Here’s my doodle of the way I’d like to see our academic library in 2010.
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Academic Library 2010 uploaded onFlickr May 12, 2007 by sirexkat
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May 12, 2007 at 16:55
That is so cool – social networking, library style.
May 13, 2007 at 15:02
Why is there still a reference desk under “talk with us”? That’s one of the things libraries are getting rid of for more effective service delivery!
May 13, 2007 at 15:24
True Matthew..two weeks ago when I was arranging books in a shelf in front of the ref desk, I got more questions than when I sat behind a desk 1 metre away…but we are only talking 3 years.
I’d love to have floorwalkers wearing fluoro bibs so they could chat to people to help them out where they needed it. I’m not sure my colleagues would go for that. My library installed a new desk two weeks ago, so I think it will be more than three years before we can get rid of it…..dreaming on….
I’m also not sure my doodle emphasises us as supplier of online resources, or of authentication like it should…and ooops…I forgot to include an OPAC…maybe we could just somehow make the catalogue search part of our regular pages so that people don’t feel like they go to a different “place”.
May 14, 2007 at 13:53
Great drawing Kathryn! I think that would make a catchy LIW poster – anyone from ALIA marketing division out there?
May 16, 2007 at 12:59
I like this image so much I have printed it off and stuck it on my office wall!