This document summarizes a presentation by Stephen Abram on the future of academic libraries. It discusses how libraries must change strategies to adapt to technological changes. Key points include: libraries are no longer the heart of campus; physical access has evolved to intellectual access; the focus has shifted from collections to knowledge portals and content access; and librarians must help develop critical connections between information, knowledge, and learning. Abram argues libraries need new strategies focused on communities, partnerships, literacy programs, and using analytics to understand users in order to remain relevant in the 21st century.

1. Future Ready: Academic Libraries on the EdgeStephen Abram, MLSYale Library Research Education SymposiumNew Haven, CTJune 9, 2011

2. ChangeThese slides are available at Stephen’s Lighthouse blog

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

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

5. News FlashNews FlashTech Shift Happens

6. Seth Godin on Decisions (June 8, 2011)Which of the four are getting in the way?

7. You don't know what to do

8. You don't know how to do it

9. You don't have the authority or the resources to do it

10. You're afraid

11. Once you figure out what's getting in the way, it's far easier to find the answer (or decide to work on a different problem).

12. Stuck is a state of mind, and it's curable.

13. 20th Century StrategiesInventory and Collections

14. Buildings

15. Search

16. Reading is Fundamental

17. Patrons

18. Outreach

19. Circulation

20. Privacy21st Century StrategiesContent Access

21. Bricks and Clicks and Tricks

22. Communities of Knowledge and Practice

23. Research Impact

24. Partnerships

25. Information Literacy Programs

26. Social links and Student LifeWhat Are Libraries Really For?Community

27. Learning

28. Discovery

29. Progress

30. Research (Applied and Theoretical)

31. Cultural & Knowledge Custody

32. Economic Impact Columbus, Cook, Magellan and Libraries: Searching for the corners of the earth, the edge of the oceans and discovering dragons ...

33. -

36. MagellanColumbusCook

39. Questions for Academic Libraries Today:Are the priorities right?Are learning, research, discovery changing materially and what is actually changing?Books. Meh.What is the role for librarians in the real future (that is not an extension of the past)?

41. What has changed? Libraries at the heart of the campus? Nope.

42. Students are focused at the lesson and event (essay, test, exam) level

43. Researchers are connected beyond the host institution.

44. Physical access and basic reading has already evolved to intellectual access with new competenciesA Metaphor

45. Grocery Stores

46. Grocery Stores

47. Grocery Stores

48. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

49. Cookbooks, Chefs . . .

50. Meals

51. The new bibliography and collection developmentKNOWLEDGE PORTALSKNOWLEDGE,LEARNING,INFORMATION &RESEARCHCOMMONS

52. Chefs, counsellors, teachers, magiciansLibrarians play a vital role in building the critical connections between information , knowledge and learning.

53. Service MetaphorCafeterias

54. Take Out

55. Private Dining Rooms

56. Private Chefs

57. VarietyCulture

58. Trans-Literacy: Move beyond reading & PC skills News literacy

59. Technology literacy

60. Information literacy

61. Media literacy

62. Adaptive literacy

63. Research literacy

64. Academic literacy

65. Reputation, Etc.

66. Reading literacy

67. Numeracy

68. Critical literacy

69. Social literacy

70. Computer literacy

71. Web literacy

72. Content literacy

73. Written literacyYou have the tools.

74. Stop Making it so Hard!

76. Steal This Idea

77. List of content farms and general spammy user generated content sites:All Experts (allexperts.com)

78. Answers (answers.com)

79. Answer Bag (answerbag.com)

80. Articles Base (articlesbase.com)

81. Ask (ask.com)

82. Associated Content (associatedcontent.com)

83. BizRate (bizrate.com)

84. Buzle (buzzle.com)

85. Brothersoft (brothersoft.com)

86. Bytes (bytes.com)

87. ChaCha (chacha.com)

88. eFreedom (efreedom.com)

89. eHow (ehow.com)

90. Essortment (essortment.com)

91. Examiner (examiner.com)

92. Expert Village (expertvillage.com)

93. )

94. Experts Exchange (experts-exchange.com)

95. eZine Articles (ezinearticles.com)

96. Find Articles (findarticles.com)

97. FixYa (fixya.com Helium (helium.com)

98. Hub Pages (hubpages.com)

99. InfoBarrel (infobarrel.com)

100. Livestrong (livestrong.com)

101. Mahalo (mahalo.com)

102. Mail Archive (mail-archive.com)

103. Question Hub (questionhub.com)

104. Squidoo (squidoo.com)

105. Suite101 (suite101.com)

106. Twenga (twenga.com)

107. WiseGeek (wisegeek.com)

108. Wonder How To (wonderhowto.com)

109. Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com)

110. Xomba (xomba.com)

113. The nasty facts about Google & Bing and consumer search:SEO / SMOContent FarmsAdvertiser-drivenGeotaggingGOOG

114. Have Students Changed?

115. YES (duh!)

121. My son: Zachary

122. NextGen DifferencesIncrease in IQ - 15-20 Points

123. Educational attainment up, a lot

124. Reading up, markedly

125. Brain & Developmental Changes

126. Eye Movement Changes

127. Massive Behavioural Changes

128. Major Decline in Crime Rates – down 65%

129. But still a 70% behavior overlap with Boomers (see my book chapter)Young People Have Changed, butTwitter & Facebook are dominated by the middle-aged

130. Gaming too. . . Mothers in their 30’s

131. Social networks fastest growing populations are seniors and is more international and less urban and less English dominated.

132. eBook reader usage is largely middle-aged.

133. Mobile data usage is growing beyond youth very quickly, workplace use is huge

134. We often believe a lot that isn’t true.What We Never Really Knew Before (US/Canada)27% of our users are under 18.

135. 59% are female.

136. 29% are college students.

137. 5% are professors and 6% are teachers.

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

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

140. 59% found what they were looking for on their first search.

141. 72% trusted our content more than Google.

142. But, 81% still use Google.2010 Eduventures Research on Investments58% of instructors believe that technology in courses positively impacts student engagement.

143. 71% of instructors that rated student engagement levels as “high” as a result of using technology in courses.

144. 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.

145. 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.

146. 87% of students believe online libraries and databases have had the most significant impact on their overall learning.

147. 62% identify blogs, wikis, and other online authoring tools while 59% identify YouTube and recorded lectures.

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

149. 44% of instructors believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

150. 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%)

151. 49% of students believe that online libraries and databases will have the greatest impact on student engagement.

152. Students are more optimistic about the potential for technology.