The Cocked Hat: Navigating the Digital Future

28.02.2014

safra_28 said... Company Sergeant Major George Cavan was my husband's Great Grandfather and although he already knew a some of his history he was amazed to see reference to this note as he never knew it existed, its great to see that his family in Australia where able to not only keep this item intact for 90 years but also able to let the Great War Archive have the item for future generations to see.10 October 2008 13:23

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Ben ShowersHead of Scholarly and

Library Futures

b.showers@jisc.ac.uk

@benshowers

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Introducing Jisc

Jisc offers digital services for UK education and research. The charity does this to achieve its vision for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world.

jisc.ac.uk

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Three themes…

1. The User

2. The Infrastructure

3. The Library

The User

forms of participation

User-led…

At Scale…

Playful…

forms of understanding

Qalitative

Quantitative

From

Chore to

Core

The Infrastructure

Library Analytics and Metrics Project (LAMP)

The best idea for your data will be thought of by someone else!

Let your data be promiscuous

thin

kin

g

vert

ically

the current picture

The Library

Inside out

Collaboration

Reduction Redistribution of

effort

emerging skills…

Final thoughts…

disruption is a feature, not a bug…

think like a Dandelion!

best time ever to be a librarian…

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Ben Showers

Head of Scholarly and Library Futures

@benshowers

b.showers@jisc.ac.uk