A Look into the Future

Lynn Sutton, Ph.D.January 25, 2012

Topics to cover

• Future of the Book

• Future of Libraries

• A Library with a Future

Where I Come From

• Director of Hospital Library• Director of Science and Engineering Library• Director of Undergraduate Library• Associate Dean of ARL library system• Dean of Library at Wake Forest University

Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest University

• 6500 students including Undergrad, Medical, Law, Business, Divinity

• 2 million volumes• 2,000 print journals,

50,000 e-journals• Open 140 hours/week• 53 library faculty/staff• $ 7 million budget• 2011 ACRL award

Books and Libraries

Library Learning TerraceDrexel University

Where We’ve Been

Library as GatekeeperOfBooks

2005 OCLC Report

“Books” is the Library BRAND

Where we are

Tipping…tipping…tipped?

The Future is Digital

Digital content: • Journals (went first in scholarly world more than a

decade ago)•Newspapers (fastest popular media to fall)•Books (tipping fast right now)•Media (with mega storage needs)•Data (next frontier for academic libraries)•Publishing (office of digital publishing at Wake)

Look Down the Beach

Two Different Constituencies

Students Faculty

Some Books are More Equal than Others

Future of Libraries

Library as Teacher

Library as Technology Leader

Library as Thinking Partner

Library as Place

A Library with a Future

Embedded in class

Library Lecture Series

Academic Symposium

Senior Showcase

The Big Read

Wake the Library

Graffiti Wall

Creative study

5K Fundraiser

Capture the Flag

Humans v Zombies

Library Decorating Committee

A Happy Place to Work

Our Mission

The mission of the Z Smith Reynolds Library

Is to help our students, faculty and staff

SUCCEED!

Image Credits• Books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/304220561/• sizes/m/in/photostream/• Terrace: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/• 0,8599,2079800,00.html• Gate:

http://www.art.com/products/p12209923-sa-i1584106/alan-blaustein-hampton-gate.htm

• Jump: uploaded to Flickr on October 6, 2008 by rosiehardy• Tipping point: uploaded to Flickr on April 10, 2009 by Max Z• Footprints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfergos/37070037/• Baby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986/• sizes/m/in/photostream/• Old men: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicnac/3121705656/• sizes/z/in/pool-554700@N23/• Gutenberg: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/• gutenberg/

Lynn Sutton, Ph.D.Dean, Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem, NC 27109suttonls@wfu.edu