Taiga4lightningtalks

TAIGA Forum IV Lightning Talks January 22, 2009

Lightning Talks •  5 Minutes for Talk on Provocative Statements – The Speaker!!! •  10 Minutes for Discussion on the Talk and Provocative Statement from the Audience – THAT MEANS YOU!!!!

Provocative Statement #1 1. ... all librarians will be expected to take personal responsibility for their own professional development; each of us will evolve or die. Budget pressures will force administrators to confront the quot;psychological shadowquot; cast by tenure and pseudo-tenure that has inhibited them from taking necessary personnel actions. Librarians who cannot evolve will be reassigned or fired.

Provocative Statement #2 2. ... collection development as we now know it will cease to exist as selection of library materials will be entirely patron-driven. Ownership of materials will be limited to what is actively used. The only collection development activities involving librarians will be competition over special collections and archives.

Provocative Statement #3 3. ... Google will meet virtually all information needs for both students and researchers. Publishers will use Google as a portal to an increasing array of content and services that disintermediate libraries. All bibliographic data, excepting what libraries create for local special collections, will be produced and consumed at the network level.

Provocative statement #3 •  In five years… Google … will meet virtually all information needs for both students and researchers. Publishers will use Google as a portal to an increasing array of content and services that disintermediate libraries. All bibliographic data, excepting what libraries create for local special collections, will be produced and consumed at the network level.

what’s provocative about this one again?

but libraries have better quality metadata

but library indexes are more comprehensive Meier and Conkling,   “Google Scholar’s Coverage of   the Engineering Literature,” JAL (2008) 

uh… library content is broader and deeper 12000000  10000000  8000000  6000000  2008  2010  4000000  2000000  0  GoogleBooks  Avg. ARL 

but our brand is strong

and it’s not just Google…. there are others, right?

the Google Economy •  … the value of a resource, such as a web page, can be determined by the way that resource is linked to other resources. .... The Google economy is an example of a network effect. … The result is that a person searching for a book is likely to find the Amazon.com catalog page or blog posts discussing the book long before they will find any library offering the book for loan.

so we need to get more efficient? •  streamline metadata creation •  leverage commodity metadata •  let users tag our stuff…

My career in librarianship has included work in cataloging, which I have   always understood to be a major part of library funcQoning. But I did   not fully realize how major unQl I made a discovery when I became associate   librarian of the Library of Congress. The discovery was financial—the Library of   Congress is invesQng in cataloging at the rate of $44 million a year! You can  well appreciate that a cost of that magnitude really got my aYenQon.   If such an expenditure produces great benefits for the Library of Congress,   libraries across the country, and others around the world, then we can jusQfiably   argue that the $44 million is well spent. But in the age of digital informaQon,   Internet access, and electronic key word searching, just how much do we  need to conQnue to spend on carefully constructed  catalogs? That is the quesQon I have come here this evening to pose—how  should we think about cataloging in the Age of Google?  

which means? • not that libraries can’t compete with the big guys • or that we need to be more efficient… value isn’t there • it means that the anymore for a lot of what we do • The value has shifted to •  the thing rather than the description of the thing • the network, openness, links

Provocative Statement #4 4. ... knowledge management will be identified as a critical need on campus and will be defined much more broadly than libraries have defined it. The front door for all information inquiries will be at the university level. Libraries will have a small information service role and will be responsible mainly for archiving digital content.

Provocative Statement #5 5. ... libraries will have given up on the quot;outreach librarianquot; model after faculty persistently show no interest in it. Successful libraries will have inserted themselves into the instructional technology space as a viable point of engagement with students and faculty.

Provocative Statement #6 6. ... libraries will provide no in-person services. All services (reference, circulation, instruction, etc.) will be unmediated and supported by technology.

Provocative Statement #7 7. ... library budgets will be reallocated from support of a greatly downsized facility, collections and staffing towards discovery and access of information at the network level. Local unique collection purchases will be funded primarily by donor contributions; projects will be funded primarily by grants.

Where the Rubber Left the Road or The Tundra is Melting

•  2. Collection development as we now know it will cease to exist as selection of library materials will be entirely patron-driven. Ownership of materials will be limited to what is actively used. The only collection development activities involving librarians will be competition over special collections and archives.

•  Most libraries’ information service models are based on using locally owned resources to meet users’ information needs. •  In the networked environment, the local collection is becoming less important and discovery and access at the network level will become much more important.

•  To this date, despite being aware of use trends and adjusting purchasing plans accordingly, a large portion of materials purchased are not being used in libraries. •  New business models must be adopted that support network level discovery and access and minimize investment in unused resources. •  Current models of library selection based collection development are not that model.

 Use based and patron driven business models will become the norm.  Management of resources will be based on use and cost data and the bibliographer selection model will not exist.  Legacy print collections will be managed cooperatively.

 Collection management roles will continue in archival areas like special collections as unique content will need to be identified for acquisition, preservation, and digital exposure.  As this content is unique libraries may compete over content development in special collections and archival areas.

Lightning Responses?

Provocative Statement #8 8. ... library buildings will no longer house collections and will become campus community centers that function as part of the student services sector. Campus business offices will manage license and acquisition of digital content. These changes will lead campus administrators to align libraries with the administrative rather than the academic side of the organization.

Provocative Statement #9 9. ... the library community will recognize the decreasing value proposition of membership organizations (e.g., CRL, DLF, CNI, SPARC, ARL). All collaboration of significance will be centered around either individual entrepreneurial libraries (HathiTrust), regional consortia, or OCLC.

Provocative Statement #10 10. ... 20% of the ARL library directors will have retired, and there will be a shortage of senior library leaders ready and willing to take their places. Universities will begin to hire leaders from other parts of the academy (student services, academic computing, faculty) leading to a major realignment of library within the university infrastructure.

Population Demographics

Blended or Remix

Paths to Leadership •  Timing •  Transition •  What is in your toolbox? –  People –  Networks –  Campus •  Finding Custom Paths for those in your organization (Technology, Instruction, Information) Barone, C. (September 2006). Timing, TransiQons, and Careers. Educause Review. 

Why Library Doesn’t Matter Ten Year Challenges Library Ten Year •  No More Library •  Collaborative Projects Projects •  Partnerships are of •  Extra-Institutional Mass-Scale •  Information •  Enterprise Support Advocacy •  Economies of •  Managing Digital Scale Information Layer Chester, T. (2006). A Roadmap to IT Leadership and the Next Ten Years. Educause Quarterly.  Jackson, G. (2004). A CIO’s QuesQon: Will You SQll Need Me When I’m 64?. Chronicle of Higher  Educa:on, January 30, 2004, B22‐23. 

Embracing the Remix Knopper, S. (2009). AppeQte for Self‐DestrucQon: The Spectacular Crash of the Record  Industry in the Digital Age. New York: Free Press. 

The Big Switch

Broader Topics •  64K Question – What is an academic/research library? 23 •  What is a academic librarian? Who staffs libraries? 16 –  How to break apart traditional tribes and repurpose for future? •  Opportunities for Budgets – Funding Sources 13 •  Leverage the Google 5 •  Metrics for our definition of a research library? 6 •  Implications of working at the network level? 5 •  When Public Good Argument no longer works? 7 •  Academic Library User Experience and Branding 22

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