Reclaim Wonder: Imagined Futures of Resource Sharing

Panel presentation for Resource Sharing In Tomorrowland for ALA Annual 2016. Panelists included Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Gabriel Gardner, Dennis Massie, Kurt Munson, and Heidi Nance-Bajorek.

Transcript

1. Reclaim Wonder Imagined Futures of Resource Sharing Resource Sharing In Tomorrowland, ALA Annual 2016 Angela Galvan | Systems Librarian | SUNY Geneseo
2. This is a mech. Related: robots, dinosaurs, and rocks are still the coolest. Alien tripod illustration by Alvim Corréa, from the 1906 French edition of H.G. Wells' ‘War of the Worlds’.
3. In this talk… • The distributed future and scholarly communications. • Fearless, flexible imagination. • Anticipatory choice and integration.
4. “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” -William Gibson
5. By distributing scholarship, we are distributing the future.
6. The future is deliberate. Hendrik Wijdeveld's 'Cityless City' (1927)
7. We make the future of libraries. Not futurists. Not thought leaders. Us.
8. That makes the future kind of scary, no? 'All good things of this earth flow into the city’ - Pericles' Funeral Oration, via BioShock
9. Real Adult Fears
10. ‘A Forecast’ (1910) http://www.historyhappenshere.org/node/6810 Imagine better
11. Chances are, ILL can do that. Discovery Reformatting Metadata Subject expertise Scholarly communication Resource management Copyright User experience Logistics Collection development
12. Resource sharing is wish fulfillment.
14. Everything we do erodes, maintains, or strengthens connections. flickr.com/photos/erikcharlton/393164221
15. This means you care about systems. This is wish fulfillment for you, too.
16. Because we kcare, the future is more integrated. Nicola Diulgheroff's 'Lighthouse to Celebrate the Victory of the Machine' (1927)
17. Chances are, ILL is doing it anyway. Discovery Reformatting Metadata Subject expertise Scholarly communication Resource management Copyright User experience Logistics Collection development
18. Thank you. Find me @panoptigoth, be part of the future today with IDS Project, or come be our next director!