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Slide Show
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Annual State of the Library Address
2006
Community Spaces
and a
Virtual Destination
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Libraries in the Digital Age
  • Quality learning spaces
  • Creating metadata
  • Offering virtual library services
  • Teaching information literacy
  • Managing resource licenses
  • Collecting and digitizing archival materials



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Public Use Dec. 04 - 05
  • Circulation +9%, 99,590
  • Entry Count +15% 35,401
  • Website Hits +67% 17,170
  • New Borrowers -22 591/754
  • RC Library Cards 34,242
  • Pennington County Cards 7,592
  • In-house Browses -12% 9,532
  • Materials Added +31% 3,718





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 Quality Learning Spaces for all ages and activities
  • 1st Floor Space Use Plan
  • Acoustic Remedy Plan
  • New Roof
  • HVAC Upgrades


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"Library space in prime locations..."
  • Library space in prime locations will still store book collections, but how much more and how will such space be repurposed is less known.
  • It remains unclear how the physical library space will play in context with virtual communities.


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Library Materials
High interest, high use, multiple formats
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"Precisely what kind of organizing..."
  • Precisely what kind of organizing principles will eventually be employed and what role humans will play in the process are still being discovered-these are key aspects of the science in the field of library and information science.


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"Within the next decade"
  • Within the next decade, published information of all types will increase in licenses digitization. This circumstance will evolve the collection development process and will shift the librarian’s role more toward managing licenses. What must be determined is how large and how important this role will be.


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SERVICE DELIVERY
Meeting people where they are
  • Open 7 days a week year round
  • 24/7 virtual reference services
    • Computer Access  +48% 3,188 hours
  • Wireless computer access
  • Drive-up Service window
  • Homebound Delivery Service
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"Precisely where library services as..."
  • Precisely where library services as a response to individual questions fit into the emerging knowledge environment is undetermined. And how the traditional and emerging  services will sustain libraries and librarians for the future is unknown.


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INFORMATION LITERACY
Finding what you want, when you want it
A Challenging Agenda
  • Computer Classes
  • Homework Help (tutor.com)
  • Ask a librarian
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"It is unclear whether the..."
  • It is unclear whether the continued migration of information to the Web will still result in a less-complicated environment with a reduced need for information literacy or whether placing everything together in one environment will make the need greater.


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What can we do to meet the demands of the Digital Library?

RCPL Strategic Plan:
Public Awareness
Staff Training
Management Competencies
Partnerships
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Public Awareness
Meeting the demand for information awareness
  • Quality Learning Spaces
  • Traditional
  • Emerging
  • Niche - responding to market demand


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RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING OF STAFF
Support and training for quality services
  • Support for Continuing Education
  • Departmental competencies
  • Technology training
  • Safety training
  • Library resource training
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Management Competencies
  • Communication
  • Funding
  • Change Process
  • Conflict Management
  • Meeting Effectiveness
  • Written Documentation
  • Coaching
  • Delegation
  • Employee Performance and Recognition
  • Goal Setting
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PARTNERSHIPS
Delivering Services Together
  • General Beadle satellite site
  • Library Programming
    • Summer Reading Storybook Island
    • After School YMCA
  • Transportation Rapid Ride
  • State Library
  • South Dakota Association
  • Statewide Newspaper digitization
  • Oral history project




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THE FUTURE
On demand delivery, in-demand materials, comfortable community learning spaces