The document discusses trends and issues impacting the future of libraries, including:
- Content will be dominated by non-text formats like video and graphics. Search and discovery will become more immersive.
- Libraries need to focus on strategic alignment with curriculum and transformational services like makerspaces rather than just delivering information.
- Competition will come from non-traditional sources. Advocacy must demonstrate community impact and learning.
- Libraries must upgrade staff competencies, embrace new technologies, and take risks to remain relevant in a changing environment. Cooperation and partnerships can help libraries scale up programs and services.
35. 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
• Watch Blockchain, Drones, Toys, iBeacons, for hints
36. 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.
37. 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
libraries
• Library staff competencies need a plateau upgrade –
consultation, relationship, influence, educating . . .
43. 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
59. What does way out mean?
• Normal means that enough libraries have adopted and are learning by
doing that the adoption curve is well launched.
61. What does way out mean?
• This stuff is ‘normal’ now.
▫ Makerspaces
▫ Print and Digital Publishing on demand
▫ Wide Social Media use for engagement and marketing
64. 1. Some ideas
• ONE ILS
http://www.goscl.com/scl-working-to-create-unified-digital-platform-for-all-libraries/
65. 2. Some Ideas
• Internet of Things
• What is a thing?
• How does this
impact library land?
66. 3. Some ideas
• Truly disrupting the BOOK codex
• Are we at phase one of digital books where we merely create a digital
version of the Gutenberg Codex?
• 3 dimensional text, type, leading, spines, ears and feet.
• Audio, video,
• Interactivity with the server, community, other readers, classmates…
• Create your own path…
• Add yourself into the story – fan readers versus fan fiction…
69. 5. Some Ideas
• Big Data, Little Data
• Insights from Aggregated and Anonymized Data Patterns
• Very few libraries have truly BIG data but many of our vendors do.
• Can this be the end of handcrafted book choices? Newspapers? POV
periodicals? Albums? Scholarly festschrifts?
70. Snapchat and their Plans
At launch, Snapchat is
working with ten media
partners, including CNN,
ESPN, and National
Geographic. These
companies will release a
new edition of Discover
content every 24 hours,
featuring both videos and
articles hand picked by
their staffers. The goal for
these media companies, of
course, is to hook a new,
younger audience that
doesn’t often connect with
traditional media.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/01/snapchats-new-discover-feature-could-be-a-significant-moment-in-the-evolution-of-mobile-news/
71. 6. Some ideas
• Marketing Disruption
• Instagram
• Facebook
• 20 Ways to Make People Fall in Love With Your Instagram: A Guide
for Libraries and Other Cultural Institutions
• http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/12/23/20-ways-make-people-fall-
love-your-instagram-guide-libraries-and-other-cultural
• And more on Stephen’s Lighthouse
72. 7. Some ideas
• Payment Systems
• Selling and Charging and Leading
• Square, PayPal,
• Debit cards as library card
86. • 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 …?
87. • 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?
88. • 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?
89. • 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
90. • 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), …)
91. E-Learning Free, fee, hybrid
Khan Academy
Coursera, Udacity, EdX
Learn4Life, Ed2Go, Lynda.com, etc.
92. • 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.
93. • 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?
94. • 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?
95. • 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?
96. • Makerspaces
• Writing Labs
• Poetry and short story contests
• Cooking
• Music
• Robotics, Lego, ….
• Crafts, knitting, sewing clubs
• Photography and art
97. • 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?
98. • 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?
99. 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
102. Next generation content linking architecture
It’s not about library to library but library in the broader content
eco-system (and it’s not about text first)
103. Living our values needs structure in the digital world . . .
Some Thoughts on Libraries, Ethics, and Privacy
Gary Price
http://www.slideshare.net/GaryPrice_infoDOCKET/gary-
price-cnispring14bbbpptx
104. A Drone's Eye View of Toronto Reference Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYALiE-Lwhc
Flying a Drone around The NY Public Library - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9FMlv5a_FI
105. THE INTERNET OF THINGS PLAN TO MAKE LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
AWESOMER: ARE CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS THE ENVIRONMENT
IBEACON HAS BEEN WAITING FOR?
http://www.fastcompany.com/3040451/elasticity/the-internet-of-
things-plan-to-make-libraries-and-museums-awesomer
108. • What does your experience portal look like?
• What are your top questions?
• Pathfinder - - LibGuides - Portals
• What are the outcome domains?
109. • 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
113. 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
114. 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
115. 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
117. 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
118. 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
119. 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
120. 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
121. 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
122. 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
123. 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
124. Up Your Game
• Dog, Star, Cow, Problem Child/The Unknown?
• Reduce investment in successes
• Increase investments in the future
• Set priorities
• ‘Park’ some stuff temporarily
128. 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?