The library’s core roles of developing content, creating access services, and supporting inquiry have been fundamentally stretched with the evolution of the digital library and parallel development of digital learning and scholarship.
What does the transformation of content and methods of scholarship mean for the library and for campus communities?
Do the core physical assets of collections and facilities have the same draw and focus?
In this webcast, you will gain an understanding of how these changes are impacting the development of libraries (both physical and virtual) in the 21st century. The academic library has historically served as a central and core resource for higher education, providing essential collections of knowledge resources in support of instruction and research. A number of forces are transforming that core role to embrace a more expansive suite of functions within the academy, functions that are often more distributed and collaborative. These changes have profound implications for the library’s assets and how they are leveraged and deployed in the context of the institution’s goals.
Fueled by the growth of digital content and tools, the methods for teaching, learning, and research have changed. Undergraduate curricula offer new opportunities for experiential and collaborative learning. Interactive digital content and online learning environments enhance the classroom experience.
New roles have emerged, based on core expertise – for example roles in supporting content creators and authors, developing customized online access environments for disciplinary communities, and educational roles in developing information skills. These roles are far more collaborative with academic programs on campus, and offer opportunities to re-conceive library space to reflect the library’s more engaged role within instruction and research programs.
During this program, you can ask questions live through the telephone, or through text messages. Handouts include a PDF of the program’s PowerPoint, plus other writings and materials supportive of the program’s content.
After participating in this collaborative webcast, you will:
- Have a clear understanding of the research and curricular context for the development of libraries (both physical and virtual) in the 21st century
- Learn new methods, including ethnographic techniques, being used to discover undergraduate and graduate student needs and behaviors in order to better design library services and facilities
- Deepen your understanding of the impact of digital world on library services and missions
Audience?
This webcast is aimed at: provosts, librarians, college and university administrators, campus planners, university architects, and others interested and invested in maximizing the role of libraries on campus.
Moderator:
Michael Hites is associate vice president of administrative information technology services for the University of Illinois. Hites provides leadership, vision, strategy, overall management and accountability for enterprise-wide administrative information technology services within the University of Illinois' multi-campus environment. He ensures the quality, transparency, customer orientation, and timeliness of AITS services.
Previously, Hites led university strategic planning and information technology for New Mexico State University's five-campus, land-grant system of 27,000 students. He was responsible for system-level IT policy, information services, telephone and data networks, application development, training, system administration, PC services, institutional research, distance education services, and advising to NMSU leadership. Hites is an active partner with government, and he helped design the shared, statewide course management system available to all of NM higher education, which is now a part of the governor's K-20 "cyber academy" initiative.
Presenters:
Susan Gibbons is vice provost and the Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester. Gibbons earned an MLS and M.A. in history from Indiana University, professional MBA from the University of Massachusetts and is currently working on her doctorate in higher education administration. She held library positions at Indiana University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst before moving to the University of Rochester, where she worked as the director of digital library initiatives before moving into administration.
Most recently, Gibbons’ research has focused on methodologies for user studies, the alignment of academic libraries with the needs of Net Generation students, and the future of academic librarianship in the digital age. In 2007, she published The Academic Library and the Net Generation Student and Studying Students: the Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester, for which Gibbons was co-editor. She was named one of Library Journal’s 2005 “Movers & Shakers” and in 2006 was a Visiting Program Office for the Association for Research Libraries.
Wendy Pradt Lougee is university librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor at the University of Minnesota, a position she has held since 2002. Recognized for her pioneering contributions to the design and development of digital libraries, Lougee is a frequent speaker and consultant on issues associated with publishing, digital content and tools, and the assessment of research behaviors. She received the ACRL/ALCTS/LAMA/LITA Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award in 2003. She currently serves on the board of the Council of Library and Information Resources, as president of the Digital Library Federation, and chairs the Association of Research Libraries’ Working Group on E-Science. Lougee holds graduate degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison (library science) and Minnesota-Twin Cities (psychology).
To purchase the archive CD, click on the link below:
Archived CD: $195 USD (only available until February 2009)
To learn more about the webcast's sponsors, please visit:
Association of College & Research Libraries
www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/
American Library Association
www.ala.org
American Association of State Colleges and Universities
www.aascu.org/
Society for College and University Planning
www.scup.org
