THE LIBRARIES: THEY ARE A-CHANGING

the libraries

they are a-changing

angelina maria pereira

angelinaper@gmail.com

21 st century society tech trends

mobile

digital

on-going

on-demand

virtual

network

2011 - 5 billion devices are connected to the internet2013: 1 trillion

Exercise…

What would the world look like in 10/15 years?

(UN)PREDICTABLE?

A few hints…holographic telepresence

conversational computing

plant-eating robots

hybrid-electric planes

lab-grown meat

robotic surgery

personalised-interactive books

cars that are afraid of crashing and clothing that calls for help if you fall over and hurt yourself

How to face these challenges

literacies (digital, information, reading, finance, visual, scientific…)

lifelong learning

School

we will need to shift from teaching people to know things to teaching people how to invent things, solve problems and relate to other human beings;

we need to end our obsession with educating only one half of the brain (the logical left side) when it is precisely this side that technology is getting so got at.(

richard watson)

What we need...

IMAGIN

ATIO

N NETWORK

Libraries: past vs. today

Open stacks

Library suggestion box

24/7 services, anywhere

Amazon-style comments

Team-built blog

closed stacks

Collection development

Walk-in services

‘read-only’ catalog

print newsletter mailed out

And what about school libraries?

looking ahead?

online services?

24/7 services?

using web 2.0 tools to get in touch, to communicate (blog, QR codes, twitter, facebook, skype, youtube, vimeo)?

Using web 2.0 tools to collect and share (wiki, bookmarking, e-books, flickr, picasa, myebook, podcasts, screencasts, dropbox…)?

information literacy program?

hybrid collection? going digital?

screen reading (kindle, nook, ipad, ipod, ipod touch…)?

the shift…

Over the last decade, a fundamental shift has occurred in how students perceive and utilize libraries. No longer seen as traditional book warehouses, libraries are now collaborative environments where individuals and groups converge to study, socialize, and gain access to resources. The library was once a place to find and check out books. But today, the library is a center of interactive learning

Libraries need to break out of the atmosphere of tradition,” says Lee Van Orsdel, dean of university libraries at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. “We need to rethink our whole attitude about the relationship between students and space, furniture and information, and redefine what a library should be.”

libraries need a makeover if they are to meet the needs of 21st-century work

styles and technologies.

extreme makeover!!!

Findingsspaces must foster social learning

Support the librarian’s evolving role

optimize the performance of informal spaces

Provide for individual comfort, concentration, and security

Improve awareness of and access to library resources

Plan for adjacencies

Elise Valoe

In short…