Library Systems Workshop - Final Thoughts
This document summarizes discussions from a conference about the changing library services platform landscape. Key points discussed include: 1) The conference aimed to discuss challenges in the current library services platform landscape, share strategies for managing change, and identify opportunities for new collaborations and shared services. 2) Presentations and group discussions covered a range of topics from different perspectives on the landscape to approaches for cultural change and user-centered design. 3) It was noted that up to 50% of higher education institutions will change library management systems by 2016, and over 80% will be using some form of shared services, highlighting the need for openness to change and integrating library solutions with broader institutional priorities.
Library Systems Workshop - Final Thoughts
- 1. Final thoughts… Suzanne Enright Director Information Services, University of Westminster 15 July 2013
- 2. Aims - reminder – Continue discussions about the library service platform landscape and its challenges – Discover more about the workflows, processes, tools and techniques to support planning and managing change – Share information on new collaborations and shared services – Feed into Jisc/Sconul thinking – gaps, ideas and opportunities
- 3. Sharing – Range of presentations, group work, networking opportunities – Panel provocations and Q+A – Martin Myhill, Andrew Praeter and Owen Stephens – Some heresy to counter the fear, uncertainty and doubt!
- 4. The landscape – a tipping point? – Where are we with library service platform landscape? – Up to 50% HEIs will being using a different LMS by 2016 – 80+% will be using shared services for operational purposes (many are already) – 4 themes emerged today…
- 5. Context for change – Time of constant change…calls for openness to change – Search for solutions to problems, not a tick box exercise – Politics of own institution: local, regional, national, international (‘enterprise not library-land’) – Future unknowns and need to integrate with solutions to other institutional problems – Venture capital a feature of information landscape – LMS providers
- 6. Technology – Potential for disruptive change upon us – Moving away from concept of ‘system’ to metadata and platforms – Commodity IT – Tools are there to help solve problems – Integration and interaction with other systems – Varied formats – Open agenda
- 7. People – Cultural change – Participation and collaboration – implementing service change with staff involvement in design and implementation – Role of effective leaders – People in the room today
- 8. Users – User-centred services at the heart of designing for tomorrow (today…) – Transient nature of users – Stakeholder engagement – Big data as a tool to support this
- 9. Lastly, a plug… – KB+ – Focus on wider range of titles – Adding historical data – Work with international partners – Improving integration with ELCAT, JUSP etc – Get your library involved – Jisc/Sconul/RLUK Co-design Programme – Work on a national monographs strategy – KB+ and e-books
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