“Trends and Strategic Issues for Libraries in Global Information

Society”

Prof. Preeti MahajanSeminar Director

Global Information Society

ICT Era and the changing society.

New education and literacy challenges.

Public-Private Partnerships.

New initiatives and goals.

New Trends in Libraries

Stand alone libraries to

Networked libraries

Transformation of manuscript

to e-resources.

Proliferation of online books/

journals/ papers.

Digital Rights Management

New Trends in Libraries

Open Access

Movement

Open Standards

Open Source Softwares

Blogs, RSS feed, Wiki,

podcast.

Web 2.0/Library 2.0

New Trends in Libraries (cont…)

New reference and information services

Document delivery, Interlibrary lending

Acquisitions policies Automated Services Digitization issues Internet/CDs/DVDs

Trends in IT Environment

• Technological issues.

• Economic issues.• Human

resources and users.

• Organizational Changes.

• Legal issues.

Still Relevant After All these Years…

• Books are for use • Every reader his/

her book • Every book its

reader • Save the time of

the reader • A library is a

growing organism

The Changing (challenging) Role of Information Professionals

• Book keepers-Bit Keepers

• Book/Journal Custodians-Information providers-Content / knowledge providers-Content / knowledge Marketers

So….

Why change??

Most Common Reasons for change

• Threats– Budget cuts– increased user expectations

• Response to Change– Strategic plan – new service priorities/goals– Changing demographics of employees and

customers– Align library with customer wants and needs– HR trends

• Desire to Lead Change– Library wants to be known for innovation

Threat Level

Change or die Respond to

Change Innovate: Because

We Can

Where is our library going?

Strategy

• What are our goals

and what are its

implications for our

organization?

• What activities we

have identified to

get us there?

Strategic Planning

• How to map / assess the information• How to convince the Management• How to build infrastructure – planning, execution• How to collect, consolidate, build and preserve

local Content• How to build e-resources / published content• How to educate the information professionals• How to educate the users

Ground Realities

• Electronic resources are here and will stay because of the advantages they have over the print medium.

• However, there are issues and trends that provide both opportunities and threats to the libraries in the global information society.

“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people,

those who let it happen,those who make it happen,those who wonder what happened.”

John M. Richardson,Jr.

A final thought…

Objectives of the seminar

• Identify key trends affecting the libraries today

• Determine how our library is responding to such trends.

• Accordingly adopt the strategies

By the end of the deliberations, WE will be able to:

Thanks