5. Itās simple really, shift happens, gedoverit
ā¢ Learners & Communities will continue to be diverse in the extreme ā
especially on learning styles
ā¢ A foot in both camps for many, many years to come: digital and physical
ā¢ Content is already be dominated by non-text
(gamification, 3D, graphics, numeric, visual, music, video, audio, etc.)
ā¢ Search will explode with more options and one-step, one box search is
for dummies not professionally educated folks
ā¢ The single purpose anchored device is already dead as a target
ā¢ Devices will focus on
social, collaboration, sharing, learning, multimedia, creation and
successful library strategies must align with that
ā¢ School Librarians will need to focus primarily on transformational
librarianship and strategic alignment with curriculum
ā¢ E-Learning, collections and metadata will go to the cloud massively
6. Library Megatrends
It doesnāt take a genius to see teacher-librarian
skills and competencies applied to the trends and
issues in library communities can help in very
strategic ways ā social, economic, and discovery
impacts.
7. School Libraries
ā¢ Are you a librarian or an educator?
ā¢ Are you a support or mission-critical?
ā¢ Your business is education and learning (theyāre
different)
ā¢ Your new competitors are non-traditional
ā¢ Renewed advocacy has moved from apple pie to
influencing and selling the value and impact of teacher-
librarians
ā¢ Library staff competencies need a plateau upgrade ā
consultation, relationship, influence, educating . . .
13. Libraries core skill is not
delivering information
Libraries improve the
quality of the question
and the user experience
Learning Libraries are about
building life competencies
17. Think deeply about . . .
17
Your
Operationās
Scalability
Your
sustainability
The depth of your
relationships How you set
priorities:
Daily and Future
29. ā¢ If all users are ubiquitously connected with
broadband, have downloading skills for books
and movies, own smartphones, whither
libraries?
ā¢ What about the ādigital divideā?
ā¢ If the school system (K-12 and HigherEd)
changes radically ā¦?
30. ā¢ What if all music, audiobooks, and video
moved to streaming formats by 2018?
ā¢ What if the DVD and CD go the way of
vinyl, VHS, and cassettes?
31. ā¢ What if all books are digital?
ā¢ What if book services move to a subscription
model of unlimited use for $7/month?
ā¢ What about next generation e-books?
32. ā¢ What if all books are ābeyond textā?
ā¢ The NextGen Textbookā¦
ā¢ Can we support books with embedded
video, adaptive
technologies, audio, updating, software
tools, assessments, web-links, etc.
33. ā¢ Are you positioned at the lesson level?
ā¢ Could your library support all curricula and
distance education?
ā¢ Have you catalogued the learning
opportunities on the web? (Khan
Academy, Coursera, Udacity, edX, MIT, Harvard,
MOOCs, YouTube, Learn4All (ed2go), ā¦)
34. ā¢ Could your library support real e-learning
ā¢ Is EVERY staff member fluent in your LMS and
the needs of supporting hybrid or total
distance learning?
ā¢ By the way ā nearly all learning is distance
learning from the perspective of the library.
35. ā¢ Could your library support any kind of mobile
device?
ā¢ Are you fully ready to deliver, agnostically to
desktops, laptops, tablets, phablets, smartpho
nes, televisions, appliances, at a much higher
level?
36. ā¢ Are you prepared for new forms of content?
ā¢ Real multimedia? 3D objects and databases?
Holographics? Enhanced media?
ā¢ Can you be ready for makerspaces, creative
spaces, writing labs, business and start-up
incubators, etc.
ā¢ Can you publish for your community?
37. ā¢ What kinds of learning spaces are needed in
the future?
ā¢ Can you support real learning
spaces, community meeting
spaces, performance spaces, maker
spaces, real advisory spaces, true relationship
and consultation management . . .? In a virtual
space?
38. ā¢ What if everything was in the cloud?
(software, databases, metadata, content . . .)
ā¢ What would you do with those system skills
on staff?
ā¢ What if all metadata and content discovery is
freely available using open APIs through the
OCLC WorldShare vault and the Digital Public
Library of America / Europeana vault of open
and free metadata?
39. ā¢ What if search immersive resource discovery
becomes as ubiquitous as search engines?
ā¢ Can they find as well as search?
ā¢ Are your training sessions hitting 100% of
students?
ā¢ Are they aligned with workflow or
transactions?
40. ā¢ What does your experience portal look like?
ā¢ What are your top questions?
ā¢ Pathfinder - - LibGuides - Portals
ā¢ What are the outcome domains?
41. ā¢ Can you do it all ALONE?
ā¢ What would it look like if you cooperated?
ā¢ Consortia, Cooperatives, ā¦
45. Up Your Game
ā¢ Know your local community demographics i.e. Teachers vs.
Students vs. admin
ā¢ Focus on needs assessment and social assessments
ā¢ Prioritize: Love all, Serve all, Save the World means nothing
gets done
ā¢ Focus on scalability
ā¢ Look for partnerships that add value
46. Up Your Game
ā¢ Align with Collections ā every collection must be justified by
programs
ā¢ Force strategic investment budgeting
ā¢ Look for partnerships that add value
ā¢ Donāt go it alone. Focus on large scale sustainable programs
ā¢ Connect to the longer process not just events
ā¢ Virtual and in-person - in the Library and reaching out with partners
ā¢ SCALE: eLearning and Surveys ā e.g. citation methods
47. What are the real issues?
ā¢ Craft versus Industrial Strength
ā¢ Personal service only when thereās impact
ā¢ Pilot, Project, Initiative versus Portfolio Strategy
ā¢ Hand-knitted prototypes versus Production
ā¢ e.g. Information Literacy initiatives (LibGuides)
ā¢ Discovery versus Search versus Deep Search
ā¢ eLearning units and program dissemination
ā¢ Citation and information ethics
ā¢ Content and repository archipelagos
ā¢ Strategic Analytics
ā¢ Value & Impact Measures
ā¢ Behaviours, Satisfaction
ā¢ Economic and strategic alignment
48. Up Your Game
ā¢ Align with Collections ā But add virtual experiences
ā¢ Start being Mobile in the extreme
ā¢ Look for partnerships that add value
ā¢ Focus on relationship management / liaisons
ā¢ Ensure the program delivery person is embedded including
librarians
ā¢ What are your top learning or research domains? Start there.
ā¢ Donāt go it alone. Build scalability and sustainability.
ā¢ Look for replicability ā look for commonalities
50. Up Your Game
ā¢ Learn the LMS system ā everyone
ā¢ Learn copyright and licensing rights
ā¢ Learn developmental, genome, IQ, and learning styles research
ā¢ Relationship management, team building
ā¢ Advocacy and influence and research support
51. Up Your Game
ā¢ Learn how to reach and teach online
ā¢ Teach how to learn online
ā¢ Teach how to research online
ā¢ Everyone in academic libraries should be focused on
teaching/researching first, then library
ā¢ Learn more systems than one!
ā¢ Be obsessive about consultation, recommendations and advice
ā¢ Social alignment rules and use the tools
52. Up Your Game
ā¢ Start to understand the real issues with e-books
ā¢ Study e-textbooks
ā¢ Study Learning Objects
ā¢ Balance content with interface
ā¢ Focus on learner not librarian behaviours
53. Up Your Game
ā¢ Learn consulting and relationship management practices
ā¢ Understand the research goals
ā¢ Understand Pedagogy in the context of student experiences
and educational goals
ā¢ Understand human development and stage(teens)
ā¢ Know where your programs are heading
ā¢ Consider deep partnerships
ā¢ Consider coaches, peer, and tutoring partnerships
54. Up Your Game
ā¢ The strong ālibraryā brand ā adding dimension
ā¢ Personal branding ā Who are your stars? Promote them.
ā¢ Program branding
ā¢ Take risks for attention (AIDA)
ā¢ Embed your brand beyond the library walls and virtually
55. Up Your Game
ā¢ Grow collections investments in strategic areas (for example
economic impact, jobs, early years, hobbies, political
alignment, homework, research agenda ā¦)
ā¢ Develop hybrid strategies that are consistent for digital and print
and programs
ā¢ Be obsessive about recommendations and advice and added value
ā¢ Integrate virtual and physical ā hybridize
ā¢ Donāt fear off-site cooperation
ā¢ CURATE ā real curation not assembly
56. Up Your Game
ā¢ Move the ILS to the Cloud
ā¢ Linked Data models ā OCLC Worldshare, Europeana, DPLA, etc.
ā¢ Fix the ārepository problemā
ā¢ Look at TCO and look at all costs incurred and not just hard
costs
ā¢ Review opportunity costs in soft costs
57. Up Your Game
ā¢ Dog, Star, Cow, Problem Child/?
ā¢ Reduce investment in successes
ā¢ Increase investments in the future
ā¢ Set priorities
ā¢ āParkā some stuff temporarily
58.
59.
60. Is this library ready to support a
world of unlimited content, multiple
formats, massive access, and
consumer expectations of MORE?
Yes?
No?
With
Effort, Vision, Leadership?
Never?