Reclaim Wonder
Imagined Futures of Resource Sharing
Resource Sharing In Tomorrowland, ALA Annual 2016
Angela Galvan | Systems Librarian | SUNY Geneseo
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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’.
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In this talk…
● The distributed future and scholarly
communications.
● Fearless, flexible imagination.
● Anticipatory choice and integration.
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“The future is already
here — it's just not
very evenly
distributed.”
-William Gibson
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By distributing scholarship, we are
distributing the future.
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The future is
deliberate.
Hendrik Wijdeveld's 'Cityless City' (1927)
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We make the future of
libraries. Not futurists.
Not thought leaders.
Us.
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That makes the
future kind of
scary, no?
'All good things of this earth flow into the city’
- Pericles' Funeral Oration, via BioShock
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Real Adult Fears
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‘A Forecast’ (1910)
http://www.historyhappenshere.org/node/6810
Imagine better
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Chances are, ILL can do that.
Discovery
Reformatting
Metadata
Subject expertise
Scholarly communication
Resource management
Copyright
User experience
Logistics
Collection development
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Resource sharing is
wish fulfillment.
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No content
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Everything we
do erodes,
maintains,
or strengthens
connections.
flickr.com/photos/erikcharlton/393164221
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This means you care
about systems. This is
wish fulfillment for you,
too.
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Because we
kcare, the future
is more
integrated.
Nicola Diulgheroff's 'Lighthouse to Celebrate the
Victory of the Machine' (1927)
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Chances are, ILL is doing it anyway.
Discovery
Reformatting
Metadata
Subject expertise
Scholarly communication
Resource management
Copyright
User experience
Logistics
Collection development
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Thank you.
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