Library Value and Digitization

1. The Value of Value in
the Near Distant Future
CIL 2016 March 10, 2016
Stephen Abram, MLS
Managing Principal
Lighthouse Consulting, Inc.

2. The Value Proposition of Libraries
 Why do we exist?
 Does what we do align with that?

3. The Value Proposition of Digitization
 Pizza

4. Curation
 Museums versus Libraries

5. Personas
 Ethnography
 Learning Styles
 Multiple Intelligences
 Genome
 Brain Research

6. How does the fridge work?
 Fields
 Tags
 Linked Data
 Bibframe
 RDA
 Federated Search
 Etc.
 Etc.

7. Features, Functions and Benefits
 FAB

8. The Social Contract
 Dave Snowden: “We can’t live in a virtual world and stay human.”

9. Physical vs. Digital
 Virtual Branches
 UX
 Experience
 Impact, outcomes, value

10. Impact Outcomes Value
 Information-centric
 Knowledge-centric
 Experience-centric

11. LibraryLabs: Research, Innovation,
Imagination
 Are libraries Innovative?
Diffusion

12. (More) Discussion

13. Questions?
Stephen Abram
Lighthouse Consulting, Inc.
416-669-4855
stephen.abram@gmail.com
StephensLighthouse.com