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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN THE UK

2020 Forecast Laura Francabandera

What have we been?

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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

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.


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