A Twenty-first Century Library

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A Twenty-first Century Library

• Bertram (Chip) Bruce
• Leigh Estabrook
• Library Information Science
• U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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A free and simple computer link (Mosaic)

• Think of it as a map to the buried treasures of
  the Information Age. / A new software program
  available free to companies and individuals is
  helping even novice computer users find their way
  around the global Internet / an applications
  program so different and so obviously useful that
  it can create a new industry from scratch.
• Dec. 8, 1993, John Markoff, New York Times

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New media

• web rings
• video conferencing
• digital libraries
• virtual reality
• hypermedia, the web, the deep web

• internet radio
• robot surgery
• telepresence
• ubiquitous computing
• simputer
• monkey cursor

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In the future already

• Science fiction itself has remained the same. We
  have caught up to it...We are a science-fiction
  generation.
• Ray
  Bradbury
• We cant think far enough ahead anymore.
• Ron
  Shusett

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How is literacy changing?

• What are the new media for literacy?
• How do people use these?
• How are teaching and learning changing?

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1990 curriculum

• Solve problems
• Remember the textbook
• Follow directions
• Work alone
• "Cover" the curriculum

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2010 curriculum

• Find problems
• Multiple sources/media
• Engage actively in learning
• Collaborate diverse views
• Learn how to learn

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Digital Libraries

• Current developments
• Understanding the scope and limits of digital
  librarieS
• The National Science, Math and Technology
  Education Digital Library (NSDL)--becoming
  operational in 2003

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Distance Education

• LEEP example
• Relationship of institutional models to library
  service
• Options for library service at BRCC
• passive outsourcing
• institutional agreements
• full integration with regular services

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Learning Technologies

• Tutor basic skills
• Represent information in new ways
• Provide new tools
• Create new environments for communication
  learning
• Change what needs to be learned

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Parkland CC Library
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What is the Community?
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Do we need

• Books
• Libraries
• Librarians

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Thursday a.m.

• Introductions goals for the meeting
• Opening presentation
• Learning/teaching styles Student expectations?
  Major needs? Pedagogical styles? Resources?
  Expected use?

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Thursday p.m.

• Delivery/distance education Current and future
  approaches to course delivery? Independent
  study,? K12 education? Web presence? Tools for
  web hosting, email, data bases,
• Context Other facilities at BRCC, e.g., the
  science center, study spaces? BR Public Library,
  the public school libraries, other CCs, LSU,
  companies, statewide, regional, and national
  organizations and resources?

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Friday a.m.

• Collections Startup v continuing? Paper-based
  v. online? Reference books? Different
  disciplines? Faculty engagement?
• Technology Library as repository ,as computer
  center, as learning space? Wireless computing?
  Other computing resources?
• Layout Other space on campus? Study spaces,
  cultural space?