Discussion of issues facing libraries today and possible solutions.

1. Blowing Library
Bubbles 2.0
Mark Leggott, University of PEI/discoverygarden inc.
APLA Conference, May 2013

4. How is your library
affected by budget
disruption?

8. Disrupt or be
Disrupted

9. Libraries Need to be
Hyper-Local
AND
Global Collaborators

10. Copyright Bubble

11. From now on universities can expect their funding
to be cut, not increased.They need to disrupt
themselves, or be disrupted, to survive.The years
ahead will be the worst of times for higher
eduction - but also the best.
MargaretWente: Globe & Mail, Feb 4, 2012
And that is where many university leaders agree: If
they are to weather the storm, they must face up to
their weaknesses and stop spending money on them.
James Bradshaw: Globe & Mail, Feb 4, 2012

13. Biggest worries about
copyright?

14. Risk Averse
Pay Many Times Over
Issues

15. Solutions
Become Non-Signatories
Use 6-Part Test
Golden Rule

16. Less Fair!
Commercial!
Multiple Copies/Wide Distribution!
Entire Work/Substantial Excerpt!
Compete with Original!
Confidential/Unpublished!
Charitable/Educational!
Single Copy/Limited Distribution!
Limited/Insubstantial Excerpt!
No Detriment to Original!
Published/In Public Interest!

17. Play Bubble

18. To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as
though nothing of consequence will happen. On the
contrary, when we are playful with each other we relate
as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise;
everything that happens is of consequence. It is, in fact,
seriousness that closes itself to consequence, for
seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of
open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified
conclusion.To be playful is to allow for possibility
whatever the cost to oneself.
James Carse

19. “Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!”
Miss Frizzle

20. How is your library
playful?

24. Issues
Seriousness tends to overshadow
Play generally not valued

25. Solutions
Embrace a Hacker
Install a MakerSpace
Partnerships between libraries

26. OpenTextbook Bubble

27. When MIT first announced its Open Courseware
(OCW) initiative in October 2002, it shook the
business model of traditional higher education
institutions ... Fast-forward to October 2012: OERs
have failed to significantly affect the day-to-day teaching
of the vast majority of higher education institutions.
Gerd Jortemeyer: Educause Review Online, Feb 26, 2013

28. Why do publishers
create so many
editions?

29. 0
225
450
675
900
325 559 812
Housing
Tuition
Textbooks
% Increase in Prices in Last 35Years

30. Issues
Discoverability/Acquisition
No Professional Credit
Last Mile - Context Freedom

31. Solutions
Develop HTML5 Platform
Education
Partnerships with Library

33. Pilots
• 1st-Year Chemistry (CalTech CC text)
• 1st-Year Business (boundless.com)
• Various levels of interest in an open text
approach to English courses

36. Open Source Bubble

37. How many use open
source software?

39. Open tools and approaches are critical to the
ability of libraries to succeed in the next
decade.Whether open source to build local
expertise and capability, open data to share
findings and better society, open textbooks to
reduce the cost of education, or open labs to
reach out to the larger community - open will
define the 21st century library.

41. Questions