The approach of the session is different than originally planned because of the current economic environment. The ACRL 2009 Strategic Thinking Guide will soon be available on the ACRL website.
Three drivers that will be addressed by the panelists:
- Economy and Higher Education
- Changing Student demographics (information use)
- Advances and changes in information technology
Charles Lowry (ARL)
Deb Gilchrist (Pierce College)
Annie Paprocky (UIUC)
Jose Marie Griffith (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Lowry (library association perspective):
Who can predict the future? See Jim Cramer rant (see Jon Stewart's piece)
ACRL scans based on three drivers (above); we must use more than one source.
ACRL Themes: Scholarly Communication; Public Policy; Libraries' role in teaching and learning.
Scholarly Communication (link to ARL site) trends:
- budget reductions will impact library collecting
- new model publications moving into the mainstream
- faculty are not just consumers, libraries will need to build greater relationships
- control is needed, but provides conflict
- library services are changing; research cultures changing and therefore has new demands on libraries
- cyber-infrastructure changing: publication and presentation in the digital environment and the need to use and re0use data.
- economy and national security
- revision of policies established by Bush Administration
- technology policy: changes that will address health, energy, support accountability and reduce the cost of government.
- technology will enhance search and access - science and technology issues. change in public access policies.
- copyright and intellectual property
- cyber-infrastructure developments
- balancing all competing interests
- ensure environment that is conducive to academy to preserve intellectual and cultural content and allow new content to emerge
- focus on accountablity.
FERPA; FISO; PATRIOT ACT, and other laws should be carefully watched.
Research, Teaching & Learning trends (link to ARL website):
Encourage all to speak with colleagues about the documents. Start the conversations on your campuses.
Gilchrist (Community College perspective):
Change Magazine (June/July 2003)
What should we look forward to? How do we balance that with where we are now?
Muddling through or transforming. We should transform.
Students are often more fragile and have different demographics, generally. Adult population need more than high school diploma to get ahead. Community College serves as a bridge between public library and academic library.
Hire to the mission, not the job description
What is our role in student success?
Partner with faculty
Work on research endeavors that helps understand student success.
Assessment is our friend; how are we meeting institutional goals?
One year of college and a certificate is the tipping point (making students move up to a sustainable living)
Market our work and services
Does more engagement with the librarian lead to better grades?
We should be educational leaders; learn about educational trends
Paprocky (reference and instruction perspective):
The Federal Government is leading the way...blockbuster ideas...sweeping changes...bold steps....
Is this also an opportunity for libraries to push for bold and blockbuster ideas? YES!
Necessity is the mother of invention
Open Access to Scholarly Content.
Griffith (library educator perspective):
Projection: 46% of the about 30,000 academic librarians will be replaced in the next ten years; another 3 percent new jobs will be created. This would take the total output of academic librarians from MLIS programs in the next three years.
Hiring of (all) graduates this year will be down 22% (need source)
Library jobs continued to increase during the last three recessions. Will this be the same?
Future of librarians in the workforce study will end in June. General and issue reports will be available this summer.
How should we restructure our work? How can we eliminate redundancies, for eg.?
LC future of bibiographic control (On the record). What is the future of the local catalog?
cyber-infrastructure has 4 layers:
- network
- computation (manipulation of content)
- content (content is a part of the infrastructure)
- tools and services
Work collaboratively with IT organizations on cyber-efforts.
Unfortunately, no time for questions.
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