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What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like?

What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like?. Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk. What the Library Strategy tells us…. Master Planning exercise its role in shaping the future of the Library's estate

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What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like?

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  1. What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like? Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

  2. What the Library Strategy tells us… • Master Planning exercise • its role in shaping the future of the Library's estate • UCL Institute for Cultural Heritage • the importance of UCL Special Collections • Radio-Frequency Tagging • the Self-Service Library • Role of the Library as archive • Digital revolutions in research, learning and teaching • Continuous Professional Development

  3. Master Planning exercise (1) • UCL has commissioned Building Design Partnership (BDP) to undertake an options appraisal • For the complete refurbishment/extension of the UCL Main and Science Libraries • UCL Main Library • French Corridor becomes part of the library footprint? • JBR/Old Refectory/new underground service facility (with a Louvre-style pyramid in the Old Quad) provides 200 IT user places for the Library? • We take down all dividing walls and floors in the Wilkins footprint and re-think the volume of space • Adding more space for collections, users and services

  4. Master Planning exercise (2) • UCL Science Library • What will a Science Library look like in 10 years time? • Growing emphasis on the Library as a learning space, rather than simply a collections space • What will the role of IT be? • What new services are required, which the Library does not currently provide? • Is the best solution to knock down the two existing buildings and to start again?

  5. UCL Institute for Cultural Heritage • The creation of the Institute is of paramount importance Gould’s Toucans Earliest photograph of University College London

  6. Haggadah for Passover: Sephardic tradition. Mocatta gift

  7. Self-Service Library • Libraries are no longer collections-centric spaces • but user-centric spaces • RFID – Radio Frequency Tagging – is a strategic priority • Revolutionize the way users user library spaces by allowing self-issue • Will be rolled out across the whole UCL family of libraries? • Will enable us to undertake stock taking of the paper collections

  8. Role of the Library as archive • Two dimensions • Paper and digital • Digital - • DigiTool, our new digital asset management tool, will provide: • Access system for all the Library’s in-house digital offerings • Long-term digital archive for the Library’s locally-produced content • Paper - • Library acquires 1 mile of paper material a year • Needs to be curated at the Wickford Store • Relationships with national archiving initiative – National Research Reserve – need to be investigated • Is one copy in Boston Spa enough?

  9. Digital revolutions • Digital revolutions have transformed teaching, learning and research • Core Readings service, based on Reading Lists, should become THE norm for UCL • Will multiple copies of textbooks will disappear? • For research • E-only delivery should be the norm • Paper journals for research are on the way out; 40% of UCL’s journals are e-only • Library will store research outputs in the EPrints repository at http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/ • E-Theses get fantastic downloads, 100+ per month • Creates a new picture of young and thrusting UCL research • Through UCL Library Services’ custodianship • All this digital material will be curated for the long term • At a time when the average life of a web page is 30 days

  10. Continuous Professional Development • What is the role of a librarian? • To be a manager of staff, resources and processes • To select resources which academics/students need to function • To serve students/academics in their information needs • To guide and train academics/students in the use of resources • To promote Information Literacy Skills to the whole of UCL • To manage the archive, both paper and digital, for content which academics and students need to function effectively

  11. And finally • If you have been, thanks for listening • Happy to answer questions and hear comments

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