Download - Future Vision
Libraries in crisis
• Students are drowning in information, yet still cannot identify appropriate academic sources.
• In 2011, SCONUL completed the “Libraries of the Future Project,” detailing three possible scenarios for how UK academic libraries could adapt to the rapid social, technological, and economic change.
• What will your library look like to interact with this new breed of technological students?
The Walled Garden
The Beehive
The Wild West
• Information is carefully curated• Access is limited• No integration with outside world
• Information is a commodity• Access depends on demand• Competes with outside world
• Information is for societal good• Access depends on your value• It supports the outside world
Is this really what we need?
An Information Commons
• An integrated learning facility
• Offers collaborative study spaces
• Uses educational technology
A place where students can find, create, and share information as easily as they define their information needs.
An Information Hub
• A place where students can integrate the skills they learn in the library with their everyday lives.
• The Internet of Things has made connection and integration a staple of modern life.
• Students want to be considered experts in their own domains of knowledge.
• Find the bridges that connect those expert domains with library skills and research.