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What Might the Future Hold? What Should We be Thinking about?

What Might the Future Hold? What Should We be Thinking about?. Betsy Wilson University of Washington Orbis Cascade Alliance Summer Meeting July 12, 2011. Collaboration Journey. Unique purpose Wider and deeper Well positioned. The Lone Ranger is Dead. Collaboration in Libraries.

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What Might the Future Hold? What Should We be Thinking about?

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  1. What Might the Future Hold? What Should We be Thinking about? Betsy Wilson University of Washington Orbis Cascade Alliance Summer Meeting July 12, 2011

  2. Collaboration Journey Unique purpose Wider and deeper Well positioned

  3. The Lone Ranger is Dead

  4. Collaboration in Libraries Uniquely positioned In our DNA Collective response High tolerance for ambiguity

  5. Radical Collaboration The research library should be redefined as a multi-institutional entity. The current model of the library as a stand-alone service provider to the university is obsolescent. Council on Library and Information Resources. No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century. 2008

  6. Multi-institutional Approaches

  7. Orbis Cascade Alliance:Strategic Agenda

  8. Distributed, retrospective print journal repository program • Collaborative and sustainable journal archiving program • Transform the manner in which print journal collections are housed and managed

  9. HathiTrust • A partnership of the major research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.

  10. Web Scale Scale matters

  11. Singular Strengths • Trusted • Authoritative • Service-driven • Transcend boundaries • Space • Engagement • Transformation • Power of Place

  12. Collaboration is complex Continuous organizational development Cultural transformation Invest in people Relationships are key There will be bumps in the road Lessons Learned

  13. You Can’t Go Home Again • Paradox in productive collaboration • Sustained time and effort • Create the future together

  14. Listen to Marlon (aka Brutus) There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, Omitted, all the voyage of their life, Is bound in shallows and in miseries Julius Caesar (Act IV, Scene iii)

  15. Lead onto Fortune

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