Disruptive Innovation in Libraries

Disruptive innovation and

academic library management

Maitrayee Ghosh, PhD

Fulbright-Nehru Post doctoral fellow 2013-14

20th January, 2017

Our Missions

To embrace 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

Defining disruptive innovation

Innovation is 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.

Innovation in Libraries

The most important innovation within thelibrary profession:

- Change in attitude- The way information is delivered to

patrons.Service innovation is academic library’sresponse to digital disruption!Reinvention and rethinking of strategies,policies, culture, system and workprocesses.

Participatory learning

Space for

collaboration and

understanding from a

variety of sources.

Instead of being an

archive, libraries are

becoming a learning

commons!

Library to Learning commonsUsers no longer need a library simply for access!

Space planning and re-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.

Specify library's vision, goals,opportunities and initiatives tomaximize the benefits of digitalinvestments.

E-Research support infrastructures, resources and Services

Promotion of digital literacy,information literacy and e-researchliteracy

Digital strategies

Identification of vulnerabilities and

threat assessment related to library’s

information assets

Decision making on counter

measures for prevention, mitigation

and recovery.

Risk Management

Integrated Risk management team

Digital Rights Management

DRM is 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.

E-theses and copyright

Models for copyright enforcement and management:

Right holder centric model Cooperative model

The traditional licensing mechanism(righter-holder-centric) is replaced bycooperative model via open accessprogram enables the cooperation betweencopyright holders and online users.

Copyright issues related to 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 workpublish

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 a place

Encourage Digital learning environmentSize of physical collection is no longer relevant; access to e-content anywhere, anytime is the new bench mark.

Provide expert help, and seamless accessto information in a supportive high-tech environment thatempowers the community to evaluate, and ethically useinformation to promote academic excellence.

Support collaborative and individual studyspaces for information retrieval and manipulation tosupport the entire process of scholarly inquiry andtechnology-based research

Concluding remarks

The dominance of academic libraries in therealm of academic information has beeneroded by digital technologies.

Libraries are struggling for an identity in theera of disruptive change.

Disruptive product or services enable usersto get an important job done, otherwiseimpossible to do satisfactorily with currentsolutions.

Concluding remarks

Academic libraries necessitate a change inservice model. They have to focus on:

Outreach - bring the library to the public;

Creation of new knowledge products such assubject portals and subject specific websitesto support teaching and learning;

re-purposing of physical spaces andexpansion of virtual spaces to support newpedagogies.

We achieve teamwork through …

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.