This document discusses a webinar on strategic planning and directions for libraries over the next 3-5 years. The webinar addressed how libraries can support emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and mobile devices. It also discussed how libraries can empower users by supporting new media formats, open educational resources, and third party platforms. Finally, the webinar covered privacy and legal concerns regarding user data collection and protection across different learning systems.

1. Strategic Directions: Strategic Thinking:
Five Years Ahead
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Research Data Management; Hodson
Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University;
Rick Luce, Dean, University Libraries, University of Oklahoma;
Heather Reid, Dean of Learning Resources, Berklee College of Music;
MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian, University of California - Davis

2. Strategic Direction: : In planning for the next 3-5
years, to which of these technologies might you be
expecting to deliver support and/or allocate resources
(staff, space, user training, etc.)?
• Artificial Intelligence
• Augmented Reality
• High performance or
Quantum computing
• Mobile devices
• Voice and gesture-
driven interfaces
• Robotics and
drones
• 3D printing and
prototyping
equipment
• Other

3. Strategic Direction: Empowering Users:
“Stewards of workflow is an emerging role for librarians in the research
process” -- Tweet emerging from 2017 ARL/CNI Fall Forum
If true, what does that imply for your strategic planning for the
library’s on-going activities (collection development, usage,
preservation, etc.) in supporting users’ engagement with:
• Software (mobile apps, laboratory workflow systems, etc.)
• Streaming Media (musical performances, film, etc.)
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Books (traditional print, digital works, open monographs)
• “Unpublished” materials
• Irs and Third Party Platforms hosting aggregated collections of
content
• Emerging technologies

4. Strategic Direction: Privacy and Legal
Concerns
What is the appropriate balance for stakeholders with
regard to identity and authentication management, data
collection, and institutional usage?
• In protecting digital assets from inappropriate access
and usage
• In collecting behavioral data with an eye towards
enhanced functionality
• In protecting the privacy of the user and
confidentiality of research.
How do you plan for appropriate implementation?
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5. Strategic Direction: Privacy and Legal
Concerns
In the context of protecting user data and privacy, is
your library working in the realm of one of the following
environments?
• MOOCs and other online learning environments
• Learning Content Management Systems (software for delivering
specific course content into an online environment)
• Learning Management Systems (software for administering,
tracking, delivering and reporting on online student learning)
What are the challenges for the library in the context of
those systems and protecting user data and privacy?
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6. NISO Webinar: Strategic Directions, Strategic Thinking – Five
Years Ahead
NISO Webinar • October 18, 2017
Questions?
Presentations will be posted to the NISO website following the
close of today’s event:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2017/webinars/oct18_webinar/

7. Thanks to all of our attendees for joining us today.
Please take a moment to fill out the brief online survey.
We look forward to hearing from you!
THANK YOU