Excellence: Leading for Library Relevance
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Excellence: Leading for Library Relevance
Jesús Lau [email protected]
www.jesuslau.com / Twiter: jesuslau / FB: jesuslauCollege Station, TX
November 9-10, 2011
Topics
1. Education first: University learning and
learning players
2. Research library opportunities
3. Strategies and services to advocate
Part ONE
Education First: University Learning and Learning Players
University ChallengesPresident Bowen Loftin
• Public trust
• Limited resources
• Cost of education
• Value of education
University Shift
• A place to hack knowledge
• A place to practice knowledge
• A place to accelerate the advancement of knowledge
Student Behavior
• Need meaningful and relevant learning • Social and web hyperactivity • Used to instant gratification • Need information competencies
Faculty Destinations
• Need support for knowledge facilitation• Require quality information for research tasks• Need reliable sources to meet high demand to
publish• Demand data for academic management• Need support to benefit from new technologies
Library Opportunities
Part TWO
Airport
Pilots
Librarians´ Opportunities
• Be where they teach and do research• Become the antennas of the library• Revisit options for balance between academic work and
operational activities• Team with faculty in their knowledge processes
management• Provide decision-making information to University
management
Librarians and staff: Choices to Be Relevant
• Lots of players in the Information Ecosystem: Librarians and staff are just two of them, but can play unique roles to:
– Be the erudite professional: Need to go back to medieval library role
– Be active in the intangible and virtual worlds, where users are– Be part of the classroom and the lab– Become digital information curators– Be iSkills facilitator – Information literacy
Collections/Services: Everything Everywhere
• Be cost efficient and effective in collection development/access
• Library used to be just what it had, now is what it can share and what it has access to
• Cooperation and collaboration; Join/strengthen consortia
Part THREE
Strategies and Services to Advocate
Advocate:1. Management Principles
• Pursue library TAMU strategic plan: An excellent flight plan, with following principles:
• A holistic user - centered shared library management• Be relevant to users / University• Cost efficient and effective• Flexible for new roles and for new times• Inclusive excellence• Operate information services with quality principles
Advocate:2. Digital Information Curation
• Creation and production of digital information
• Harvest and integrate information resources
• Digital assets preservation
• Build digital capacity to do these things
Advocate: 3. Embedded Librarian
• Team with University faculty in knowledge creation and transmission
• Be where the learning process takes place
• Have an integrated library staff, all sections / all parts of the library have to be mission touched
Advocate: 4. Information Fluency
• Understand and meet new information student seeking behavior
• Anticipate users´ information needs• Facilitate student information fluency• Support faculty in their information literacy classroom
tasks• Help university management to have information skills
and information resources for decision making tasks
Advocate: 5. Scholarly Communication
• Ensure broad and diverse digital access to institutional research
• Strengthen the institutional repository and state-wide collaboration (TDL)
• Actively support institutional scholarly publishing
• Promote and advocate barrier-free access to research and educational information resources (ARL)
Advocate: 6. State, National and International Collaboration
• Identify what is relevant to share by Texas A&M University
• Find niches to collaborate at state, national and international level: Collections, services, software
• Be active in library and information associations
• Take active part in information networks and consortia
Advocate:7. Creativity
• Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value (Sir Ken Robinson)
• Goal to create value to the user: – Promote cross-pollination of ideas across the library and beyond– Have a multidisciplinary team /Diversity of skills and
backgrounds– Embrace change: Instead of facing the current, swim with it
Advocate:8. Library Diversity
• Search for inclusive excellence, not only quotas or numbers
• Promote blend of human resources: Gender, religion, skills, race, age, language, and experience
• Value differences and similarities among the library team to have a diversity-rich climate
• Team respect for individuals as unique and valuable persons
Thanks!
The future of libraries isan open journey…
Let´s be pilots
Enjoyed the opportunity to interact with you!