Blowing Library Bubbles 2.0

Mark Leggott, University of PEI/discoverygarden inc.APLA Conference, May 2013

How is your library affected by budget

disruption?

Disrupt or be Disrupted

Libraries Need to be Hyper-Local

ANDGlobal Collaborators

Copyright Bubble

From now on universities can expect their funding to be cut, not increased. They need to disrupt

themselves, or be disrupted, to survive. The years ahead will be the worst of times for higher

eduction - but also the best.

Margaret Wente: Globe & Mail, Feb 4, 2012

And that is where many university leaders agree: If they are to weather the storm, they must face up to their weaknesses and stop spending money on them.

James Bradshaw: Globe & Mail, Feb 4, 2012

Biggest worries about copyright?

Risk Averse

Pay Many Times Over

Issues

Solutions

Become Non-Signatories

Use 6-Part Test

Golden Rule

Less Fair!

Commercial!

Multiple Copies/Wide Distribution!

Entire Work/Substantial Excerpt!

Compete with Original!

Confidential/Unpublished!

Charitable/Educational!

Single Copy/Limited Distribution!

Limited/Insubstantial Excerpt!

No Detriment to Original!

Published/In Public Interest!

Play Bubble

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen.  On the

contrary, when we are playful with each other we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence.  It is, in fact,

seriousness that closes itself to consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility.  To be serious is to press for a specified

conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.

James Carse

“Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!”

Miss Frizzle

How is your library playful?

Issues

Seriousness tends to overshadow

Play generally not valued

Solutions

Embrace a Hacker

Install a MakerSpace

Partnerships between libraries

OpenTextbook Bubble

When MIT first announced its Open Courseware (OCW) initiative in October 2002, it shook the business model of traditional higher education

institutions ... Fast-forward to October 2012: OERs have failed to significantly affect the day-to-day teaching

of the vast majority of higher education institutions.

Gerd Jortemeyer: Educause Review Online, Feb 26, 2013

Why do publishers create so many

editions?

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225

450

675

900

325 559 812

Housing

Tuition

Textbooks

% Increase in Prices in Last 35 Years

Issues

Discoverability/Acquisition

No Professional Credit

Last Mile - Context Freedom

Solutions

Develop HTML5 Platform

Education

Partnerships with Library

Pilots

• 1st-Year Chemistry (CalTech CC text)

• 1st-Year Business (boundless.com)

• Various levels of interest in an open text approach to English courses

Open Source Bubble

How many use open source software?

Open tools and approaches are critical to the ability of libraries to succeed in the next

decade. Whether open source to build local expertise and capability, open data to share

findings and better society, open textbooks to reduce the cost of education, or open labs to reach out to the larger community - open will

define the 21st century library.

Questions