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