Keynote delivered at #asl2015 'The inside out library: collaboration, inspiration, transformation' by Helen Shenton Librarian & Archivist Trinity College Dublin. February 27 2015

1. Transformative shifts in libraries
Academic and Special Libraries Annual Conference
27 February 2015
Helen Shenton
TCD Librarian and College Archivist

8.  Transformative shifts
 Exemplar of partnership and collaboration
 What does this mean?

9. “ Higher education is ripe for disruptive
innovation “
Clayton M. Christensen

10. Globalization inter- multi- and anti-
disciplinary BIG DATA data curation
BIG CONTENT Digital Humanities
MOOCs Mobile Technologies
expanding expectations OPEN
ACCESS pressure on resourcing
Transformative shifts in Higher Education include;

11. From Digitization to Digitalization Library as Place and
Place as Library Partnership opportunities for capital
and infrastructure Collaborative content and collection
development Democratization of collections through
digitization greater emphasis on the unique and distinct
Changing user behaviours expanding user
expectations New skills, up- and re-skilling,
development opportunities Pressure on resourcing
Transformative shifts in libraries include:

12. What does do these transformative mean?
 digital shift and social shift
 moving to user focused, personalisation, customization, atomization
 moving to connecting to content, creating and curating content
 moving to library as big content, as locus of metadata expertize
 moving to library as catalyst for research, stimulus for scholarship
 moving to library as laboratory, place to experiment, innovation labs, ilabs
 moving to library as social spaces, as cultural spaces

13. Transformative shifts
 Exemplar of partnership and collaboration
What does this mean?

14. partnership and collaboration
Innovation
• Harvard – Metalab and Graduate School of Design
• Harvard Law Library and Berkman Center for the Internet and Society

20. partnership and collaboration
Innovation
Harvard – Metalab and Graduate School of Design
Harvard Law Library and Berkman Center for the Internet and Society
New skills
• outreach, pop-ups, events
• multi-disciplinary
• embedded teaching
• data mining, heat mapping, development of new tools

21. Transformative shifts
Exemplar of partnership and collaboration
 What does this mean?

23. What does this mean for professional development?
Unique and Distinct Collections RLUK 2014; Highlighted Skills Development
 Digital Humanities
 Understand recent areas of academic research
 E-learning and teaching
 Pedagogic skills, VLEs, review impact of teaching
 Public Engagement
 Presentation, communication, media skills
 Management Skills
 Leadership, strategic planning, financial management, organizational management,
negotiation, project management skills

24. What does this mean for professional development?
 New roles, new skills, new opportunities, up-skill, re-skill
Data curation, data mining
Embedded librarian
User-centricity
 Learn/borrow from other fields
eg. Customer service – University of Zappo
Queue management – Disney
Collaboration/diplomacy – HLS Program on Negotiation
 Think like a user, be a user of new forms of learning and education
Do a MOOC, an on-line course
 Be out and about, be active
Secondment, study trip, exchange
Activate partnerships, collaborations – walk across town/campus/organization
 Talk to other audiences, new mediums, outreach, public engagement
eg. TEDx

26. Thank you
“Collaboratories and Bubbles of Shush; how libraries are
transforming”
TEDxDublin 2014
Helen Shenton