Beyond the stereotype

1. Beyond the stereotype Stephen Parnell

2. Change and the university library • An educational role • The teaching and learning framework • An online strategy • Transnational programs and internationalisation • Budget limitations • Other environmental factors

3. Collaboration Continuity Change Connectivity Competition The library environment

4. The Library and University strategy • A physical and virtual environment for teaching & learning • Skills staff and students will be expected to demonstrate • Work practices and working arrangements • Levels and patterns of service in different situations

5. The changing library building “The core activity of a learning commons would not be the manipulation and mastery of information…but the collaborative learning by which students turn information into knowledge and sometimes into wisdom” Scott Bennett Libraries designed for learning 2003

6. Changing patterns in library use “The traditional separation of academic, leisure and work time is fusing into a seamless world aided and supported by nomadic computing and information appliances that support multiple activities” OCLC 2003 Environmental scan: pattern recognition

7. Beyond the stereotype Librarians ...the people who have seen the farthest, done the most, accepted the hardest challenges, and demonstrated most clearly the benefits of digital information Ayers and Grisham EDUCAUSE Review 38 (6) 2003

8. Opportunities and challenges • Interpretation / manipulation of raw data • Medici effect • Googlezon • Developing tools and strategies to make finding information easier • Sharing the skills that make the location and evaluation of information easier

9. Points to ponder • if librarians don’t stamp books, what do they do? • if users find information themselves, what is the role of a librarian? • If ‘everything’ is online –is there still a need for library buildings