As Libraries Change: Keep Your Eye on the Reader
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As Libraries ChangeKeep Your Eye on the Reader
Lynn Sutton, Ph.D.July 22, 2011
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Why Me?
Dean, Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest University
35 years as Library Dean/ Director
2011 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award
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Where I Come From
• Director of Hospital Library• Director of Science and Engineering Library• Director of Undergraduate Library• Associate Dean of ARL library system• Dean of Library at Wake Forest University
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Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest University
• 6500 students including Undergrad, Medical, Law, Business, Divinity
• 2 million volumes• 2,000 print journals,
50,000 e-journals• Open 140 hours/week• 52 library faculty/staff• $ 7 million budget
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Futures Thinking• Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025 (ACRL)• 2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries (ACRL)• Environmental Scan 2010 (ACRL)• Changing Roles of Academic and Research Libraries (ACRL)• The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and
Report (ACRL)• Future of the Academic Library Symposium (Library Journal and McMaster
University)• TAIGA Forum Provocative Statements• No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century
(CLIR)• A Strategy for Academic Libraries in the First Quarter of the 21st Century
(David Lewis, C&RL)
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Libraries and Books
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Library Learning TerraceDrexel University
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Where We’ve Been
Library as Gatekeeper
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What We Kept
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2005 OCLC Report
“Books” is the Library BRAND
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In My Library
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Still My Library
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Library as Place
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Where we are
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Tipping Points
Digital everythingBooksScholarly journalsDataMediaPublishing
Open everythingOpen sourceOpen accessOpen content
Everything in Cloud
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TheFuture
is Digital
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Look Down the Beach
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HeadlinesE-Book Revolution Upends a Publishing CourseNYT 7/15/11
Amazon’s E-Book Sales Pass Print BooksNYT 5/19/11
Harper-Collins Limits EBook Lending by LibrariesNYT 2/27/11
Are We Headed Toward the Bookless Campus?CHE 5/18/01
Tomorrow's Academic Libraries: Maybe Even Some Books CHE 5/8/11
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Change
Comes at different rates and means different things to different groups
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Two Different Constituencies
Students Faculty
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Some Books are More Equal than Others
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Thinking Partners
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What Have We Learned?
• Future is Digital• Give up the space race• Role of libraries is to lead• Look for thinking partners• A book is a book, though some books are
more equal than others• Keep your eye on the Reader
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Keep Your Eye on the Reader
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Image Credits• Books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/304220561/• sizes/m/in/photostream/• Terrace: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/• 0,8599,2079800,00.html• Gate: http://
www.art.com/products/p12209923-sa-i1584106/alan-blaustein-hampton-gate.htm
• Old books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58956356@N05/5405765006/• Jump: uploaded to Flickr on October 6, 2008 by rosiehardy• Tipping point: uploaded to Flickr on April 10, 2009 by Max Z• Footprints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfergos/37070037/• Change: christianmenchristianwarrior.files.wordpress• Baby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986/• sizes/m/in/photostream/
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More Credits• Old men: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicnac/3121705656/• sizes/z/in/pool-554700@N23/• Gutenberg: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/• gutenberg/• Book Reader: http://www.flickr.com/photos/topsy/204929063/• sizes/m/in/photostream/• E-book Reader: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43602175@N06/• 4070018828/sizes/m/in/photostream/
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Lynn Sutton, Ph.D.Dean, Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem, NC 27109