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The Radical Library and the Radical Librarian
Michael Breaks
Heriot Watt University
The Radical Librarian?
The Rockabilly Librarian The Leather Librarian
The Barbarian Librarian The Bellydancing Librarian
The Modified Librarian The Lipstick Librarian
The Progressive Librarian(they refuse to be classified)
The Anarchist Librarian
Mission Statement
– “We don’t have one”
Macho Librarians with Guns
Step away from the Reference Desk
SLOWLY!
Libraries Unbundled
A location
A set of services
A collection of resources
All these meet in the physical building, where users, collections and staff come together
Library as Location
Sense of placeLearning space
Collaboration spaceSocial assembly space
Display/Exhibition spaceNeutral space
Lots more are still being built
The Radical Library Space
‘Reinventing’ the LibraryLearning Centre/Information Commons
“Atmosphere is stimulating, staff are always helpful, service is excellent.”
Digitization should create new space
Radical Library Space
Network spaceMediate the engagement of users and information
resourcesMake the invisible, visible and usable
‘Third Place’
Library as Services
Librarians create services
Librarians link the users with the collections
Services make collections come alive
Services enable effective interaction with collections
Predictable, supporting infrastructure
Radical Library Services
Remote services
Virtual reference (24/7)
Information literacy(The lost generation)
Institutional Repositories (OAI)
Changes to scholarly communications
Library as Collections
Books and journals
Special collections
Research and Learning materials
Licensed resources
Freely-accessible web resources
Radical Library Collections
‘One size’ no longer fits allLink our remote users with the collections
(Publishers and Librarians)Measure our impacts (COUNTER)
User- not provider-centredInstitution-wide collections
“Its integration (with research and learning), stupid”
The Radical Librarian
..delivers the ‘radical agenda’..stays in advance of need
..believes in themselves and what (s)he has and can achieve
..doesn’t take their existence for granted..gets out more.
Last Word
“Never underestimate the importance of a librarian”
Elsevier
