Chris Batt
Download as PPT, PDF3 likes976 views
The document discusses the role of public libraries in the future. It argues that libraries provide long-term social value by supporting skills, competencies, and delivering maximum value to users. It also explores how libraries can transition from being reactive to proactive community spaces and knowledge organizations in the digital age through partnerships, looking outward at technological and social trends, and reinventing their role and services.
Chris Batt
- 2. The Land of Informed Bewilderment
- 3. If Public Libraries Did Not Exist, Would Someone Invent Them?
- 4. Public policy priorities Long-term social value Sustainable model Skills and competencies
- 6. Peace on earth Long-term stability in the Middle East An end to global warming A bottle of Scotch whisky Weltanschauung
- 7. Libraries of the Future Weltanschauung What are the unique and enduring roles of libraries? How, at any given time, do we ensure they deliver maximum value to the user?
- 8. The Future Public Library: From short term to long term Scholarship e-Science Data mining e-Learning Technological evolution How can I get rid of my withdrawn books? Who is using Twitter? Any views on reducing overdue charges? Charges for colour printing Weltanschauung
- 9. The Future Public Library: From short term to long term “ We cannot be sure that someone born at the beginning of the 21 st century will have any particular nostalgia for a paper book” Weltanschauung
- 10. The Future Public Library: From Reactive to Proactive Community space Development agency Library online Weltanschauung
- 11. Digital repositories Flickr Wikipedia You and me ? Libraries of all types Museums and some galleries Archives Broadcasters Research agencies Learned societies Heritage organisations Community groups ? The Future Public Library: Re-engineering the Knowledge Landscape
- 12. Museum = digital library of objects Library = museum of books The Future Public Library: Expectations
- 13. “ Old men ought to be explorers” Weltanschauung
- 14. Modelling public knowledge value chains in a networked world Weltanschauung
- 15. Weltanschauung Public policy Parent institutions Buildings Staff Services Investment decisions Policy/invest. decisions Delivery infrastructure
- 16. Boundary exchanges Downstream value Institutional convergence? Institutional competition? Weltanschauung
- 17. Measuring downstream value Lifetime Good Fair Poor Pre-school support School years Level three Skills training and support Knowledge and information mediation and guidance Convivial activity Confidence Creativity Curiosity Community well being, social capital Discovery/understanding Weltanschauung High High, but at risk High, in places Uncertain Batt Value Indicator
- 18. Learning Never Was What it Used To Be Weltanschauung
- 19. Education is an industrial process Assessment Attainment Achievement Progression Weltanschauung
- 20. Learning is a personal need that should last a lifetime Weltanschauung “ War is a continuation of politics by other means ” Carl von Clausewitz Adult informal learning
- 21. Theory into Practice v1.0 Weltanschauung
- 22. Learning for Life: the Engine of the 21 st Century LEARNING FOR LIFE Help everyone to discover and understand more about the world everyday Neuroscience Behavioural economics Theories of learning Social trends
- 23. Knowledge: the Raw Material of the Future Build partnerships across the knowledge landscape Look outwards to what is happening technologically, socially, economically Re-invent the Web Develop a common mission for advocacy Face up to future leadership roles Weltanschauung
- 24. From Librarian to Knowledge Warrior Leaders of the knowledge sector A mission to remove all barriers to access The integration of knowledge into everyday life Defining, managing and mediating Building a strong foundation for learning for life Weltanschauung
- 25. Weltanschauung Almost as good as a bottle of Scotch whisky
- 26. If libraries did not exist, would we be able to invent them? Weltanschauung