the libraries: they are a-changing
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21 st century society tech trends
mobile
digital
on-going
on-demand
virtual
network
2011 - 5 billion devices are connected to the internet2013: 1 trillion
Exercise…
What would the world look like in 10/15 years?
(UN)PREDICTABLE?
A few hints…holographic telepresence
conversational computing
plant-eating robots
hybrid-electric planes
lab-grown meat
robotic surgery
personalised-interactive books
cars that are afraid of crashing and clothing that calls for help if you fall over and hurt yourself
How to face these challenges
literacies (digital, information, reading, finance, visual, scientific…)
lifelong learning
School
we will need to shift from teaching people to know things to teaching people how to invent things, solve problems and relate to other human beings;
we need to end our obsession with educating only one half of the brain (the logical left side) when it is precisely this side that technology is getting so got at.(
richard watson)
What we need...
IMAGIN
ATIO
N NETWORK
Libraries: past vs. today
Open stacks
Library suggestion box
24/7 services, anywhere
Amazon-style comments
Team-built blog
closed stacks
Collection development
Walk-in services
‘read-only’ catalog
print newsletter mailed out
And what about school libraries?
looking ahead?
online services?
24/7 services?
using web 2.0 tools to get in touch, to communicate (blog, QR codes, twitter, facebook, skype, youtube, vimeo)?
Using web 2.0 tools to collect and share (wiki, bookmarking, e-books, flickr, picasa, myebook, podcasts, screencasts, dropbox…)?
information literacy program?
hybrid collection? going digital?
screen reading (kindle, nook, ipad, ipod, ipod touch…)?
the shift…
Over the last decade, a fundamental shift has occurred in how students perceive and utilize libraries. No longer seen as traditional book warehouses, libraries are now collaborative environments where individuals and groups converge to study, socialize, and gain access to resources. The library was once a place to find and check out books. But today, the library is a center of interactive learning
Libraries need to break out of the atmosphere of tradition,” says Lee Van Orsdel, dean of university libraries at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. “We need to rethink our whole attitude about the relationship between students and space, furniture and information, and redefine what a library should be.”
libraries need a makeover if they are to meet the needs of 21st-century work
styles and technologies.
extreme makeover!!!
Findingsspaces must foster social learning
Support the librarian’s evolving role
optimize the performance of informal spaces
Provide for individual comfort, concentration, and security
Improve awareness of and access to library resources
Plan for adjacencies
Elise Valoe
In short…
