SPACES AND PLACES MINDSHIFTS, MAKEOVERS AND MAGIC THE SHAPE SHIFTING TECH RE-INVENTING THE LIBRARY

Liz McGettigan BA MCILIP ACMI FRSADirector of Digital Library Experiences

SOLUS@lizmcgettigan

liz@sol.us

QUESTIONS

• What is really essential about libraries and librarians, today and tomorrow?

• How do we balance the best of the virtual and physical worlds?

• What mindshifts do we need to make?

• What makeovers?

• How do we add the magic?

We’re all in favour of them and get a warm,

fuzzy feeling about them.

But saying how much we adore them doesn’t

protect bamboo-munchers or libraries

from extinction. 

LIBRARIES ARE LIKE PANDAS

What have you got for me in a year’s time?

INTERACTIVITY

GROUP, INTERACTIVE, VISUAL, COLLABORATIVE CONTRIBUTIVE

TOUCH, CONTRIBUTE, LEARN

SOME SHAPE-SHIFTING TECH THAT is alreadyDISRUPTING OURLIBRARIES

MOBILE

MULTIFUNCTIONAL SELF SERVICE

INTERACTING WITH CUSTOMERS ON THE FLOOR

3D PRINTING

SOME SHAPE-SHIFTING SPACECHANGERS THAT are reinventingOUR LIBRARES

THE DRIVE-IN LIBRARY

Spaces for young people

The new people’s network

DISCOVER, BORROW, SHARE

DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED