Defining a 21st Century Library for Faculty and Graduate Student Research

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Defining a 21st Century Library forFaculty and
Graduate Student Research

• Study Conducted with the Assistance of Katzenbach
  Partners, LLC (KPL)
• in spring 2006

Presentation for OCLC Members Council February
2008
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Study focused on the least understood territory
the research environment

• 65 conversations across 25 disciplines with
  faculty and grad students
• Literature reviews
• Core Team workshops (faculty, administrators,
  librarians)

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Disciplines Represented

• Anthropology, Applied psychology, Art and Art
  Professions, Biology, Computer Science, Culture
  and Communication, East Asian Studies, Economics,
  Education, English, Fine Arts, History,
  Interactive Telecommunications, Journalism,
  Linguistics, Middle East/Islamic Studies, Music,
  Music Technology, Neural Science, Nursing,
  Physics, Politics, Psychology, Religious Studies,
  Sociology, Spanish

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Outputs/Results/Tools

• Interview summaries
• Strategies and priorities
• Organizational development recommendations
• Tools for thinking and evaluating
• Idea and Inspiration Book
• Report http//library.nyu.edu/about/KPLReport.pdf
  

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The KPL study revealed the central importance of
key dimensions of the research environment

• Surroundings
• Community
• Stimuli
• Process

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Surroundings

• Personal workspace (home/home away from home)
• Comfort (commonalities)
• Atmosphere (variations)
• Me me my computer

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Community

• Access to colleagues
• Places to interact, both intentionally and
  serendipitously
• Interdisciplinarity
• Tools and connectors for interaction

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The Changing Story of the Future of Scholarly
Work

• In light of recent radical changes to
  scholarly work, it is easy to overlook a key
  component of scholarship that will only become
  stronger the desire among scholars to feel that
  they are a part of intellectually stimulating and
  energizing communities.

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Stimuli

• Inspiration
• Serendipity
• Immediacy
• Alerts
• Ideas from others
• Interactivity

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Process

• Personal control
• Personalization
• Convenience
• Fluidity
• Efficiency
• Transparency

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Strategic Implications

• For the University
• Improve/create the many kinds of spaces that
  facilitate scholarly work
• Nuture, stimulate and support active scholarly
  communities face-to-face and online
• Foster collaborations and connections within and
  across disciplines

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Strategic Implications

• For the Library
• Enhance graduate student space and community
• Facilitate scholarly communication and connection
• Create new spaces and mechanisms for inspiration
  and idea generation
• Make the research process (discover, get, use,
  share) powerful and transparent
• Expand services beyond traditional conceptions of
  the library

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Key messages from our work with KPL

• Invest more in the online research process
• Give graduate students the spaces they
  are asking for
• Give faculty everything they want
• Re-brand the expectation of library
• Use faculty expertise to understand trends
  and possibilities
• Readjust to be an organization that learns
  continually
• Be Bolder, Innovate, Experiment

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Some things weve done/are doing

• Research Portal initiative (discover, get, use,
  share)
• Xtreme Access initiative
• Graduate student community initiative and
  renovation plans
• Appointing visiting scholars
• Working on becoming a learning organization
  (core to our strategic plan)
• Struggling with branding

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Where can OCLC help?

• Research portal (discover, get, use, share)
• Xtreme access (e.g., VDX)
• Help with branding
• Ideas and research from OCLC Programs and
  Research we are a learning profession

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