Libraries of the Future – the NHS Perspective

Helen Alper

Knowledge Services Manager

Future Trends

Mobile everything

The Cloud

Personalisation

Collaboration – collection mapping

Open content

E-Journals & E-books

The Paperless Library?

In the mid-1950s, it made sense that the bulk of the library's space needs were occupied by then-state-of-the-art information tools. But the only way our library can maintain relevance is to reclaim the bulk of this space for 21st-century services... We are not a museum for obsolete information technologies; … "The library is a living organism."

Free Range Librarian

The book – obsolete technology?

The solution?

Making it Available

Links

Portal

Mobile apps

Athens

Training

Marketing

CollaborationI believe we are moving to a situation where network-level management of the collective collection becomes the norm, but itwill take some years for service, policy and infrastructure frameworks to be worked out and evolution will be uneven.

Lorcan Dempsey

Library in the Cloud?

Web Scale management services to be rolled out globally

Acquisitions and circulation services have been developed in ‘the cloud’, to deliver all-important savings in these vital back-office operations.

OCLC

Expertise not Paper

“The most valuable resource in any library is the librarian, but they can be even more valuable outside the library.”

Muir Gray

“We need to be less tied to organisational structures and focus more on organisational needs.

We need to get out of our comfort zone. We need to get out of the library more.”

Anthony Brewerton

How we can contribute to our Trusts

Knowledge Management & organisational learning

Information management

Metadata - intranet

Patient information

Copyright

Training

New skills to learn

Strategic thinking Budgeting - VFMKnowledge ManagementInformation for PatientsProject managementLeadershipMarketingNetworkingInfluencing

Changing (and Challenging) Times

Move to electronic resources and away from paper

The “Martini Service” - Anytime, Anywhere

More collaboration between librarians – stock, cataloguing, management systems

Move out of the library

New roles – KM, Intranet, etc.

Mobile technology the norm

“We will never be bored”Sue McKnight