Keynote at the annual REBIUN conference, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 9th 2016 http://rebiun2016.uib.es/programa/

1. Towards Rubicon
A Story About Libraries That
Turn And Face The Strange
Christian Lauersen
Copenhagen University Library
Email: cula@kb.dk
Twitter: @clauersen
REBIUN 2016, November 9th 2016, Palma de Mallorca

2. Towards Rubicon

3. Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Turn and face the strange
You, after
my talk

4. To embrace the change
and face the strange
we need to ask the right
questions

5. What’s the purpose
of higher education?

6. What changes
effects higher education?

7. Which challenges and
opputunities does these
changes bring?

8. To which challenges and
oppotunities in higer
education is The Library
the answer?

9. Screw the burning platform!
Hail the burning ambition!

10. Ask yourself:
Are you in the saving libraries
business?
Or in the supporting
higher education business?

11. So why are we here?
So why are we here?

12. To make higher
education succeed.
(Not Libraries)

13. A better world?

14. The Monessen / Pittsburgh case

15. Game changers
in higher education

16. Liberation of
information

17. Limitation
of
information

18. New ways of collecting information

19. New ways of working with informationNew ways of working
with information

20. Education and learning has
been liberated from the classroom

21. Behaviour

23. Answers?

24. Access
Data
Education Science
SpaceSystems

25. Content

26. Ideology and reality

28. Library World
From The ”Outside In” Library
To The ”Inside Out” Library
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

29. Data litearcy and
data management

30. Discovery

31. Education

32. Learn them to catch fish
Don’t catch fish for them
Learn them to catch fish

33. Don’t only focus on your own catalog
Go beyond
your own catalog

34. Embed
Embed
(both virtual and analog)

36. Support a learning culture
Not only ressources for learning

37. Space

38. Are we making libraries for books?
Or libraries for people?

39. Common ground
Interdisiplinary
Lack of evaluation and authority

40. Supporting student
success

41. The librarian
The most important asset of any
library goes home at night – the
library staff
- Timothy Healy

42. Librarianship is not
neutral

43. An example on how to turn
and face the strange:
Digital Social Science Lab
Faculty Library of Social Sciences,
Copenhagen University Library

44. An open platform for education and events on digital methods
Hardware and software for harvesting, cleaning,
analyzing and visualizing data
A dynamic and aesthetically inspiring learning environment

47. The library as hub:
Community and peer-to-peer

48. Flexibility
Functionality
Inspiration

49. AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE TRADITIONAL
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
An alternative to the
classic learning setup

50. Digital Social Science Lab
http://kub.kb.dk/DSSL
The Library Lab
https://christianlauersen.net

51. Future of Libraries Task Force
Preliminary Report

52. So how do libraries
turn and the face the strange?

53. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Nom nom
Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Nom nom

54. If you want to die, isolate
If you want to live, collaborate

56. Tell your library story

57. Everybody is an
ambassador

60. Find valid methods for
measuring impact and
make better libraries

61. A Danish Library Impact Report
Results from Roskilde University Library

62. The Library is a
part of
something bigger

63. See the bigger
picture

65. Never waist a
good crisis

66. The Library is nothing
without people

67. Diversity is king!
It’s the mix of people that
makes a great library

68. Leadership and
direction

69. See you on the other side of Rubicon
Never forget to
face the strange
Christian Lauersen
cula@kb.dk
@clauersen
https://christianlauersen.net