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A Look into the Future Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. January 25, 2012
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Topics to cover Future of the Book Future of Libraries A Library with a Future
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Where I Come From Director of Hospital Library Director of Science and Engineering Library Director of Undergraduate Library Associate Dean of ARL library system Dean of Library at Wake Forest University
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Z Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University 6500 students including Undergrad, Medical, Law, Business, Divinity 2 million volumes 2,000 print journals, 50,000 e-journals Open 140 hours/week 53 library faculty/staff $ 7 million budget 2011 ACRL award
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Books and Libraries
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Library Learning Terrace Drexel University
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Where We’ve Been Library as Gatekeeper Of Books
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2005 OCLC Report “Books” is the Library BRAND
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Where we are
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Tipping…tipping…tipped?
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The Future is Digital Digital content: Journals (went first in scholarly world more than a decade ago) Newspapers (fastest popular media to fall) Books (tipping fast right now) Media (with mega storage needs) Data (next frontier for academic libraries) Publishing (office of digital publishing at Wake)
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Look Down the Beach
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Two Different Constituencies Students Faculty
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Some Books are More Equal than Others
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Future of Libraries
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Library as Teacher
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Library as Technology Leader
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Library as Thinking Partner
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Library as Place
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A Library with a Future
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Embedded in class
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Library Lecture Series
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Academic Symposium
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Senior Showcase
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The Big Read
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Wake the Library
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Graffiti Wall
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Creative study
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5K Fundraiser
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Capture the Flag
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Humans v Zombies
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Library Decorating Committee
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A Happy Place to Work
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Our Mission The mission of the Z Smith Reynolds Library Is to help our students, faculty and staff SUCCEED!
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Image Credits Books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/304220561/http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/304220561/ sizes/m/in/photostream/ Terrace: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/ 0,8599,2079800,00.html Gate: http://www.art.com/products/p12209923-sa-i1584106/alan-blaustein- hampton-gate.htmhttp://www.art.com/products/p12209923-sa-i1584106/alan-blaustein- hampton-gate.htm Jump: uploaded to Flickr on October 6, 2008 by rosiehardyOctober 6, 2008rosiehardy Tipping point: uploaded to Flickr on April 10, 2009 by Max ZApril 10, 2009Max Z Footprints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfergos/37070037/http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfergos/37070037/ Baby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986/http://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986/ sizes/m/in/photostream/ Old men: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicnac/3121705656/http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicnac/3121705656/ sizes/z/in/pool-554700@N23/ Gutenberg: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/ gutenberg/
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Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. Dean, Z Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 27109 suttonls@wfu.edu
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