Post on 01-Nov-2014
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“Live long and prosper” surviving together and looking
forward in difficult times
Paul Jeorrett
Head of Library and Student Services
Glyndwr University
A little about Glyndwr…
The Journey
• Defining difficult times
• Looking after yourself
• Working together
• Looking forward
Defining difficult times
• Volatile HE and FE environments – Mergers
– Funding
– Internationalisation
– Student voice/experience
• Library context – Superconvergence
– Working smarter
– Legislation
– Rapidly changing technologies
Change Curve
Looking after yourself
• Integrity
• Advocacy
• Mindfulness
• All work and no play…
• You are not alone!
Co-operation is better than conflict
Working together – the good
The Welsh perspective:
• WHELF (Welsh HE Librarians Forum)
– LMS procurement; WHEEL
• North Wales Libraries Partnership/CyMAL
– LINC; Training; Health Information
• SCONUL – Value and Impact Study
• CILIP – CILIP Wales, ARLG
Working together – the not so good
• Working smarter, not harder?
– Tough times ahead, less resource, greater pressure
• Superconvergence
– It depends…
• Institutional merger
– Usually politically motivated
Working together – the future
• Joint-use libraries
“The importance of joint-use libraries, especially their potential as an effective form of twenty-first-century library provision in many different circumstances, is not currently recognised by policy-makers or by many in the library profession”
Sue McNicol (2008)
Succession planning
• We make our own future and boldly go…
“…I am convinced that, if our society is to prosper spiritually, intellectually, and materially, libraries must continue to acquire and give access to, arrange, make accessible, and preserve recorded knowledge and information in all formats, and provide assistance and instruction in their use.”
Michael Gorman (2000)
CILIP Professional Knowledge and Skills Base
Succession planning
• FDSc (Foundation Degree/BSc Top Up in Library and Information Management
– Innovative delivery
– Workbased/practical
– Guest lecturers and field visits
– Partnership between academic and practitioner
References
• Gorman, M. (2000) Our enduring values, librarianship in the 21st Century.I Chicago, American Library Association
• McNicol, S. (2008) Joint-use libraries: libraries for the future. Oxford, Chandos