1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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