Presentation by Suzanne Enright summing up the Library Systems Workshop, July 15th 2013

1. Final thoughts…
Suzanne Enright
Director Information Services, University of
Westminster
15 July 2013

2. Aims - reminder
– Continue discussions about the library service
platform landscape and its challenges
– Discover more about the
workflows, processes, tools and techniques to
support planning and managing change
– Share information on new collaborations and
shared services
– Feed into Jisc/Sconul thinking – gaps, ideas and
opportunities

3. Sharing
– Range of presentations, group work, networking
opportunities
– Panel provocations and Q+A
– Martin Myhill, Andrew Praeter and Owen
Stephens
– Some heresy to counter the fear, uncertainty and
doubt!

4. The landscape – a tipping point?
– Where are we with library service platform
landscape?
– Up to 50% HEIs will being using a different
LMS by 2016
– 80+% will be using shared services for
operational purposes (many are already)
– 4 themes emerged today…

5. Context for change
– Time of constant change…calls for openness to
change
– Search for solutions to problems, not a tick box
exercise
– Politics of own institution:
local, regional, national, international (‘enterprise
not library-land’)
– Future unknowns and need to integrate with
solutions to other institutional problems
– Venture capital a feature of information landscape
– LMS providers

6. Technology
– Potential for disruptive change upon us
– Moving away from concept of ‘system’ to metadata
and platforms
– Commodity IT
– Tools are there to help solve problems
– Integration and interaction with other systems
– Varied formats
– Open agenda

7. People
– Cultural change
– Participation and collaboration – implementing
service change with staff involvement in design
and implementation
– Role of effective leaders
– People in the room today

8. Users
– User-centred services at the heart of designing for
tomorrow (today…)
– Transient nature of users
– Stakeholder engagement
– Big data as a tool to support this

9. Lastly, a plug…
– KB+
– Focus on wider range of titles
– Adding historical data
– Work with international partners
– Improving integration with ELCAT, JUSP etc
– Get your library involved
– Jisc/Sconul/RLUK Co-design Programme
– Work on a national monographs strategy
– KB+ and e-books

10. Thanks for your
participation!