Ylibrary

Share SLQ thinking

Explore

Stimulate some discussion

No answers .. No right answers

SLQ working on digital library project..more project moving to being digital

Digital is default

Exploring what is a library

Some images complexity of the conversation

Www.expertcytometry.com/the-story-of-the-blind-men-and-the-elephant-or-why-...


It's not a new image...useful there are as a many views of library services as there of the elephant

Based on our experiences throughout our lives ..good and bad

Our perceptions of libraries are part of the problem and the solution

State library project..find link from the home page

Www.slq.qld.gov.au

Engaging with community on the question of why do we need a library..what does the library mean to you

Scanning

Environment

Inner...our services and our selves..the profession

Institute of museum and library services

Museums, libraries and 21st century skills

Published 2009

School libraries feature strongly

Collaboration


Last line..tightly edited and controlled ...audiences,accessible in multiple ways


Www.imls.gov

The future of the profession
Themes and scenarios 2025

School libraries included

Aliafutures.wikispaces.com/home

IFLA trend report
Trends.ifla.org

Questions..
Should libraries be posing alternatives to search engine
Can we
Or
Building digital literacy skills
Help ensure autoratative information seeking...serendipity browsing


When information is so easy to share...can anybody really own it?

Trends in online education...

Learning opportunities become more abundant cheaper and more accessible

Online learning resources and rise of open access will affect nature and services of libraries


If online education is free, then how much is it really worth

Monitoring filtering communications data becomes cheaper and easier..impact on individual privacy and trust online

Libraries managing online personal data...wearable technology...protect users privacy

Who's profiting from your personal information?

Open data initiatives in government increase transparency and enable citizen led public services

Where do libraries fit in..successful online led initiatives..

Who will be most empowered by greater transfer any and citizen access to public sector data...politicians, citizens or corporations

Creative disputing. As innovative devices connect and change the way we work and play

Automated translation
3d printing

When your phone your car and your wristwatch know where you are at all times who runs your life

Report..rising the waves or caught in the tide

How low can our books budget go?
American Libraries
Monday 14 October 2013

Www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/how-low-can-our-books-budgets-go

More books are being published ..public libraries are buying less

Books are still strongly associated with libraries

Number of books purchased by US public libraries - million

Amazing pie chart shows the public library share of total book market

In 2011 IMLS reported that 11.4cents of every dollar spent in public libraries..went to collection or content

Blockbuster spent 44%

US book titles published 1880 - 2010
Vs percentage of public library budget spend on materials

From 25% to 11.7%

Is this a real problem?

Or is it a reflection that role and focus of libraries are changing


Qld public library data
Expenditure on collections gone from $5.49 in 04/05 to $6.62 in 11/12 physical and online. Does not include slq expenditure

13% of expenditure

Issues per capita 9.18 compared to 8per capita

Does not take into account licensed resources

30% drop in use of physical collections

Resources reallocated to e-collections

Eresources reflect full text downloads abstracts etc not include

Tumblebooks 376030 downloads... 100 a day or 9c a download

Brittanica 35000 downloads

Ancestry over 2 million downloads...over 6,000 a day

Includes use of slq digital collections for the first quarter of 2013/14

Use on slq website and external platforms ...Flickr commons, history pin, YouTube

Different view..physical reflects 4% total usage??in 12/13

In 2009 not that long ago it was 16%

Clear from data we are collecting that the library is more than books...

Continuous change and evolution

At the ylibrary event at slq on Friday eli neilberger from Ann Arbor library talked about the move from a focus on consuming to one of creating

Challenge..if we see ourselves in the business of books, information ..the package not the service

Libraries are valued because the provide unique opportunities not free things?

What is your libraries unique opportunity

The future of libraries will be determined by what they make not what they buy..

Eli neubeger

Collaboration.....I opportunities to work win slq