wrapping up the forecasting the next-gen libary course-ference
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My closing talk to the Forecasting the Next-Gen Libary course-ference, hosted by Carthage Conference. I sum up discussions over the past few months, then offer a couple of thoughts at the end.TRANSCRIPT
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
Not a librarian, but a fanboy
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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
The Courseferencehttp://
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-Bryan Alexander
http://bryanalexander.org