Post on 30-Apr-2015
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“Trends and Strategic Issues for Libraries in Global Information
Society”
Prof. Preeti MahajanSeminar Director
Global Information Society
ICT Era and the changing society.
New education and literacy challenges.
Public-Private Partnerships.
New initiatives and goals.
New Trends in Libraries
Stand alone libraries to
Networked libraries
Transformation of manuscript
to e-resources.
Proliferation of online books/
journals/ papers.
Digital Rights Management
New Trends in Libraries
Open Access
Movement
Open Standards
Open Source Softwares
Blogs, RSS feed, Wiki,
podcast.
Web 2.0/Library 2.0
New Trends in Libraries (cont…)
New reference and information services
Document delivery, Interlibrary lending
Acquisitions policies Automated Services Digitization issues Internet/CDs/DVDs
Trends in IT Environment
• Technological issues.
• Economic issues.• Human
resources and users.
• Organizational Changes.
• Legal issues.
Still Relevant After All these Years…
• Books are for use • Every reader his/
her book • Every book its
reader • Save the time of
the reader • A library is a
growing organism
The Changing (challenging) Role of Information Professionals
• Book keepers-Bit Keepers
• Book/Journal Custodians-Information providers-Content / knowledge providers-Content / knowledge Marketers
So….
Why change??
Most Common Reasons for change
• Threats– Budget cuts– increased user expectations
• Response to Change– Strategic plan – new service priorities/goals– Changing demographics of employees and
customers– Align library with customer wants and needs– HR trends
• Desire to Lead Change– Library wants to be known for innovation
Threat Level
Change or die Respond to
Change Innovate: Because
We Can
Where is our library going?
Strategy
• What are our goals
and what are its
implications for our
organization?
• What activities we
have identified to
get us there?
Strategic Planning
• How to map / assess the information• How to convince the Management• How to build infrastructure – planning, execution• How to collect, consolidate, build and preserve
local Content• How to build e-resources / published content• How to educate the information professionals• How to educate the users
Ground Realities
• Electronic resources are here and will stay because of the advantages they have over the print medium.
• However, there are issues and trends that provide both opportunities and threats to the libraries in the global information society.
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people,
those who let it happen,those who make it happen,those who wonder what happened.”
John M. Richardson,Jr.
A final thought…
Objectives of the seminar
• Identify key trends affecting the libraries today
• Determine how our library is responding to such trends.
• Accordingly adopt the strategies
By the end of the deliberations, WE will be able to:
Thanks