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Bibliotheca agilis: survival of the fittest in Libraryland 2012 lib@cam Cambridge

Bibliotheca agilis: survival of the fittest in Libraryland 2012 lib@cam Cambridge 12 January 2012. “Librarians” – An Endangered Species?. Association of Research Libraries. www.arl.org. Libraries of the Future. www.futurelibraries.info. RLUK Strategic Plan.

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Bibliotheca agilis: survival of the fittest in Libraryland 2012 lib@cam Cambridge

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  1. Bibliotheca agilis: survival of the fittest in Libraryland 2012 lib@cam Cambridge 12 January 2012

  2. “Librarians” – An Endangered Species?

  3. Association of Research Libraries www.arl.org

  4. Libraries of the Future www.futurelibraries.info

  5. RLUK Strategic Plan • Redefining the research library model • Collaborating to reduce costs and improve quality • Shaping ethical and effective publishing • Promoting unique and distinctive collections • Modelling the library role in research data management • http://www.rluk.ac.uk/

  6. Redefining the research library model • Physical collections are shrinking • Library as publisher • Manipulation of information resources

  7. Collaborating to reduce costs and improve quality • United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR) http://www.ukrr.ac.uk/ • Shared cataloguing (yet again!)

  8. Shaping ethical and effective publishing • Scholarly communications are changing • Journal costs spiralling • Monographs at risk • But new publishing models emerging

  9. Promoting unique and distinctive collections • Collaborative digitisation • Resource discovery • Promoting access

  10. The library’s role in research data management • Uniquely complex network of metadata • Institutional, national and international initiatives

  11. So in practical terms... • Space • Stuff • Staff

  12. The future • Today’s research library model is obsolescent but • The research library of tomorrow can and will support evolving models of scholarly communications

  13. not Doing things differently • rather • Doing different things

  14. Debby Shorley • Director of Library Services • Imperial College London d.shorley@imperial.ac.uk

  15. RLUK www.rluk.ac.uk • UKRR www.ukrr.ac.uk • ARL www.arl.org • LOTF www.futurelibraries.info • Imperial College Library www3.imperial.ac.uk/library

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