Terence Huwe from the University of California (Berkley) opening this session – going to talk about how ‘faculty’ (academic staff) see the research library, and how we (the librarians) see faculty.<\/p>\n
Terence is director of the library at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment<\/a> – the library is the ‘digital publisher’ for the institute. Faculty study by Ithaka in 2009 – at http:\/\/www.ithaka.org\/ithaka-s-r\/research\/faculty-surveys-2000-2009\/faculty-survey-2009<\/a> – tells us about faculty and their attiudes to information\/libraries<\/p>\n More faculty members are conducting research at the ‘network level’ – using internet resources as a place to start research, with a growing preference for online\/full-text. However faculty members slower to adopt these things that librarians, and also science faculty lead the way – before social science\/humanities\/arts scholars.<\/p>\n A complex world requires new approaches…<\/p>\n Scholars are responding by increasing the amount they work in groups and consult with each other, more aware of Grey literature \u00a0– pre-publication work of high interest, working papers etc. Increasingly aware that others have the skills to search an increasingly complex information environment (i.e. turning to librarians) – but may still have trouble admitting this to themselves and others! We need to help them with this \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n What does this mean for libraries? This is an opportunity to reframe our image strategically:<\/p>\n [this sounds in some ways very much like a shift from librarian -> information scientist to me? More like information scientists might work in a business environment?]<\/p>\n Move the library away from ‘a place you go’ to a service.<\/p>\n\n