Funding Innovation: Scanning the Landscape Marsha L. Semmel Director, Strategic Partnerships, IMLS The Innovation Conference: Fostering Creativity and Innovation in Academic Libraries August 17, 2012
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Strategic Plan 2012–2016
Creating a Nation of Learners Funding Innovation: Scanning the Landscape Marsha L. Semmel Director, Strategic Partnerships, IMLS The Innovation Conference: Fostering Creativity and Innovation in Academic Libraries August 17, 2012
Today’s Presentation
The Societal Context Emerging Trends in Learning Emerging Trends in Funding IMLS
Our Future?
Image from inside jacket of Leaders Make the Future by Bob Johansen (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Image from, Libraries at Webscale (p. 23), OCLC, www.oclc.org/reports/webscale/default.htm
Association of Research Libraries, March 2011, http://www.arl.org/rtl/plan/nrnt/index.shtml
Emerging Trends in Learning
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Big Picture
Banks et al. “Learning in and out of school in diverse environments…” Seattle: NSF LIFE Center and University of Washington Center for Multicultural Education.
2006.
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Big Picture
Grant Makers for Education, Benchmarking 2011: Trends in Education Philanthropy, http://edfunders.org/downloads/GFEReports/GFE_Benchmarking2011_FINAL_12.13.11.pdf
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Big Picture
Image: Cover of report, Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century (2012), Center for Education, National Research Council
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Big Picture
“In the 21st century…expertise is less about having a stockpile of information or facts at one’s disposal and increasingly about knowing how to find and evaluate information on a given topic” -Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown, A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination in a World of Constant Change (2011)
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Big Picture
New Media Consortium: Horizon Reports, http://www.nmc.org/publications?page=1
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Big Picture
• Students, teachers, administrators and parents are increasingly recognizing the value of social learning in both their personal and professional lives.
• Students, in particular, have heightened
aspirations for more effectively leveraging social learning tools to enhance their engagement in the learning process.
• School site administrators and parents
continue to have lingering concerns about social networking.
• New cohort of school site administrators
that is particularly interested in leveraging social learning more extensively within instruction.
Key Findings - 2011
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Big Picture
YOUMedia Lab, Chicago Public Library
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Gaming
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Federal Response
“… a comprehensive infrastructure for learning is necessary to move us beyond the traditional model of educators and students in classrooms to a learning model that brings together teaching teams and students in classrooms, labs, libraries, museums, workplaces, and homes – anywhere in the world where people have access devices and an adequate Internet connection.”
- Transforming American Education: Learning
Powered by Technology, U.S. Department of Education, November 2010
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National Ed Tech Plan 2010
Emerging Trends in Learning: The Federal Response
Broadband Action Agenda Promote World-Leading Mobile
Broadband Infrastructure and Innovation
Accelerate Universal Broadband Access and Adoption, and Advance National Purposes Such as Education and Health Care
Foster Competition and Maximize Consumer Benefits Across the Broadband Ecosystem
Advance Robust and Secure Public Safety Communications Networks
Emerging Trends in Learning: The IMLS Response
“College and Career Ready” – the 4 C’s:
reativity ollaboration ommunication ritical Thinking
Emerging Trends in Learning: The IMLS Response
YOUMedia Lab, Chicago Public Library Connected Learning Diagram, Mimi Ito
IMLS and MacArthur Foundation Partnership
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Learning Labs and Connected Learning
Emerging Trends in Learning: The IMLS Response
2011 Maker Faire at New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY. Photo by Andrew Kelly
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, www.gradelevelreading.net
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Early Learning
Emerging Trends in Learning: The IMLS Response
Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture, Salzburg Global Seminar, October 2011
Emerging Trends in Learning: The IMLS Response
Access Principles Adoption Principles Strategic Areas
Emerging Trends in Learning
What are the implications for academic librarians?
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Data Curation Data Management Data Analysis Access Equality
Emerging Trends in Funding
Funding Context: Public & Private
Shrinking public budgets at federal, state, and local levels Strains on philanthropic dollars Funder focus on cross-sector collaboration &
coordination Increased pressure for demonstrating impact
and system-wide (community) outcomes
From Islands to Archipelagos: Trends in Private and Public Funding
“Networked” mindset Mutually reinforcing activities Collaborations developed to address
community/social problems Continuous communication/communities of
practice Assessing and learning about network impact Evaluating to common outcomes Shared measurement systems
IMLS Authorizing Environment: OMB (Office of Management and Budget)
“Evidence-based decision-making can improve results and lower the costs of Federal programs. OMB…encourages the increased use of evidence and evaluation.”
OMB Guidance on Evidence & Evaluation: FY14
Low-cost evaluations using admin data or new technologies
Expanding evaluation efforts within existing programs
Systemic measurement of costs and costs/outcome
Evaluate different approaches to improving outcomes
Encouraging use of evidence in formula grants Evidence-based grants Pay for success
Current IMLS Reporting Requirements
Project Based Logic models suggested Effectiveness of specific program Interim Report
– Comparing actual accomplishments to goals – Significant findings
Final Report – To what extent goals were achieved – Describe and quantify project activities and audience – Project analysis (qualitative and quantitative)
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Marsha—for SPARKS and National Forum grants, white papers will be online (see Chuck’s and Helen’s guidance memo)
IMLS: Goals and Priorities
IMLS Mission
The mission of IMLS is to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, learning, and cultural and civic engagement. We provide leadership through research, policy development and grant-making.
IMLS Vision
A democratic society where communities and individuals thrive with broad public access to knowledge, cultural heritage and lifelong learning.
IMLS Strategic Plan: 2012-2016
#1:IMLS places the learner at the center and supports engaging experiences in libraries and museums that prepare people to be full participants in their local communities and our global society. #2: IMLS promotes museums and libraries as strong community anchors that enhance civic engagement, cultural opportunities, and economic value. #3: IMLS supports exemplary stewardship of museum and library collections and promotes the use of technology to facilitate discovery of knowledge and cultural heritage.
#4: IMLS advises the President and Congress on plans, policies, and activities that sustain and increase public access to information and ideas.
#5: IMLS achieves excellence in public management and performs as a model organization through strategic alignment of IMLS resources and prioritization of programmatic activities, maximizing value for the American public.
Performance Improvement Model
Implementing the Plan: Internal Working Groups
Build programs aligned with national priorities Knowledge management & transparency Developing communities of practice Evidence-based planning & evaluation Grants process improvement Workforce planning and training
Next Steps
Revise & expand taxonomy/tagging system (and grant forms) Use social media and other platforms to share
grant information & project outcomes with grantees and publics Promote evidence-based planning in project
development Evaluate projects with consistent measures
that can be aggregated across projects and agency priorities
Measuring Success: Grants to States Program
Lifelong learning, human services, employment & econ development, civic engagement, information access, institutional capacity Data collection at three levels: SLAA actions,
project/point of service actions, user/beneficiary outcomes
Current Examples
Let’s Move Museums and Gardens – Part of First Lady’s Let’s Move! Campaign dedicated to solving the
problem of obesity within a generation, – museums, zoos, public gardens, historic sites and science and
technology centers join the call to action in fighting childhood obesity. IMLS/MacArthur Learning Labs for Teens
– Shared research base – Community of practice – Shared evaluation and documentation plan
Early Learning: Campaign for Grade-Level Reading – Priority within library/museum collaboration grants – Aligned with Dept of Ed, HHS, private foundation partners – Based on research/evidence – Addressing urgent community-wide challenges
Strategic Plan: Goal 3
“Develop and implement a nationwide strategy to expand the public’s access to the information, meaning, and content found in museum and library collections”
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Building capacity, serves, standards
IMLS-Supported Tools
Zotero, George Mason University Databib Registry, Purdue University TAPAS: online services hub and hosting service for
scholars creating encoded electronic texts, Brown Univ.
Copyright Review Management System, University of Michigan & Partners
Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), University of Kentucky
Digging Into Data
Council on Library and Information Resources, http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub151/
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International Partnership: The Institute of Museum and Library Services and seven global partners today awarded approximately $4.8 million to international research teams investigating how computational techniques may be applied to "big data" —the massive multisource datasets made possible by modern technology. The sponsoring research funders include the Arts & Humanities Research Council (United Kingdom), the Economic & Social Research Council (United Kingdom), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (United States), the Joint Information Systems Committee (United Kingdom), the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States), the National Science Foundation (United States), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Netherlands), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Canada).
Defining Curriculum on Digital Curation
The National Academies, “Future Career Opportunities and Educational Requirements for Digital Curation”
Skill sets Career path demands & options Existing & future models for education & training Consensus report published in 2013 IMLS, Sloan, NSF
National Digital Stewardship Residency Program: IMLS & LC
“build a dedicated community of professionals who will advance our nation’s capabilities in managing, preserving, and making accessible the digital record of human achievement….”
Beginning in June 2013, paid residencies in 5 DC-area institutions, including Library of Congress
Application info available in late 2012. www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsr/
Digital Public Libraries of America (DPLA)
IMLS participation in formative activities and workstreams Support for “America’s Digital Future: Advancing a Strategy for Digital Public Libraries,” November 2011 Convening at LAPL
IMLS-Funded Digital Infrastructure Projects
Florida Digital Archive (formerly DAITSS) – Long-term preservation repository for digital
materials in the state of Florida
Orange County Library System (NLG, planning) – Obituaries database in public library
Georgia Tech Research Corporation (NLG) – Building GALILEO, a statewide institutional knowledge
repository
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Orange County Library System - Orlando, FL�Year: 2011 �Amount: $50,000 �Grant:National Leadership Grants for Libraries- Planning Grants L �Obituaries traditionally contain genealogical and historical information that is valuable for learning about a community’s heritage. Unfortunately, the number of obituaries being published through traditional media such as local newspapers is decreasing rapidly due to factors such as the financial expense for the bereaved family, as well as declining newspaper sales. As the number of published obituaries diminishes, communities are losing vital knowledge that could help future generations understand their heritage. Orange County Library System (OCLS) will work with other community partners to prototype and evaluate the feasibility of a new type of library service, an openly accessible online database of obituaries, where family and friends of the deceased can submit detailed obituaries as a tribute to their loved ones, and in doing so help build a meaningful history of the residents of the community. OCLS will explore technical, legal, financial, and other important considerations involved in providing such a service. Georgia Tech Research Corporation - Atlanta, GA�Year: 2009 �Amount: $857,005 �Grant:National Leadership Grants for Libraries- Advancing Digital Resources L �The Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, the Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Valdosta State University, Albany State University, North Georgia College and State University, and the College of Coastal Georgia, will build a statewide institutional repository (IR) called the GALILEO Knowledge Repository. The partners will also host a national symposium on statewide and consortial repositories, create instructional materials, conduct consortial IR training, and offer consulting services. This project will advance scholarly communication by expanding the use of IRs by U.S. colleges and universities and by increasing the number of professionals with knowledge and skills in managing consortial IRs.
IMLS-Funded Projects: FY2012, LB21
Mississippi Library Commission Create the Mississippi Library Leadership Institute focused on developing participants’ 21st century skills
Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa “STAPLE” Sustaining Training for Alabama Public Library Employees
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville Train rural paraprofessionals in information technology & management skills.
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Mississippi Library Commission - Jackson, MS�Year: 2012 �Amount: $192,938 �Grant:Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Program- Continuing Education �The Mississippi Library Commission will create the Mississippi Library Leadership Institute to develop the next generation of library leaders in the state. Designed for MLS-degreed librarians with less than fifteen years of professional library experience, the institute will focus on developing participants’ 21st century skills in the areas of critical thinking and problem solving, communication, and leadership and responsibility. The Institute will accommodate sixty individuals in two cohorts. These individuals will participate in four training sessions, each lasting two and a half days, held over a period of 13 months. As part of the training, participants will be required to develop and implement a project in partnership with a local non-profit, educational, or other governmental entity. The institute will result in a pool of dedicated, skilled, confident, enthusiastic librarians prepared to take on the challenges of leadership and management. University of Houston - Clear Lake - Houston, TX�Year: 2012 �Amount: $463,857 �Grant:Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Program- Master’s Level Programs �The University of Houston - Clear Lake's (UHCL) School Library and Information Science program will use its grant to recruit 15 teachers and educate them in a master’s program focused on emerging readers (pre-kindergarten and kindergarten). The project will increase the number of certified school librarians in Texas, particularly those who work with Hispanic populations; create a model program for educating school librarians in early childhood literacy through collaborations with the UHCL Early Childhood Program and field-based educational experiences; and establish professional development workshops and seminars for those already working in the field.
IMLS Library Discretionary Grants
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Program – Deadline: September 24, 2012 – Awarded: March, 2013 – Awards up to $500,000
National Leadership Grants for Libraries – Deadline: February 1, 2013 – Awards up to $500,000
Sparks! Grant Program – Deadline: February 1, 2013 – Awards up to $25,000
IMLS Resources: www.imls.gov
• UpNext Blog • Initiatives • Grant Guidelines and
Application Information
• Descriptions of Awarded Grants
• Tagged topics
Thank you!
www.imls.gov Marsha Semmel
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