The document discusses the changing role of libraries and how they must adapt to remain relevant by crossing the "river" of transformation in research, education, and information access. It suggests that libraries focus on supporting research and education rather than just saving libraries, and that they act as collaborative hubs providing new types of learning spaces, digital resources, and research infrastructure to remain important partners in the future of higher education. The presentation provides examples of how libraries can make this transition and cross the river towards new opportunities.

1. Towards Rubicon
A Tale About Libraries
That Crosses The River
Christian Lauersen
Copenhagen University Library
Email: cula@kb.dk
Twitter: @clauersen
KTH Library Seminar, April 20th 2017, Copenhagen/Stockholm

2. Towards Rubicon

3. To cross The River we need
to ask the right questions

4. What’s the purpose
of research and higher
education?

5. What changes
effects research and higher
education?

6. Which challenges and opportunities
does these changes bring?

7. To which challenges and opportunities
in research and higher education is
The Library the answer?

8. Screw the burning platform!
Hail the burning ambition!

9. Ask yourself:
Are you in the saving libraries business?
Or in the supporting
research and higher education business?

10. Game changers
in research and
higher education

11. ..and
Limitation of
information
Liberation…

12. New ways of collecting information

13. New ways of working with informationNew ways of working
with information

14. Education and learning has
been liberated from the classroom

15. Behaviour

16. Answers?
Content | Education | Space | People

17. Access
Data
Education Science
SpaceSystems

18. Ideology and reality

19. Library World
From The ”Outside In” Library
To The ”Inside Out” Library
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

20. Data litearcy and
data management

21. Learn them to catch fish
Don’t catch fish for them
Learn them to catch fish

22. Partner in research infrastructure:
Bibliometrics, funding, copyright

23. Common ground
Interdisiplinary
Lack of evaluation and authority

24. Librarianship is not
neutral

25. An example on how to cross The River:
Digital Social Science Lab
Faculty Library of Social Sciences,
Copenhagen University Library

26. The need to cross a river
The Master Thesis Case

27. An open platform for education and events on digital methods
Hardware and software for harvesting, cleaning,
analyzing and visualizing data
A dynamic and aesthetically inspiring learning environment

30. The library as hub:
Community and peer-to-peer

31. Flexibility
Functionality
Inspiration

32. AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
An alternative to the
classic learning setup

33. What does it take for a
library to cross the
river?

34. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Nom nom
Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Nom nom

35. If you want to die, isolate
If you want to live, collaborate

36. Never waist a
good crisis

37. The librarian
The most important asset of any
library goes home at night – the
library staff
- Timothy Healy

38. Diversity is king!
It’s the mix of people that
makes a great library

39. Leadership and
direction

40. See you on the other
side of the river
Christian Lauersen
Mail: cula@kb.dk
Twitter: @clauersen
Blog:
https://christianlauersen.net/