Academic Libraries in Higher Education and Research...

Academic Libraries in Higher Education and Research: Emerging trends and

challenges

Dr. H. Anil Kumar Librarian, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Contents Education Ecosystem

Reading

Print vs ebooks

Relook at libraries Spaces

Technology

Services

Users

Marketing

Staff

Legal

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/dec/18/refund-if-university-fails-deliver

• Students who study by themselves for more hours each week gain more knowledge -- while those who spend more time studying in peer groups see diminishing gains.

• Students whose classes reflect high expectations (more than 40 pages of reading a week and more than 20 pages of writing a semester) gained more than other students.

• Students who spend more time in fraternities and sororities show smaller gains than other students.

• Students who engage in off-campus or extracurricular activities (including clubs and volunteer opportunities) have no notable gains or losses in learning.

• Students majoring in liberal arts fields see "significantly higher gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills over time than students in other fields of study." Students majoring in business, education, social work and communications showed the smallest gains. (The authors note that this could be more a reflection of more-demanding reading and writing assignments, on average, in the liberal arts courses than of the substance of the material).

• Google is deskilling information literacy skills

• Facebook is deskilling interpersonal skills

• Internet: Attention span reducing

• No distinction between first year and final year students project reports

• how the printed book served to focus our attention, promoting deep and creative thought.

• Internet encourages the rapid, distracted sampling of small bits of information from many sources

• Scrolling and skimming vs Reading • Jet skiing vs scuba diving

“Preliminary research suggests that even the so-called digital natives are more likely to recall the gist of a story when they read it on paper because enhanced e-books and e-readers themselves are too distracting. Paper’s greatest strength may be its simplicity.”

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/retailing/article/70696-as-e-book-sales-decline-digital-fatigue-grows.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/03/ebook-sales-falling-for-the-first-time-finds-new-report

http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/paper-vs-plasma-how-digital-reading-shift-impacting-your-brain/

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation

http://chronicle.com/article/How-E-Reading-Threatens/147661/

http://www.readingrockets.org

http://slowreadingco.com

What Libraries Can (Still) Do by James Gleick (http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/oct/26/what-libraries-can-still-do-bibliotech/):

• “In his new book, BiblioTech, a wise and passionate manifesto, John Palfrey reminds us that the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot be bought and sold in a library.”

• For one thing, as Palfrey says, librarians will need to cherish their special talent as “stewards” while letting go of the instinct to be “collectors.” “

Why go beyond formal methods?

• The 95 Percent Solution: School is not where most Americans learn most of their science by John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking

• Recent findings challenge the longstanding belief that the place for science knowledge acquisition is the classroom.

• International comparisons of trends in science knowledge over lifetimes suggests that much if not most science knowledge is acquired outside of school.

American Scientist: v. 98 (Nov-Dec), 2010

http://ideas.demco.com/blog/5-library-trends-to-watch-in-2016/

• Internet of Things • Knowing Your Community • Measuring for Improvement and Impact • Story Doing

www.libraryasincubatorproject.org University of Wisconsin SLIS

A 3D printer at DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library. Photograph courtesy DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library - See more at: http://span.state.gov/business/libraries-turn-into-makerspaces/20150101#tab1

Engineering students of Carson High School in Nevada get a hands-on experience of 3D scanning, 3D printing, laser cutting and engraving, using Google Glass, MakeyMake kits and Google Liquid Galaxy at DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library. Photograph courtesy DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library

A 3D printed model at DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library. Photograph courtesy DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library - See more at: http://span.state.gov/business/libraries-turn-into-makerspaces/20150101#tab1

Milwaukee Makerspace Library, which aims to foster a community of makers by providing an environment—in terms of people, equipment and space—that supports creativity and personal growth.

Libraries Reinvent Themselves as Makerspaces

By Steve Fox January/February 2015

SPAN Magazine

http://span.state.gov/business/libraries-turn-into-makerspaces/20150101#tab1

Library Spaces

Physical space – Very important and relevant – Design for flexi spaces – Makerspaces or Tinkerlabs – Comfortable furniture and ambience – Green library

Digital Space – Dynamic and interactive – Individual focus - customization – Ubiquitous and always connected

Technology Hardware

Onsite to cloud

More Devices (e-book readers like kindle, mobile, laptops, payment devices, photocopiers, etc)

Powerful configurations (past servers are now personal devices)

Connectivity (wifi, bluetooth, NFC)

Software

Proprietary vs open source (FOLIO)

ILS - loan print, ebooks, codes, etc

Finance – epayments

ERMS, CMS, Research Data, Mobile Apps, Ref management tools, etc

Manage / analytics: usage, licenses, citations (likes)

Device independence

Discovery, Remote login

Kindle E-book Reader Lending Service

• Kindle E-book Reader Lending Service introduced in November 2016

• Total 10 Kindle devices

• Kindle One PaperWhite & Nine Kindle Voyage

• Loan Rules

Loan Period 15 days

Renewal Once

Restriction 1 Kindle per borrower

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Students (PGP, ABM & PGPX, AFP) Faculty, AA, RSTC,OFF FPM

Kindle E-book Reader Lending Service

Technology

Type of Information

Bibliographic to data

Raw data to refined data

Complex fields – National vs International (industry

codes, legal nomenclature, etc)

Local vs global (news, data, trends, etc)

Services Issue / return of books …. devices

Counter is the first point of contact and hence doubles as reference counter also

Multi-purpose stations

Reference service

General to specific and detailed in-depth information

Data analysis (R, SPSS, etc)

Research Assistance (Data mining to refining)

Publisher connect – publishing, editing, etc

ILL

User training / Literacy

Reference management software

Database navigation to mining to data management

Special sessions for groups on IT, Electronics, Entrepreneurship, etc

How to publish

• List of Schools were given and we were to provide relative area population and amenities data and also all available information on schools (village wise data from census and school data from DISE were integrated)

• Patent data filed by China from 1980 onwards (where data available in JSON format downloaded and convert to CSV through software)

• Bankruptcy data (firm that filled chapter 7 and 11)

• Amul Dairy Annual Report/Old Annual Reports of Banks

• Village Electrification data of Balangir district of Odisha

• Block wise information of Anganwadi workers of Ahmedabad

• Help in the creating Journal Quality List for IIMA

User Guides

Users

Faculty with international qualifications

Working on Policy issues - currency of topics

Foreign faculty – core and visiting; Foreign students

Tech savvy users – loan of kindles, mobile codes, etc

Focus on Research (Top journals)

Use of global databases increasing

Publication output is targeted and increasing

Library spending is increasing

Increase in doctoral students – interesting topics

Research topics –blurring of boundaries – multi disciplinary (social – pure – applied sciences) Infrastructure – bullet trains, transport logistics, pubic health, etc

Gender

Entrepreneurship

Governance – corruption, bankruptcy, CEO compensation, CSR sector-wise, etc

Marketing

Digital: Website, Mails, Facebook, Twitter

Quiz competitions

Push relevant content like Economic Surveys, VC Handbook, Education Directory, Government reports, etc

Display of user content like books, research papers, newspaper articles, etc

Personal connect

Prompt service – word of mouth (faculty / student appreciation, energy saving screen savers, switch-off posters, etc)

Children collection

Know Your Library Quiz

KYL Series No. of Questions Asked

Total no. of Participants

Average participant / question

No. Winners Sponsors

Series 1 12 2,457 204 48 Rama Moondra

Series 2 9 1,230 136 36 Reado

Series 3 39 12,501 320 234 Sage

Which new database on Socio-Economic Indicators has been recently added

to our library?

A. District GDP of India

B. States of India

C. District Metrics

D. MICA Indian Marketing Intelligence

E. Indiastat.com

If you need comprehensive information on

corporate bankruptcy, which specific

database will you use?

A. Bloomberg

B. Thomson Reuters Datastream

C. BankruptcyData.com

D. WRDS

E. Frost & Sullivan

Bookmarks

POSTERS

Author Talks Prof. Ajeet Mathur on his latest book - Mysteries in management

Prof. Ashok Garde on his book - Chanakya on Management

Topical Displays • Librarians Day, Vikram Sarabhai Birthday

• Booker prize winner authors books 2010-2015

• Teachers Day

• Hindi books

• Business books FT shortlisted 2010-2015

• Gandhi Jayanti

• APJ Birthday

• National Unity Week (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel)

• Children's Day

• Vijay Diwas

• Christmas celebration

• Start-up

• Travel & Tourism

• Data Analytics, Data Visualization and Big Data

Average 50 books Displayed

Best performance 50% books Checked out

Today Returns

Faculty Publications

Childrens Section

Screen Savers

Staff

Merger of the Professional and Non professional skills

Competencies

Clerical and managerial

LIS

Leadership

Subject specializations

Training and research

Values and ethics

Identity issues remain

Legal

o Copyright

o Licenses – restrictions and permissions

o Visiting / external scholars

Bankscope, CMIE, etc

o Alumni

o Financial

Tax issues

Cashless payments

Summary

• Hybrid (physical and digital) library

• Physical spaces are important

• Technology is the tool

• Marketing is for survival

• Staff is the key

THANKS

anilkumar@iima.ac.in

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school...“

- Albert Einstein