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Advancing and Transforming

Advancing and Transforming. Mary Ellen K. Davis ACRL Executive Director May 15, 2015. http://www1.flatworldknowledge.com/blog. Are academic libraries relevant?.

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Advancing and Transforming

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  1. Advancing and Transforming Mary Ellen K. DavisACRL Executive Director May 15, 2015

  2. http://www1.flatworldknowledge.com/blog

  3. Are academic libraries relevant? “Beginning ten or fifteen years ago, speeches and articles began to appear predicting the imminent demise of libraries as we have known them. Computers would replace card catalogs, microfiche and a variety of electronic print-out systems would replace books and journals . . . Computer terminals would replace librarians.” Stephen K. Bailey, “The Future of College and Research Libraries” College & Research Libraries 39, no. 1 (January 1978), 4-5.

  4. The challenge of change “In a world of mingled menace and promise, the winds of change blow as surely through the library stacks as they do through the corridors of the United Nations . . . The librarian, therefore, must be both critic and architect—destroyer of that which is obsolete and builder of his own future.” – Jesse Shera, 1966

  5. Change Rollercoaster

  6. New roles/Many hats • Informationist • Academic outreach • Assessment • User experience • Digital assets • Digital initiatives • Digital literacy • Digital repositories • Digital publishing • Digital scholarship • E-resource licensing • Intellectual property • Learning commons • Scholarly communications • Undergraduate learning

  7. Everyone’s New Role: Continuous Learner

  8. Learning Never Stops • “To neglect personal professional development is a failure to uphold our values of professionalism and commitment to excellent service.” • “The real danger to our professional future is simply ignoring the importance of professional development.” • Steven Bell, New Roles for the Road Ahead

  9. Brain Rules • Exercise improves cognition • Sleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learn • Stress changes the way we learn • Exploring comes naturally

  10. Best Brain Exercise May be Physical Do you have ways that you have incorporated continuous learning into your routine? https://www.flickr.com/photos/hjmediastudios/8084682666/sizes/l

  11. Sleep well, think well.

  12. Severe long-term stress cripples the brain.

  13. Suffering is optional.

  14. We are natural explorers

  15. The change-ready mindset • Open-minded • Adaptable • Flexible • Comfortable with ambiguity • Change-focused • Innovative • Agile • Risk-taking orientation • Willing to make and learn from mistakes • Arthur P. Young, Ronald R. Powell, and Peter Hernon, “Attributes for the Next Generation of Library Directors,” C&RL, March 2001.

  16. “Nothing is particularly hard if you break it into smaller parts.” —Henry Ford

  17. 1. Read more: Know more

  18. 2. Collaborate The Lone Ranger is dead.

  19. 3. Value others’ ideas • "It will take a university community to shape a future library that meets the specific needs of learning and research at that institution.“ • Dane Ward, dean of Milner Library at Illinois State University.

  20. 4. Thoughts need time to develop • Incubator

  21. 4 basic steps to examine thinking --Brian Matthews, Ubiquitous Librarian, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 30, 2015

  22. 5. Focus your energy • 80/20 rule

  23. ACRL: Advancing Learning ACRL Publications ACRL Conference ACRL Information Literacy Immersion ProgramACRL/Harvard Leadership in Academic Libraries RBMS Conference ACRL Annual Conference Programs and Workshops Scholarly Communication Roadshows E-Learning

  24. Keeping up . . . ACRL Publications

  25. Rooks has a simple formula for success in career and life: always be learning. • Interview with Dana Rooks, University of Houston Libraries newsletter

  26. The real danger to our professional future is simply ignoring the importance of professional development. • Steven Bell, New Roles for the Road Ahead

  27. Let’s talk about it . . .

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