25. It’s simple really, shift happens, gedoverit
• Learners & Communities will continue to be diverse in the extreme –
especially on learning styles
• A foot in both camps for many, many years to come: digital and physical
• Content is already be dominated by non-text (gamification, 3D, graphics,
numeric, visual, music, video, audio, etc.)
• Search will explode with more options and one-step, one box search is
for dummies not professionally educated folks
• The single purpose anchored device is already dead as a target
• Devices will focus on social, collaboration, sharing, learning, multimedia,
creation and successful library strategies must align with that
• Librarians will need to focus primarily on transformational librarianship
and strategic alignment with curriculum
• Systems, E-Learning, collections and metadata will go to the cloud
massively
26. Library Megatrends
It doesn’t take a genius to see that librarian skills
and competencies applied to the trends and issues
in our communities can help in very strategic ways
– social, economic, creative, and discovery impacts.
27. Public Libraries
• Are you a librarian or an educator?
• Are you a support or mission-critical?
• Your business is community impact and learning
(they’re different)
• Your new competitors are non-traditional
• Renewed advocacy has moved from apple pie to
influencing and selling the value and impact of
librarians
• Library staff competencies need a plateau upgrade –
consultation, relationship, influence, educating . . .
33. Libraries core skill is not
delivering information
Libraries improve the
quality of the question
and the user experience
Learning Libraries are about
building life competencies
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Think deeply about . . .
Your
Operation’s
Scalability
The depth of your
relationships
Your
sustainability
How you set
priorities:
Daily and Future
52. • If all users are ubiquitously connected with
broadband, have downloading skills for books
and movies, own smartphones, whither
libraries?
• What about the ‘digital divide’?
• If the school system (K-12 and HigherEd)
changes radically …?
53. • What if all music, audiobooks, and video
moved to streaming formats by 2018?
• What if the DVD and CD go the way of vinyl,
VHS, and cassettes?
54. • What if all books are digital?
• What if book services move to a subscription
model of unlimited use for $7/month?
• What about next generation e-books?
55. • What if all books are ‘beyond text’?
• The NextGen Textbook…
• Can we support books with embedded video,
adaptive technologies, audio, updating,
software tools, assessments, web-links, etc.
• Ask ourselves about archiving and
preservation – the record
56. • Are you positioned at the lesson level?
• Could your library support all curricula and
distance education?
• Have you catalogued the learning
opportunities on the web? (Khan Academy,
Coursera, Udacity, edX, MIT, Harvard, MOOCs,
YouTube, Learn4All (ed2go), …)
57. •
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Could your library support real e-learning
Is EVERY staff member fluent in your LMS and the
needs of supporting hybrid or total distance
learning?
By the way – nearly all learning is distance
learning from the perspective of the library and
user.
58. • Could your library support any kind of mobile
device? (mCobiss)
• Are you fully ready to deliver, agnostically to
desktops, laptops, tablets, phablets,
smartphones, televisions, appliances, at a
much higher level?
59. • Are you prepared for new forms of content?
• Real multimedia? 3D objects and databases?
Holographics? Enhanced media?
• Embedded assessment and tracking tools?
• Can you be ready for makerspaces, creative
spaces, writing labs, business and start-up
incubators, etc.
• Can you publish for your community?
60. • What kinds of learning spaces are needed in
the future?
• Can you support real learning spaces,
community meeting spaces, performance
spaces, maker spaces, real advisory spaces,
true relationship, collaboration, and
consultation management . . .? In a virtual
space?
62. • What if everything was in the cloud?
(software, databases, metadata, content . . .)
• What would you do with those system skills
on staff?
• What if all metadata and content discovery is
freely available using open APIs through the
OCLC WorldShare vault and the Digital Public
Library of America / Europeana vault of open
and free metadata?
63. • What if search immersive resource discovery
becomes as ubiquitous as search engines?
• Can they find as well as search?
• Are your training sessions hitting 100% of
students?
• Are they aligned with workflow or
transactions?
64. Definitions
Discovery
Search – known item retrieval
Topical or Subject Search
Research
Immersive Learning
Assembly
Two step discovery: discover, searching, finding,
use
• The pressure is ON for librarians to scale up their
information fluency training initiatives
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What does your experience portal look like?
What are your top questions?
Pathfinder - - LibGuides - Portals
What are the outcome domains?
68. • Can you do it all ALONE?
• What would it look like if you cooperated?
• Consortia, Cooperatives, …
national, regional, global – buying groups or
real foundational infrastructure
72. Up Your Game
• Know your local community demographics i.e. Teachers &
Librarians vs. Students vs. admin
• Focus on needs assessment and social assessments
• Prioritize: Love all, Serve all, Save the World means nothing
gets done
• Focus on scalability and grand cooperation
• Look for partnerships that add value
73. Up Your Game
• Align with Collections – every collection must be justified by
programs
• Craft leads to industrial strength
• Force strategic investment budgeting
• Look for partnerships that add value and priority setting
• Don’t go it alone. Focus on large scale sustainable programs
• Connect to the longer process not just events
• e.g, Forest of Reading or TD Summer Reading Program
• Virtual and in-person - in the Library and reaching out with partners
• SCALE: eLearning and Surveys – e.g. citation methods
74. Up Your Game
• Align with Collections – But add virtual experiences
• Start being Mobile in the extreme
• Look for partnerships that add value
• Focus on relationship management / liaisons
• Ensure the program delivery person is embedded including
librarians
• What are your top learning or research domains? Start there.
• Don’t go it alone. Build scalability and sustainability.
• Look for replicability – look for commonalities
76. Up Your Game
• Learn the LMS system – everyone
• Learn copyright and licensing rights
• Learn developmental, genome, IQ, and learning styles research
• Relationship management, team building
• Advocacy and influence and research support
• MOOCs and eLearning
77. Up Your Game
• Learn how to reach and teach online
• Teach how to learn online – MOOCs and e-learning
• Teach how to research online
• Everyone in academic libraries should be focused on
teaching/researching first, then library
• Learn more systems than one!
• Be obsessive about consultation, recommendations and advice
• Social alignment rules and use the tools
78. Up Your Game
• Start to understand the real issues with e-books
• Study e-textbooks
• Study Learning Objects
• Balance content with interface
• Focus on learner not librarian behaviours
79. Up Your Game
• Learn consulting and relationship management practices
• Understand the research goals
• Understand Pedagogy in the context of student experiences
and educational goals
• Understand human development and age/stage(teens)
• Know where your programs are heading
• Consider deep partnerships
• Consider coaches, peer, and tutoring partnerships
80. Up Your Game
• The strong ‘library’ brand – adding dimension
• Personal branding – Who are your stars? Promote them.
• Program branding
• OMG – fix your signage
• Take risks for attention (AIDA)
• Embed your brand beyond the library walls and virtually
81. Up Your Game
• Grow collections investments in strategic areas (for example
economic impact, jobs, early years, hobbies, political
alignment, homework, research agenda …)
• Develop hybrid strategies that are consistent for digital and print
and programs
• Be obsessive about recommendations and advice and added value
• Integrate virtual and physical – hybridize
• Don’t fear off-site cooperation
• CURATE – real curation not assembly
82. Up Your Game
• Move the ILS to the Cloud
• Linked Data models – OCLC WorldShare, Europeana, DPLA, etc.
• Fix the ‘repository problem’
• Look at TCO and look at all costs incurred and not just hard
costs
• Review opportunity costs in soft costs
83. Up Your Game
• Dog, Star, Cow, Problem Child/?
• Reduce investment in successes
• Increase investments in the future
• Set priorities
• ‘Park’ some stuff temporarily
87. Is your library ready to support a
world of unlimited content, multiple
formats, massive access, and
consumer expectations of MORE?
Yes?
No?
With
Effort, Vision, Leadership?
Never?
