Keynote 2- The library and its digital futures - Ben Showers, Head of Scholarly and Library Futures, JISC
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The document discusses the digital future of libraries and focuses on three main themes: the user, the library, and collaboration. It describes how libraries need to think about the user experience and support new forms of participation, understanding, and play. For libraries, it discusses the need to think vertically about collections and services, look inside the organization, and support new models for publishing and accessing content. Collaboration is key, and the document provides examples like projects to share analytics data and knowledgebases for managing electronic resources. Overall, it advocates for libraries to embrace disruption and think creatively about emerging skills and roles in a changing digital landscape.
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Keynote 2- The library and its digital futures - Ben Showers, Head of Scholarly and Library Futures, JISC
- 1. The Library and its Digital Futures02.06.2014 CILIPS
- 2. 2 Ben Showers Head of Scholarly and Library Futures b.showers@jisc.ac.uk @benshowers
- 3. Introducing Jisc 3 Jisc offers digital services for UK education and research. The charity does this to achieve its vision for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. Jisc.ac.uk © Isaxen via Flickr
- 4. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
- 5. Themes… 1. The User 2. The Library 3. Collaboration
- 6. The User
- 9. User-led…
- 10. At Scale…
- 11. Playful…
- 13. Qualitative
- 14. Quantitative
- 15. The Library
- 17. Inside out
- 18. Disaggregation of the publishing process: o National Monograph Strategy o E-Textbooks initiative 18 New models for journals and books…
- 19. Collaboration
- 20. Library Analytics and Metrics Project (LAMP) http://jisclamp.mimas.ac.uk
- 21. Shared Community Knowledgebase for academic e-resource management http://www.kbplus.ac.uk
- 22. Let your data be promiscuous
- 23. The best idea for your data will be thought of by someone else!
- 26. emerging skills…
- 27. Final thoughts…
- 28. disruption is a feature, not a bug…
- 30. best time ever to be a librarian…
- 31. Find out more… 01.04.2014 31 Ben Showers Head of Scholarly and Library Futures, Jisc b.showers@jisc.ac.uk @benshowers Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Editor's Notes
- Primarily focused on HE
- Working together across the higher education, further education and skills sectors, Jisc provides trusted advice and support, reduces sector costs across shared network, digital content, IT services and procurement negotiations, ensuring the sector stays ahead of the game with research and development for the future.
- William Topaz McGonagall – lived and worked in Dundee, and wrote the notorious ‘Tay bridge disaster’ and is often quoted as being the worst British poet! The words are inscribed on the pavement down on the river path. Midlothian library services won ‘library of the year’ award at the Bookseller awards. I realise that’s not Dundee – but demonstrates some of the innovation that’s taking place in libraries in Scotland. RRS Discovery…
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5fzmmrk6kk
- System and service silos. Discrete services. Local and provincial.
- This is your advantage – you are part of a community. Many organisations spend years, decades building a community. You’re already at the heart of one, your local community. Plus you are part of a wider library community. Godd places to collaborate on: Data; Content…
- Shared and collaborative – focus on analysis and action; not collection.
- Unknown use-cases... What will bringing together data open up in the future?
- There is no point in pretending that you have the answer and keeping it to yourself – everything is moving to fast!
- Open and permission free: Goes beyond user led – no one needs permission to use the data and to build new applications and services. No one needs to ask permission to use the internet, Berners-Lee didn’t have to negotiate a license to build the web.
- Entrepreneurial. Move from the specialist, craftsman, to the generalist, the start-up. GDS – small team, diverse skill set, changing the way government engages with its citizens. Making digital services so good that people prefer to use them than go to the physical building. Skills not usually associated with librarians – design, usability, developers etc.
- We have the web! It’s as if we were there a few decades after the creation of the printing press… Yes, it’s mostly cats and baby’s with captions. But give it time… The printing press was initially used for erotic stories… it took another 150 years for the first academic journal to be created! 1467 the Tale of two lovers was printed – in 1665 the first academic journal was printed! The freedom to experiment means the freedom to experiment with everything.