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the application of better solutions
that meet new requirements or
unarticulated needs
Maryville, S (1992). "Entrepreneurship in the Business Curriculum".
Journal of Education for Business. Vol. 68 No. 1, pp. 27-31.
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Why Is Innovation Good?
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INNOVATI ON LIBR ARI ES
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Feature, Not A Bug
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Without Change, Stagnation
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Cycles, Not Paths
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Cycles, Not Paths
Process, Not Destination
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Cycles, Not Paths
Process, Not Destination
Verb, Not Noun
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“Institutions will try to preserve the
problem to which they are the solution.”
- Clay Shirky
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“Individuals in an institution will rise to
the level of their own incompetence.”
- The Peter Principle
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Aspen Report
Libraries in the Exponential Age
http://www.libraryvision.org/libraries_in_the_exponential_age
NOT LI NEAR
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Transformation
“Library innovation will transform the individual
and collective institutions, but more importantly, it
also will transform communities.”
—Libraries in the Exponential Age
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Edges
“The organizational culture of libraries (as is true for
most companies and movements) enables true
innovation to occur only on the edge of the organization
where staffs are less encumbered by expectations of
maintaining prescribed pathways. The challenge for
libraries is to shatter the organizational paradigm…”
ASPEN
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Structures
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An organization's structure
reveals its priorities
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Library
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Technology
Material Services
Public Services
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Technology
Material Services
Public Services
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Technology
Material Services
Public Services
Acquisitions
Archives
Stacks
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Technology
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Acquisitions
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Who’s In Charge?
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Who’s In Charge?
Who Can Change?
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Options For Structure
• Bureaucratic
• Functional
• Divisional
• Matrix
• Flat
• Team
• Network
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Structure = Power
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Personnel
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INNOVATI ON LIBR ARI ES
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Human Capital
“Technology must become a core competency
for libraries, not simply a service offered to
patrons…technology must be joined by new
thinking on the development of human capital in
the community and in the library.”
ASPEN
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GRIFFEY
Farmers Vs Miners
http://jasongriffey.net/wp/2011/04/08/librarianship-and-farming-vs-mining/
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Nex-Gen Use Metrics for Libraries
News Challenge for Libraries Grant Recipient
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Nex-Gen Use Metrics for Libraries
http://measurethefuture.net
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PROCESS NOT PRODUCT
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Innovation
Needs…
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Time
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Power
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Resources
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DESTROY OR BE DESTROYED
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Disruption
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Radical Changes Are Coming
• Machine Learning (AI)
• Big Data
• Decentralization (Blockchain)
• New types of input
(Voice, Gesture, Thought)
• New types of output (VR, AR)
• Robots
• Biotech
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Voice/Chat/AI
•Machine Learning (AI)
•Big Data
•New types of input
“Institutions will try to preserve the
problem to which they are the solution.”
- Clay Shirky
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INNOVATI ON
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Thank You
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