Slide show from NOBLE Vision Session April 3, 2013.

1. NOBLE: Strategic Planning Session
April 3, 2013
Owen Shuman

2. Digital Archives

3. Lifetime Arts
NYPL – BPL – lifetimearts.org

4. Anythink

5. Anythink

6. Maker Space - Westport, CT

7. Idea Box – Oak Park, IL

8. Lifelong Learning

9. eTots – Southington, CT

10. All Service, All
Hours, Especially Sundays

11. Small business support from
your library – Skokie, IL

12. eBooks & More

13. Genius Bar - Dover, MA

14. Gordon College - Jenks Library
Self Guided Library Tour

15. GPL - Simplification, Easy Browsing
COLORIZED

16. Café – Hoover, AL

17. Digital Media Commons
Northeastern University

18. Digital Media Commons
Northeastern University

19. Merrimack College - McQuade Library
Education Resources Collection Blog

20. Roaming Librarians/Greeters
University of California Santa Cruz

21. Self Checkout
Arlington, VA – New Prague, MN

22. Bunker Hill Community College Library
Inviting/Interesting Homepage

23. Mobile Service - Edinburgh, UK

24. Cushing Academy:
21 st Century Initiative

25. "If you don't know where you are going -
you might end up someplace else."
Yogi Berra

27. 1.When your libraries are at their
best today, what are they doing?
2.Your library in 2019 is
vibrant, vital and relevant. What is
it doing and what does it look
like?

28. Your library in 2019:
1. Library & Staff will be ‘go to’ place and a
destination/community center
2. Proactive staff – Roaming - Meeting users where they are
(physical and virtual)
3. Excellent customer service - Getting to Yes - Less hoops -
Service oriented physical and virtual - Library will have
something for everyone/users will drive decisions of
library – library will anticipate user needs
4. Serve traditional users and digital users
5. Mobile touch technology / apps / Mobile Access – create
mobile apps – mobile check out
6. Breaking down barriers to access / streamlined access
7. Cyber presence - Link physical and digital - Econtent /
streamlined access - Facilitators for public into digital
world - Dynamic websites

29. Your library in 2019 Cont:
8. Innovation, experimentation, exploration
9. Assessment measures to show value
10.Flexible spaces - Open space, reconfiguring space to
meet user needs
11.Collaboration within NOBLE - Seamless service – results
oriented - Partnership
12.Welcoming, accepting and integrating diverse users, all
ages and cultures - Welcoming and relevant physical and
virtual space
13.Visual, object oriented–not text
14.Defender and provider of free access
15.Using technology to free up staff time
16.Staff cross training
17.Local – content, programming, issues – awareness, local
focus, locally relevant, local creation

30. NOBLE: The technology partner for
libraries north of Boston
How can NOBLE support your vision
for your library?
Make a list and then prioritize or
star the top 3.

31. Priorities:
1. Training for tech (not just evergreen) and emerging tech
2. Work on Noble policy – mobile cards
3. Leadership role in sharing eresources
4. Training non-tech areas / collaborating with MLS and other
5. Gateway for human and technology resource sharing /
internal blog / collaboration / facilitation
6. New staff at Noble?
7. Data –assessment and evaluation / control – best practice
8. Policy to drive Noble not software
9. Noble as a hub
10.Seamless and customized access to catalog / integration
11. Technology Innovation
12.Implement technology faster
13.Statewide collaboration to deliver services
14.Continue and improve cust. service- Continuity of service

32. Priorities Cont:
15.Streamline and simplify access to services
16.Breaking down barriers
17.Promote and advocate for econtent
18.Archiving and remote meeting for staff
19.Noble facilitate reviewing policies
20.Software that anticipates user needs

33. Potential Goals:
1. Training and Facilitation center for Noble members
2. Lead with technology
3. Streamline and simplify
1. User access
2. Policy
4. Data assessment
5. eContent
6. Continuity
7. Advocacy for members