1. Conceptualizing the Academic Library Danuta A. Nitecki, Dean of Libraries, Drexel University USA Professor, College of Computing and Informatics XI International Conference on University Libraries November 6-8. 2013, Mexico City

2. Conceptualizing the academic library

3. Evolving a conceptualization of the academic library Context: 1.Institutional purpose 2.Influential changes Planning: 3. Prioritize issues 4. Organization requirements 5. Future Search conference Illustrating new concepts of a library 6. Redesign library space 7. Ensuring access to data 8. Extending connections to shcolarship 9. Growing an organizaiton

4. Context: institutional purpose Academic library is defined by its host institution of higher education Higher education institutions address the mission of: Teaching Research Civic engagement Importance of managing data and information to higher education Library fosters links between information and people

5. Definition of an academic library [excerpted] “…an entity in a postsecondary institution that provides… ORGANIZED COLLECTIONS STAFF TRAINED to provide and INTERPRETE MATERIALS to meet the informational, cultural, recreational, or educational needs of the clientele An ESTABLISHED SCHEDULE in which services of the staff are available to clientele The PHYSICAL FACILITIES necessary to support such collections, staff and schedule …” [Institute of Education Sciences. US Dept of Ed. National Center for Education Statistics, 2008 Available: nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008337.pdf]

6. Context: influential changes Information and communication technologies Pedagogies and the way people learn Generational characteristics Information seeking behaviors Student utilization of information beyond its discovery and reference to its creation and dissemination Expectations for reuse of “big data” and other research intellectual assets Use of space and understanding learning environments Growing cost of education disproportionate to family income Other?

7. Context: what are most influential changes? CHANGES INFLUENING LIBRARY CHANGES TECHNOLOGIESTECNOLOGÍAS PEDAGOGIESPEDAGOGÍAS MULTIPLE GENERATIONSMÚLTIPLES GENERACIONES BEHAVIORSCOMPORTAMIENTOS CREATION & DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION CREACIÓN Y DIFUSIÓN DE LA INFORMACIÓN REUSE OF DATALA REUTILIZACIÓN DE LOS DATOS SPACEESPACIO COST OF EDUCATIONCOSTO DE LA EDUCACIÓN

8. Planning: prioritize issues To advance University mission and strategic goals, for example: Improve student academic experience Develop focus for innovative research

9. Planning process illustration: Future Search Conference

10. Conceptualizing the library in terms of purpose 1.Build environments to learn and create knowledge 2.Ensure access to ideas and authoritative information 3.Strengthen connection to scholarship 4.Model an organization to effectively help advance the university’s mission

11. Build learning environments

12. Ensure access to data To curate research data and digital assets to meet emerging mandates and e-science practices Acquisition of content Management of data Discovery of resources Reuse for research

13. Strengthen connections to scholarship Discover and connect to sources of ideas Instruction to develop learning skills Expose human resources Create and connect ideas to others Explore diverse formats Instruction to organize data for dissemenination

14. Model organization Evidence based Client - focused Collaborative Service ethos Matrix leadership and team efforts Growth both individually and redefining positions

15. Is the concept of the academic library changing? Drexel University Libraries November 2013 “Library is the heart of the University” above the entrance to the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library

16. Question: “Mr. President, you strive for a comprehensive research university, do you want a research library?” …..thoughtful pause… Reply: “the answer will come out of strategic planning”

17. Conceptualizing the academic library 1.Understand drivers of change 2.Use a process to articulate the meaning of the library 3.Coach leaders to identify strategic directions 4.Evolve metrics and capture evidence to monitor success

18. What emerges from our conversation? Thank you for your attention and participation…. To continue the conversation, please contact me: Danuta A.Nitecki dan44@drexel.edu