As Libraries ChangeKeep Your Eye on the Reader

Lynn Sutton, Ph.D.July 22, 2011

Why Me?

Dean, Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest University

35 years as Library Dean/ Director

2011 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award

Where I Come From

• Director of Hospital Library• Director of Science and Engineering Library• Director of Undergraduate Library• Associate Dean of ARL library system• Dean of Library at Wake Forest University

Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest University

• 6500 students including Undergrad, Medical, Law, Business, Divinity

• 2 million volumes• 2,000 print journals,

50,000 e-journals• Open 140 hours/week• 52 library faculty/staff• $ 7 million budget

Futures Thinking• Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (ACRL)• 2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries (ACRL)• Environmental Scan 2010 (ACRL)• Changing Roles of Academic and Research Libraries (ACRL)• The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and

Report (ACRL)• Future of the Academic Library Symposium (Library Journal and McMaster

University)• TAIGA Forum Provocative Statements• No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century

(CLIR)• A Strategy for Academic Libraries in the First Quarter of the 21st Century

(David Lewis, C&RL)

Libraries and Books

Library Learning TerraceDrexel University

Where We’ve Been

Library as Gatekeeper

What We Kept

2005 OCLC Report

“Books” is the Library BRAND

In My Library

Still My Library

Library as Place

Where we are

Tipping Points

Digital everythingBooksScholarly journalsDataMediaPublishing

Open everythingOpen sourceOpen accessOpen content

Everything in Cloud

TheFuture

is Digital

Look Down the Beach

HeadlinesE-Book Revolution Upends a Publishing CourseNYT 7/15/11

Amazon’s E-Book Sales Pass Print BooksNYT 5/19/11

Harper-Collins Limits EBook Lending by LibrariesNYT 2/27/11

Are We Headed Toward the Bookless Campus?CHE 5/18/01

Tomorrow's Academic Libraries: Maybe Even Some Books CHE 5/8/11

Change

Comes at different rates and means different things to different groups

Two Different Constituencies

Students Faculty

Some Books are More Equal than Others

Thinking Partners

What Have We Learned?

• Future is Digital• Give up the space race• Role of libraries is to lead• Look for thinking partners• A book is a book, though some books are

more equal than others• Keep your eye on the Reader

Keep Your Eye on the Reader

Image Credits• Books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/304220561/• sizes/m/in/photostream/• Terrace: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/• 0,8599,2079800,00.html• Gate: http://

www.art.com/products/p12209923-sa-i1584106/alan-blaustein-hampton-gate.htm

• Old books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58956356@N05/5405765006/• Jump: uploaded to Flickr on October 6, 2008 by rosiehardy• Tipping point: uploaded to Flickr on April 10, 2009 by Max Z• Footprints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfergos/37070037/• Change: christianmenchristianwarrior.files.wordpress• Baby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986/• sizes/m/in/photostream/

More Credits• Old men: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicnac/3121705656/• sizes/z/in/pool-554700@N23/• Gutenberg: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/• gutenberg/• Book Reader: http://www.flickr.com/photos/topsy/204929063/• sizes/m/in/photostream/• E-book Reader: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43602175@N06/• 4070018828/sizes/m/in/photostream/

Lynn Sutton, Ph.D.Dean, Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem, NC 27109