The Changing face of Academic Librarianship Humboldt State University 8 May 2012

1. The Changing face of Academic Librarianship Humboldt State University 8 May 2012 Brian E. C. Schottlaender The Audrey Geisel University Librarian

2. Overview • What’s the Same? • What’s Different? • What’s Coming? • Skillset Implications • The Case of UC San Diego HSU

3. What’s the Same? HSU

4. Hybrid. Paper-Based Information Digital Information HSU

5. Still. Paper-based Information Digital Information HSU

6. The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same • Increased information output, generally • Increased publishing output, specifically • Increased costs for [commercially] published output • Increased demand for [some] services • Funding pressures • Staffing pressures • Space pressures HSU

7. What’s Different? HSU

8. Everything. • Users • Content • Services • Tools & Systems • Space • Funding HSU

9. Users. • Connected • Mobile • Work together • Multi-task • Creators • Self-confident HSU

10. Users. FROM TO HSU

11. Content. • Visible • Graphic/Multimedia • Linked • Collective • Mobile • Owned/Licensed/Open HSU

12. Content. FROM HSU

13. Content. TO HSU

14. Services. • User-focused • “Smart Amateur” • Mobile • Dis-intermediated • Informal HSU

15. Services. FROM HSU

16. Services. TO HSU

17. Services. FROM HSU

18. Services. TO HSU

19. Tools & Systems. • Push • Interactive • Simple • Individualized HSU

20. Tools & Systems. FROM TO HSU

21. Space. • People-based • Group-study • Access & Production • Relaxed • Flexible HSU

22. Space. FROM TO HSU

23. Funding. • 2008/09-2009/10: • 58% of ARL private and 66% of ARL public libraries had reduced or flat budgets. [ARL] • 2009/10-2010/11: • 58% of ARL private and 47% of ARL public libraries had reduced or flat budgets. [ARL] • 2009/10: • 41% of the States cut public library funding. [ALA] • 2009/10: • 9.4% cut to ALL school library budgets in the U.S. [ALA] • 2009/10: • 20% cut to HS library budgets in the U.S. [ALA] HSU

24. What’s Coming? HSU

25. Forecast: Cloudy Mass digitization e-Everything Personalization Space pressures Budget pressures Services Learning Teaching Research Big Science Open access Data Collaboration Competition Access Integration Interoperation Information Collections Control systems Fundraising Stewardship Community HSU

26. Forecast. Still less money Fewer libraries Fewer staff Fewer acquisitions Smaller locally-held, published print collections HSU

27. Forecast. • Centralized and/or Federated published print collections • Emphasis on primary [unpublished] research materials, including primary research data • New mandates • Emphasis on full life-cycle resource management • Collective action: • Collections management • Collections storage • Increased interdependence HSU

28. Skillset Implications HSU

29. “Today’s library staff … … must include people who see themselves as active contenders in a race for relevance, regard, and resources. Some of its members must have strong technical skills and an ability to identify specific areas in which technology can advance the institution in fulfilling its academic mission. Library staff must be capable of working effectively in partnership with faculty members to enhance the strength of teaching and research.  … Library staffs in general must become more agile, more highly attuned to, and more aggressive in proclaiming just how different the world of knowledge has already become.” — “Changing Roles of Academic and Research Libraries” ACRL Tech Summit (November 2006)   HSU

30. Tomorrow’s Skillsets.1 • Technology skills • Data management/curation skills • Diversity skills • Research skills • Intellectual Property skills — The ARL 2030 Scenarios: A User’s Guide for Research Libraries (October 2010) HSU

31. Tomorrow’s Skillsets.2 • More domain experts • More data proficient • More entrepreneurial • More embedded • More research fluent • More culturally diverse • More adept at team work and project management — “21st Century Library Workforce” ARL Transforming Research Libraries Committee (May 2012) HSU

32. The Case of UC San Diego HSU

33. 2008 – 2011 • 2008/09: $29.4M Library State funding • 2011/12: $24.4M Library State funding (18%) • 2008/09: 294 Academic and Staff FTE • 2011/12: 256 Academic and Staff FTE (13%) • 2012/13: 231Academic and Staff FTE (21%) • 2008/09: 7 Library locations [432,892 asf] • Biomed • CLICS • Geisel • IR/PS • Library Annex • Medical Center • Scripps [3 floors] • 2011/12: 4 Library locations [363,912 asf] (16%) • Biomed • Geisel • Library Annex • Scripps [1 floor]

34. Libraries Organizational Restructuring 2011–2013

35. Proposed Org Chart

36. Administrative Services AcademicServices Information Services Enterprise Services

37. Administrative Services Communications & Outreach Programming Development Policy & Legal Advice Academic Assessment & Analysis Academic Liaison Services Archives & Special Collections Digital Library Program Management Fulfillment Services Reference & Research Advisory Services Research Data Curation Information Services Academic Services Learning Services Metadata Services & Archive Processing Human Resources Information Resources Development & Management Internal Communication Safety & Security Technology Services Access Operations Learning Environments Enterprise Services Business & Finance Facilities & Building Management

38. Thank You.