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New Roles and Opportunities for Library Staff

1. What cultural, organizational and/or value changes are needed in the Library to successfully pursue New Directions?

• How do we encourage risk taking, and facilitate growth and change?
  • Time to crush a few pots?
  • Fostering a spirit of experimentation
    • Can we play and also do?
  • Innovation lab or teams; from the post eScience, training, collections & more: Sciences Council on New Directions
  • Promoting a culture of change within the Library system
• Ten Principles of Change Management for Achieving New Directions
• To Team or not to Team?
• Is our future user centered design? -- From Apple to Wired to New Directions

2. What is the future of jobs in the University Library?

• What trends are changing how we will operate a 21st century University Library?
• New Jobs for New Directions
• Do we need to prepare staff to be mostly focused in eResource?
  • Look inside the post Why New Directions?
• From the HR perspective, especially recruitment, what will we expect ALL employees to know? How do we ensure that our work force reflects a broad range of skills that can collaborate effectively? How do administrative professionals integrate into the larger Library mission? What is the future of campus decentralization of administrative responsibility?
  • Adapted from Points 1 &2 in New Directions for Administrative Services

3. What support and training will Library staff need to better pursue New Directions?

• We need to create opportunities for support & training
• Open a New Directions Institute to provide the staff with new or updated skills needed to respond to the New Directions
• On training and mentoring; see post from the Sciences Libraries Staff

4. How do we better promote/market the Library to our community?

• Can we we enhance faculty/students awareness of library resources & services through a robust outreach/training program
• Can we find ways to brand 3rd party discovery services that take advantages of access that we licensed for our community (e.g., publishers, Google Scholar)?