Digital Future

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5 comments

+ ostephens 3 years ago
You have to have a solid foundation on which to build
+ ostephens 3 years ago
Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft?
…
Dawson Books, Blackwell, Elsevier, Coutts?
+ ostephens 3 years ago
But the world is a big place - no longer constrained by the physical library
Need to engage with external and internal partners:
+ ostephens 3 years ago
Alan Kay (Computer Scientist, advisor to the One Laptop per Child ($100 laptop) program

We have to be daring - take risks (and encourage others to do the same)
+ ostephens 3 years ago
Attributed to Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

NSW Department of Education at NSW Department of Education, added this to the group Library2.0

Digital Future? How should Imperial College Library position itself to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Digital Future and to deal with the challenges it presents?
- There is
- no reason
- for any individual to have
- a computer
- in their home
Flexible
The Way Forward
- Vision
- Staff
- Partners
- Users
- Infrastructure
Vision
- The best way to
- predict the future
- is to
- invent it .
Staff
Share the Vision
Develop the Skills
Partners
Who would you like to work with?
Users
From Consumers to Contributors
Share the Vision
Personalise Users are people too
Infrastructure
Do you have the right Infrastructure?
- Business Processes
- IT Systems
- Staff Structures
In Summary
- Be Flexible
- Have a Vision
- Invest in Staff
- Work with Partners
- Integrate Users (and Uses)
- Review Infrastructure