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Fiesole 2010 Leuven Liz Chapman Director of Library Services London School of Economics The moment to capitalize on sultanas: progress in a weird wired world

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Page 1: Fiesole 2010 Leuven Fiesole 2010 Leuven Liz Chapman Director of Library Services London School of Economics The moment to capitalize on sultanas: progress

Fiesole 2010 Leuven

Fiesole 2010 Leuven

Liz ChapmanDirector of Library Services

London School of Economics

The moment to capitalize on sultanas:

progress in a weird wired world

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The streets of London

• Geography• Finance• Delivery• Looking outwards• Students• Looking backwards• Looking forwards

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Who was worried in the 1890s?

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Finance 2009 - 2010

• Exchange rates

• Cuts

• Commodities

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Physical delivery

• When do we stop buying books?

• Space issues

• UKRR

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E-delivery

• Big deals revisited

• E-books awaited

• Reflections on use

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Looking outwards

• What happens inside libraries?

• Magic delivery

• Niche markets

• Marketing

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Teamwork

• What does working together mean?

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Teamwork – for others

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Students

• What services do libraries provide?

• How can they change?

• How have students changed?

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Computers

• How many do we need?

• How do they work?

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One-legged piracy

• A particular way of walking

• Not suitable in emergency

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The world outside

“White Horse Yard …is worse than the rest – many living [here] who have been convicted. Would not be past dropping a brick on my head if they got the chance.”

Charles Booth notebooks

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Were we worried in the 1980’s ?

LSE’s Head of Slavonic Library Collections 1984

www.flikr.com/photos/lselibrary

• Wikipedia 2001• MySpace 2003• Facebook 2004• YouTube 2005• Twitter 2006

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It’s a vision thing…..

Where are we looking?