This page contains at least two recommended readings from each member of the strategic planning group.

 

UCSC Strategic Academic Plan (final February 2008 version)

UC Berkeley Library Strategic Planning: Recommended Readings 

 

 

 

An excellent new CLIR report for academic libraries:  No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century"

http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub142abst.html

(RB)

 

 

Lewis, David  "A Strategy for Academic Libraries in First Half of the Twenty-first Century" College & Research Libraries 68(5), September, 2007 (RB)

 http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/backissues2007a/crlsept07/Lewis07.pdf 

 

 

A Vision of Student Today by Michael Wesch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=user

Video summarizes characteristics of students today: How they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, and beyond. Created by Wesch in collaboration with students at Kansas State University. (AM)

 

Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester edited by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/downloadables/Foster-Gibbons_cmpd.pdf (AM)

(also available on the University of Rochester Digital Repositiory in PDF chunks: http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-4436 (RLD)

 

2008 Horizon Report New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf (gc)

Time-to-Adoption: One Year of Less

 Grassroots video

 Collaboration webs

Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years

 Mobile Broadband

 Data Mashups

Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years

 Collective Intelligence

 Social Operating Systems

 

Net Generation Students and Libraries in Educating the Net Generation, edited by Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/pub7101m.pdf (gc)

Characteristics of Net Gen students:

 They are used to working in multiple media

 They prefer experimentation over documentation

 They work in groups

 They multitask

 They want electronic full text

 They prefer global searching in a generic information environment over iterative searching in specialized but separate information environments that libraries typically offer

 They may lack the skills to critically assess the authority of information found on the Web

 They use graphics and other visual cues to interpret relevance of web-based resources

 They seldom use library subject guides

 They may be more likely to use subject guides that are integrated into the campus learning management system

Net Gen Learning Spaces

 Provide individual and group learning spaces

 Support access to and creation of information resources

 Offer staff and faculty development and training

 Provide staff with a range of technology and information skills

 Effectively market services to all groups of potential users

 Integrate physical spaces and services with virtual spaces and services

 Build community

 

Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values EDUCAUSE Quarterly, v.29:4 pp. 4-6 http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0640.pdf (gc)

Technology disconnects

 Insufficient integration of 2.0 tools

 Insufficient support for file-sharing and work-sharing

 Insufficient preparation for supporting handheld computing

Policy disconnects

 Lack of support for multi-media

 Library resources segregated from major student information sources

Opportunities

 Support experimental learning

 Present library resources in a way comfortable and familiar to net-savvy students

 Explore alternatives to traditional BI

 Satisfy instant gratification expectation of users

 Make the online library experience as useful as the in-person experience

 Preserve born-digital information

 

Welcome Freshmen, Have an iPod NYT 8/20/08 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/technology/21iphone.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1219338002-as6BA/H48Lpum/fS0OSLGw (gc)

iPhones and iPod Touches are being provided to students at several universities this year. The devices are useful for instant communication about campus emergencies or course changes and can be used for real-time polling in class. There is great potential to use these things to push learning outside the classroom. Conversely, such a distinguished defender of the Socratic Method as Robert S. Summers is aghast at the prospect of any gadget that might tempt the unwary student into inattention.

 

Plastic Fantastic http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/09/09/plastic-fantastic/ (gc)

This is what comes after the Kindle. Annotatable, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capable inexpensive e-reader.

 

Planning for California’s Future: The State’s Population Is Growing, Aging and Becoming More Diverse California Budget Project, Budget Backgrounder, via UC Berkeley Institute for Government Studies Library http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=446 (This article is probably most helpful for those working on demographic, budgetary and socio-cultural aspects of our strategic plan) (LO)

 

No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century Council on Library and Information Resources (74 pages) http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub142abst.html From abstract: "...challenges and opportunities that libraries are likely to face in the next five to ten years, and how changes in scholarly communication will affect the future library." (LO)

 

Millennial disconnects with publishers and libraries (lh)

By Richard Sweeney, Elsevier Library Connect, 10th Annual Digital Libraries Symposium, http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcn/0602/lcn060205.html

 

Past five: weblog (Sept. 11, 2007, Millennials) by Tom Gimbel, founder and CEO of The LaSalle Network, a $15 million staffing and recruiting firm based in Chicago.

http://pastfive.typepad.com/pastfive/millennials/ (lh)

 

Excerpt from the meeting on “Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data” of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Services in which Swarthmore Professor Timothy Burke describes his information needs and behaviors:

In identifying the different research approaches he takes for different information needs, Timothy Burke’s presentation underscores the reality that one person can embody different levels of expert and novice knowledge at any given time. Burke’s various research personae each have a different purpose in seeking information and, thus, different information seeking behaviors, based primarily on his domain expertise. Using Markey’s terminology, a university professor might be a double expert in searching for information within his narrow academic specialization, but a double novice in helping a student with a research project outside that specialization. Therefore, Burke identifies seven “tools” that would assist him (in all his personae) in performing research, some of which mirror Markey’s enhancements:

 

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the ability to recognize clusters of knowledge production (persons and subjects),

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the lineage of publications (i.e., how they exist in chronological relationship to each other),

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the ability to make previously unknown connections among resources,

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the ability to make serendipitous or unforeseen connections among topics,

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identification of the authoritativeness of sources,

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the popularity/amount of use of a resource, and

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the sociology of knowledge, for example the "pedigree" of authors and publishers.

 

 

Transforming the Library: The Case for Libraries to End Incremental Measures and Solve Problems for Their Campuses Now, By Janice Simmons-Welborn, Georgie Donovan, and Laura Bender, Library Administration & Management, vol.22, no. 3, Summer, 2008.

http://www.ala.org/ala/lama/lamapublications/laandm/lamhome/22n3/22n3_simmons-welburn.pdf (KMc)

 

Top-Ten Teaching and Learning Issues 2007: Creating a culture of evidence tops the list of important issues as the academic technology profession moves to an "Instruction 2.0" world EDUCAUSE Quarterly, v.30:3 pp. 15-22

By John P. Campbell, Diana G. Oblinger, and Colleagues

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/TopTenTeachingandLearning/44831

OR

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0732.pdf

(ST)

 

Understanding Research Behaviors, Information Resources, and Service Needs of Scientists and Graduate Students: A Study by the University of Minnesota Libraries - Report prepared by Cecily Marcus, with Stephanie Ball, Leslie Delserone, Amy Hribar, and Wayne Loftus - June 2007

https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/5546/1/Sciences_Assessment_Report_Final.pdf

(CH)

 

Taming Technolust: Ten Steps for Planning in a 2.0 World Ref User Serv Q v47:4 Summ 2008 pp314-317

by Michael Stephens

http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/results/external_link_maincontentframe.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/results/results_common.jhtml.29

(st)

 

Maximizing Campus Impact: Lessons from the Trenches a 2008 NMC White Paper

Based on conversations with NMC Directors, this guide addresses what it means for a center to have impact; describes ways to identify impact; and presents seven strategies for maximizing impact.

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Maximizing_Campus_Impact.pdf

(DK)

 

How Students Develop Online Learning Skills EDUCAUSE Quarterly, v.30:1 pp. 62-65

Successful online students share their secrets for getting the most from online classes, focusing on time management, active participation, and practice

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM07110.pdf

(DK) Focuses on online students but still useful information

 

Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education, an Ithaka report by Ross Housewright and Roger Schonfeld

http://www.ithaka.org/research/faculty-and-librarian-surveys

From the introduction, "In order to be effective, librarians, information technologists, academic administrators, and others concerned with facilitating research, teaching, and scholarly communication in a changing world must keep up with the complex and evolving needs and attitudes of scholars."

(NL)

 

Comfort and Convenience? Why Students Choose Alternatives to the Library. Libraries and the Academy, v7n3(277-293). 2007.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v007/7.3vondracek.html

Oregon State U study that included student preferences of non-library or infrequent library users. Their research confirmed the OCLC study that found students turn to a professor/TA/instructor first for research help. However, librarians were as likely to be consulted as friends or family (the OCLC study had librarians down farther on the list).

(CC)

 

Trends in Higher Education. Society for College and University Planning. January 2008. http://www.scup.org/knowledge/ttw.html SCP

 

Report of the WASC Visiting Team. Educational Effectiveness Review to the University of California, Santa Cruz. February 28, 2005. In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Reaffirmation of Accreditation. (CC) "Library" (not our specific library) is only mentioned once, and as an intellectual gathering spot more than anything.

WASC_EEReview_2005.pdf

 

Darnton, Robert. \"The Library in the New Age.\" The New York Review of Books. Vol.55, Number 10. June 12, 2008. (CB)