June 28, 2007
Working Together and Working with Others
Over at Shimenawa, Peter Brantley provides some excellent food for thought on the role of collaboration in the future of libraries.
In considering the role of libraries in the emergent environment and the need to consider new models for library service, he writes:
Libraries cannot transform themselves structurally through magic. But through an open and deep application of their immense expertise, libraries can beneficially impact significant and important projects, and through the act of changing others, they will change themselves.
Expertise - in the creation of information services and products, the design of information skills instruction, the application of metadata, and the design of systems allowing the long-term preservation of digital information - is part of what the academic library offers to potential campus partners, including classroom faculty, IT managers, student services programs, enterprise academic systems, and more. The future of libraries, he concludes, lies "in working with others."
As we consider new service models at the University of Illinois, and ways in which we can define library service programs attuned to the needs of a host of user groups (both traditional and emergent), we will be well advised to take Brantley's vision of the future to heart.
Posted by swalter at June 28, 2007 2:35 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/mt-tb.cgi/114
