Presentation Spring Event 2010 Libraries in the 21st Century, Rome Italy.

1. Spring eventThe academic library – a 21st century missionMary Joan Crowley, DiSG Library, Sapienza University of Rome. Member of CASPUR-CIBER.

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3. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley When we lived in modern times Changing scholarship and education in 21st century Be both behind and ahead of our times Ensure continuity with previous generations and needs of a modern academic library

4. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley University libraries a late developer Most emerged in the late 1600’s early 1700’s Have acquired a vital and unique institution in the university

5. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Academic library – mission to date Guarantee the organized collection, delivery and preservationof printed and other content Provide a staff trained to support the learning, teaching and research needs and output of the university and community Offer an agreed schedule in which services are available Ensure the physical facilities necessary to support this

6. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Whatever affects higher education affects academic libraries

7. Adventof the web In 1990 the web was just getting started In 2000 our consortiums were grappling with the first online journals and how to deliver them to our users’ pcs In 2010, content, only a fraction of which libraries handle, can be delivered literally into the palm of their hand 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

8. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Transition: the diffuse library Information everywhere by everybody Desktop access often unmediated by the library Diminished need to visit the library as place Downward trend in on-site usage Our added value no longer valued Empty stacks/paperless library

9. Changedperspectivesoflibraryasplace Blogs, wikis, podcasts, vidcasts, webinars, RSS, share, Flickr, Picassa, YouTube, Facebook, Google Books, Amazon, social bookmarking, tagging, user-drivencontent, rating and recommenders, digitisedcontent, Open Access, “wisdomofcrowds”, differentuserbehaviours, wantitnow/wantit free, mobile devices…andmuchmore….. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

10. Loss of direction 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

11. http://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/faculty-surveys-2000-2009/faculty-survey-2009 FACULTY SURVEY 2009 Discovery and the Evolving Role of the Library The Format Transition for Scholarly Works Scholarly Communications 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

12. “Unfortunately, when it comes time to cut budgets, often libraries are first to be cut.”http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/mediapresscenter/americaslibraries/index.cfm 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

13. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Using the crisis as opportunity Not by reinventing the wheel, but by inheriting a great “brand” and making it relevant for the 21st century user

14. Librariescan lead the way Mustaddressbarrierstochange Can conquertechnicaldeficiencies Cannot go it alone Needfor a collaborative approach and more liaison withall the players 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

15. Librariansmustbecome more 2.0 literate Sadly, buttrue, the libraryismostlyusedas a placeofstudy and Google isusedtosearch Mustlearntoconnectwith the 21st centuryuser Put the librarywherethey are How? 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

16. Social technologyforlibrarians http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com www.sociallibraries.com/course/ http://www.slideshare.net/CIBER23librarythings/ciber-23-library-things http://cab.unime.it/cibernewsletter/ 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

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18. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley 23 library things: collaborate, communicate, converse and share

19. Notbeafraidtoexperiment ! 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

20. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Engage with the growing social media

21. Facilitate 21st centuryliteracies Ourusers are great on downloading fromYouTube, Facebook and Google, butthey are notnaturallybornresearchers Needour expertise toknowwhengoodenoughreallyisgoodenough ! 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

22. Get out frombehind the desk Join the Youtubeconversation Podcastsfor info on the go Assistance and answersavailableusing sms and IM Intensive face-to-facesessionswhereversuits best 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

23. Planfor a handheld world Phonesnowusedas web browsers, databases, retrieval interface, storage, readers… Ourusersconsumecontentwhile on the move, at dinner, or in bed Will wanttouse some ofourservices in this way 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/images/pho

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25. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Q. Losing users in the Catalogues ?A. Try the Sopac ! From static to more interactive systems For end users delivery more important than discovery Software to overlay or replace traditional Opacs Easier filter information from all forms of content Enhanced content - faceted searching, relevancy searching, did you mean, recommenders, reviews, book jackets, tags…..

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28. Expandourcore business Provide a supportiveenvironmentforgeographicallydistributedresearchersworking in collaboratory interdisciplinary environments Metadatacreationenablingbetterdiscoverability Have a role in the researchassessmentprocess Monitor usage and userbehaviour Oldbooks and e-books 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

29. Rethinking the libraryrole in scholarlycommunication Supportshiftfrompurchasedcontentto Open Access Facilitate e-scholarlypublishing LiaisebetweenFaculty and the InstitutionalRepository Receive, Describe, Preserve and Curate informalcommunications, data sharing, classroompresentations, preprints, technicalreports, workingpapers, disserations, articles, books … 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley

30. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley “To every cow belongs her calf, therefore to every book belongs its copy” Develop leadership in standing up for legal rights regarding ownership and sources of scholarship

31. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Share resources and be resourceful Encourage different uses of our spaces Use freed up spaces as a bargaining tool Collaborate with other institutions on resource sharing – collections, digitisation, off-site storage… When money is tight, everything is negotiable !

32. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Pursue a market culture Define and Divulge our core services in a combination of virtual and physical spaces – Facebook event, YouTube tour, Cafeteria… Facilitate use of discovery and visualisation tools for exposing data Branding and Networking Fund-raising, philanthropy….

33. The Continuing Metamorphosis of the Library At the heart of the research and education workflow, organising the community’s knowledge, through an integrated system of networked and traditional resources, and making it accessible and useful to a democratic society throughout a process of lifelong learning. set 99999 services that allow the end-user to discover, access, use and publish digit

34. 27/04/2010 Spring Event Mary Joan Crowley Grazie !* Mary Joan Crowley DiSGBiblioteca, SapienzaUniversitàdi Roma Member of Caspur-Ciber maryjoan.crowley@uniroma1.it *all images uploaded for educational purposes