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.
7. 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
8.
9. “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
15. 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)
16. 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
17. How do library changes impact
higher ed?
library makes learning better,
deeper; supports flipped
classroom
Library has to be everything to
everybody; space + values
18. 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
19. 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?
20. Drive to jazz up library space
(food, music, yoga, makerspace
, puppet videos)
Or “the need for a building will
simply disappear” (Jill Strass)
21. empowered users; consumer side
"libraries are niche players on the
information landscape“ (Terry
Reese)
privacy
information: open vs silo
digital divide
22. "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)
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