NYU 21st Century Library: Faculty and Graduate Student Research

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NYU 21st Century LibraryFaculty and Graduate
Student Research

• Study Conducted with the Assistance of Katzenbach
  Partners, LLC (KPL)
• Spring 2006

Presentation for May 2007 ARL Meeting
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Study focused on the least understood territory
the research environment

• 65 conversations across 25 disciplines (faculty,
  grad students)
• Literature reviews
• Core Team reviews (faculty, administrators,
  librarians)
• Idea and Inspiration Book (a tool for thinking
  about the libraries)

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Disciplines Represented

• Anthropology, Applied psychology, Art and Art
  Professions, Biology, Computer Science, Culture
  and Communication, East Asian Studies, Economics,
  Education, English, Fine Arts, History,
  Interactive Telecommunications, Journalism,
  Linguistics, Middle East/Islamic Studies, Music,
  Music Technology, Neural Science, Nursing,
  Physics, Politics, Psychology, Religious Studies,
  Sociology, Spanish

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The Changing Story of the Future of Scholarly
Work

• In light of recent radical changes to
  scholarly work, it is easy to overlook a key
  component of scholarship that will only become
  stronger the desire among scholars to feel that
  they are a part of intellectually stimulating and
  energizing communities.

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The KPL study revealed the central importance of
key dimensions of the research environment

• Surroundings
• Community
• Stimuli
• Process

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Surroundings

• Personal workspace (home/home away from home)
• Comfort (commonalities)
• Atmosphere (variations)
• Ubiquitous network (me me my computer)

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Community

• Access to colleagues
• Places to interact, both intentionally and
  serendipitously
• Interdisciplinarity
• Tools and connectors for interaction

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Stimuli

• Inspiration
• Serendipity
• Immediacy
• Alerts
• Ideas from others
• Interactivity

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Process

• Personal control
• Personalization
• Convenience
• Fluidity
• Efficiency
• Transparency

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Strategic Implications

• Improve the many kinds of spaces that facilitate
  scholarly work
• Enable collaboration and connections within and
  across disparate disciplines
• Create more spaces and mechanisms for inspiration
• Make the discovery and research process more
  powerful
• Expand services beyond traditional conceptions of
  the library

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Key messages from our work with KPL

• Invest more in the online research process (adapt
  new Web technologies)
• Focus and phase renovation keep it moving in a
  positive direction for students
• Use NYU faculty expertise (e.g., CS, ITP, CC,
  Stern) to understand trends and possibilities
• Re-brand the expectation of library
• Readjust to be an organization that learns
  continually
• Be Bolder, Innovate, Experiment

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