Transforming the Library presented at the American Council on Education annual meeting

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Transforming
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If you started a library today…
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Decline of Print Subscriptions
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Growth of Online Access
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The Claremont Colleges Pomona College 1887 Claremont Graduate University 1925 Claremont University Consortium 1925
Scripps College 1926 Claremont McKenna College 1946 Harvey Mudd College 1955 Pitzer College 1963 Keck Graduate Institute 1997

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What does a library do then?
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Cylinders of Excellence
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Other (potential) Cylinders of Excellence
• Faculty-Librarian & Student-librarian collaboration
• Increase discovery
• Improve findability, filtering, precision
• Bridge chasm between resources and info tools
• Promote usage, ease information management
• Allocate resources to the unique collections
• Special collections, archives, digitization
• Focus on assessment, quality indicators, outcome measures
• Prove our value!
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