As Libraries Change: Keep Your Eye on the Reader
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As Libraries Change Keep Your Eye on the Reader Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. July 22, 2011
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Keynote presentation at Future of the Book conference, Florida State University, July 22, 2011
Transcript of As Libraries Change: Keep Your Eye on the Reader
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
