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John McDonaldChief Information Officer

Claremont Colleges LibraryClaremont University Consortium

Victims, Vigilantes, or Visionaries?Or just,

Librarians at the Gate

Claremont Colleges Library

Blaisdell’s Vision• “My own very deep hope is that instead of one great, undifferentiated university, we might have a group of institutions divided into small colleges—somewhat on the Oxford type—around a library and other utilities which they would use in common. In this way I should hope to preserve the inestimable personal values of the small college while securing the facilities of a great university.” —James A. Blaisdell, 1923


The Claremont Colleges

The Oberlin Group Libraries

What has changed?

What hasn’t?

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1200

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3200

4200

5200

1st QuartileMedian

2nd Quartile

Claremont

Amherst

Davidson

Decline of Print Journals

Collections

Technology

Librarians

Marian the Librarian, She of the Stern Face

and Serious Scowl

Today’s Librarian, She of the Call Number Tattoo

Students

After you finish studying, will you wear my class ring?

omg! lol! stfu!

Transforming

the Library


Victims

Some librarians embrace

being the

Victim

Build it, and They Will Come

Vigilantes

http://www.movabletype.com/

http://www.iii.com/index.php

http://emsweb.claremont.edu/Library/

http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/

http://springshare.com/libguides

http://ebscohost.com/default.php

http://www.hwwilson.com/

http://www.jstor.org/

http://global.lexisnexis.com/

http://www.csa.com/

http://www.proquest.com/

http://www.librarything.com/



http://go.hyland.com/view-onbase-demo/

Cylinders of

Excellence

Visionaries

Instruction

Librariansat

the Gate:What will they ask you to do

next?

• Increase discovery• We have lots of stuff that no one can find.• Students use lots of stuff…once…but can’t

manage, store, preserve, and re-use effectively.

• Leverage fewer people• Partner with vendors on hosted models to reduce

reliance on IT• Encourage staff skills-improvement, creativity &

innovation

• Librarian + Faculty/Student collaboration• Automate the syllabus into a search.• Mine the syllabus and produce suggestions for

faculty, students, librarians.

Fend them off with…

• Lead users to the unique collections• Tragedy of the Collective Collection. • Why are we different from other libraries?

• Focus on assessment• Dude, Where’s my KPI?• Did you help me increase my SLOs?• Can you save us from being spreadsheet

jockeys?• What do those reports mean? Help us with the

analysis.• Provide some future proofing.

Fend them off with…

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