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Title: Theological libraries and change of media


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Theological libraries and change of media
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Libraries are service institutions of parent
organisations
  • memory in the Body of Christ
  • pointer finger
  • stewardship and access
  • hospitality

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Library
Chapel
Classroom
Field site
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Libraries are service institutions of parent
organisations
  • - What do users want/need?
  • - Depends on generation and on area of study
  • - No representative studies, but some
    observations, informed guesses
  • - Can libraries change ahead of their parent
    institutions?

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Problems with e-resources
  • Few high quality and relevant materials
  • Costs, access and use questions
  • Preservation of digital materials
  • Community and spiritual formation
  • How will the future church look like?

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Print and electronic culture
  • intensifies a right brain encounter with God
  • retrieves Eastern Orthodox and medieval Catholic
    spirituality
  • reverses our capacity for abstract thought and
    critical reasoning skills
  • questions our belief that conversion is a
    one-time binary event
  • weakens the role of abstract propositional faith
  • individualistic
  • abstract thinking
  • objectivity
  • rationality
  • distance from emotional life

Hipps, following MacLuhan, 2005
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Theology of technology?
  • MacLuhan, Understanding media the extensions of
    men
  • Difference between tools and machines
  • Are users ready for the technology?

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Predictions for future
  • Death of print?
  • Content does not transfer well from one medium to
    another
  • Hybrid libraries

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Problems of hybrid library
  • Need to house large amount of materials in
    various forms
  • Need to test technology before accepting it
  • Hybrid library draws double expense
  • Moral and spiritual responsibility?
  • Roles and tasks as well as the view of
    librarians jobs needs to be different

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Roles and tasks
  • Multi-media user comfortable with a wide range
    of formats
  • Intermediary with a good knowledge of sources
    and user requirements
  • Metadata producer creating records of
    information sources in a variety of schemas
  • Communicator formally and informally connecting
    with users
  • Team player working with colleagues in library,
    IT services and academics
  • Trainer / educator taking on a formal role to
    teach information skills and information literacy
  • Evaluator sifting free and paid for resources
    on behalf of users
  • Negotiator dealing with publishers and
    suppliers
  • Project manager leading on development projects
    to enhance the service
  • Innovator not just following the routine but
    also looking at improved ways to deliver the
    service
  • Fund-raiser working for greater income from the
    institution and beyond

Ariadne, 2001
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Skills
  • Technical and IT skills
  • Flexibility
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Ability to learn quickly
  • Communication skills
  • Negotiating skills
  • People skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Teaching skills
  • Team working skills
  • Customer service skills
  • Analytical and evaluative skills
  • Subject skills
  • Project management skills
  • Vision

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Future?
  • Theological libraries will still have a
    substantial and growing print collection
  • Libraries will continue to serve as places
  • One size for all does not work need to serve
    each individual user with their varied needs and
    abilities
  • working against Google and digitization efforts
    is not an option how can we work with them?
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