Bonisteel Library 5-year program review

May 2015

Bonisteel Library5 year program review

Jim Gourley

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Bonisteel Library

Academic: Seabury!

Music: Fennell!

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Bonisteel Library Strengths

Library staff are accessible, helpful, knowledgeable, and passionate in supporting our community with their information needs (7 days a week).

Bonisteel Library Strengths

The library is housed in a beautiful space that is welcoming, comfortable, and multifunctional AND used by our community for research/study, meetings, gatherings, listening centers, and socializing.

Bonisteel Library Strengths

An abundance of diverse content and resources in multiple formats are available to meet academic, artistic, and recreational needs at the high school and college level.

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Bonisteel Library Strengths

Information literacy skills (were) formally taught within the school’s curriculum in addition to informal individualized instruction when requested.

Background Distractions

Is it the end of libraries as we know them?!

Where is change taking us?!

Do people still value the book/library?

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Google / Amazon!

-vs- !

Library Information Systems

“Libraries must recognize that they are increasingly not at the center of information seeking behaviors of

Internet users.”!

(Stephen Abram)!

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/design/2014/04/the_future_of_the_library_how_they_ll_evolve_for_the_digital_age.single.html

Need to meet (EXCEED) EXPECTATIONS

“Information absorption is a cultural and social process of engaging with the constantly changing world around us.”p. 47 !

Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change (Vol. 219). Lexington, KY: CreateSpace.

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USER Experience Expectations

A user wants an experience that is of high quality, consistent, and robust regardless of the

user’s location, access method, or objective.

Access Expectations

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People expect to be able to access information so they can work, learn, and study whenever and

wherever they want to…!(Horizon Report 2010)!

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Ultimately, we want to

Frame our library story !

—the library is a place for innovation, service, and leadership

Improve Technical Infrastructure & Content Management

Increase and improve access and discovery opportunities

Increase and improve collaboration and learning

Increase and improve the library’s visibility and usability

as the place for innovation, service, and leadership

Improve Technical Infrastructure & Content Management

Provide a better ILS ( integrated library system, also known as a library management system (LMS) (online presence)!

Collaborate with service & education providers and our users/stakeholders—IT, marketing, faculty, students

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Increase and improve access and discovery opportunities

Discovery services:!“Google-like one-box search allows users/students to quickly access full collection across multiple silos and brands—potentially maximizing use of all digital content: ebooks, journal articles, media and more.!BUT search results can be huge, so users need to be able to cleverly use filters and descriptors.!—Google your collection”!

(Joyce Valenza)

Increase and improve access and discovery opportunities

EXAMPLE:!EBSCO Discovery System interface — combines the library

catalog, full-text articles, article databases, and other resources.

Increase and improve access and discovery opportunities

Integrated Discovery services,!

Digital collections and online resource access,!

Licensed and local digital content access, !

Mobile device access,!

User-friendly homepage access, !

Search engine optimization (create points of access that make our resources discoverable)

Increase and improve collaboration and learning

Model social media digital tools and apps!

Curation strategies and techniques

LibGuides

Diigo

Pinterest

Increase and improve collaboration and learning

Meet with core courses and embed instruction!

Provide online tutorials/courses (not just stand-alones—embedded in courses/context)!

Use counselors’ model—personal librarian for students!

Practice nimble methods (classroom, one-on-one, desk service, chat, google hangout, tip-a-day) !

Provide with the capacity & disposition to learn in small, quick doses.

Increase and improve collaboration and learning

Embed a librarian in the 101 experience !

Strengthen service points with instruction (finding/selecting a book on the shelf, checking out a zoom camera, using classroom technology)!

Meet the info lit needs of our global nomads/changing student population w/in a context (scope and sequence)!

Offer regular training programs on e-research and digital curation to assist faculty and students in understanding e-research issues !

Collaborate and support new courses & school-wide themes (e.g., light, one-book)!

Advocate and lead the ethical use of information in the school

Increase and improve the library’s visibility and usability

Improve online presence (ILS/homepage)!

Create archive finding aides!

Support the life cycle for digital content including collection, storage, management, access, sharing, and long term preservation (following copyright)!

Explore more streaming options

Increase and improve the library’s visibility and usability

Use school network & social media to make resources/tools visible and known (ASPEN, google+, tumblr, etc)!

Use TV monitors/displays!

Optimize mobile apps to make reviews, awards, audio, etc visible

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Summer Camp

Support as a public library!

Popular/recreational reading needs!

Continue camp-site visitations!

Support ICCA!

Mentor interns

Skilled & Engaged Staff

Practice role as connector, collaborator, curator, hacker!

Evaluate long-held rules !

Understand reading and information seeking in a connected world!

Are skilled in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data!

Adopt a discovery-oriented outlook toward spaces, services, and programming. !

Are proactive to gain training (PD) for flexible, agile technical skills & services (forefront in supporting student/staff needs)

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Ultimately…the library will be

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— the place for innovation, service, and leadership

Questions?