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Perceiving the Future: Select Visions

Perceiving the Future: Select Visions. James W. Marcum. PhD, MSLS September 2012. Perceiving the Complexities: What characterizes our ‘age’?. Age of. - Knowledge ( Competence). ?. Network (Communication and Collaboration). Age of Information (Literacy). Learning

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Perceiving the Future: Select Visions

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  1. Perceiving the Future:Select Visions James W. Marcum. PhD, MSLS September 2012

  2. Perceiving the Complexities: What characterizes our ‘age’? Age of - Knowledge (Competence) ? • Network • (Communication and Collaboration) Age of Information (Literacy) • Learning • (Development)

  3. Perceiving the Complexities: What characterizes our ‘age’? - Knowledge (Competence) Age of Participation (Engagement) • Network • (Communication and Collaboration) Information (Literacy) • Learning • (Development)

  4. Perceiving present COMPLEXITIES Social Media Push to Pull Virtual Reality Open Access smartgrid CO-libratory Search Folksonomies . Web 2.0 Quantum Complexity e-Archives Learner-centered Learning Experience / Gaming Connective Knowledge Webcasting Library as Publisher

  5. Professional Mindset • Learning support; traditionally: • reactive • print-bound • preservationist • Davenport & Prusak, Information Ecology (1997). • vague on purpose, “unreflective” • tunnel vision, isolated discourse • J. Budd, G. Radford, W. Wiegand, et al. • Future sustainability requires rethinking these traditions and becoming proactive, interactive • But will style and new gizmos do the trick?

  6. Challenge: Intense Competition • For instantaneous, “good enough” information • Acquire books (new, used, or e-) with reviewsand information • Digital Library: • databases, e-books • Web 2.0 • webinars, wikis, games • Social Media • Twitter • Facebook, etc. Web 2.0

  7. SOCIAL MEDIA: Constant Interactivity Facebook is training 500 million people how to collaborate online…. I participate, therefore I am

  8. Challenge: New Knowledge/BIG DATA Big Bang Theory Stem-cell Genome sequencing Parallel computing Field Research WikiS Cloud computing

  9. CHALLENGE: A visual culture is taking over the world” - J. Naisbett, Mind Set (2006) • Design, architecture, entertainment, fashion… and the ubiquitous camera.

  10. ASSUMPTION… • “The role of library education today is not to simply train people to perform the library functions of the past (public services, cataloging, collection development, etc.), • Or even to prepare people to perform the new library functions of the future (information technology literacy, digital resources, knowledge management, etc.). • But rather to prepare people to transform and develop the organizations that will assure the basic functions of the library are available to culture and society in the future.” • J W Marcum

  11. VISION: Revive “reading” • Free voluntary (extended) readingproduces better • vocabulary • spelling • writing • with longer retention and • more and better reading in the future. • …than formal instruction. • S. Krashen, The Power of Reading, 2nd ed. 2004.

  12. VISION: lead in the knowledge creation process • On demand books and information • Institutional repository Knowledge Commons • Enterprise; partnerships • NEW VISION: Library as promoter of community and collaborative creation of new knowledge. • Lankes, Atlas of New Librarianship

  13. VISION: ChampionInformation Culture Literacy Promote the steady progression from • LITERACY, to • INFORMATION LITERACY, to • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LITERACY to • VISUAL LITERACY, to • INFORMATION CULTURE LITERACY: What is it that people need to be able to do to function effectively in today’s fast changing “informaiton culture”

  14. METHOD:The Collaborative Imperative • Our systems are too interrelated • Our problems are too complex • Our knowledge, skills, and relationships are insufficient… • To accomplish what needs to be done by ourselves. Collaborations and partnerships are the means of accomplishing with others what you cannot realize alone.

  15. In Conclusion:Library Education and the Future • Challenges: • Popular perception: “against the current” • Changes in social behavior: participation, social media, e-braries, e-shopping • From administrative perspective: Libraries obsolete? • Response: • Not a time to “stay the course” • Time to try new things; new roles; new ventures • Multi-wheeled tracks, collaborations, partnerships. • NOT a time to be passengers on the bus, but time to seize the wheel and drive to a new destination

  16. James W. Marcum James.Marcum@qc.cuny.edu What do YOU think?

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