What does it mean to be an educated person in the 21st century? Student and faculty centered approaches Address sweeping changes in technology New skill sets for the future workflorce Life long learning in a global context

What defines success for the new American scholar? Competitiveness Worldwide visibility Excellence My work to our work Heightened collaboration in some areas Impact of technology Impact of commentary and new modes of communication (web 2.0 with scholarship) Libraries need to evolve in step with these changes

Core vision Provide intuitive and enduring access to scholarship Support intellectual, cultural, and social growth of 21st century students and faculty Develop user-centered approaches to support the success of the research, teaching, and learning enterprise Champion diversity and international understanding

Connecting Leveraging millions spent on collections, people Need for scholars to produce and be visible Importance for undergrads to have lifelong knowledge for problem solving and creativity Repurposing space to reach different populations Collaboration through new publishing modes to “push” out research and inspire creation of new knowledge

21st century research library Visible and effective support for university priorities and initiatives Embed scholarly resources, tools, services into teaching, learning, research processes Embrace digital scholarship - multiinstitutional Library staff share expertise everywhere in other campus spaces Organize based on stakeholder needs Provide three environments – intellectual, cultural, and social in a virtual and physical context – repurpose spaces –collaborative and inspiring 24/7 access Provide leadership for diversity and global connections

21st Century Research Library Focus on relevant priorities • Collections – more digital – priority for unique holdings – build collections differently • Repurpose high impact spaces to meet student and faculty needs: – social spaces to create knowledge (The Commons) – quiet spaces to absorb it (Quiet / Group Spaces Study Group) More embedded into the research and teaching enterprise More and different support for data intensive research • Connect to scholarship / library resources where creators & users are • Partner with OIT, faculty, administrators, others to get the job done • Leverage connections for users – mass dig projects, global portals

Connecting People With Scholarship Through Any Means Available Requires: Collaboration & Integration – collections/services Selfless attitude towards sharing Aversion towards elitism and prestige Focus on connecting rather than on collecting Adoption of new models of communication

Data Intensive Support assisting faculty in managing their data preparing this data for handoff to appropriate data repositories and curators aiding faculty in parallelizing computations or organization data for reuse, mining, and mashups. Requires openess to new kinds of staff