Impacts of the Garden and Library Environments on Student Learning Steve O'Connor University Librarian Lingnan University March 2011
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My Road map The Garden as a metaphor of change?? How does the Digital Library add value to the academic community? Re-conceptualising approaches to content and search Are we really listening to and understanding the 334 cohort? Steve O'Connor 334 Issues Lingnan March 2011
Steve O'Connor Academic Library Futures April 2010
2018 Libraries Blackberries Video rental stores 2020 Copyright Extinction summary 2018 Libraries Blackberries Video rental stores 2020 Copyright 2025 Desktop computers Blogging ONLY want to highlight a few of these principles: Need to stay with customers As publishers are merged the nature of the industry will change 4. We can get stuck in processes where they become the domiant effort Steve O'Connor 334 Issues Lingnan March 2011
The Future is not linear…. Steve O'Connor 334 Issues Lingnan March 2011
Reconceptualising content Relationship with publishing,OA and LMS Will everything become digital? Google Books; CNKI; Apabi ? How will non-digitised books become available? ‘e’ preferred Defining what we want to collect Steve O'Connor 334 Issues Lingnan March 2011
Re-conceptualising Search All items are simply digital objects and metadata All Digital objects are equal All Digital objects are of interest to all users We do not believe that the 334 cohort are information literate Steve O'Connor 334 Issues Lingnan March 2011
Steve O'Connor 334 Issues Lingnan March 2011
One Huge Opportunity
Thank you Everyone Steve O'Connor 334 Issues Lingnan March 2011