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AdjustingToChangesInResearchAndInstruction

Support for Changes in Research, Instruction, and Learning

1. Adjusting to Change

• Is reading in decline and what should/could we do about it?
  • Boring and Traditional: Reading and Thinking in the Library
• Given declines in many research library statistics, what should we do?
  • Peter Brantley's presentation
• How will a shift in how faculty work impact the Library?
  • How can librarians collaborate with new multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary programs?
  • The Library might seriously consider restructuring its services and collections to address the changing approaches to scholarship and teaching
  • New Directions is all about combining "new" work and "legacy" work
• eScience, eEverything?
  • Supporting e-Science
  • eScience, Cyberinfrastructure, eResearch?
  • E-Science, E-Social Sciences, E-Humanities, E-et al

2. New technology services for students and faculty?

• What is the Library's responsibility for expanding the offering of technology support services to students and even faculty? Do the Library's technology units move more decisively into public services and visibility?
  • From point 4 in New Directions for Administrative Services

3. The need for an assessment program

• Do we need an assessment program to understand:
  • exactly what changes in research & instruction are occurring?;
  • how we can adjust to support these changes?; and
  • if the adjustments we make are working?
    • The culture of assessment
    • Importance of good data to organizational decision-making
• Do we understand who our students are and their information needs?

  • A Vision of Students Today