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A Look into the Future. Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. January 25, 2012. Topics to cover. Future of the Book Future of Libraries A Library with a Future. Where I Come F rom. Director of Hospital Library Director of Science and Engineering Library Director of Undergraduate Library
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A Look into the Future Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. January 25, 2012
Topics to cover • Future of the Book • Future of Libraries • A Library with a Future
Where I Come From • Director of Hospital Library • Director of Science and Engineering Library • Director of Undergraduate Library • Associate Dean of ARL library system • Dean of Library at Wake Forest University
Z Smith Reynolds LibraryWake Forest University • 6500 students including Undergrad, Medical, Law, Business, Divinity • 2 million volumes • 2,000 print journals, 50,000 e-journals • Open 140 hours/week • 53 library faculty/staff • $ 7 million budget • 2011 ACRL award
Library as Gatekeeper Of Books Where We’ve Been
2005 OCLC Report “Books” is the Library BRAND
The Future is Digital Digital content: • Journals (went first in scholarly world more than a decade ago) • Newspapers (fastest popular media to fall) • Books (tipping fast right now) • Media (with mega storage needs) • Data (next frontier for academic libraries) • Publishing (office of digital publishing at Wake)
Two Different Constituencies Students Faculty
Our Mission The mission of the Z Smith Reynolds Library Is to help our students, faculty and staff SUCCEED!
Image Credits • Books: http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/304220561/ • sizes/m/in/photostream/ • Terrace: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/ • 0,8599,2079800,00.html • Gate: http://www.art.com/products/p12209923-sa-i1584106/alan-blaustein-hampton-gate.htm • Jump: uploaded to Flickr on October 6, 2008by rosiehardy • Tipping point:uploaded to Flickr on April 10, 2009 by Max Z • Footprints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kfergos/37070037/ • Baby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986/ • sizes/m/in/photostream/ • Old men: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicnac/3121705656/ • sizes/z/in/pool-554700@N23/ • Gutenberg: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/ • gutenberg/
Lynn Sutton, Ph.D. Dean, Z Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 27109 suttonls@wfu.edu