By James Michalko
Unbundle and focus
What is happening?
Why is it happening?
What should we be doing?
Who should do what?
Social, Policy, and Technology Influences on libraries' relevance in this environment
Jim Michalko, OCLC Research, Libraries Australia 2009
What is happening?
Why is it happening?
What should we be doing?
Who should do what?
Individual
Department
Discipline
Collaboratively-sourced
Public Support
Commercial
Web-Scale
Distinctive
Scope of
Institution
Global/Network
Regional/Supra-
Institutional
Local/Institution
Can we do it?
Yes we can.
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance a lot less.
General Eric K. Shinseki
former US Army Chief of Staff
The network has reconfigured whole industries …
Travel
News
Book retail
We have yet to work through what
systemwide reconfiguration
means for libraries …
with lots of help from Lorcan Dempsey, Anne Kenney, Constance Malpas
? !
Thank you...
Anne Kenney
http://www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/dss/ppt/dss_kenney.pdf
Constance Malpas, OCLC Research
Constance Malpas, OCLC Research
Constance Malpas, OCLC Research
Andy Powell
Eduserv
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Research
Lorcan Dempsey, Dan Chudnow, Jim Michalko
Valuable
Opportunity costs
Social lives and learning
Micro-coordination and ad hoc rendezvous
Colocation with cognate units
Added value activity
Forum Keynote