New challenges ahead for Libraries

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New challenges ahead for Libraries

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Agenda

• The Challenge
• Response to Challenge
• Libraries Need Changed!
• Library Innovation
• Future Libraries and Services
• Case Studies
• Questions Answers

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The Challenge

• ? ubiquitous dependence on e-media
• ? need for efficient and timely delivery of
  resources
• ? scholars desire for having what, when, and
  where they need it.
• ? How can libraries provide the depth and breadth
  of resources, tools, and modes of access in the
  21st century?

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The Challenge

• The internet has continued to shift the
  boundaries of an information service to beyond
  the confines of physical buildings and limited
  opening hours.
• Fundamentally, our clients simply expect to be
  able to access all of the information they want,
  from anywhere in the world, at any time ..

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Response to Challenge

• To cope with the challenges of the future,
  libraries have to be innovative which means open
  minded to all future developments in information
  technology, in the media market, in education,
  culture and management.

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Response to Challenge

• We should
• - Design the library as a stimulating
• environment bridging education and
• culture
• - Create the library as a venue to inspire
• imagination
• - Encourage the development of new
• ideas, to raise curiosity to explore the
• unexpected.

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Libraries Need Change!

• That means rethinking our professional
  development agenda, investing our technology
  decisions in ones which meet the needs of the
  end-user and retraining and entire segment of
  librarianship to adapt to a fundamental new
  reality.
• Remember, the dinosaurs didnt go extinct because
  the climate changed. They disappeared because
  they couldnt adapt to the changes happening
  around them!

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Library Innovation

• Innovation demands libraries to rethink
  themselves constantly, questioning traditional
  habits and deleting the sentence this is how we
  always have done it from their vocabulary.
• Appropriate philosophy should be the library
  welcomes the future.
• Inspiration is a relevant factor for libraries of
  the future.

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Future Library

• Visitors should perceive the library as a place
  of stimulation, a place of inspiration
  encouraging them to explore topics they were not
  really looking for. This is achieved thorough
  book and media exhibits as well as through the
  design of the library.

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Future Library

• An inspiration feeds on dialogue, on contact with
  other people, experts, artists, researchers.
  Events and exhibitions aim at developing new
  impulses and imagination. And from the results of
  brain research we know that impulses are
  prerequisites for learning and knowledge.

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The Library is everywhere

• One solution is to use technology to get to where
  our clients are .. or help them get to us.

• Actively think about new services based on
  Instant Messaging, SMS, Chat with audio or video?
• What barriers are we putting up which prevent
  people from getting what they need ?
• Do we provide Instant Messenger or chat clients
  on our computers?

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The Future of the Special Library

• Journals
• ? For libraries and publishers, much of the focus
  on journals has been to get current issues
  online.
• ? By 2010, we expect that at least 80 percent of
  all journal issues will be in digital form

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The Future of the Special Library

• Conference Proceedings
• ?Conference proceedings are under far less
  bibliographic
• control than journals. Web delivery will help
  solve this
• problem.
• ?By 2010, we expect that 50 percent of
  relevant
• historical conference proceedings will be
  online, with
• closer to 90 percent of the current
  proceedings online.

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The Future of the Special Library

• Abstracting and Indexing Services
• A mixed future for abstracting and indexing
• (AI) services. Originally created to provide
  bibliographic control over the growing volume of
  journal articles, several of the services have
  diversified over the years to be more than simply
  a collection of bibliographic records from a
  specific set of journals.

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The Future of the Special Library

• Linking
• Full-text linking has been a boon and timesaver
  to
• researchers.
• By 2010, we expect to have links between related
  content pieces, such as linking the addendum back
  to the article (and vice versa).
• Additionally, we expect to see full-text links
  to nearly all journal articles, fulfilling the
  users assumption that it is all online.

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Anticipated New Library and Information Services

• 1 Tailor Made Services
• provision of uniform or common service to all is
  unsuitable in special libraries. Lot of need
  based tailor made services are expected to
  increase the effectiveness of services.

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Anticipated New Library and Information Services

• 2 Intensified Current Awareness Services
• Provision of increased opportunity to browse
  latest literature in both core as well as
  related/ peripheral areas and carrying current
  awareness services (tailored to the need) to the
  workspots and laboratories of otherwise busy
  users is necessary.

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Anticipated New Library and Information Services

• 3 Extensive Provision for Browsing
• Past research has repeatedly revealed that
  browsing is the most often used method to learn
  about printed information sources. Special
  libraries have to make extensive provision to
  enable their users to browse information sources.
  Such intensified current awareness services and
  provision for browsing may facilitate users to
  discover relevant information in an unplanned
  accidental way.

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Anticipated New Library and Information Services

• 4 Direct Mode of Service
• Special Libraries should evolve a more liberal
  policy of promoting the use of journals, reports,
  standards and trade catalogues among the users
  concerned without expecting them to visit the
  library to consult a document or to reserve a
  document or to borrow a document for a limited
  period and, at times, pay fine as penalty for
  having not returned in time. This may necessitate
  a need to be more flexible in the application of
  library rules and regulations.

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Anticipated New Library and Information Services

• 5 Inducting Non-users to Libraries
• Use of a library is by and large a minority
  affair. A small cross section of target user
  population normally use their primary library.
  Special libraries have to find the ways and means
  of inducing and inducting the nonusers.

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Anticipated New Library and Information Services

• 6 User Orientation
• There is a greater need for exhaustive
  orientation programmes to the users of special
  libraries (especially to new entrants and less
  frequent users) in the use of the library. We
  need few modules of user-orientation programs
  locally developed and tested for the purpose.

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Anticipated New Library and Information Services

• 7 Organisation of Personal Information Systems
• Users in special library environment consider
  personal libraries more important than
  institutional libraries. Wherever possible the
  personal and departmental systems should be
  integrated with the organized formal information
  systems.

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Marketing the Library

• Marketing in the library service sector intends
  the performances of planning, organizing,
  dissemination and controlling of information
  services on a proactive and user oriented way
  that ensures the user satisfaction while
  achieving the objectives of the parent
  organization.

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In a world without wires?

• According to industry analysts, nearly 298,000 of
  3.1 million (approx 10) of the broadband
  connections servicing Australian homes and
  businesses by 2007 will be wireless. Are we ready
  to interact with clients who could quite
  literally, be anywhere ?

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In the end, nothing is really new..

• The wireless telegraph is not very
  difficult to understand. The ordinary
  telegraph is like a very long cat. You
  pull the tail in New York, and it meows
  in Los Angeles. The wireless is the
  same, only without the cat.
• Albert Einstein

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