Crystal Ball at the Crossroads: Looking to the Future in a Quickly Changing Field
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Crystal Ball at the Crystal Ball at the Crossroads: Crossroads: Looking to the Future in a Quickly Changing Field Katina StrauchKatina Strauch
Head, Collection Development
College of Charleston, S.C.
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A library is not a luxury but one of the
necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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What will the library of the future look like?
How should we build its collections?
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Since the advent of the Internet and electronic publishing,
the academy has changed dramatically.
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New products,
formats and devices are cropping up all the time.
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We’re tempted to recall the peaceful old days of the twentieth century.
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What kinds of changes have we seen in our
academic environments
?
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We no longer build book collections.
We build computer networks.
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The 21st centuryThe 21st century:
monks & fur coats, lost control & new power.
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“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Shelby Foote
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Scholarship once involved poring over physical materials that were, for the most part, anchored to a particular physical space.
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Where before research and education were relegated to specific physical spaces, now almost anyone can access large bodies of information over the Internet...
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... and they can do it almost
anywhere.
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Most of our end users are now “Millenials,” some of whom have never known a world without URLs and personal
computers.
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However, the contemporary college library serves a wide
population of “nontraditional” students, as well.
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The library of today is
increasingly better equipped to meet the needs of its diverse group of
patrons.
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The library is now a collaborative group environment in which information is alive and dynamic.
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More people are accessing the library remotely.
When people do enter the
physical library, most
of what they’re
seeking is online.
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“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
T. S. Eliot
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Information has exploded. My library used to have access to 3,6453,645 print
titles.
Now we have access to 28,86328,863
unique electronic
journals, 218218 databases, and
3,2453,245 print titles.
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As the proliferation of Internet and electronic resources continues, collection
development is more
necessary now than ever
before.
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Remembering the library’s Remembering the library’s origins:origins: the library as an archive
maintenance of print titles.
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If we discard print titles, we’ll regret it.
reliability
availability
Libraries must and will archive. Outsourcing is good, but archiving onsite is better.
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Back files and back years will continue to be digitized.
All print content, books and journals,
will be available
online by 2075.
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Whether or not to mourn print:Whether or not to mourn print:
it’s not dead yet!
changes in collection development policies favor electronic formats
print is the most stable archiving method
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People like the remote access to information that e-books provide. As their acceptance grows, they will be further integrated into approval plans.
E-content is on the rise!
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Increases in spending on electronic formats will continue. Conversely, we will spend less and less on print acquisition.
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“Libraries are not made; they grow.”
Augustine Birrell
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In order to compete with popular search engines like Google, the MARC record must adapt and improve.
The MARC record, or some form of
enhanced metadata “cataloging,” will
survive. Librarians and information
professionals value a record touched by
human intelligence.
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Consortia can be the library’s important allies in lobbying for important changes and acquiring more electronic content. The big deal won’t die. It will change and “osmose.”
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Competition Competition in the market will help us to meet our end user’s needs, as well as our
own.
Libraries will expand services and collections to remain
viable.
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Libraries must become more savvy in the consumer
marketplace.
Collection developers
must lead the way!
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Library collections will continue to be available on the Internet.
Collection development librarians
must be involved!
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New types of aggregators will continue to enter the marketplace so that we don’t
have to buy direct from every publisher.
This will only become a headache for acquisitions
and collection development librarians.
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Not everyone’s a techie.
There will continue to be a place for print.
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In this ever-changing marketplace, adaptabilityadaptability
will be the name of the game.
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As end users gain input in the selection process, the library’s collection development operation expands from a few people to a community effort.
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The success of libraries
will depend on our ability to adaptadapt and
competecompete with a new set of
servicesLibraries will Libraries will continue to continue to grow and grow and
thrive!thrive!