Towards Rubicon A Story About Libraries That Turn And Face The Strange
Christian Lauersen
Copenhagen University Library Email: cula@kb.dk
Twitter: @clauersen
REBIUN 2016, November 9th 2016, Palma de Mallorca
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Turn and face the strange
You, after my talk
To embrace the change
and face the strange
we need to ask the right questions
What’s the purpose
of higher education?
What changes
effects higher education?
Which challenges and opputunities does these
changes bring?
To which challenges and oppotunities in higer
education is The Library the answer?
Screw the burning platform! Hail the burning ambition!
Ask yourself:
Are you in the saving libraries business?
Or in the supporting
higher education business?
So why are we here?
So why are we here?
To make higher education succeed.
(Not Libraries)
The Monessen / Pittsburgh case
Game changers
in higher education
Liberation of information
Limitation of
information
New ways of collecting information
New ways of working with information New ways of working with information
Education and learning has been liberated from the classroom
Access
Data
Education Science
Space Systems
Ideology and reality
Library World
From The ”Outside In” Library
To The ”Inside Out” Library
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC
Data litearcy and data management
Learn them to catch fish
Don’t catch fish for them Learn them to catch fish
Don’t only focus on your own catalog
Go beyond your own catalog
Embed
Embed (both virtual and analog)
Support a learning culture Not only ressources for learning
Are we making libraries for books? Or libraries for people?
Common ground
Interdisiplinary Lack of evaluation and authority
Supporting student success
The librarian
The most important asset of any library goes home at night – the
library staff - Timothy Healy
Librarianship is not neutral
An example on how to turn and face the strange:
Digital Social Science Lab Faculty Library of Social Sciences,
Copenhagen University Library
An open platform for education and events on digital methods
Hardware and software for harvesting, cleaning,
analyzing and visualizing data
A dynamic and aesthetically inspiring learning environment
The library as hub: Community and peer-to-peer
Flexibility Functionality
Inspiration
AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
An alternative to the classic learning setup
Digital Social Science Lab http://kub.kb.dk/DSSL The Library Lab https://christianlauersen.net
Future of Libraries Task Force
Preliminary Report
So how do libraries turn and the face the strange?
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Nom nom
Culture eats strategy for breakfast Nom nom
If you want to die, isolate If you want to live, collaborate
Tell your library story
Everybody is an ambassador
Find valid methods for measuring impact and make better libraries
A Danish Library Impact Report Results from Roskilde University Library
The Library is a part of
something bigger
See the bigger picture
Never waist a good crisis
The Library is nothing without people
Diversity is king! It’s the mix of people that
makes a great library
Leadership and direction
See you on the other side of Rubicon Never forget to face the strange Christian Lauersen cula@kb.dk @clauersen https://christianlauersen.net