LIRG

1
LIRG

• ACRL Environmental Scan 2007
• Chris Powis Deputy Director (Academic Services)
• The University of Northampton

2
First Reactions

• No great surprises
• Mainly extrapolated from current situation (as
  methodology would determine)
• Is there an Internet waiting to pounce?
• Emergent issues more interesting than the
  Assumptions

3
Emergent Issues

• Collaboration between libraries in different
  sectors
• Spaces
• Services
• Measures
• Literacies
• Engaged community
• Learning environments
• Digital/print
• Social learning spaces
• Integration with teaching/learning research
• Green libraries

4
Emergent Issues

• Web 2.0
• Semantic web as search tool
• Publishing - participation
• Social computing for design delivery of
  services
• Collaboration with publications programmes
• Repositories
• Free access to public data
• Intellectual property
• New models of education
• Interdisciplinary
• New delivery methods

5
Emergent Issues

• Move from collections to services
• Users/patrons to customers
• Business models and expectations
• Models of support
• Library education in crisis
• Traditional skill sets redundant?
• End of professional librarians?
• Continuing education

6
Our response

• Where we/can are leading now
• Intellectual property
• Use of resources
• Collaboration
• Where we need to grasp the opportunity
• Research on users
• Using the Web
• Skills, training and education