A Look into the Future Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. January 25, 2012.
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Transcript of A Look into the Future Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. January 25, 2012.
Where I Come From
• Director of Hospital Library• Director of Science and Engineering Library• Director of Undergraduate Library• Associate Dean of ARL library system• Dean of Library at Wake Forest University
Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest University
• 6500 students including Undergrad, Medical, Law, Business, Divinity
• 2 million volumes• 2,000 print journals,
50,000 e-journals• Open 140 hours/week• 53 library faculty/staff• $ 7 million budget• 2011 ACRL award
The Future is Digital
Digital content: • Journals (went first in scholarly world more than a
decade ago)•Newspapers (fastest popular media to fall)•Books (tipping fast right now)•Media (with mega storage needs)•Data (next frontier for academic libraries)•Publishing (office of digital publishing at Wake)
Our Mission
The mission of the Z Smith Reynolds Library
Is to help our students, faculty and staff
SUCCEED!
Image Credits• Books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/304220561/• sizes/m/in/photostream/• Terrace: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/• 0,8599,2079800,00.html• Gate:
http://www.art.com/products/p12209923-sa-i1584106/alan-blaustein-hampton-gate.htm
• Jump: uploaded to Flickr on October 6, 2008 by rosiehardy• Tipping point: uploaded to Flickr on April 10, 2009 by Max Z• Footprints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfergos/37070037/• Baby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986/• sizes/m/in/photostream/• Old men: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicnac/3121705656/• sizes/z/in/pool-554700@N23/• Gutenberg: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/• gutenberg/
Lynn Sutton, Ph.D.Dean, Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest UniversityWinston-Salem, NC [email protected]