The Future of the Library

What are we about as a library?

Knowledge management

Facilitating Knowledge • Discovery• Creation• Dissemination• Evaluation

Activities

• Organize• Quality filter• Navigate• Teach• Connect with users• Identify and implement new systems

What has changed?

• Books• Journals• AVs• DVDs• CDs• Microfilm• Databases

Now

• Social networking• Blogs• Aggregators• Twitter• Publishing on the web• Communities of learning

The more things change, the more they remain the same

Knowledge containers

What is critical is the knowledge itself!

Gutenburg Press 1440

• Access to knowledge fundamentally changed• Greater democratization of knowledge• Mass distribution now possible• Quality could not necessarily be controlled• Society, often in the form of libraries, had to develop

new systems to manage information explosion• Scientists could communicate and share knowledge

leading to a knowledge explosion• Copyright and Intellectual Property

What does this remind you of?

Internet and the WWW!

We have stood at this threshold before

What served us then will serve us now

• Commitment• Service ethic• Creativity• Innovation• Professional values and expertise

What brings innovation?

People First Then Technology

What is the role of the library?

Bring value to the mission of the organization through knowledge management.

Service organizations support but also lead.

What are the missions of our organization?

• Education• Research• Patient Care• Community Service

Everything we do must align with the core missions of the institution

• It is our job to know the missions of the institution and to pay very close attention to the pressures, changes, needs of the institutional mission.

• Look for ways that we can support the mission.

Proactive, Opportunistic

Education

• School of Medicine• Cells to Society Curriculum• Integration of clinical and basic sciences• New building with new learning environment• New ways of teaching – active learning, small groups• Competency –based – all UME, GME, CME• New students with new skills and experiences• Increased class size• Open source movements – Collab• Open learning communities – MIT, Minnesota• More learning is dispersed – virtual, communities

• Most faculty new to this type of teaching• Need for faculty development• Medical Center – increase need for training that is

flexible, uses adult learning theory, cost- effective, different learning levels, compliance requirements

• EMR – training

School of Nursing

• Ongoing demand for new nurses

online courses, Doctor of Nursing Practice• Advanced practice nurses role in healthcare delivery• Interprofessional education

Research

• Translational – Bench to Community and Back to Bench

• Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)• “Big Science”• Volume of grant submissions increasing but less

submissions per grant permitted• Knowledge sharing across disciplines• Reduced funding – smaller and more elite• Increasing need for bioinformatics infrastructure and

skill development• New paradigms for computing support – cloud

computing

• Greater demands• Tension with teaching role• Researchers more and more dispersed – across

grounds and across the country• eScience• Research integrity

Patient Care

• Unknown impact of health care reform• Financial pressures• Building networks – Culpeper – others?• “Pay for performance”• More and more accountability• Patient shopping – “medical tourism”• New EMR – knowledge based resource integration• Patient education• Personal Health Records – Google and others• Workforce issues

Community Service

• Engage and listen to the community• Provide access to health care• Serve the needs of the community• Serve the needs of the commonwealth• Promote healthy behaviors

Commission on the Future of the University

• Student experience – research, public service, global influences

• Increasing international, science, technology• Collaboration and Innovation across disciplines• CASTL – (Center for the Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning)

Evidenced-based innovation and improvement in teaching for all programs

• Presidential Search

Trends in IT and Knowledge management

• Mobile devices• Open source environments• Collaboration• Integration• Traditional “containers” less important – knowledge

sharing in non-traditional ways• Publishing on the web• Knowledge and Social communities

Economic Pressures

• Does it align with the mission of the institution?• Is it core to the institution and to us?• What is the net gain or loss?• Is it future-oriented? Is it strategic?

• We will need to do more with less.• We will ultimately be stronger for doing this.

Less Money

Less user face-to-face contact

WWW/Google

Successful Organizations Shape their Liabilities into Strengths

Ensure each dollar has the greatest impact

Make sure we have the best virtual presence

Integrate library services inside resources our patrons use

Our Strengths as a Library to Address these Missions

• Positive Image• Mandate• Service Ethic• Creative• Committed • Welcome responsibility• Entrusted with an excellent library• Endowment

What We Need to Do

• Clarify, value and celebrate our skills and expertise• Embrace the new ways of knowledge management• Future is unknown but we can shape it• Constantly look at the organization for opportunities to

provide expertise• Collaborate-talk-learn-expand• Explore• Take risks• Innovate and create – learn from each other• Innovation is not about technology – it’s people

• Accept and embrace that change will be constant• Need to adapt and innovate will be constant• Need for knowledge will be constant• Rather than the institution wanting less of what we do, it

wants more but in a new way• Library is the intersection of knowledge and innovation

and people

The Challenge

Create a future where knowledge is embedded in every facet of the institution’s missions

Think, Imagine, Talk and Share

September 25th LMG Meeting – come ready to share!