5. 5
SLA
Alignment
Research
Highlights:
• Relationships,
Networks,
Collaboration
• Speed
–
Save
Time
• Packaging
for
Added
Value
Answers
• Educate
and
Train
11. Up
Your
Game
• Know
your
local
community
demographics
• Focus
on
needs
assessment
and
social
assessments
• Outreach
versus
engagement
and
partnerships
• Prioritize:
Love
all,
Serve
all,
Save
the
World
means
nothing
gets
done
• Priorities
are
SMART:
SpeciUic,
Measurable,
Attainable,
Relevant,
&
Time
bound
• Look
for
partnerships
that
add
value
12. Up
Your
Game
• Mobile
• Content
• Merge
with
records
management
and
archives
• Sensemaking
13. What
are
the
real
issues?
•
Craft
versus
Industrial
Strength
•
Personal
service
only
when
there’s
impact
•
Pilot,
Project,
Initiative
versus
Portfolio
Strategy
•
Hand-‐knitted
prototypes
versus
Production
• e.g.
Information
Literacy
and
Fluency
initiatives
• Discovery
versus
Search
versus
Deep
Search
• eLearning
units
and
program
dissemination
• Citation
and
information
ethics
• Content
and
repository
archipelagos
•
Strategic
Analytics
•
Value
&
Impact
Measures
•
Behaviours,
Satisfaction
•
Economic
and
strategic
alignment
14. Up
Your
Game
• Start
offering
diplomas
and
certiUicates
• The
Non-‐credit
Course
• Look
for
internal
partnerships
that
add
value
• Offer
real
educational
opportunities
not
just
adjacencies
• What
courses
to
you
offer
or
recommend?
(TED,
Khan
Academy,
MOOCs,
etc.)
• Play
and
connect
yourself
15. Up
Your
Game
• Learn
how
to
reach
and
teach
online
• Teach
how
to
learn
online
• Teach
how
to
research
online
• Everyone
in
academic
libraries
should
be
focused
on
teaching/
researching
Uirst,
then
library
• Learn
more
systems
than
one!
• Be
obsessive
about
consultation,
recommendations
and
advice
• Social
alignment
rules
and
use
the
tools
16. Up
Your
Game
• Align
with
Collections
–
But
add
virtual
experiences
• Start
being
Mobile
in
the
extreme
• Look
for
partnerships
that
add
value
• Focus
on
relationship
management
/
liaisons
• Ensure
the
program
delivery
person
is
embedded
including
librarians
• What
are
your
top
learning
or
research
domains?
Start
there.
• Don’t
go
it
alone.
Build
scalability
and
sustainability.
• Look
for
replicability
–
look
for
commonalities
17. The new
bibliography and
collection
development
Ask Us, KNOWLEDGE
PORTALS
KNOWLEDGE,
LEARNING,
INFORMATION &
RESEARCH
COMMONS
18. Up
Your
Game
• Take
the
strong
‘library’
brand
and
add
dimension
of
“Librarian”
• Personal
branding
–
Who
are
you
and
your
team?
Promote
them.
• Program
branding
• Take
risks
for
attention
(AIDA)
• Embed
your
brand
beyond
the
library
walls
and
virtually
• Go
beyond
the
information
brand
to
informing,
creating,
and
social
19. Up
Your
Game
• Grow
collections
investments
in
strategic
areas
• Develop
hybrid
strategies
that
are
consistent
and
integrated
for
digital
and
print
and
programs
• Be
obsessive
about
consultation,
recommendations
and
advice
• Integrate
virtual
and
physical
–
hybridize
• Social
alignment
rules
20. Up
Your
Game
• OCLC
Linked
Data
&
APIs
• DPLA
Vault
&
APIs
• 3D,
learning
object,
LibGuides,
audio,
or
streaming
media
repositories
• Understand
Pedagogy
in
the
context
of
student
experiences
and
educational
goals
• Understand
human
development
from
teens
to
adult
learning
• Understand
the
projects
• Makerspace…
laboratories
–
onsite
relevance
• Consider
partnerships
to
put
librarians
into
real
liaison
• Consider
coaches
and
tutoring
partnerships
21. Up
Your
Game
• Embedded
team
member
• Embedded
teacher
• Embedded
research
coach
• Embedded
personal
librarian
• Reintermediation
22. Up
Your
Game
• Dog,
Star,
Cow,
Problem
Child/?
• Reduce
investment
in
successes
–
This
isn’t
a
typo
• Increase
investment
in
future
successes
–
learn
from
failing
• Look
at
TCO
-‐
Do
NOT
value
your
own
time
at
zero
• Look
at
all
costs
incurred
and
not
just
hard
costs
• Review
opportunity
costs
in
soft
costs
23. Being
Open
to
Ambiguity
Be
the
Change
We
Want
to
See
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Abram,
MLS,
FSLA
Consultant,
Dysart
&
Jones/Lighthouse
Partners
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