Janice Jaguszewski University of Minnesota ALA June 25, 2015 FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

What do your users need that the library is uniquely positioned to provide? KEY QUESTION

LIBRARY’S UNIQUE ROLE Steve Depolo CC By 2.0

 Grand Challenges Curriculum  Problem-based inquiry – exploring “wicked” problems  Multidisciplinary – from engineering to the liberal arts and social sciences  New ACRL Information Literacy Framework TEACHING AND LEARNING

Open Educational Resources

 Experiential learning  Makerspaces  Entrepreneurship  Internships TEACHING AND LEARNING CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

 Analytics  Leverage and link information systems  Disambiguate and enhance: DOI, ORCID, Ringgold, CRediT  Research impact  Research Data services  Management and curation  Digital scholarship RESEARCH SERVICES

RESEARCH IMPACT

RESEARCH DATA SERVICES

DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP

TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL CC BY 2.0

 Beyond anything libraries have done in the past  Requires mutual benefit – fulfills mission of all parties  Carefully define scope, roles and responsibilities RADICAL COLLABORATION

5 “Right” Questions from Steve Danning Forbes, “Do We need Libraries?” (April 28, 2015) 1.How do we delight our users? 2.How do we enable continuous innovation? 3.What will make things better for our users? 4.What needs could libraries meet that users haven’t yet thought of? 5.What are libraries doing that users already love? WHAT WILL BE NEEDED?

Questions? Janice Jaguszewski THANK YOU!