perceiving the future: select visions
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Perceiving the Future: Select Visions. James W. Marcum. PhD, MSLS September 2012. Perceiving the Complexities: What characterizes our ‘age’?. Age of. - Knowledge ( Competence). ?. Network (Communication and Collaboration). Age of Information (Literacy). Learning - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
James W. Marcum. PhD, MSLS
September 2012
Perceiving the Complexities: What characterizes our ‘age’?
Perceiving the Complexities: What characterizes our ‘age’?
Perceiving present COMPLEXITIES
Professional Mindset
• Learning support; traditionally:– reactive– print-bound – preservationist
– Davenport & Prusak, Information Ecology (1997).
– vague on purpose, “unreflective”– tunnel vision, isolated discourse
– J. Budd, G. Radford, W. Wiegand, et al.
• Future sustainability requires rethinking these traditions and becoming proactive, interactive
• But will style and new gizmos do the trick?
Challenge: Intense Competition• For instantaneous, “good
enough” information• Acquire books (new, used, or e-) with reviews and information• Digital Library:
– databases, e-books• Web 2.0– webinars, wikis, games
• Social Media– Twitter– Facebook, etc.
Facebook is training
500 million people how
to collaborate online….
SOCIAL MEDIA: Constant Interactivity
Challenge: New Knowledge/BIG DATA
CHALLENGE: A visual culture is taking over the world” - J. Naisbett, Mind Set (2006)
• Design, architecture, entertainment, fashion… and the ubiquitous camera.
ASSUMPTION…• “The role of library education today is not to simply train
people to perform the library functions of the past (public services, cataloging, collection development, etc.),
• Or even to prepare people to perform the new library functions of the future (information technology literacy, digital resources, knowledge management, etc.).
• But rather to prepare people to transform and develop the organizations that will assure the basic functions of the library are available to culture and society in the future.”
» J W Marcum
VISION: Revive “reading”• Free voluntary (extended) reading produces
better–vocabulary– spelling–writing–with longer retention and–more and better reading in the future.
• …than formal instruction.– S. Krashen, The Power of Reading, 2nd ed. 2004.
VISION: lead in the knowledge creation process
• On demand books and information• Institutional repository Knowledge Commons• Enterprise; partnerships• NEW VISION: Library as promoter of
community and collaborative creation of new knowledge.
• Lankes, Atlas of New Librarianship
VISION: ChampionInformation Culture Literacy
Promote the steady progression from• LITERACY, to• INFORMATION LITERACY, to• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LITERACY to• VISUAL LITERACY, to
• INFORMATION CULTURE LITERACY: What is it that people need to be able to do to function effectively in today’s fast changing “informaiton culture”
METHOD:The Collaborative Imperative
In Conclusion:Library Education and the Future
• Challenges:– Popular perception: “against the current”– Changes in social behavior: participation, social media,
e-braries, e-shopping– From administrative perspective: Libraries obsolete?
• Response:– Not a time to “stay the course”– Time to try new things; new roles; new ventures– Multi-wheeled tracks, collaborations, partnerships.
• NOT a time to be passengers on the bus, but time to seize the wheel and drive to a new destination
James W. [email protected]