bonisteel library 5-year program review
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May 2015
Bonisteel Library5 year program review
Jim Gourley
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Bonisteel Library
Academic: Seabury!
Music: Fennell!
Archives
Bonisteel Library Strengths
Library staff are accessible, helpful, knowledgeable, and passionate in supporting our community with their information needs (7 days a week).
Bonisteel Library Strengths
The library is housed in a beautiful space that is welcoming, comfortable, and multifunctional AND used by our community for research/study, meetings, gatherings, listening centers, and socializing.
Bonisteel Library Strengths
An abundance of diverse content and resources in multiple formats are available to meet academic, artistic, and recreational needs at the high school and college level.
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Bonisteel Library Strengths
Information literacy skills (were) formally taught within the school’s curriculum in addition to informal individualized instruction when requested.
Background Distractions
Is it the end of libraries as we know them?!
Where is change taking us?!
Do people still value the book/library?
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Google / Amazon!
-vs- !
Library Information Systems
“Libraries must recognize that they are increasingly not at the center of information seeking behaviors of
Internet users.”!
(Stephen Abram)!
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/design/2014/04/the_future_of_the_library_how_they_ll_evolve_for_the_digital_age.single.html
Need to meet (EXCEED) EXPECTATIONS
“Information absorption is a cultural and social process of engaging with the constantly changing world around us.”p. 47 !
Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change (Vol. 219). Lexington, KY: CreateSpace.
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USER Experience Expectations
A user wants an experience that is of high quality, consistent, and robust regardless of the
user’s location, access method, or objective.
Access Expectations
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People expect to be able to access information so they can work, learn, and study whenever and
wherever they want to…!(Horizon Report 2010)!
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Ultimately, we want to
Frame our library story !
—the library is a place for innovation, service, and leadership
Improve Technical Infrastructure & Content Management
Increase and improve access and discovery opportunities
Increase and improve collaboration and learning
Increase and improve the library’s visibility and usability
as the place for innovation, service, and leadership
Improve Technical Infrastructure & Content Management
Provide a better ILS ( integrated library system, also known as a library management system (LMS) (online presence)!
Collaborate with service & education providers and our users/stakeholders—IT, marketing, faculty, students
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Increase and improve access and discovery opportunities
Discovery services:!“Google-like one-box search allows users/students to quickly access full collection across multiple silos and brands—potentially maximizing use of all digital content: ebooks, journal articles, media and more.!BUT search results can be huge, so users need to be able to cleverly use filters and descriptors.!—Google your collection”!
(Joyce Valenza)
Increase and improve access and discovery opportunities
EXAMPLE:!EBSCO Discovery System interface — combines the library
catalog, full-text articles, article databases, and other resources.
Increase and improve access and discovery opportunities
Integrated Discovery services,!
Digital collections and online resource access,!
Licensed and local digital content access, !
Mobile device access,!
User-friendly homepage access, !
Search engine optimization (create points of access that make our resources discoverable)
Increase and improve collaboration and learning
Model social media digital tools and apps!
Curation strategies and techniques
LibGuides
Diigo
Increase and improve collaboration and learning
Meet with core courses and embed instruction!
Provide online tutorials/courses (not just stand-alones—embedded in courses/context)!
Use counselors’ model—personal librarian for students!
Practice nimble methods (classroom, one-on-one, desk service, chat, google hangout, tip-a-day) !
Provide with the capacity & disposition to learn in small, quick doses.
Increase and improve collaboration and learning
Embed a librarian in the 101 experience !
Strengthen service points with instruction (finding/selecting a book on the shelf, checking out a zoom camera, using classroom technology)!
Meet the info lit needs of our global nomads/changing student population w/in a context (scope and sequence)!
Offer regular training programs on e-research and digital curation to assist faculty and students in understanding e-research issues !
Collaborate and support new courses & school-wide themes (e.g., light, one-book)!
Advocate and lead the ethical use of information in the school
Increase and improve the library’s visibility and usability
Improve online presence (ILS/homepage)!
Create archive finding aides!
Support the life cycle for digital content including collection, storage, management, access, sharing, and long term preservation (following copyright)!
Explore more streaming options
Increase and improve the library’s visibility and usability
Use school network & social media to make resources/tools visible and known (ASPEN, google+, tumblr, etc)!
Use TV monitors/displays!
Optimize mobile apps to make reviews, awards, audio, etc visible
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Summer Camp
Support as a public library!
Popular/recreational reading needs!
Continue camp-site visitations!
Support ICCA!
Mentor interns
Skilled & Engaged Staff
Practice role as connector, collaborator, curator, hacker!
Evaluate long-held rules !
Understand reading and information seeking in a connected world!
Are skilled in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data!
Adopt a discovery-oriented outlook toward spaces, services, and programming. !
Are proactive to gain training (PD) for flexible, agile technical skills & services (forefront in supporting student/staff needs)
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Ultimately…the library will be
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— the place for innovation, service, and leadership
Questions?