Subject: Mohican 2012: OLC's Tech Services Retreat
From: "Christman, Andrea" <andrea.christman_at_sinclair.edu>
Date: 5/31/2012 1:35 PM
Dr. Bradford Lee Eden will be the keynote speaker at the Ohio Library
Council’s Mohican 2012: Radical Opportunities, New Trends for Technical
Services retreat, Oct. 2-3 at Mohican State Park Lodge and Conference
Center in Loudonville. Visit http://olc.org/techservicesretreat.asp to
learn more about the retreat.
Make plans to attend the retreat and hear Dr. Eden’s keynote address
entitled Transformative Change: Why the Status Quo has Got to Go. The
current economic downturn, along with the ever-expanding and competitive
nature of digital information and copyright challenges, has produced a
new set of mantras for the management of libraries. The first mantra is:
if and when the economy recovers, library staffing never will. The
second mantra is: transformative change is necessary in libraries and
their organizational cultures. The third mantra is: library staff must
strategically think like library administrators, and redirect and retool
themselves for working in the digital future. The fourth mantra is:
standing still and doing nothing is the same as a flat library budget;
in the end, you keep losing ground and eventually become obsolete.
Technical services staff have the skill set and the experience to assist
libraries in the move from the analog into the digital environment, but
the change has to happen NOW.
Building on a presentation given at the recent Charleston Conference,
Dr. Eden will discuss how managed risk and working in a constant beta
mode is necessary for libraries to survive into the future. New cloud
systems and infrastructures must be explored for data management and
manipulation, digitization of unique local resources must become a
priority, understanding the overall political and economic realities of
one's local environment is crucial, and assisting in new initiatives
like marketing and digital data curation are essential for long-term
viability. Finally, an overall sense of perspective and balance in one's
personal life must take priority over everything else.
Dr. Eden is Dean of Library Services at Valparaiso University. He is the
editor of OCLC Systems & Services: Digital Library Perspectives
International and The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, and is on
the editorial boards of Library Hi Tech and The Journal of Film Music.
He has a masters and Ph.D. degrees in musicology, as well as an MS in
library science. He publishes in the areas of metadata, librarianship,
medieval music and liturgy, and J.R.R. Tolkien. His two books Innovative
Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services: Paths for the
Future and Case Studies (Libraries Unlimited, 2004) and More Innovative
Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services (Libraries
Unlimited, 2009) are used and cited extensively in the field.
Andrea Christman
Technical Services and Systems Librarian
Sinclair Community College
444 W. Third St.
Dayton, OH 45402
937-512-4513
andrea.christman_at_sinclair.edu
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