2. OUR CONVERSATION TODAY
• Market Forces
• The State Of Being
Strategic
• Individual Traits & Roles
• What Are We Managing?
3. MARKET
FORCES
Technology
Change
Pandemic &
Endemic
Open Science
Open Source - applications &
information sources
Data Science - analytic
Citizen Science - factual &
science-based information
YOU ARE IMPORTANT & STRATEGIC
New Way of Working - WFH, WFA,
Good & Bad
New Users & Expectations -
information
Consistent - aware, react & create content
Social Media - know, understand &
apply
Mental Well-being - information &
bibliotherapy
Business Continuity & Risk
Management
IR4.0 - Blockchain, Machine Learning,
AR, etc
4.
5. THE STATE OF
BEING
STRATEGIC
Big Picture
Library A Living
Organism
YOU ARE IMPORTANT & STRATEGIC
Conversation
Non Users
Knowledge Space
Top Mgt (Strategic 100%)
Senior Librarian (Strategic 70%,
Operational 30%))
Senior Mgt (Strategic 90%, Operational
10%)
Librarian (Strategic 50%, Operational
50%)
Library Assist. (Strategic 40%,
Operational 60%)
Strategic versus
Operation
Vision, Mission, Objective &
Strategic Plan
Outcome Measures
6. INDIVIDUAL
TRAITS & ROLES
Leadership
Passion & Belief
Not Just About Quali
fi
cation
The Main Drivers
YOU ARE IMPORTANT & STRATEGIC
Frontliner
Circle of In
fl
uence
Develop Others - users &
community
They Will Break Barriers
Everyone - not about position
7. WHAT ARE WE
MANAGING?
Information
Knowledge
Subconscious Decision
Making
We Are Not Managing
Place & Materials
Knowledge-context Decision
Making
YOU ARE IMPORTANT & STRATEGIC
Human Matters Most -
information & knowledge within
people, materials, processes &
relationship
Lifelong Learning in the
truest sense
8. WE JUST HAD A CONVERSATION…
• Market Forces
• The State Of Being
Strategic
• Individual Traits & Roles
• What Are We Managing?