only on Friday. We saw levels not seen for over six months on the German market So things are looking quite quite positive at the back in the last week We are obviously a quite a substantial sell-off and a bit of a rebound Yesterday in line of what's going on in relation to US China trade talks, and we're still kind of in the red today And we're still well off the highs at the back of the last week But if you take a look at the wider picture, we're selling a nice upper trend a series of higher highs and higher lows and if you could hold above The lows of yesterday and if you can hold above this region here the kind of Psychological important 12,000 mark on the Dax it's likely we could see further gains to the upside been maybe could be looking a heavy back up towards the the highs of last week in around these 12,450 mark and if you go beyond that we could be looking at targeting is the the late September highs of in around 12,460 and if you go beyond that you could be looking at targeting this area in around here In at 12,600 It's only if you have a size of break below the psychological important 12,000 mark could look could then we be looked ahead now towards this year you here in around 11,820 Take a look what's going over on the US market starting off with the S&P 500 So the S&P 500 only last week managed to rack up fresh all-time high So it gives you an indication of how Polish US markets have been And it's also worth noting that the last time we had these kind of height and trade tensions between the US and China even though the US is one of the one of the players Chinese markets and Actually, European markets have actually oh, I've actually traditionally suffered worse whenever the US China's trade conflict So the sell-off that we've seen in the US markets hasn't been as bad as out of say Europe or in or indeed the Far East So we're still very much in the upper trend That's been a spin of place like I said, we only last week We saw all-time highs on the S&P 500 and if you can manage to get you know We're currently above the cycle as important 2,000 mark and if you could hold above that we could be looking at retesting the recent highs We're sure in around the 2955 960 mark and if you go beyond that we could be then be looking at having a printing a fresh all-time highs targeting potentially up as high as 2970 80 so on and so forth, but even if you take out the lows of yesterday in around the 2800 and 85 83 mark even if you drip drop below that we could be looking at finding some support in around this area here in Around the 2800 and 60 mark get active about resistance on the way up and a bit of support as well when the markets had a Acted as a bit of support in early April and if you remember to drift below that The next area to keep on that for will be this region here in around the two thousand eight hundred and 1720 mark 2800 and 17,000 820 that is a very decent level of Resistance in the past seven or eight months and I should act as a bit of support as well So keep on that for that that area should we see a fairly sharp move to the downside Take a look now on the the Dow Jones So we reached multi-month highs on the Dow Jones last week not quite as strong as S&P 500 Which at all-time highs but nonetheless, we're still in we're still very much in the upper trend that's been in place since late December As you can see here The market is now back above this blue line the 50 moving average which comes into place which comes to the play at 26,000 and 83 Notice how the fifth day moving average did manage to act as support in mid-march and also briefly as well in January So the metric has acted as support in the past it makes it more likely that would do so in the future And if you could hold above the fifth day moving average We could be looking at targeting the recent highs in around the 26,000 700 mark and then it should be break beyond those we could be looking at targeting the cycle ish important 27,000 If you do have a size of break below The 50 moving average here we could be looking any back down towards this red line here the 200 moving average which comes in the play at 25,415 we can see here that the 30 moving average this did manage to act as both resistance and support in January and February and the setup that we saw in the early March didn't quite get as low as it But it's in the general area. So keep in mind out for the 30 moving average should we see a size of sell-off We might see fresh buyers enter the fold because keep in mind We've been in an upper trend now since late December and buying on the tip has been a popular strategy in recent months So we've talked about some markets that have been in a fairly clear upper trend recently Let's let's take a look at gold which has been in a fairly clear downward trend since mid-February So we've seen a nice series of higher of our lower lows and lower highs on the gold market Now we managed to actually Tray down towards the 1266 area only last week and well 66 hasn't really been seen in the gold market with a joint lowest level since late December And essentially why we can remain below the kind of 1290 $1,300 mark on gold is likely that we could see further losses and should we look at moving south yet again? I'm taking off the recent lows of it around 1266. We could be making heading down towards 1250 But if you do manage to get a press on higher from here And if you take off the late April high of in around the 1288 1290 mark if we can get back above the psychology important $1,300 Per ounce mark keep up for the early April high in at 1310 Now it's only really if you're going to take out this high here could then we start to think you know, but maybe that the negative move between between mid-February and April has actually come to an end But ultimately while we can hold above that level we're still likely continue in the recent downward trend Take a look now. What's going on on the oil market? So the oil market at a fairly big sell off yesterday, but it's much you recover some of it Given that China's major importer of all so the wider picture has been that all has been in a solid upward trend Since late December in an only only back in the variable three million levels not seen since late October So give you an indication of a bullish recent run on any all market has been this candle here is the largest that we saw on the back of the The heightened tensions between the US and China but as you can see the market came down just shy of this red line here The two hundred and will be average which comes into play at 69 spot 15 We can see that that particular metric match active pop resistance and Support a few occasions in April so that levels it seemed to be about a reasonable importance But we can hold above that metric It's likely that we could see further gains being made and the and the old market Continuing in the wider upward trend that's been in play now for about four or five months And if you could press on higher from here, I'm sure we take out 72 bucks in barrel On Brent we could be looking at retesting the recent highs up around 75 spot 71 And if you go beyond that we could be looking at targeting This area here, which comes to play in a just shy of 78 dollars per barrel. I take a look now at WTI That's a very similar picture So WTI also hit fresh multi-month highs at the back end of April the market has managed to drift lower It actually traded below its tour the moving average which comes to play at 60 spot 72 But manage to actually hold close above it yesterday and if you can hold above that met that metric We could be looking at retesting kind of 64 area. I'm sure we're gonna be on that We could be looking heading up towards the kind of 66 spot 50 mark And if you can take out the late April high, we could be looking at heading towards this year here in at 67 spot 80 I think I'll be on that they kind of a cyclical edge important 70 bucks a barrel might come to play them But if you do take out yesterday's low the next area to keep them out for Yeah, yesterday's low in around 60 bucks per barrel next you're keeping that for below that will be this region here in Around the kind of 58 58 10 mark we can see that acted as a Sport on a few occasions in March so as a possibility it might act support as again in the near future Take a look now what's going on on the euro versus the US dollar So your dollar has been a fairly clear clear cut downward trend after in recent months In fact only at the back end of April we hit a level that wasn't seen hasn't been seen For what wasn't saved for quite some time it's a level that really wasn't seen until June 2017 So give indication of all bearish the your dollar market has been recently if you can look to press on lower from here We could we could look at a retesting The April lows of in at one spot 1110 and shouldn't be below that if you were looking at a back down towards the kind of psychological important one 10 mark If you do manage to press on higher from here on Euro dollar We keep looking at targeting the early Kind of the mid April highs in around once about 1322 and if you go beyond that You can be like Kelly towards gonna once about 14 or even towards to get at the mid March highs of once about 1448 take a look now what's going on on the pound versus the US dollar so the broader picture of in recent months has been Power versus US dollar has been in a nice kind of upward trend Broadly speaking against the US dollar granted when it managed to have a fairly seismic drift off in late April But we've managed to move back above The dirty moving average and back above the kind of psychological important 130 mark And if you can hold above the the 130 mark we could be looking any back up towards 132 actually we go beyond that we could be looking at retesting The mid March highs of in around one spot 3360 year in one spot 3380 in around that area If you do have a slice of break back below to one 30 mark and back below the two nothing moving average Which comes to play at one spot at 2963 we keep looking at heading back down towards The levels of mid the lows mid February in around one spot 2775 We'll now take a look at the week ahead the week ahead can be found on our plot on our website If you go to cmcmarkets.com and under news and analysis you will find the weekend article So taking a look at what? events that are due at later on today First quarter numbers from Marriott over the US We also have first quarter numbers from Lyft which obviously had an IPO only recently and the fair this year price has been in a pretty downward trend since then We've had the reserve Bank of Australia in industry decision overnight Already, but but looking head to tomorrow Wednesday. We have the Reserve Bank of Reserve Bank of New Zealand their interest rate decision will be made overnight Also overnight we have the trade figures from China and I keep in mind. This is going to be important because US China trade talks are pretty much at the forefront of the markets at the moment Looking at to Thursday. We have fully our figures from BT Group On Friday. We have very different economic announcements from the UK first quarter GDP Manufacturing and trade numbers around and then a Friday We have the first quarter results from the International Consolidated Airlines Group as the owner owner of British Airways and Erlingas Liberia Airlines and also finally on Friday. We have the Uber IPO And given that lift like IPO not too long ago and Lyft have their first fourth numbers out today Uber is going to be in play Finally, if you have any comments to make on this video or any of the other videos we've made here at CMC markets Please feel free to leave review and gurus. That's all for me this week. Thank you very much