Download - Disruptive Innovation in Libraries
Disruptive innovation and
academic library management
Maitrayee Ghosh, PhD
Fulbright-Nehru Post doctoral fellow 2013-14
20th January, 2017
Our Missions
To embrace creativity and flexibility to drive the cutting edge technology
To foster a transformative environment
To provide leadership in innovative services and facilities for the benefit of users
To provide and teach access to resources that are relevant to academic programs
Defining disruptive innovation
Innovation is the introduction of new product, service,
technology, administrative practice or significant
improvement to an existing product, service, or
technology.
Disruptive innovation is the technology that changes
the existing business model, or users
expectations. Academic libraries and scholarly
communication are likely to be disrupted by new
technologies and their application.
Innovation in Libraries
The most important innovation within thelibrary profession:
- Change in attitude- The way information is delivered to
patrons.Service innovation is academic library’sresponse to digital disruption!Reinvention and rethinking of strategies,policies, culture, system and workprocesses.
Participatory learning
Space for
collaboration and
understanding from a
variety of sources.
Instead of being an
archive, libraries are
becoming a learning
commons!
Library to Learning commonsUsers no longer need a library simply for access!
Space planning and re-purposes
Alter the traditional shape of libraries;
Identify ineffective use of space, considered
unfriendly by students
Reduce
Redesign
Reassign
Rewrite
New skills sets are required
to mediate the digitally
oriented academic library
environment.
Specify library's vision, goals,opportunities and initiatives tomaximize the benefits of digitalinvestments.
E-Research support infrastructures, resources and Services
Promotion of digital literacy,information literacy and e-researchliteracy
Digital strategies
Identification of vulnerabilities and
threat assessment related to library’s
information assets
Decision making on counter
measures for prevention, mitigation
and recovery.
Risk Management
Integrated Risk management team
Digital Rights Management
DRM is an access control technology;
ensures that only authorized users
(with appropriate keys) can access the
content, and content will remain
unchanged throughout the process.
DRM focuses on security like
encryption and watermarking; limit
copying, printing and sharing of e-
books.
E-theses and copyright
Models for copyright enforcement and management:
Right holder centric model Cooperative model
The traditional licensing mechanism(righter-holder-centric) is replaced bycooperative model via open accessprogram enables the cooperation betweencopyright holders and online users.
Copyright issues related to publication of theses
Theses &
dissertations are
copyrighted
Copyrights don’t have to
register to be ‘official’Need permission
to use others
work(third party)
Can’t use
things under
“fair use
Need permission
to use authors
own previously-
published workpublish
or post a
copy of
publish
dissertat
ion
Post in CCC
or publish
Author can assign the
copyright to
publisher
Get
Permission
in writing
Library as a place
Encourage Digital learning environmentSize of physical collection is no longer relevant; access to e-content anywhere, anytime is the new bench mark.
Provide expert help, and seamless accessto information in a supportive high-tech environment thatempowers the community to evaluate, and ethically useinformation to promote academic excellence.
Support collaborative and individual studyspaces for information retrieval and manipulation tosupport the entire process of scholarly inquiry andtechnology-based research
Concluding remarks
The dominance of academic libraries in therealm of academic information has beeneroded by digital technologies.
Libraries are struggling for an identity in theera of disruptive change.
Disruptive product or services enable usersto get an important job done, otherwiseimpossible to do satisfactorily with currentsolutions.
Concluding remarks
Academic libraries necessitate a change inservice model. They have to focus on:
Outreach - bring the library to the public;
Creation of new knowledge products such assubject portals and subject specific websitesto support teaching and learning;
re-purposing of physical spaces andexpansion of virtual spaces to support newpedagogies.
We achieve teamwork through …
Respecting one another as individuals;
contributing, cooperating and
communicating to meet library goals.
If a qualified librarian is replaced with
someone who’s just an expert in
technology, the institution is losing half
of the role.
