Beyond Survival:Keeping Libraries Relevant in the Digital Age
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This document summarizes the changes that have occurred at Pitt Libraries between 1994-1995 and 2009-2010, including a growth in collections from 3 million books to 6 million books and a doubling of their budget from $17 million to $32 million. It notes that traditional library usage is declining while digital library services are increasing, with over 1 million digitized pages. The document outlines ideas for libraries to remain relevant, such as being user-centric rather than focused, rethinking their mission around serving people, reengineering operations, and collaborating on digital innovation.
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Beyond Survival:Keeping Libraries Relevant in the Digital Age
- 1. Beyond Survival: Keeping Libraries Relevant in the Digital Age Rush G. Miller, Ph.D. Hillman University Librarian and Director, ULS [email_address]
- 2. Pitt Libraries Profile 1994-95: 3 million books 27,000 journals 22 libraries 8 electronic databases $17 million expended No digitization of local collections 2009-2010: 6 million books 87,251 Journals 17 libraries 700 electronic databases $32 million expended 105 digital projects (over 1 million pages)
- 3. Special Collections of Note Archive of Industrial Society (700+ collections) Archive of Scientific Philosophy Area Studies: 450,000 CJK; 450,000 Latin American; 400,000 Slavic titles European Union Consulate Collection 32,000 linear feet of manuscript collections 100,000+ rare books in Special Collections
- 4. Circulation Trends: Traditional Library Use Declining
- 5. The Digital Library Pitt is a leader in developing the library of the future
- 6. Library as Information Filtration System
- 7. How Do We Survive?
- 8. “… the days of the library’s ability to control what is important are gone. Serving a public good is no longer enough to ensure funding and administrative support. To secure support, the library must now demonstrate how it serves the university mission.” — Beverly P. Lynch, UCLA College & Research Libraries , 2007
- 9. Survival Tools: 8 Ideas for Change
- 10. Be User-Centric Not User-Focused
- 11. Re-think Your Mission NOT about books NOT about information But about PEOPLE
- 12. Re-Engineer Operations Services Resources Personnel Budget
- 13. Re-Think How Space is Used
- 14. Change Spaces for Patrons
- 15. Thornburgh Room
- 16. First Floor Entrance and Desk
- 17. Change Policies . . .
- 18. Add Remote Facility Housing
- 26. Build Expertise and Infrastructure for the Digital Future
- 28. Consider IT Infrastructure in Libraries Be adaptable & flexible in responding to digital futures
- 29. Change the Organizational Culture
- 30. Role of Research Library in Future
- 31. Redefine Library’s Role in Teaching & Learning
- 32. Collaboration
- 35. In Closing. . . It is not merely a matter of whether or not libraries exist in the future, but how relevant they will be to the educational and research enterprise. That relevance is not assured but will be more likely if we learn to adapt better to our environment.
- 36. See: Wood, Elizabeth; Rush Miller and Amy Knapp. Beyond Survival: Managing Academic Libraries in Transition . (Westport, CT (US)/ London: Libraries Unlimited, 2007).
- 37. 谢谢 ！ 謝謝 ！