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XII Jornadas Españolas de Documentación / EBLIDA-NAPLE Conference 2011 in Cooperation with FESABID / XVI Jornadas Bibliotecarias de AndalucíaMálaga 25, 26 y 27 de Mayo de 2011

Libraries and the Profession: Our Way Forward

Ingrid ParentIFLA President-Elect 2011-2013

FESABID ’11May 26-27, 2011Málaga, Spain


“Change is no longer a consequence but an acceptance

of what we must do to remain relevant.”


The Changing Nature of Power

Access to Digitized Information Democratized

Power Shifts


Trends in Technology

• Google• Social Networking• Cloud computing • Next 12 months: Ebooks/Mobiles• 2-3 years out: Augmented Reality• 4-5 years out: Learning Analytics


“People come to libraries to interact – with technology, with

librarians, and each other.”


Trends in User Perception

Community Value

Libraries still equal books


Trends in User Perception

Faster and easier preferred over trustworthy and accurate



Time to review our options

&

Question our assumptions


What are we doing to enhance information

literacy?


What are we doing to promote community

engagement?


What are we doing to create exceptional work environments?


What are we doing to measure our return on

investment?


IFLA: Strategic Directions 2010-2015

1.Empowering libraries to enable user communities to have equitable access to information2.Building the strategic capacity of IFLA and its members3.Transforming the profile and standing of the profession4.Representing the Interests of IFLA’s members and their users throughout the world


Libraries: A Force for Change

• Inclusion

• Transformation

• Innovation

• Convergence


Our Collective Challenge

Putting Principle Into Practice

Education

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