academic library services in a digital age: opportunities and challenges
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20 April, 2015
Talis Insight 2015
Academic Library Services in a Digital Age:
Opportunities and Challenges
Kitty Inglis, Librarian, University of Sussex;
SCONUL Board member and Chair, Academic Content &
Communication Strategy Group
email:[email protected]
Twitter:@KittyI
Academic Library Services in a Digital Age:
Overview
This presentation will explore the key issues faced by academic
libraries as we transition to a primarily digital teaching and learning
environment with particular respect to:
- Content
- Skills
- Space
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Academic Library Services in a Digital Age:
Changing the learning landscape
Most significant leadership and management challenges faced by the
library community:
• Adequate library budget to meet user and institutional expectations
• Meeting user expectations of digital resources
• Connecting library users to the content they need
• Capitalising on digital and technological developments to maximise
benefits to library users
• Recruiting staff with appropriate skill sets and training the workforce
• Problems with the market and model for e-books
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Academic Library Services in a Digital
Age: Content
• Select and collect
• Preserve and conserve
• Curate and organise
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Academic Library Services in a Digital Age:
Skills
• Train and retain (library staff)
• Engage and empower (students)
• Connect and collaborate (academics, professional services and
suppliers)
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Academic Library Services in a Digital Age:
Space
• Repurpose
• Reconfigure
• Relevant
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Academic Library Services in a Digital Age:
Links to resources
QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Librarianship, Information, Knowledge, Records and Archives
Management, March 2015
www.qaa.ac.uk/publications/information-and-guidance/publication?PubID=2918#.VSt31vnF_Ak
Jisc Spotlight on the Digital
repository.jisc.ac.uk/5569/1/JISC_REPORT_spotlight_on_digital_WEB.pdf
University of Sussex SAGE students blog
http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sagestudents/
2014 NMC Horizon Report
cdn.nmc.org/media/2014-nmc-horizon-report-he-EN-SC.pdf
Jisc National Monograph Strategy Roadmap
www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/a-national-monograph-strategy-roadmap
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Academic Library Services in a Digital Age:
Questions
Questions ?
Kitty Inglis
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