Disruptive Innovation in Libraries

Disruptive Innovation in Libraries

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  Disruptive innovation and academiclibrary management Maitrayee Ghosh, PhD Fulbright-Nehru Post doctoral fellow 2013-14 20th January, 2017
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  Our Missions  Toembrace creativity and flexibility to drive the cutting edge technology  To foster a transformative environment  To provide leadership in innovative services and facilities for the benefit of users  To provide and teach access to resources that are relevant to academic programs
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  Defining disruptive innovation Innovationis the introduction of new product, service, technology, administrative practice or significant improvement to an existing product, service, or technology. Disruptive innovation is the technology that changes the existing business model, or users expectations. Academic libraries and scholarly communication are likely to be disrupted by new technologies and their application.
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  Innovation in Libraries Themost important innovation within the library profession: - Change in attitude - The way information is delivered to patrons. Service innovation is academic library’s response to digital disruption! Reinvention and rethinking of strategies, policies, culture, system and work processes.
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   Participatory learning Space for collaboration and understanding from a variety of sources. Instead of being an archive, libraries are becoming a learning Library to Learning commons Users no longer need a library simply for access!
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  Space planning andre-purposes  Alter the traditional shape of libraries;  Identify ineffective use of space, considered unfriendly by students  Reduce  Redesign  Reassign  Rewrite New skills sets are required to mediate the digitally oriented academic library environment.
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  Specify library's vision,goals, opportunities and initiatives to maximize the benefits of digital investments. E-Research support infrastructures, resources and Services Promotion of digital literacy, information literacy and e-research literacy Digital strategies
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   Identification ofvulnerabilities and threat assessment related to library’s information assets  Decision making on counter measures for prevention, mitigation and recovery. Risk Management
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  Integrated Risk managementteam
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  Digital Rights Management DRMis an access control technology; ensures that only authorized users (with appropriate keys) can access the content, and content will remain unchanged throughout the process. DRM focuses on security like encryption and watermarking; limit copying, printing and sharing of e- books.
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  E-theses and copyright Modelsfor copyright enforcement and management:  Right holder centric model  Cooperative model The traditional licensing mechanism (righter-holder-centric) is replaced by cooperative model via open access program enables the cooperation between copyright holders and online users.
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  Copyright issues relatedto publication of theses Theses & dissertations are copyrighted Copyrights don’t have to register to be ‘official’ Need permission to use others work(third party) Can’t use things under “fair use Need permission to use authors own previously- published work publish or post a copy of publish dissertat ion Post in CCC or publish Author can assign the copyright to publisher Get Permission in writing
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  Library as aplace  Encourage Digital learning environment Size of physical collection is no longer relevant; access to e- content anywhere, anytime is the new bench mark.  Provide expert help, and seamless access to information in a supportive high-tech environment that empowers the community to evaluate, and ethically use information to promote academic excellence.  Support collaborative and individual study spaces for information retrieval and manipulation to support the entire process of scholarly inquiry and technology-based research
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  Concluding remarks The dominanceof academic libraries in the realm of academic information has been eroded by digital technologies. Libraries are struggling for an identity in the era of disruptive change. Disruptive product or services enable users to get an important job done, otherwise impossible to do satisfactorily with current solutions.
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  Concluding remarks Academic librariesnecessitate a change in service model. They have to focus on: Outreach - bring the library to the public; Creation of new knowledge products such as subject portals and subject specific websites to support teaching and learning; re-purposing of physical spaces and expansion of virtual spaces to support new pedagogies.
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  We achieve teamworkthrough … Respecting one another as individuals; contributing, cooperating and communicating to meet library goals. If a qualified librarian is replaced with someone who’s just an expert in technology, the institution is losing half of the role.