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19th and 20th January, Warwick University

The Squeezed Middle? Exploring the future of library systems

Agenda... Day One11.30am – Welcome 11.45am – Background to the Workshop (Anne Bell) and a JISC Library Systems Programme (Ben) Brief update on the work of the SCONUL shared services group (from the LMS report to KB+ and beyond). Looking forward to how the work can help realise a new programme of work and services for libraries.

12.00pm – Design and Vision of the Workshop (Video from Lorcan Dempsey) 12.30pm – Lunch Trends in Collections and Space1.30pm – Provocations: 2020 Future Library Systems Vision (2 presentations) Paul Stainthorp and David Kay

1.50pm – Break out groups2.40pm – Feedback and Discussion 3.00pm – Tea and Coffee

Trends in Systems and Expertise3.30pm - Provocations: 2020 Future Library Systems Vision (2 presentations) Paul Walk and Ken Chad

3.50pm – Break out groups4.30 – Feedback and Discussion

5pm – Summing up and Home work set!

Agenda... Day Two

9.30am - Tea and Coffee

9.45am - Recap of Day one David Kay will recap on the first day address questions such as: What has been missed? 

9.45am – Presenting back homework

10.50am - Mapping the future of library systems

Each group will take the discussions and outputs from yesterday's sessions and start to order these potential areas into something that could help map out the future.

Questions to consider: Is this a shared future? How much is being shared, and what? What kind of mission critical use-cases are we talking about (acquisitions; circulation etc); what's the role of staff?

11.50pm - Feedback

12.30 - Lunch and Finish

Discovery Library Systems Programme

Knowledge Base Plus

JISC Information and Library Infrastructure

The squeezed middle...

ResourceDiscovery

Electronic Resource Management

LMS

Library Systems Programme

• Synthesis and Scoping: A single project– Synthesis and Landscape (Past and Present)– Collaborate with pathfinders: use case

development; focus institutions engagement– Scoping and requirements (Future)

• 10 ‘path finder’ project: Small, diverse, across domains and boundaries

• January call – May start

Over to Lorcan...

20:20 Future Visions

• Provocation from the speakers• Break out into groups on each table• Use the ‘note pad’ to record thoughts and discussions• Capture themes and discussion on flip chart

20:20 Future Visions cont...

• Things to keep in mind:

• Mission critical?• Local systems• Opportunities for

sharing (campus and above)• Costs• Transformational?