Designing the FutureProof Library: Heres How We Do It

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Designing the Future-Proof LibraryHeres How We
Do It!
Steven Bell bells_at_temple.edu Associate
University Librarian Temple University

• Iowa Association of College Research Libraries
• April 17, 2009

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Photography Before 1888
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Photography After 1888
You Push the Button and We Do the Rest
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Popular Science July 1959
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• Brief History Of Academic Librarianship or How It
  All Went Wrong

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• Only the Paranoid Survive

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Popular Science May 1982
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Marginalizing Trends
2005 OCLC Perceptions of Libraries and
Information Resources report http//www.oclc.org/r
eports/perceptionscollege.htm
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Source Moyer, Don. A Silver Bullet. Harvard
Business Review, May 2008 p. 132
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DesignThinking
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Word Association

• Turn your sheet of paper over
• What comes to your mind when you hear the word
• DESIGN
• write it down

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Question
Do you think library workers are designers?

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What is Design Anyway?
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What They Have in Common

• The Design Approach!
• empathic thinking
• identifying the problem before the solution
• brainstorming process
• prototyping process
• formative/summative evaluation

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Design Thinking

• Empathic Design
• Prototyping process
• Formative and summative evaluation

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User Experience
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Future Proofing Strategies - A Summation Or 10
StepsTo A Future-Proofed Library
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Next Steps

• Talk to the users
• Talk about the core values
• Talk about the design
• Talk about the tolerance level

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Add Your Voice To The Conversation
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Questions? Discussion!