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I acknowledge mine.
Information Context
- Information consumer behavior
- Operating Environments
Shared
Context
Shared
Agenda
FutureCast:
Shaping Research Libraries
in a Networked Age
2006-now
Jim Michalko
OCLC Research
Georgetown University Conference Center
8-10 June 2011
Data consumption
- Expectations of how information is consumed, used, transformed
Futures of Publishing
- Type of information available and under what circumstances
Future of Higher Education
- Institutional forms in which research and learning happen
Transformation of the academy
- Network level aggregation
- Changing patterns of learning, research,
- info production and consumption
- Personal collections and data replication
- Institutional collections and data replication
- Customer relationship management
- Budget pressure
- Service fragmentation
- Redundant effort
- Virtual sources and services
- Disclosure of collections
- Provision of digital surrogates
- Consolidated print collections
- On-demand purchase
- Distinctive to local mission
- Shared processes and technology
- Shifts in staff and staff expertise
- Process standardization
- Outsourcing and system infrastructure
- One-dimensional customer relationships