Cowles Library Future Development

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Cowles Library Future Development
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Cowles Library - Use Trends

• Facility use
  - 2000..198,000
  - 2005. 385,000
  - 2006..400,000(projected)
  
• Web page connections
• - 2005.626,000
• - 20061,000,000

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Current Situation

• Transformation
• Revolution

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Developments and Trends

• Age of the cyberspace Infovors and
  Inforaptors
• Content Revolution (print to digital academic
  publishing, cost, abundance, blurring consumers
  and producers)
• Virtuality is allowing the library to create a
  unique presence and a place in cyberspace (it
  never closes!!)

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Developments and Trends

• Ubiquitous presence of the library is leading to
  a transformation from repository/resource to
  learning center the library becomes THE
  classroom
• Library organizational and service structure
  driven by library-teaching faculty collaboration
  and by

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Challenges

• Expectations are MUCH higher (services, content,
  and quality)
• Selecting what is relevant deciding what to
  retain, preserve, digitize, produce
• Staying flexible, agile workforce

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Challenges

• Fostering faculty collaboration, innovation,
  adoption of digital resources publishing
  models/rights
• Cost management and budgeting

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Costs Books, Journals, Databases
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Library 2.0 - Directions and Initiatives

• Digital Learning Environment - convergence and
  blending of search, social, and knowledge
  management software's and services (underway,
  project 2007)
• Library facility as learning and social center
  (underway study needed)
• Digital Production Services digital repository
  (underway)

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Library 2.0 - Directions and Initiatives

• Pedagogical Development
  conduct
  study of information literacy, refine
  Drake curriculum (Project -
  2007)
  faculty
  development and innovation (proposal forthcoming)
• Cost management and resource allocation - model
  new approaches to (data center in place
  differential service proposal forthcoming)

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Library Model for Measuring Effectiveness
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What Keeps Me Up

• Threats to the Commons (politics of values,
  censorship, higher education as a commodity)