Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Future of Repositories Workshop Kuopio 2 Steve O’Connor CEO CAVAL Collaborative Solutions Melbourne, Australia

Scenario Planning Workshop CAVAL Collaborative Solutions 2 LAWS OF UNCERTAINTY Laws and rules regulate behaviour and therefore reduce uncertainty We can act therefore more confidently and surely Laws are very structured and codified Nothing is more certain!!

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Future Thinking What it is not …Strategic planning …Incremental planning How not to change …Cling to present views of ‘our’ world …Not being able to conceive of other ways of performing

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5 The Future is… About sustainability About relevance About appropriateness About affordability About deliverability About minimising risk without being risk adverse

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May “There are an infinite number of stories about the future; our purpose is to tell those that matter” Lawrence Wilkinson

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Tunnel Vision Light at the end of the tunnel Vision gets narrower Open it up ? Think ‘outside the box’ “..to live is to change and to be perfect is to change often” Cardinal Newman There are no sacred cows !

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Some thoughts ? What is going to be the operating environment for Repositories in 3 years? What will the user see? What are the implications for Repositories?

Published Output Held

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Why… Future of our Libraries Enormous growth and use (value?) of consortia Pressure on libraries to achieve unit economies Political impacts to deliver Libraries on different turfs, similar game !

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Shift from Cooperation to Collaboration Strong inter-lending traditions ‘Big’ shared with ‘Smaller’ Random collecting achieved better coverage No reliance on central agency International possibilities More Futures than one !

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Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Professional Publishing and Information Universe (a) STM Legal & Tax Financial B2B Education Media/Marketing Other Note: $/€ FX rate of , £/€ FX rate of (a)Combined KAP/Springer entity. Total 2002 Sales (€ in m)

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Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Infrastructure Relationships - Levels of Interoperability to Information Access

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Overlapping Consortia Regional State Local

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E X E R C I S E

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Emerging Trends in the Broader Environment

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Brief Scenario Construction

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Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May Aims of process By involving you and your staffs By offering not one future but a number By empowering you and your colleagues as Users TO PRODUCE A NEW ‘IFLA REPOSITORY’ FUTURE … THREE YEARS HENCE

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May YOUR INPUT What information service do you want to be provided three years hence ? What do you want as a User for your Repository’s resources and services?

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May No answers, only possibilities Three Scenarios from each Group Creative Name for each Scenario  for eg. ‘From Here to Eternity’ One sentence description of each Scenario Point characteristics for each Scenario  inc. community to serve, focus of delivery Have fun!

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May URL Digital Delivery 24/7 directly to end-user Information for free (supported or minimal charges) Performance and retention public agreements Strong local support of regional repositories in close partnerships Repositories focusing on existing strengths with multilingual approaches Virtual Union catalogue linking repository catalogues Develop local support to bridge into URL International focal points

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May How to bring scenarios into existence What would have to take place ? What kind of influence and attitude change would have to occur ? What kind of service would exist in 3 years time? Time to do your strategic planning…….

Kuopio 2 Futures Workshop May What have we learnt ? The Future isn’t what it used to be The Future can be what you want it to be Techniques for developing Scenarios –Small ( within one of your repositories) –Large ( Global Generic level)

What will the future labels be for assessment and publishing?

My only parting words !!!