Imagine Your Library's Future

by O'Connor; Sidorko

• ISBN13: 9781843346005
• ISBN10: 1843346001
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-25
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Through extensive practical applications, both actual and theoretical, the authors provide a strong background understanding and direct the reader through a planning process that is both readily applicable and innovative for all information organisations, irrespective of their size or client base.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
List of figures, table and case studies	p. xix
About the authors	p. xxi
What are scenarios?	p. 1
The future is not linear	p. 3
What is the value of scenarios?	p. 5
The future impacting on libraries	p. 6
What is the future and does science fiction predict the future?	p. 11
Change	p. 13
An initial view of the Internet	p. 14
Change of attitudes toward the future	p. 25
Development of scenarios as a discipline	p. 26
Notes	p. 29
The complexities of our informational environment	p. 33
This chapter	p. 33
What is the environment?	p. 33
Libraries and their environments	p. 34
Disruptive technologies	p. 35
Broad disruptive technological impact on libraries	p. 37
Issues in the wider environment	p. 40
Open source	p. 40
Open source implications	p. 44
Digital content	p. 46
Digital content implications	p. 47
The author-publisher-library relationship	p. 48
Content balance	p. 49
The future of work	p. 52
Implications for the future of work	p. 53
Emerging trends	p. 58
Notes	p. 59
The future and the past: models are changing	p. 61
This chapter	p. 61
The mirror as a powerful tool	p. 61
Library models in transition	p. 64
Consortia in our corporate lives	p. 65
Changing roles of and pressures on consortia	p. 67
What are we doing, or what is our business model?	p. 70
Future business models	p. 74
Notes	p. 75
Understanding choices	p. 77
This chapter	p. 77
What are choices?	p. 78
Beginning to construct scenarios through choices	p. 82
Keeping options open	p. 93
Notes	p. 93
Toward a new way of thinking	p. 95
This chapter	p. 95
How to organise for decisions	p. 95
Is it all straightforward?	p. 101
Confronting sameness	p. 105
Research as a group	p. 109
Notes	p. 111
Designing your process	p. 113
This chapter	p. 113
Not every process is the same	p. 113
Scenario construction beginnings	p. 114
The suggested process	p. 115
Notes	p. 126
Scenarios and implementation	p. 127
This chapter	p. 127
Preferred Library Scenario	p. 127
Keeping the scenario alive	p. 131
Mid-term review	p. 132
The staff in the implementation of the Preferred Scenario	p. 134
Note	p. 135
Choice, chance and (less than) certainty	p. 137
This chapter	p. 137
Chance and randomness	p. 137
Adoption of risk	p. 141
abundance of data	p. 142
search engine capability	p. 145
avoid group thinking	p. 147
learn to take risks	p. 148
continue to build a trust metric for the library	p. 149
so what is your future?	p. 151
Conclusion	p. 153
Notes	p. 154
Case studies	p. 157
A major Hong Kong university library	p. 157
A major Australian university library	p. 162
CAVAL Ltd, Melbourne, Australia	p. 170
SOLINET scenarios	p. 173
Public library	p. 180
The possible world of library consortia	p. 184
Notes	p. 188
Implementation and the impact of change	p. 189
This chapter	p. 189
Change, demolition and reconstruction	p. 189
The human side of change	p. 191
Getting involved and involvement	p. 198
Following through and embedding the change	p. 199
Change and scenario planning	p. 202
Note	p. 203
Further reading	p. 205
Index	p. 211
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