This document summarizes Stephen Abram's presentation on libraries facing opportunities and challenges due to technological changes and evolving user needs. Abram discusses two types of extinction that libraries may face if they do not adapt, and provides 20 strategic factors libraries should consider in response, such as ebooks, analytics, broadband access, and collaboration. He emphasizes the importance of understanding user goals and building knowledge portals to support learning and research across devices.

1. Libraries: Evolution, Revolution and the Two Kinds of Extinction Stephen Abram, MLS Education Institute Webinar March 16, 2011

2. “Don’t you know what a library is for? It’s to prevent us from making damn fools of ourselves.” George Locke Chief Librarian 1908-1937 Toronto Public Library, quoted in the Toronto Star April 3, 1982 Are Your Strategies Frozen in Time? Are they Based On Incremental Change? Are they Responding to Future Challenges or Past Pain?

3. Stop complicating things!

4. We Only Get So Many Once-in-a-Lifetime Chances To Do Great Things

5. What Can Librarians Do?

6. Extinction

7. Extinction

9. Evolution

10. A Library Metaphor: Dinosaurs didn’t go extinct because the climate changed. They went extinct because the didn’t or couldn’t adapt.

12. Innovation

13. Inspiration

14. Information

15. Ideas

16. Invention

17. Investment

18. Illumination

20. Grocery Stores

21. Grocery Stores

22. Grocery Stores

23. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

24. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

25. Meals

26. Chefs, counsellors, teachers, magicians Librarians play a vital role in building the critical connections between information , knowledge and learning.

28. Creativity

29. Collaboration

30. Consortia

31. Cooperation

33. Strategy is a Choice. . . To be a victim and feel these changes are fated and blamestorm OR Create the future we need and take collective responsibility for the conversation and development of the future. Find Reasons not Excuses.

34. Think As technology advances

35. Emboldened Librarians hold the key

36. News Flash “The Internet and technology have now progressed to their infancy”

37. The Top 20

38. What are our libraries’ strategic responses to these environmental factors and changes?

39. 1 E-Books

40. 2 Kindle Singles

41. 3 Google Books

42. How would you enhance the book without the compromises of the 1500’s?

44. Digital is Insufficient

45. 4 Death of Containers

46. 5 No More DVD’s

47. 6 Research Culture

48. 7 Content Farms

49. 7 Apple: Apps

50. 8 Kindle Formats

51. 9 E-Reader Lending

52. 10 ContentDisaggregation

54. The Chapter and Paragraph Universe

55. Integrated with Visuals – graphics and charts

56. Integrated with ‘video’

57. Integrated with Sound and Speech

58. Integrated with social web

59. Integrated with interaction and not just interactivity

61. E-Learning

64. 12 StrategicAnalytics

66. 59% are female.

67. 29% are college students.

68. 5% are professors and 6% are teachers.

69. On any given day, 35% of our users are there for the very first time!

70. Only 29% found the databases via the library website.

71. 59% found what they were looking for on their first search.

72. 72% trusted our content more than Google.

74. 71% of instructors that rated student engagement levels as “high” as a result of using technology in courses.

75. 71% of students who are employed full-time and 77% of students who are employed part-time prefer more technology-based tools in the classroom.

76. 79% of instructors and 86 percent of students have seen the average level of engagement improve over the last year as they have increased their use of digital educational tools.

77. 87% of students believe online libraries and databases have had the most significant impact on their overall learning.

78. 62% identify blogs, wikis, and other online authoring tools while 59% identify YouTube and recorded lectures.

79. E-books and e-textbooks impact overall learning among 50% of students surveyed, while 42% of students identify online portals.

80. 44% of instructors believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

81. 32% of instructors identify e-textbooks and 30% identify interactive homework solutions as having the potential to improve engagement and learning outcomes. (e-readers was 11%)

82. 49% of students believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

88. 13 Whitespace Broadband

89. 14 Free Culture

90. 15 Mobility

92. 16 Digital 1st & Only

93. 17 Peer e-Review

94. 18 Inter-Disciplinary

95. Discovery & Ideas

97. fMRI and The Brain

98. Cloning

99. Trucking and GPS

100. Wind and other energy

101. Nanotechnology

102. Robotics

103. Massive Book Digitization

104. Music

105. Translation

106. Streaming Media

111. 19 Total Integration

113. The new bibliography and collection development KNOWLEDGEPORTALS KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, INFORMATION & RESEARCH COMMONS

116. Don’t Rest on Your Laurels.

117. Reintermediation: Personalize the Service

118. Stand Out!

119. Trust Yourself to Make Difference and Have an Impact

120. Save the User!

121. What Would You Attempt If You Knew You Would Not Fail?

123. Context is King,Contact trumps Culture Content is a Foundation

124. Community

125. Conversations

126. Relationships

128. Learning

129. Training the researchers of today & tomorrow

130. Discovery & Invention

131. Progress

132. Research (Applied and Theoretical)

133. Cultural & Knowledge Custody & Curation

135. Must do actually 1. Know what your users are doing and why. (analyze your data, choose the top 5… & focus) 2. Focus on the user psycho-graphics – their goals from their point of view. 3. Invest in Knowledge Portals that support your user’s goals (in person and virtually) 4. Rise above Collecting and truly Support Reading and Research. Build on the foundation. 5. Be VERY comfortable with the devices. All of them. 5.

136. Cooperate 20 Collaborate Consort

137. The power of libraries

139. Join the Revolution Good Luck

140. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLA VP strategic partnerships and markets Cengage Learning (Gale) Cel: 416-669-4855 stephen.abram@cengage.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http://stephenslighthouse.com Facebook: Stephen Abram LinkedIn / Plaxo: Stephen Abram Twitter: sabram SlideShare: StephenAbram1