My closing talk to the Forecasting the Next-Gen Libary course-ference, hosted by Carthage Conference. I sum up discussions over the past few months, then offer a couple of thoughts at the end.

1. The Carthage College
Courseference Wrap-up

3. Communities
of practice
Research
Joint projects
Outreach

4. Network
platform: events
f2f/online
Partnerships
Translation

5. https://plus.google.com/photos/at/107844162817188153504?hl=en

6. 1. Future scenarios
2. Student culture
3. Higher education
4. Technology
5. Publishing
6. Reflections

7. Social dimension:
 Diversity of served populations
 Cross-population collaboration
Riptide of change
 Growing multiplicity of options
 Intelligence
 Library as changing space
› environment: Hamilton College
› Abolish the ref desk: Ganski & Beaulieu

9. “Avoid winning a Darwin Award: that’s
our goal.”
 Proactive leadership, beyond reaction
 Entrepreneurial funding approaches
 Innovation requires holistic
commitment, not the work of an
individual staffer

10. Collection development
needs flipping
Diversity of populations
served
Open access
K-12, adult learner role

11. Librarians have changed
1st, not 2nd career
Less regionally bound
Constant retraining
Learning to stop doing some
things
Generation gap

12. Compare with ARL scenarios (http://bit.ly/14aGlk4)

13. Diverse population
›first-gen, military, adult learners
›Web culture/generation (“so far
ahead of us”)
›Boomers
›US vs international

14. How to do
outreach/marketing?
On-site service to help distant
learners
“we have not yet hit the nadir
of perceived library value”

15. Desire for open content
Prosumer angle: what value does a
library receive from its users?
Spaces: 24/7, recording
studio, gaming center, rave
venue, place of discovery (Mary
Spio)

16. Major trends in higher education
 demographics: state decline
 internationalizing
students, curriculum
 "post-traditional learner" - need to
repackage education differently
 bad national conversation
 K-12 prep issues

17. How do library changes impact
higher ed?
library makes learning better,
deeper; supports flipped
classroom
Library has to be everything to
everybody; space + values

18. Libraries migrating to digital world
 deep desire to maintain library's
human face
 digital preservation
 faculty-driven initiatives
 library as site for additional digital
tools

19. Research and scholarly publication
 support scholarly mission, esp access
 open access, pro and contra
 library as filter for scholarly work
 "one of the great debates" in academia:
digital scholarship
› what is scholarly material? how is it
viewed?

20. Drive to jazz up library space
(food, music, yoga, makerspace
, puppet videos)
Or “the need for a building will
simply disappear” (Jill Strass)

21. empowered users; consumer side
"libraries are niche players on the
information landscape“ (Terry
Reese)
privacy
information: open vs silo
digital divide

22.  "would really like to slow things down" (Aaron
Frank, Caroline Reed)
 “mobile technologies… that is where students
live a good portion of their lives” (Stephen
Ford)
 Libraries educate on “how technology is
affecting privacy” (Kim Miller)
 Print-ebook combo (Kevin Lubick, Caroline
Reed)

23. Print->digital shift
Multiplying venues, digital +
print, scholarly + trade
Digital sustainability challenges
Two Cultures audience divide
(Kathleen Keane)

24. Responses
"Why would a journal article on-
line cost about $30 and a song on
iTunes cost 99 cents?" (Carol
Sabbar)
Sympathy

26. Media production

27. Demographic medium-term strategy

28. Closing some doors

29. Anticipating
the
future

30. The Courseference
http://www.nextgenlibraries.org
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Bryan Alexander
http://bryanalexander.org