UCL LIBRARY SERVICES What does a 21st-century library service look and feel like? Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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

UCL LIBRARY 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?

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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 6 Haggadah for Passover: Sephardic tradition. Mocatta gift

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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?

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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  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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 11 And finally  If you have been, thanks for listening  Happy to answer questions and hear comments