LIBRARY LEADERSHIP IN ADIGITAL AGE HARVARDGRADUATE SCHOOL OFEDUCATION, MARCH 20-22, 2014CRL CONFERENCE &LEVIATHAN: LIBRARIES ANDGOVERNMENT INFORMATION INTHE AGE OF BIG DATA GLEACHER CENTER, CHICAGOAPRIL 23-25, 2014

John P. Renaud, M.Ed., MLIS

FACULTYLawrence Bacow, former President of Tufts University

Joe Zolner, Professor of Education, Harvard

Jeffery Horrell, Dean of Libraries, Dartmouth

David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States of America

Sarah Thomas, Vice President for the Harvard Library

Maureen Sullivan, Former President, American Library Association

Kevin Gutherie, Founding president of JSTOR, entrepreneur

Dan Cohen, Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America

William Rawn & Clifford Gayley, architects

CONTEXT: BACOW ON THECHALLENGES FACING HIGHEREDUCATION (& LIBRARIANS)IN THE DIGITAL AGETuition has gone up at twice the rate of health care costs over the last 25 years.

In 2001, average tuition was 23% of median household income. By 2010, it was 38%.

Online education is maturing and will soon rival traditional forms of education ineffectiveness

but: “Why are we all sitting together in this room?”

RECAPPING THE FOURFRAMES

FIELD TRIP

FIELD TRIP

GREAT TAKE-AWAYSMust grow leadership within and across the organization

“I’m not a vision person myself, but I believe strongly in a collective vision.” JeffreyHorrell

“We tend to think about leadership in the Moses model, but we all work in collegialorganizations where there is the expectation that people will be engaged … It isreally important to identify people who come up with “the good idea” earlier andnurture and support the idea.” Larry Bacow.

CRL Conference & Leviathan:Libraries and GovernmentInformation in the Age of Big Data

Gleacher Center, ChicagoApril 25-25, 2014

CRL MISSION

1) collect unique and little-known humanities, science, and social sciencedocuments.

2) preserve records of the past and the present for researchers of the future.

3) connect researchers, libraries, and institutions to vital source materials.

CRL TODAYCRL holds approximately five million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives,government publications, and other traditional and digital resources for research andteaching.

Current acquisitions emphasize materials produced outside the United States,especially publications and archives from developing regions.

CRL STATUSPrimary source research is intensifying

CRL is now at 199 members – 26 new ones since 2010.

CRL is now home to NERL Consortium

In the coming year, CRL will make major investments in:

Digitization

Licensing (with NERL, CRL now represents over 300 US and Canadian libraries =Leverage)

Preservation

CRL AWARD WINNERSAccess winner: http://blogs.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/

In research: http://digital.library.ucla.edu/aqueduct/

In teaching: http://americainclass.org/

LEVIATHAN: LIBRARIES ANDGOVERNMENT INFORMATIONIN THE AGE OF BIG DATATake-aways

1) William Mayer at NARA: “Learning is a human to human moment.”

“Computers do what we tell them to do. Focus on people.”

2) We need both access based and preservation based business models

3) FDLP was designed to do very specific things with tangible items. The challengeswe face are greater.

http://www.crl.edu/leviathan