THE ACADEMIC
LIBRARY
Some recent thoughts and ideas
@malbooth
TRENDS & CONTEXT
changes in scholarly communication
| new jobs & digital literacies | data
curation | open scholarship |
research impact | pedagogical
change | transdisciplinarity |
Apple Store, Manhattan, NYC |
Libraries are not
circuses, shopping
malls, banks or Apple
stores
(but probably have a little to learn
from each of these)
Customs House
Library, Sydney | a
great example of
brilliant design and
successful
connected programs
and services |
refurbishment by
PTW Architects in
association with
Tanner Architects &
Lacoste+Stevenson
Service Points | “Kiosk” type service point, Hunt Library, NCSU
Service desks & reserve holds area | Humboldt University Library, Berlin
MONA:some thoughts
leaving it to chance | don’t aim for
perfection | the power of not
knowing | aim for wonder, awe,
inspiration, delight, serendipity &
surprise | more random | more trust |
MONA
MONA
MONA
MONA
UTS Interior & Spatial Design student work exhibited recently in UTS Library |
What would Andy Warhol
or David Walsh do?
libraries have a lot more to learn
from them than from Jack Welch or
the Harvard Business Review
Watch Andy Warhol:A documentary Film | by Ric Burns (image from an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, NYC
Games Room | UTS Library
Escaping the old ways
can be harder than
having new ideas
John Seely Brown (paraphrased)
The Morgan Library & Museum, Manhattan, NYC |
Laughing |
Smiling |
Having Fun |
we need more rules and signs
| #obvs
We’ll always have to
deal with Ambiguities
so let’s not kill all our darlings
Still functional & popular | Main Reading Room, New York Public Library
Snøhetta’s modern reading room | James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU
Individual study nooks, Silent Reading Room, 5th floor | UTS Library
Identity &
Inspiration
King’s Library
and public
spaces | The
British Library,
London
Foster + Partners | Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin
Foster + Partners | Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin
Foster + Partners | Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin
Foster + Partners | Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin
Culture
connecting and engaging
with the community
Customs House Library, Sydney | Vivid Festival, 2012
Moshe Safdie |
Main Library, Salt
Lake City
Exhibition of student works from the 2014 Global Textiles Studio | UTS Library, 2015 (image by Jackson Mann)
Going beyond Search:
Discovery & Curiosity
in libraries, their collections,
content & context
Columbus Circle, Manhattan | because search is like White Pages & discovery is like Colombus in 1492
Snøhetta’s yellow pathways | James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU
MONA
Visualising search results | UTS Library Catalogue
Recommendation engines? | E.g. Netflix & Amazon
Building Context
for a data future
supporting the research
data management lifecycle
Data vis, teaching, research facility | Data teaching & vis lab, Hunt Library, NCSU
Data Labs | Data lab prototype, British Library
3D projector and surface/table top screen | British Library
Delivering an
Experience
emotional connection
Customs House Library, Sydney |
Harvested Instagram images | James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU
Asia Pacific Design Library | State Library of Queensland
Eric Hagan live drawing, UTS Library | Couture Techniques, 2nd year Fashion students Bodice and
Dress Project in collaboration with the NSW Embroiders Guild
Organisational
(mis)Representation
how can we get this right?
UTS Library Organisation Chart | First Dimension:Administrative “homes”
University Librarian
Director Education &
Research Services Unit
Director Library Resources
Unit
Information Services
Manager
Access Services Manager
Manager eResearch
IT Manager
Scholarly Information
Manager
University of Technology, Sydney
University Library
Organisation Chart (as at April 2014)
Collection Maintenance
Coordinator
DRR & Digitisation
Coordinator
Access Services
Coordinator
Business & Law Team
Leader
Sciences & Technology
Team Leader
Arts & Social Sciences
Team Leader
Access Services
Coordinator (KC)
Collection Development &
Evaluation Team Leader
Metadata & Discovery
Services Team Leader
Finance & Vendor
Relationships Team Leader
Systems Architect
Web Developer
Server Administrator
Reserve & Access
Coordinator
Library Retrieval System
Officer
Communication Manager
Director Logistics, Planning &
Kuring-gai Library
UTS Library Organisation Chart | What about these roles?????
University Librarian
Director Education &
Research Services Unit
Director Library Resources
Unit
Information Services
Manager
Access Services Manager
Manager eResearch
IT Manager
Scholarly Information
Manager
University of Technology, Sydney
University Library
Organisation Chart (as at April 2014)
Collection Maintenance
Coordinator
DRR & Digitisation
Coordinator
Access Services
Coordinator
Business & Law Team
Leader
Sciences & Technology
Team Leader
Arts & Social Sciences
Team Leader
Access Services
Coordinator (KC)
Collection Development &
Evaluation Team Leader
Metadata & Discovery
Services Team Leader
Finance & Vendor
Relationships Team Leader
Systems Architect
Web Developer
Server Administrator
Reserve & Access
Coordinator
Library Retrieval System
Officer
Communication Manager
Director Logistics, Planning &
Kuring-gai Library
Digital Literacy |
Open Access Repository |
UTS ePRESS |
Spec. Collections Acquisition |
Data Archives |
learning.futures |
Research Support |
Open Access & OERs |
Ref. Help & Desk Shifts |
Exhibition Curation & Events |
Research Impact Metrics |
RDM Planning & Assistance |
Social Media Engagement |
Other liaison/engagement |
Data Projects |
CAUL, LATN, ALIA work |
UX/UI research |
New Media
Literacies
visual, musical, procedural &
cinematic:it isn’t just about
books
Kapi
Warku |
Painting
by Paniny
Mick a
senior
Amata
woman
Illuminated pages from “The Life of St Edmund King and Martyr” | John
Lydgate’s Illustrated Verse Life. Presented to Henry VI. A facsimile of British
Library MS Harley 2278. British Library, 2004
Bradman's comet trailing
the sky of the Australian
Innings | Irene Wellington's
visualisation of Bradman's
scoring strokes at Leeds.
From her diary:26 Days and
25 Nights of Summer, 1934.
Dark brown leather binding,
77 written pages. Black ink
and red paint on paper. 30 x
24.5 cm.
11-808:Visualising the Library's Retrieval System | By our 2014 Artist(s)-in Residence:Elisa Lee & Adam Hinshaw
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/news/288004/uts-library-s-artists-residence-investigate-library-retrieval-system
Media Editing Studio | UTS Library
“Lace Narratives”, an Open
Access Media Object |
Downloadable PDF, video,
images, print-on-demand
editions, and a limited
edition artists’s book with
lace samples.
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/
books/lace-narratives
Design &
Behaviour
Rain
Garden
Reading
Lounge |
James B.
Hunt Jr.
Library,
NCSU
Silent Reading Room, 5th floor | UTS Library (image by Jackson Mann)
Leaving enough
Space
do we try to cram too much
stuff in?
Historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin
Rain Garden Reading Lounge | James B. Hunt Jr. Library, NCSU
Can you design for
Advocacy?
sustainability | diversity | Open
Access | fair IP & Copyright |
net neutrality |
Sustainability at The Grove Library | Perth, WA
Kuring-Gai
Campus Library |
UTS
Library thoughts, late 2015

Library thoughts, late 2015

  • 1.
    THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY Some recentthoughts and ideas @malbooth
  • 2.
    TRENDS & CONTEXT changesin scholarly communication | new jobs & digital literacies | data curation | open scholarship | research impact | pedagogical change | transdisciplinarity |
  • 3.
  • 4.
    Libraries are not circuses,shopping malls, banks or Apple stores (but probably have a little to learn from each of these)
  • 5.
    Customs House Library, Sydney| a great example of brilliant design and successful connected programs and services | refurbishment by PTW Architects in association with Tanner Architects & Lacoste+Stevenson
  • 6.
    Service Points |“Kiosk” type service point, Hunt Library, NCSU
  • 7.
    Service desks &reserve holds area | Humboldt University Library, Berlin
  • 8.
    MONA:some thoughts leaving itto chance | don’t aim for perfection | the power of not knowing | aim for wonder, awe, inspiration, delight, serendipity & surprise | more random | more trust |
  • 9.
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    UTS Interior &Spatial Design student work exhibited recently in UTS Library |
  • 14.
    What would AndyWarhol or David Walsh do? libraries have a lot more to learn from them than from Jack Welch or the Harvard Business Review
  • 15.
    Watch Andy Warhol:Adocumentary Film | by Ric Burns (image from an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, NYC
  • 16.
    Games Room |UTS Library
  • 17.
    Escaping the oldways can be harder than having new ideas John Seely Brown (paraphrased)
  • 18.
    The Morgan Library& Museum, Manhattan, NYC |
  • 19.
    Laughing | Smiling | HavingFun | we need more rules and signs | #obvs
  • 20.
    We’ll always haveto deal with Ambiguities so let’s not kill all our darlings
  • 21.
    Still functional &popular | Main Reading Room, New York Public Library
  • 22.
    Snøhetta’s modern readingroom | James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU
  • 23.
    Individual study nooks,Silent Reading Room, 5th floor | UTS Library
  • 24.
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    King’s Library and public spaces| The British Library, London
  • 26.
    Foster + Partners| Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin
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    Foster + Partners| Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin
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    Foster + Partners| Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin
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    Foster + Partners| Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin
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    Customs House Library,Sydney | Vivid Festival, 2012
  • 32.
    Moshe Safdie | MainLibrary, Salt Lake City
  • 33.
    Exhibition of studentworks from the 2014 Global Textiles Studio | UTS Library, 2015 (image by Jackson Mann)
  • 34.
    Going beyond Search: Discovery& Curiosity in libraries, their collections, content & context
  • 35.
    Columbus Circle, Manhattan| because search is like White Pages & discovery is like Colombus in 1492
  • 36.
    Snøhetta’s yellow pathways| James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU
  • 37.
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    Visualising search results| UTS Library Catalogue
  • 39.
    Recommendation engines? |E.g. Netflix & Amazon
  • 40.
    Building Context for adata future supporting the research data management lifecycle
  • 41.
    Data vis, teaching,research facility | Data teaching & vis lab, Hunt Library, NCSU
  • 42.
    Data Labs |Data lab prototype, British Library
  • 43.
    3D projector andsurface/table top screen | British Library
  • 44.
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  • 46.
    Harvested Instagram images| James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU
  • 47.
    Asia Pacific DesignLibrary | State Library of Queensland
  • 48.
    Eric Hagan livedrawing, UTS Library | Couture Techniques, 2nd year Fashion students Bodice and Dress Project in collaboration with the NSW Embroiders Guild
  • 49.
  • 50.
    UTS Library OrganisationChart | First Dimension:Administrative “homes” University Librarian Director Education & Research Services Unit Director Library Resources Unit Information Services Manager Access Services Manager Manager eResearch IT Manager Scholarly Information Manager University of Technology, Sydney University Library Organisation Chart (as at April 2014) Collection Maintenance Coordinator DRR & Digitisation Coordinator Access Services Coordinator Business & Law Team Leader Sciences & Technology Team Leader Arts & Social Sciences Team Leader Access Services Coordinator (KC) Collection Development & Evaluation Team Leader Metadata & Discovery Services Team Leader Finance & Vendor Relationships Team Leader Systems Architect Web Developer Server Administrator Reserve & Access Coordinator Library Retrieval System Officer Communication Manager Director Logistics, Planning & Kuring-gai Library
  • 51.
    UTS Library OrganisationChart | What about these roles????? University Librarian Director Education & Research Services Unit Director Library Resources Unit Information Services Manager Access Services Manager Manager eResearch IT Manager Scholarly Information Manager University of Technology, Sydney University Library Organisation Chart (as at April 2014) Collection Maintenance Coordinator DRR & Digitisation Coordinator Access Services Coordinator Business & Law Team Leader Sciences & Technology Team Leader Arts & Social Sciences Team Leader Access Services Coordinator (KC) Collection Development & Evaluation Team Leader Metadata & Discovery Services Team Leader Finance & Vendor Relationships Team Leader Systems Architect Web Developer Server Administrator Reserve & Access Coordinator Library Retrieval System Officer Communication Manager Director Logistics, Planning & Kuring-gai Library Digital Literacy | Open Access Repository | UTS ePRESS | Spec. Collections Acquisition | Data Archives | learning.futures | Research Support | Open Access & OERs | Ref. Help & Desk Shifts | Exhibition Curation & Events | Research Impact Metrics | RDM Planning & Assistance | Social Media Engagement | Other liaison/engagement | Data Projects | CAUL, LATN, ALIA work | UX/UI research |
  • 52.
    New Media Literacies visual, musical,procedural & cinematic:it isn’t just about books
  • 53.
  • 54.
    Illuminated pages from“The Life of St Edmund King and Martyr” | John Lydgate’s Illustrated Verse Life. Presented to Henry VI. A facsimile of British Library MS Harley 2278. British Library, 2004
  • 55.
    Bradman's comet trailing thesky of the Australian Innings | Irene Wellington's visualisation of Bradman's scoring strokes at Leeds. From her diary:26 Days and 25 Nights of Summer, 1934. Dark brown leather binding, 77 written pages. Black ink and red paint on paper. 30 x 24.5 cm.
  • 56.
    11-808:Visualising the Library'sRetrieval System | By our 2014 Artist(s)-in Residence:Elisa Lee & Adam Hinshaw http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/news/288004/uts-library-s-artists-residence-investigate-library-retrieval-system
  • 57.
    Media Editing Studio| UTS Library
  • 58.
    “Lace Narratives”, anOpen Access Media Object | Downloadable PDF, video, images, print-on-demand editions, and a limited edition artists’s book with lace samples. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ books/lace-narratives
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    Silent Reading Room,5th floor | UTS Library (image by Jackson Mann)
  • 62.
    Leaving enough Space do wetry to cram too much stuff in?
  • 63.
    Historic hall ofthe Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin
  • 64.
    Rain Garden ReadingLounge | James B. Hunt Jr. Library, NCSU
  • 65.
    Can you designfor Advocacy? sustainability | diversity | Open Access | fair IP & Copyright | net neutrality |
  • 66.
    Sustainability at TheGrove Library | Perth, WA
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