Helen Shenton 'Transformative shifts in libraries' Keynote 2 #asl2015

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Transformative shifts in libraries Academic and Special Libraries Annual Conference 27 February 2015 Helen Shenton TCD Librarian and College Archivist

Transcript of Helen Shenton 'Transformative shifts in libraries' Keynote 2 #asl2015

Transformative shifts in libraries

Academic and Special Libraries Annual Conference 27 February 2015

Helen ShentonTCD Librarian and College Archivist

Transformative shifts

Exemplar of partnership and collaboration

What does this mean?

“ Higher education is ripe for disruptive innovation “

Clayton M. Christensen

Globalization inter- multi- and anti-

disciplinary BIG DATA data curation

BIG CONTENT Digital Humanities MOOCs Mobile Technologies

expanding expectations OPEN

ACCESS pressure on resourcing

Transformative shifts in Higher Education include;

From Digitization to Digitalization Library as Place and

Place as Library Partnership opportunities for capital

and infrastructure Collaborative content and collection

development Democratization of collections through

digitization greater emphasis on the unique and distinct Changing user behaviours expanding user

expectations New skills, up- and re-skilling,

development opportunities Pressure on resourcing

Transformative shifts in libraries include:

What does do these transformative mean?

digital shift and social shift

moving to user focused, personalisation, customization, atomization

moving to connecting to content, creating and curating content moving to library as big content, as locus of metadata expertize

moving to library as catalyst for research, stimulus for scholarship

moving to library as laboratory, place to experiment, innovation labs, ilabs

moving to library as social spaces, as cultural spaces

Transformative shifts

Exemplar of partnership and collaboration

What does this mean?

partnership and collaboration

Innovation • Harvard – Metalab and Graduate School of Design• Harvard Law Library and Berkman Center for the Internet and Society

partnership and collaboration

Innovation

Harvard – Metalab and Graduate School of Design

Harvard Law Library and Berkman Center for the Internet and Society

New skills• outreach, pop-ups, events • multi-disciplinary• embedded teaching• data mining, heat mapping, development of new tools

Transformative shifts

Exemplar of partnership and collaboration

What does this mean?

What does this mean for professional development?

Unique and Distinct Collections RLUK 2014; Highlighted Skills Development

Digital Humanities Understand recent areas of academic research

E-learning and teaching Pedagogic skills, VLEs, review impact of teaching

Public Engagement Presentation, communication, media skills

Management Skills Leadership, strategic planning, financial management, organizational management,

negotiation, project management skills

What does this mean for professional development? New roles, new skills, new opportunities, up-skill, re-skill

Data curation, data mining

Embedded librarian

User-centricity

Learn/borrow from other fields

eg. Customer service – University of Zappo

Queue management – Disney

Collaboration/diplomacy – HLS Program on Negotiation

Think like a user, be a user of new forms of learning and education

Do a MOOC, an on-line course

Be out and about, be active

Secondment, study trip, exchange

Activate partnerships, collaborations – walk across town/campus/organization

Talk to other audiences, new mediums, outreach, public engagement

eg. TEDx

Thank you

“Collaboratories and Bubbles of Shush; how libraries are transforming”

TEDxDublin 2014 Helen Shenton