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Academic Libraries: Futures and Future Proofing
Liz Jolly
Director, Student and Library ServicesTeesside University
UHMLG 2017
Outline• Sector Changes:
– Higher Education and Research Bill, TEF
– Other changes
• What does this mean for Academic Libraries?
– Content, Space, Learners, Researchers
• Future Roles
• Alignment
Teesside University• 1930 Constantine College
• 1970 Teesside Polytechnic
• 1992 University of Teesside
• 2009 Teesside University
• 21, 000 students (14,000 FTE)
• 2,300 staff
• Times Higher Education University of the Year 2010
• Investors in People Gold (2012, 2014)
• Queens Anniversary Prize 2014-18
• Mission:Teesside University generates and applies knowledge that contributes to the economic, social and cultural success of students, partners and the communities we serve.
Through education enriched by research, innovation, and engagement with business and the professions, we transform lives and economies
Higher Education and Research Act 2017
• Office For Students (2018):
– Regulator and Funding Council• Quality and Standards
– Tuition fees
– Incorporation of Office for Fair Access
– Assessment for quality of Teaching (TEF
Higher Education and Research Act 2017
• Accelerated Degrees’ (higher fees)
• Alternative methods of financing
• UK Research and Innovation
• Research England
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)– Assessment of the quality of
teaching in England’s universities.
– Stated aims include
• Ensuring all students receive an excellent teaching experience
• Building a culture where teaching has equal status with research,
• Teachers enjoying the same professional recognition and opportunities researchers
TEF– Rating Universities as Gold, Silver or
Bronze
– Measures including NSS data; student retention rates and graduate employment
– “financial incentives” (maximum fees) to be determined according to the level awarded for an institution.
– Will lead fees to increasingly differentiate
Research• Nurse Review
• Stern Review of the Research Excellence Framework (REF)
• Tickell Review of Open Access
• Implementation of HEFCE Open Access Policy
Also…• Revised Operating Model
for Quality Assessment
• IFS: Graduate Earnings report
• HESA: Review of destinations and outcomes for leavers from HE
• NUS vote to ‘boycott or sabotage’ NSS 2017
So what does this mean for Academic Libraries?
• The ‘neo-liberal turn’?
• Teaching before learning
• Students as customers / consumers..
• Proving value
• Contribution to learning analytics
• Contribution to learning gain
• Research Support
Or…?
• Waiting for the great leap forward
• Pedagogy and Heutagogy
• Students as producer
• Proving impact
• Ethics of information analytics
• Digital literacies and critical thinking
• Scholarly communication
9th July 2010 UCL Library Services Staff Conference
Academic Libraries
• “Academic libraries are here to enable and enhance learning in all its forms - whether it be the learning of a first year undergraduate coming to terms with what is meant by higher education or the learning of a Nobel Prize winning scientist seeking to push forwards the frontiers of her discipline”
Peter Brophy (2005)
At a Tipping Point (OCLC)
• “ The (on campus) library is distinctly associated with providing the space, tools and information to get work done”
• “Library services match the needs of online learners but the perceptions do not….making convenience the new context for libraries can make all online learners library users”
2014
Library staff “may often think of their work as fundamentally involved with service delivery”
Scott Bennett 2015
Academic Libraries
Staff - services- support
Library
Space
9th July 2010 UCL Library Services Staff Conference
Resources
9th July 2010 UCL Library Services Staff Conference
Academic Libraries
“to enable and enhance learning in all its forms”
Academic Libraries
Staff
Pedagogy /Learner Heutagogy
Spaces
T e c h n o l o g y 9th July 2010 UCL Library Services Staff Conference
Content and Academic Communication
MIT: Future of Academic Libraries
• Community and relationships
• Discovery and use
• Stewardship and sustainability
• Research and Development
2016
Academic Libraries
Staff
Pedagogy /Learner Heutagogy
Spaces
T e c h n o l o g y 9th July 2010
Content and Academic Communication
Content and Academic Communication• “As different kinds of scholarly communication are
becoming more prevalent…librarians are expected to discern the legitimacy of these innovative approaches and their impact in the greater research community.”
• “Libraries are growing more adept at managing repositories, curating research data and promoting the sharing of open data”
NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Library Edition
Spaces• “Library space will need to be shared with a
variety of partners, and it is likely that the distinction between the library and other informal campus space will blur.”
David Lewis 2007
• “Who owns the space?...How will we shape the experience of ‘becoming’ in the library?”
Scott Bennett 2015
Learners (1)• “Student engagement represents both the time
and energy students invest in educationally purposeful activities and the effort institutions devote to using effective educational practices”
Kuh et al 2009
• “Students tend to be more engaged with learning on the whole if they engage with library resources, interact with library staff, and spend time using libraries”
Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE)
Learners (2)• “Student as Producer emphasises the role of the
student as collaborators in the production of knowledge… It is fundamental to everything we do”
University of Lincoln
• “Participatory design provides methods for including non-traditional participants…[including] students in projects to design and develop new library technologies, spaces, and services. “
Nancy Fried Foster
Researchers• “The response to changes in the research environment
(funder requirements, publication modes and associated legal issues, e-access to information sources etc.) needs a concerted and collaborative response by libraries if they are to be accepted as offering essential and effective research support. Formalised, inter-institutional approaches to acquisition, storage and access, including metadata, will not only help libraries to realise opportunities, it will also address the urgent issues of reduced budgets.”
RLUK
Future roles? (1)
• Creative Learning Specialist
• UX Design Librarian
• Outreach/Community Engagement Specialist
• Adaptive Learning Specialist
ACRL 2015
Future Roles (2)
• From hybrid individual to multi-professional team
• ‘Salad not soup’ (Weaver and Roberts)
• Working across multiple environments Photo courtesy Jeremy Keith
Professional Values
• Stewardship
• Service
• Intellectual Freedom
• Privacy
• Rationalism
• Commitment to literacy and learning
• Equity of access
• Democracy
Alignment (1)• Professional confidence
• Learning to operate in broader institutional context
• Speaking the right language
• Working collaboratively
Alignment (2)• Continuing to learn and
develop as a reflective practitioner
• Embracing radical change
• Aligning library strategies and impact to institutional mission and strategic aims
Partnerships and Collaboration
“If UK higher education is going to prosper in the contemporary world it is going to have to become messier, less precious, more flexible and significantly more co-operative.”
David Watson (2015)
Outline• Sector Changes:
– Higher Education and Research Bill, TEF
– Other changes
• What does this mean for Academic Libraries?
– Content, Space, Learners, Researchers
• Future Roles
• Alignment
“The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities”
David Lankes 2011
Liz Jolly
Director
Student and Library Services
Teesside University
Middlesbrough
TS1 3BA
[email protected] @liz_jolly