The document discusses how school libraries can future-proof their collections and services in the digital age. It recommends that libraries recognize the potential of ebooks and electronic resources to transform reading and learning, while also advocating for print materials that have long-term value. The library should position itself as an expert that guides students and teachers in using new technologies. Libraries are encouraged to make reading social and driven by user interests, and to curate local digital content alongside print. The overall goal is for the library to remain central to the school by adapting to changing user needs and technologies.

1. Future-proof Your Library
Kentucky School Library Association
September 30, 2011
Wendy Stephens
Buckhorn High School, New Market, Ala.
http://wendysteadmanstephens.com

17. paleofuturism

23. Future-proof Your Collection

24. “They don’t make paper books anymore…”
Are we post-print?

25. Did your administrator get an e-reader for Christmas?

26. Student A
Waiting on Wednesday
Peak Oil
3rd ereader in the
household
Backlist (completist)
Doesn’t share

27. Student B
Brigadoon
Free books (at the
library, at B&N,
through the Nook
bookstore, scribd)
Volume reader of genre
fiction
Not concerned about
quality

28. A new ownership model

29. Be the expert
on ebooks *
*that doesn’t mean you can’t be
skeptical
also, that doesn’t mean you have to
circulate hardware

31. What are we
leaving behind?

32. What are we
leaving behind?

33. What are we leaving behind?

34. Still
grappling
with
e-typesetting
(e-editing,
e-marketing,
e-writing)

36. design

37. design

38. persuasive design

40. http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/02/02/133404891/a-parade-restored-a-maurice-sendak-mural-goes-from-bedroom-to-gallery

43. e has the potential to be paradigm shift

44. e has the potential to be paradigm shift

45. e has the potential to be paradigm shift

46. e has the potential to be paradigm shift

47. e has the potential to be paradigm shift

48. e has the potential to be paradigm shift

49. e has the potential to be paradigm shift

51. When the
hardware
doesn’t
support the
software…

52. And who knows what the next generation of ereaders will bring?

53. At .07 cents
a use,
Nicholas
Sparks isn’t
a candidate
for ebooks.

54. At $152 per
use,
curricular
support is a
better
candidate
for “e.”

55. What about the
in-betweens,
information
which doesn’t age
and can be read
in a variety of
ways?

56. The curious case of nonfiction….

57. Future-proof Your Position

58. Recognize it

62. Our image problem is real

63. Show students learning, not us teaching….

64. …or posing…

65. …or looking bored or superfluous.

66. Never let them photograph the library without students in the picture...

70. Be
psychic

71. Delight in the fixed schedule

72. Get a guru

73. (or,
better yet,
gurus)

74. Introduce your faculty and students to new
technologies

75. Learn the local technologies

76. Prepare for augmented realities

77. Prepare for augmented realities

78. Advocate for student-owned hardware

79. Keep a finger in every pie

80. You are the product

81. Fight the filter bubble

87. Future-proof Reading

88. Reading is social

89. Reading is social

91. Reading is social

95. Read more than ever

98. Exploit the long tail

100. Curate hyper-local content

101. Let readers drive acquisitions

103. and programming

104. recommender systems

105. recommender systems

106. recommender systems

107. recommender systems

108. recommender systems

109. recommender systems

110. Recommender systems include human systems

112. Fake it

113. and fresh required reading options

114. Admit the fallibility of print.

115. Realize
advocacy
fatigue
exists

116. Provide opportunities

117. Help redefine abilities

119. Future-proof Your Library
Kentucky School Library Association
September 30, 2011
Wendy Stephens
Buckhorn High School, New Market, Ala.
http://wendysteadmanstephens.com