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New Roles for New Times: Implications for TRLN Collections 09/30/10

New Roles for New Times: Implications for TRLN Collections 09/30/10. Greg Raschke, Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication. Is Selection Dead?. The selector is dead, long live the selector Dead, on life support, or rapidly evolving?. Who Killed the Selector?.

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New Roles for New Times: Implications for TRLN Collections 09/30/10

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  1. New Roles for New Times: Implications for TRLN Collections09/30/10 Greg Raschke, Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication

  2. Is Selection Dead? • The selector is dead, long live the selector • Dead, on life support, or rapidly evolving?

  3. Who Killed the Selector? • Approval plans? • Aggregator packages? • Big deals? • PDA? • Google Books? • Devices and apps? • Misguided administrators • All of the above

  4. Evolution – New Roles • Williams’ article • Campus engagement, content/collection development and management, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, e-scholarship and digital tools, research assistance, outreach (local community), fund raising, exhibit and event planning, and leadership. • What gives?

  5. Evolution – New Roles, cont. • Cosmetic change? • CAVE people? • More central to fulfilling mission in digital age

  6. Evolution – New Roles, cont. • Three fundamental changes • Engagement and integration throughout research/teaching life-cycle • Deeper relationships and partnerships • Data on the end

  7. Implications for TRLN • System built partially on decades of selection • Reconfiguration = dispersed selection duties • Same principles, more people and less selection • E-books and user selection • Managing data and suites of content • Moving from institution to TRLN to North Carolina to OCLC to Google Books and back • One collection for users, wherever possible

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