Some of my recent thoughts about academic libraries. These focus a fair bit on spaces, but there is also a focus on services, technologies and our programs. It is from a presentation that I gave by Skype to the SCU Library on 27 November 2015.

1. THE ACADEMIC
LIBRARY
Some recent thoughts and ideas
@malbooth

2. TRENDS & CONTEXT
changes in scholarly communication
| new jobs & digital literacies | data
curation | open scholarship |
research impact | pedagogical
change | transdisciplinarity |

3. Apple Store, Manhattan, NYC |

4. Libraries are not
circuses, shopping
malls, banks or Apple
stores
(but probably have a little to learn
from each of these)

5. Customs House
Library, Sydney | a
great example of
brilliant design and
successful
connected programs
and services |
refurbishment by
PTW Architects in
association with
Tanner Architects &
Lacoste+Stevenson

6. Service Points | “Kiosk” type service point, Hunt Library, NCSU

7. Service desks & reserve holds area | Humboldt University Library, Berlin

8. MONA:some thoughts
leaving it to chance | don’t aim for
perfection | the power of not
knowing | aim for wonder, awe,
inspiration, delight, serendipity &
surprise | more random | more trust |

9. MONA

10. MONA

11. MONA

12. MONA

13. UTS Interior & Spatial Design student work exhibited recently in UTS Library |

14. What would Andy Warhol
or David Walsh do?
libraries have a lot more to learn
from them than from Jack Welch or
the Harvard Business Review

15. Watch Andy Warhol:A documentary Film | by Ric Burns (image from an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, NYC

16. Games Room | UTS Library

17. Escaping the old ways
can be harder than
having new ideas
John Seely Brown (paraphrased)

18. The Morgan Library & Museum, Manhattan, NYC |

19. Laughing |
Smiling |
Having Fun |
we need more rules and signs
| #obvs

20. We’ll always have to
deal with Ambiguities
so let’s not kill all our darlings

21. Still functional & popular | Main Reading Room, New York Public Library

22. Snøhetta’s modern reading room | James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU

23. Individual study nooks, Silent Reading Room, 5th floor | UTS Library

24. Identity &
Inspiration

25. King’s Library
and public
spaces | The
British Library,
London

26. Foster + Partners | Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin

27. Foster + Partners | Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin

28. Foster + Partners | Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin

29. Foster + Partners | Philological Library, Freie Universität, Berlin

30. Culture
connecting and engaging
with the community

31. Customs House Library, Sydney | Vivid Festival, 2012

32. Moshe Safdie |
Main Library, Salt
Lake City

33. Exhibition of student works from the 2014 Global Textiles Studio | UTS Library, 2015 (image by Jackson Mann)

34. Going beyond Search:
Discovery & Curiosity
in libraries, their collections,
content & context

35. Columbus Circle, Manhattan | because search is like White Pages & discovery is like Colombus in 1492

36. Snøhetta’s yellow pathways | James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU

37. MONA

38. Visualising search results | UTS Library Catalogue

39. Recommendation engines? | E.g. Netflix & Amazon

40. Building Context
for a data future
supporting the research
data management lifecycle

41. Data vis, teaching, research facility | Data teaching & vis lab, Hunt Library, NCSU

42. Data Labs | Data lab prototype, British Library

43. 3D projector and surface/table top screen | British Library

44. Delivering an
Experience
emotional connection

45. Customs House Library, Sydney |

46. Harvested Instagram images | James B. Hunt Jnr. Library, NCSU

47. Asia Pacific Design Library | State Library of Queensland

48. Eric Hagan live drawing, UTS Library | Couture Techniques, 2nd year Fashion students Bodice and
Dress Project in collaboration with the NSW Embroiders Guild

49. Organisational
(mis)Representation
how can we get this right?

50. UTS Library Organisation Chart | First Dimension:Administrative “homes”
University Librarian
Director Education &
Research Services Unit
Director Library Resources
Unit
Information Services
Manager
Access Services Manager
Manager eResearch
IT Manager
Scholarly Information
Manager
University of Technology, Sydney
University Library
Organisation Chart (as at April 2014)
Collection Maintenance
Coordinator
DRR & Digitisation
Coordinator
Access Services
Coordinator
Business & Law Team
Leader
Sciences & Technology
Team Leader
Arts & Social Sciences
Team Leader
Access Services
Coordinator (KC)
Collection Development &
Evaluation Team Leader
Metadata & Discovery
Services Team Leader
Finance & Vendor
Relationships Team Leader
Systems Architect
Web Developer
Server Administrator
Reserve & Access
Coordinator
Library Retrieval System
Officer
Communication Manager
Director Logistics, Planning &
Kuring-gai Library

51. UTS Library Organisation Chart | What about these roles?????
University Librarian
Director Education &
Research Services Unit
Director Library Resources
Unit
Information Services
Manager
Access Services Manager
Manager eResearch
IT Manager
Scholarly Information
Manager
University of Technology, Sydney
University Library
Organisation Chart (as at April 2014)
Collection Maintenance
Coordinator
DRR & Digitisation
Coordinator
Access Services
Coordinator
Business & Law Team
Leader
Sciences & Technology
Team Leader
Arts & Social Sciences
Team Leader
Access Services
Coordinator (KC)
Collection Development &
Evaluation Team Leader
Metadata & Discovery
Services Team Leader
Finance & Vendor
Relationships Team Leader
Systems Architect
Web Developer
Server Administrator
Reserve & Access
Coordinator
Library Retrieval System
Officer
Communication Manager
Director Logistics, Planning &
Kuring-gai Library
Digital Literacy |
Open Access Repository |
UTS ePRESS |
Spec. Collections Acquisition |
Data Archives |
learning.futures |
Research Support |
Open Access & OERs |
Ref. Help & Desk Shifts |
Exhibition Curation & Events |
Research Impact Metrics |
RDM Planning & Assistance |
Social Media Engagement |
Other liaison/engagement |
Data Projects |
CAUL, LATN, ALIA work |
UX/UI research |

52. New Media
Literacies
visual, musical, procedural &
cinematic:it isn’t just about
books

53. Kapi
Warku |
Painting
by Paniny
Mick a
senior
Amata
woman

54. Illuminated pages from “The Life of St Edmund King and Martyr” | John
Lydgate’s Illustrated Verse Life. Presented to Henry VI. A facsimile of British
Library MS Harley 2278. British Library, 2004

55. Bradman's comet trailing
the sky of the Australian
Innings | Irene Wellington's
visualisation of Bradman's
scoring strokes at Leeds.
From her diary:26 Days and
25 Nights of Summer, 1934.
Dark brown leather binding,
77 written pages. Black ink
and red paint on paper. 30 x
24.5 cm.

56. 11-808:Visualising the Library's Retrieval System | By our 2014 Artist(s)-in Residence:Elisa Lee & Adam Hinshaw
http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/news/288004/uts-library-s-artists-residence-investigate-library-retrieval-system

57. Media Editing Studio | UTS Library

58. “Lace Narratives”, an Open
Access Media Object |
Downloadable PDF, video,
images, print-on-demand
editions, and a limited
edition artists’s book with
lace samples.
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/
books/lace-narratives

59. Design &
Behaviour

60. Rain
Garden
Reading
Lounge |
James B.
Hunt Jr.
Library,
NCSU

61. Silent Reading Room, 5th floor | UTS Library (image by Jackson Mann)

62. Leaving enough
Space
do we try to cram too much
stuff in?

63. Historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin

64. Rain Garden Reading Lounge | James B. Hunt Jr. Library, NCSU

65. Can you design for
Advocacy?
sustainability | diversity | Open
Access | fair IP & Copyright |
net neutrality |

66. Sustainability at The Grove Library | Perth, WA

67. Kuring-Gai
Campus Library |
UTS