Next Generation Libraries:

Concluding Notes

The Carthage College Courseference Wrap-up

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Communities of practice

Research

Joint projects

Outreach

Network platform: events f2f/online

Partnerships Translation

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Course of the courseference

1. Future scenarios2. Student culture3. Higher education4. Technology5. Publishing6. Reflections

Major themes

Social dimension: Diversity of served populations Cross-population collaboration

Riptide of change Growing multiplicity of options Intelligence

Library as changing space› environment: Hamilton College› Abolish the ref desk: Ganski & Beaulieu

Future scenarios

Future scenarios: reactions

“Avoid winning a Darwin Award: that’s our goal.” Proactive leadership, beyond

reaction Entrepreneurial funding approaches Innovation requires holistic

commitment, not the work of an individual staffer

Future scenarios: reactions

Collection development needs flipping

Diversity of populations served

Open access K-12, adult learner role

Future scenarios: reactions

Librarians have changed 1st, not 2nd career Less regionally bound Constant retraining Learning to stop doing some

things Generation gap

Future scenarios: reactionsCompare with ARL scenarios (http://bit.ly/14aGlk4)

Student culture

Diverse population›first-gen, military, adult learners›Web culture/generation (“so far ahead of us”)›Boomers ›US vs international

Student culture

How to do outreach/marketing?

On-site service to help distant learners

“we have not yet hit the nadir of perceived library value”

Student culture

Desire for open content Prosumer angle: what value

does a library receive from its users?

Spaces: 24/7, recording studio, gaming center, rave venue, place of discovery (Mary Spio)

Higher education

Major trends in higher education demographics: state decline internationalizing students,

curriculum "post-traditional learner" - need to

repackage education differently bad national conversation K-12 prep issues

Higher education

How do library changes impact higher ed? library makes learning

better, deeper; supports flipped classroom

Library has to be everything to everybody; space + values

Higher education

Libraries migrating to digital world deep desire to maintain library's

human face digital preservation faculty-driven initiatives library as site for additional

digital tools

Higher education

Research and scholarly publication support scholarly mission, esp access open access, pro and contra library as filter for scholarly work "one of the great debates" in

academia: digital scholarship› what is scholarly material? how is it

viewed?

Higher education

Drive to jazz up library space (food, music, yoga, makerspace, puppet videos)

Or “the need for a building will simply disappear” (Jill Strass)

Changing technology

empowered users; consumer side "libraries are niche players on

the information landscape“ (Terry Reese)

privacy information: open vs silo digital divide

Changing technology

"would really like to slow things down" (Aaron Frank, Caroline Reed)

“mobile technologies… that is where students live a good portion of their lives” (Stephen Ford)

Libraries educate on “how technology is affecting privacy” (Kim Miller)

Print-ebook combo (Kevin Lubick, Caroline Reed)

Publishing

Print->digital shift Multiplying venues, digital +

print, scholarly + trade Digital sustainability

challenges Two Cultures audience

divide (Kathleen Keane)

Publishing

Responses "Why would a journal article

on-line cost about $30 and a song on iTunes cost 99 cents?" (Carol Sabbar)

Sympathy

What else does the future hold?

What else does the future hold?

Media production

What else does the future hold?Demographic medium-term strategy

What else does the future hold?

Closing some doors

What else does the future hold?

Anticipating the future

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-Bryan Alexander

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