1. VISION 2020 Science & Tech(IIT) Libraries in next decade Yogendra Singh

2. A vision is a description of the preferred future. It captures the best elements of your past and present that you wish to continue, and the most attractive elements of the future that your heart desires. The best visions change as you move toward them. - Glen Hiemstra

3. Where we were 12 years back As collection – Our collection ranges between 3.0 to 4.0 lacs of volumes – Subscription to current journals ranges 800-1200 titles – all print based – Almost all fulltext resources in our libraries were print based. – Most of us have secondary resources on CD-ROM – Other forms of documents were Videos, Microforms

4. Technology – Most of us were having Online Catalogues with GUI but no web – Many activities were computerized – LANs (Ethernet based) started to appear – CD-ROM networks were running on LAN – Circulation systems were running on LAN – Circulation used BARCODE TECHNOLOGY/KEYBOARD – Photocopying- Analogue

5. Space – All of us have fairly good library buildings – Designed for traditional activities – No provision of ICT – Some having airconditioning – Some made changes for LAN wiring

6. Funtions/Services – Computerised Circulation (Often duplicated with cards) – Computerised Cataloguing for printed documents – No Serial Control Computerizations – Reference Service/Reader assistance need based – Document Delivery – paper based – Searching databases- CD-ROM based – Use instructions – mainly guidance in searching manual/computerised cataloue -

7. The Library is a place where I can… Invent Study Read for pleasure Meet Dream Have coffee See neighbors

8. Learn Grow Debate Explore Share ideas Get ideas Create ideas Ask questions Get answers

9. Talk to people with similar interests Teach Play Develop my mind Find knowledge Be inspired Touch the past…and the futur

10. Last month, T.H.E. Journal posted an interesting article titled 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have and briefly defined each.T.H.E. Journal20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have Word Processing Skills Spreadsheets Skills Database Skills Electronic Presentation Skills Web Navigation Skills Web Site Design Skills E-Mail Management Skills Digital Cameras Computer Network Knowledge Applicable to your School System File Management & Windows Explorer Skills Downloading Software From the Web (Knowledge including eBooks) Installing Computer Software onto a Computer System WebCT or Blackboard Teaching Skills Videoconferencing skills Computer-Related Storage Devices (Knowledge: disks, CDs, USB drives, zip disks, DVDs, etc.) Scanner Knowledge Knowledge of PDAs Deep Web Knowledge Educational Copyright Knowledge Computer Security Knowledge

11. The library of the future will be more a portal through which students and faculty will access the vast information resources of the world and less a place where information is kept. It will concentrate on access and knowledge management rather than on physical ownership of materials. This new library needs to bring together scholars and information resources without necessarily bringing either to a physical building. The library of the future will have the daunting mission of helping scholars discover what relevant information exists, anywhere in the world and in a variety of formats and media. Hawkins, B.L. (1998), ``The Unsustainability of traditional libraries'', in Meyerson, J.W. (Ed.), New Thinking on Higher Education: Creating a Context for Change, Anker, Bolton, MA.

13. Driving forces for these changes Generation shift of users – By 2020, half of our users will be born in 21 st Century – Fair idea of info on Internet and general search engines – Internet will penetrate the rural areas- Student coming from those areas will also have fair knowledge of basic ICT – Thus we shall have a “digital native” user base Challenge No. 1 : Design library systems and services so that the aspirations of this generation could be fulfilled.

14. Driving forces for these changes Technology – New media for comm as well as storage – Speed – RAM – Storage – Digitization Techniques – Bandwidth Challenge No. 3. Design Library Systems that can utilize these changes

15. Driving forces for these changes Feature1996200020042008201220162020 RAM in MB16645124096320002500002000000 HDD in GB1.21080500400032000250000 Bandwidh in MBPS 0.252.0201501200960075000

16. Driving forces for these changes Pressure to increase productivity both in quality and quantity – Increase in number of papers – Increase in number of papers in journals with high impact factors – Increase in number of patents – Benchmarking with top universities etc Challenge: Meet the information aspirations of the research community both proactively and retroactively

17. Driving forces for these changes Growth in User Population – 1996 – Users 3000-4000 – 2008 - Users 5000-6000 – 2020 - Users 8000-10000 may be more Challenge: Design library systems and services so that the need of the growing populations could be fulfilled

18. Driving forces for these changes Average cost of information products is reducing but the over all expenditure increasing Average cost – More tempting offers like complementaries – Publishers want more revenues – Library wants more and more contents Challenge : Design search techniques that can filter all these articles and give 400-500 most relevant articles to the researcher.

19. Average Article Cost in 1996& 2008 case of an IIT Library YearNo. of Periodicals subscribed/ Accessible Total cost (in lacs of Rs) No. of Articles (60 articles/ Title ) Average cost /article (in Rupees) 199680010048,000~ 200 200880006004,80,000x 1012.5 202016000 @5-6% more titles/year 2400 (includes 5-6% inflation but not in exchange rate inflation 9,60,000x102.5