Table 6 Notes (transcription):
General discussion
–Current strengths, build on for the future, 2020 ideal?
+service oriented = most to heart on campus
+access = via interlibrary loan
+ coop cataloging = access
+ library as mifrator (sp?) (graphic novel prize)
Q1: Ideal library 2020? Defines ideal?
Users define “ideal”; ideal flexes between campuses
- Agile, adaptable, flexible yet within scope
- Out of scope? Partners, providing space, “allies”
- “connective tissue”—we’re present and approachable
- Beyond service à solution oriented
- Facilitators, experimentation, willing to fall flat
- Iterative process à learning from failures without fear
Wants/needs patrons à proactive assessment
– Ease of media access, regardless of access level
– At many of vendors, but is the administration?
- advocates for integrative services
Q2: Challenges in achieving this ideal?
*Everything will cost money, as we all know
- also time, division of labor, organizational* complexity * (hugeness of library scope)
*Calcified structures—“Old Guard” mentality
- Both centralized and distributed, creates tension
- invisible, calcified structuresà unavoidable?
- Solution: Factor in time and be about why
Managing expectations
Recognizing importance of admins
*Vendors attempting to circumvent the library
- “that is, in point of fact, what you think”
Solution= openness with faculty, “strong wording” to vendors
*Space is factor in “irrelevancy” of libraries
- just want space, sharing space
–Solution = document space usage
Scope defines “allies” vs partners
Q3: Single most important thing to address next 5 years
*How budgets are allocated
* Outreach to user base; outposts/embedded
*Consumer model of education: “proving value”
- can we measure what we do? Should we have to?
- Shameless steal: how do fields prove worth?
- fail spectacularly
*Dealing with internal/external competing interests for space