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1 A Look into the Future Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. January 25, 2012

2 Topics to cover Future of the Book Future of Libraries A Library with a Future

3 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

4 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

5 Books and Libraries

6 Library Learning Terrace Drexel University

7 Where We’ve Been Library as Gatekeeper Of Books

8 2005 OCLC Report “Books” is the Library BRAND

9 Where we are

10 Tipping…tipping…tipped?

11 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)

12 Look Down the Beach

13 Two Different Constituencies Students Faculty

14 Some Books are More Equal than Others

15 Future of Libraries

16 Library as Teacher

17 Library as Technology Leader

18 Library as Thinking Partner

19 Library as Place

20 A Library with a Future

21 Embedded in class

22 Library Lecture Series

23 Academic Symposium

24 Senior Showcase

25 The Big Read

26 Wake the Library

27 Graffiti Wall

28 Creative study

29 5K Fundraiser

30 Capture the Flag

31 Humans v Zombies

32 Library Decorating Committee

33 A Happy Place to Work

34 Our Mission The mission of the Z Smith Reynolds Library Is to help our students, faculty and staff SUCCEED!

35 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/

36 Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. Dean, Z Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 27109 suttonls@wfu.edu


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