Total Number of Participants: 46

1) What do you envision the role of our library should be in 2020?

    How will it support the learning mission of the college?

    How will its role differ from other learning activities on campus?

• For those of us not familiar with the specific usage characteristics of various repositories Penfield maintains it would be useful to have that data to respond to this question. Who uses what, and when, and how?  I often check out books; maintaining the stacks is important to me. But, many of the books I check out have not been checked out for many years. Perhaps such materials can be retrieved through SUNYConnect so that Penfield does not have the obligation to acquire and store books that do not circulate much.I assign online articles to my students regularly. Penfield's online resources are very helpful.  Students are beginning to understand that the Web is not a library; Penfield needs to keep educating students about the the variable quality of online resources and how the library should be the option of choice for research projects.

 • A balance between providing the most extensive global access to digital scholarship resources along with preserving print forms of our most important texts and historical documents.

 • As a depository for books its importance should decrease dramatically.  It's mission might increase in teaching students to do research on the internet and using various data bases and compouterized resources.

 • I envision the library as a partner to faculty and academic programs, a resource center that goes beyond the old-fashioned view of "keeper and guardian' of precios materials into a process-centered quality service that helps develop among students a lifelong commitment to learning

 • It will always be the focal point of research for students/staff.  The electronic resources will continue to be a vital part of that research.  They are the gateway.

 • I am not sure of the mission of the college since this has not been articulated to faculty. I have seen a laundry list of vague goals - be more interdiscilinary, send people to grad  school, etc, but it has not been articulated as a MISSION. Since we seem to want to stumble along doing whatever we are doing, I assume the library should just continue stumbling along with us.I would like a library with good resources but since we don't seem to be concerned with academic standards, I am not sure if that would be in line with the college's mission.

 • The library should be a resource center, and one of the key resources will be the staff who will be trained to assist students and faculty in getting information.Unlike the classroom, where student to student and student faculty interactions dominate, in the library the principal interactions will be between well-trained library staff and students/faculty.  There should be quite spaces where a person can read on their own (preferably a paper book).

 • I see the library as playing an integral role in helping students learn.

 • Role of the library:-Assist students and faculty with accessing information that will support their academic interests and research.  Access will be from inside and outside the library.-Instruct students about how to acquire and evaluation information.-Provide a comfortable, stimulating place for students and faculty to pursue information, meet with peers or advisors to discuss ideas, work on group projects, teach, or tutor, and quiet study.The library will support the learning mission of the college by being a place and department that promotes a learner centered environment, one that stimulates learning and protects everyone's civil liberties through free access to information and technology.How will its role differ from other learning activities on campus?  Hmmmmmm.  I think the library should be collaborating with other learning activities on campus, collaborating in a supportive way.  The only difference I can see is that the library will not be focused on a particular discipline but it will be an organization that supports all of the disciplines on campus in a fair and unbiased way.  The library will not be the student's or the faculty member's department and will not be their home/resident hall.  It will be a third place they can go for information, stimulation, relaxation, and learning.

 • The library should be the leader in Information Literacy for the campus, providing facilities and staff for the storage, dissemination, and access to information in all its formats.

 • First, one must define the goals for faculty and students. One of the changing goals is more research involvement - more publications for faculty and more presentations and involvement in research for students. The library will need to support this direction of change. Another area of change is the trend toward more online services and online courses. The library needs to be able to provide resources online. I wish/hope that the library will have a special center that assists faculty in doing research and scholarly work. This center needs some expert faculty members who can help other faculty members design research studies and provide guidance in completing them and getting them published. This is different than, but should be aligned with the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. The main goal of ORSP seems to be external funding. The main goal of the Faculty Research Center would be publication.

 • I see the Library as the focal point for research and the gathering of knowledge. I see it having a teaching role for students and staff in how to access all of the available forms of information and how to judge critically its worth. Librabry staff should work closely with all teaching staff to help students utilize the library resources and to use the library as a place of learning. The library will assist faculty in their own learninf pursuits as well. The Library has the sources and the "know how" to use them--spreading that knowledge distinguishes them from other learning activities.

 • The library should be a resource, both real and virtual, for the entire campus community. Many students, familiar only with searching for things using Google and other search engines, don't know how to a)properly search for things (correct terms to use); and b)how to sort out the 'good' from 'bad' sites as sources. I am hopeful that our librarians can continue this education, as well as aid students who have face to face questions.

 • I can see it being the "intellectual" hub of campus.  It will offer unique access to information from tangible materials such as books, references and periodicals, while also offering state of the technological means to access information and knowledge.I see it becoming more active and interactive, no longer simply the quiet space to read a book, however a space to fully engage in acquiring knowledge and participating in active learning.

 • Not only a repository for past and current scholarly works but also an interactive state-of-the-art communication center for real time and virtual research assistance for undergraduate and graduate students. An open door to inservice teachers who act as cooperating teachers for our preservice teachers in Oswego and neighboring counties.

 • The library should remain a quiet place for research , reading, learning. A social but academic venue with double the holdings.

 • We have only graduate courses and our concern is for continued growth in online support for off-campus students.   The library staff has been doing a great job with this and their support of our EAD CAS students is fantastic. 

 • The library of the future will be the center of the information literacy issues of the campus.  It will acquire more of a teaching function and less of simply a depository.  It will be responsible for working collaboratively with academic departments and other division of the campus in determining what the information needs of the institution will be and responding to those needs.  It will play a major part in working with departments to meet the information literacy needs of their students.  Libraries will have access to the levels of technology needed to maximize the provision of timely and high quality information to the campus.  Its role however will move from the provision of information to the assessment and synthesize of information.  This includes such issues as academic integrity and intellectual freedom.  The library will be integrated with other areas of campus in providing services and information but it will be the leader in the development and provision of materials, training, and support in the the increasingly important area of information literacy.

 • The library should include as many support systems as possible. This should include traditional resources like books, journals, newspapers, etc., as well as computers. Meeting space needs to be included in this model. I was heartened by the creation of the Lake Effect Cafe and hope for more such facilities in the future. Obviously the differences between the library and other learning activities on campus will differ depending upon disciplines in question, etc. In general, the library offers student a more independent, less structured learning environment than the classroom or lab. 

 • provide internal access to databases, on-line journal access, and repository (historical) access to hard copy sources such as journal holdings over many years.library instruction will focus on making our students aware of HOW to utilize computer-based information systems both now and for their future as life-long learners. library instruction will be about helping students to become computer literate and information (data-base) literate so that they can efficiently and effectively manage the growth in knowledge now and in the future

 • If we view a library as a storehouse of information, I believe that students and faculty will increasingly be able to achieve their information-retrieval objectives without physically visiting the library.  In 20 years our library will be technologically more capable of meeting the needs of researchers as well as leisure readers.  If true, resources should focus on building technological capacity and training others to take advantage of the new capacities as they emerge. 

 • The library is the intellectual core of the college. It serves as a resource for information for students and faculty.

 • The library is and should be a central focus of learning and serve as a central location for learning.

 • The library should be a center for information that is easily accessible to faculty and students on campus or off campus.

 • Because of the vast amount of information that will be available in 2020, the role of the library in accessing this information is vital.  I suspect the role of the librarians will become for educational in nature, in that they will be teaching us to find information.  Much of the hard copies of library materials will be online so the space needed to provide this function will be smaller.

 • The library should be the hub of learning activities on campus.  Insist upon it! --it's your rightful position.  Rather than assuming a "support" mission, I would envision a return to the idea of the university as a place where all the disciplines meet, and the library is the logical focal point thereof.  Get the faculty in there more; make sure  profs can comfortably lead groups of students to crucial places in the stacks without feeling as though they are disturbing the peace.  

 • The library should continue to give primacy to books. The learning mission of the college should be to provide literacy (of various kinds) and expand students' repetoire of concepts, categories and vocabulary, plus to model systematic, organized modes of thinking. Books are relevant to this mission by providing access to longer arguments than can be easily sustained conversationally and written vocabulary is much larger than conversational speech. The inability to name something often means that one is unable to intelligently think or assess that something.The library's role will differ by providing the resources other learning activities need to provide the services they make available.

 • Abstractly speaking, its role should remain about the same:an entity (not exclusively a _place_) dedicated to agglomerating information and helping people access thisinformation.  The library's traditional emphasis on _finding_ information, as opposed to interpreting it according to the light of one or another discipline, would continue to distinguish its role from that of other learning activities on campus.

 • It should support the mission of the college but also serve the community.

 • The library of 2020 should be a comprehensive repository of information that students and faculty can access at any time from wherever they are.  It will support the learning mission of the college as a tool for students to access the information and as a means to train students on the methods to keep themselves current for the rest of their lives.  Its role will differ from other learning activities primarily by the fact that its primary function will be accessible without regard to any specific place or time.

 • A place to support reading & learning

 • I enjoy working in libraries.  I think of libraries as myhome away from home.  I want the library to be a place wherestudents and faculty enjoy working.  I was fortunate enough to be a student at an institution that had many libraries.  I wish Oswego had more libraries.

 • Library should support technology for the technological/financial "have nots" of our student body.  Should be a center for research and relaxation.. more of a community center than an archive.  Should provide alternative spaces for instruction for faculty that want to teach in the building.  Students ideally should participate with, rather than be served by, their library.

 • The library could play a major role in the attempt to make the campus more learning-centered.  I see one aspect the library's role as that of assisting in learning how to sift through the abundance of information available, and determine the worth of that info.I think the library could play a role in educating the campus about diverse populations.  There could be a theme from another culture on a rolling basis and books, jounarls, and other items could be gathered in one place.  If this were coordinated with other groups on campus, it could be quite powerful.It might be good to also educate people that other cultures are not just ethnic, but able-bodiness, city/rural, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, etc.  Since the library is not a political group, it might get away with promoting attention to sensitive issues more easily.

 • I think by 2020 the library should be the powerhouse of campus. It should hold all resources avaliable to to students to help them succeed academically and socially. it should also house more faculty advisement offices and centers for learning and teaching.

 • The main role I see for the library is in providing access to information and teaching students how to search for that information.  Most journals are publishing on the web and the library should provide access (pay for on-line subscriptions) to them.  Students will be more apt to do research if they can print a copy of an article from the web (it's so easy)!

 • *Connecter/conduit of information and knowledge*Provide a variety of learning spaces and opportunities*A gathering place for spirited debate of issues and ideas, by both students and faculty. A space for the continuation of learning outside the formal classroom (more actual learning takes place in spaces outside the formal classroom than within, especially when it must be applied, as in conducting[library] research.****Most importantly, the hub or core of the campus academic community for learning and intellectual activity***

 • a. The library should support all research activities of students through the master's level (depth of collections need to go a bit beyond just u.g. levels), in all appropriate formats/media. "Support" means the whole gamut from selecting and acquiring the right stuff, to organizing it in the catalog and on web sites, to assisting and teaching students adn others how to carry out good research, and to document delivery vis ILL.b. The library should support faculty research related to course preparation fully and provide all major bibliographic resources relectronically for disciplines we teach here. This has budget implications.c. The library is also a physical place for individual and group study and interaction that the college should promote, so areas of the library need to be welcoming and appropriately set up for student, faculty and librarian use accordingly.d. The library has also long held the Local History collection and the College Archives, so this is presumably a role to be conintued in a manner that adequately meets college objectives.e. The library also has a role in the Oswego community at large as the biggest library in the county and beyond.  As a state institution, the library should continue to be a cultural resource that is able to invite and handle the information needs of the community as well as classes for prospective students (high school classes).

 • While some people envision a future of on-line or electric books, along with the journals that already are available in that format, I would caution the committee that it probably will never encompass all–or perhaps not even many–books already published.  There have been a lot since Gutenburg in the 1460s, and most every one of those is important in some research and scholarly context or another.  The traditional library with traditional books made of paper and ink is not going to go away.  Nor in the campus environment will we be at any point in any forseeable future without need for a building dedicated to research and study.  Students will still need to be able to get away from noisy residence halls to pursue their quest for knowledge.Enough said–libraries have been a unique setting and place for learning and scholarship; they will still be the primary place for that (at least in the humanities and social sciences) for a whole lot longer down the road than 2020.   

 • It's traditional role (as a source of research) will continue, but expand more into digital technology. I foresee it becoming more and more a place to actively exchange knowledge rather than retrieve it. 

 • The library should be the resource for acess to scolary and creative works. It should be a center for the promotion of humanities. It should provide instruction to students in pursuing scholarly research.

 • support learning - global sharing of resources - online research

 • The library will continue to serve as a quiet venue for study, a central location for research, and a repository of knowledge. However, with so many resources available online, accessible from any computer, much of the physical space of the library will be given over more specifically to the research and creative works of its faculty, students, and alumni. It will, in a sense, become the intellectual history of SUNY Oswego, a specialized library. 

 • I cannot envision the technology that will be available in 2020.  Fifteen years ago we did not have laptops, wireless capability, or cell phones.  I hope by 2020 the library will be able to help us wrestle with plagiarism.  With access to cyberspace, plagiarism seems to be  on the rise.

 • The library should provide instruction on how to access and validate material.  Most material will be available on the web, but the library can serve as a conduit.  Also the library could add discussion groups, meeting, pedagogy, etc.

 • As one of the buildings virtually everyone on campus uses at some point (the others being the Union and Culkin Hall), the library in 2020 should remain one of the "key" buildings on campus.  Obviously, the library will have to (either through new technology and/or creative financing) continue its vital role in supporting the mission of the college.  This should also entail making the library not just a repository for information, but a space for group work, and space for non-traditional library functions--readings, presentations, panel discussions, etc.  The difference from other learning activities will largely rest with the library's ability to adapt to new ideas and technologies.  In many ways, it should be the place to "try out" new ideas, methods, etc.

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2) What kind of place should it be? For example,How will the building spaces serve    students and faculty?

    What kind of spaces, learning resources, and activities should be part of the building?

    What kind of activities will happen virtually?

• The cafe is a great space because it is informal yet businesslike, and students continue to respect that. Entrance displays that focus on scholarly and written work by students and faculty make manifest academic effort by all. Recent art exhibits are a nice use of unused wall space, again, as a way to feature local artistic effort.

 • More inviting spaces for the students to study among books.

 • There should be increased computer terminals or at least connections or wireless access.  There should probably be more librarians trained to help students access information and fewer books.  The library might physically get a lot smaller.

 • What is most relevant is not what the place would be like but what culture and values it will spouse and model.  It is not unlikely that the core of its services will shift to be provided mostly on-line.  What is important is for the students to feel that they are welcomed, and that the librarians are indeed a valuble resource to them.

 • There must be a dual function for the library--it must allow for the people who use it to have access to the widest variety of materials as possible in a space that is most efficient for use.  It must also provide patrons with a quiet space for contemplation and work.

 • the building space should be friendly with special spaces for group study and individual study. The library should have a  space  with  computers and special  software --- photoshop, desk top publishing, total adobe suite, etc. where faculty and students  can work. rooms with computers should be available for instruction - by either library personnel of faculty. 

 • The building space should provide students and faculty with comfortable places to sit and read, as well as places to meet with others.  There should be reference books, and also paper copies of classics in the various fields - someone should be able to pick up a paper copy of Darwin's Origins, or Plato's Republic, or Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations.

 • I think we should focus more on having places to meet. The cafe is amazing.

 • I think I've explained my vision of how the building spaces will serve students and faculty in #1.  The kind of spaces the building provides should be diverse (i.e. places for group work, individual quiet space, technology rich space, technology free space, meeting space, teaching space, presentation space, display/exhibit space, and archival space).  The learning resources should include a variety of scholarly and recreational publications (electronic and otherwise), tools for organizing thoughts, creating search strategies, and retrieving text/images/audio.  Don't forget the people too; librarians, support staff, and technology professionals are essential learning resources.  Our facility should be able to flex to accommodate a variety of learning activities.  I suspect that some of these activities will depend on technology and some will not.  Some will involve large groups of people and some will be for just a few.  Space will need to be varied and flexible.

 • The building spaces must be inclusive of all study and instruction needs: quiet study, group study, classrooms for library instruction, lounge space, and computing (both wired and wireless).  The current facility fails in both the quantity and quality of group study space, and in providing truly quiet and truly comfortable spaces and furnishings. The library should also be interconnected to other buildings, so that one can access it without going outdoors.

 • Have special conference rooms for faculty to meet with a few students who are working on a research project.I personally really enjoy perusing the stacks of journals and soaking up the "scholarly" atmosphere of thelibrary. However, I like to be able to access journals electronically and print them out in my office or department. One thing that bothers me is that as a faculty member, I still have to pay for the photocopying I do in the library. I only photocopy journal articles for my research and I think that the university should not make me pay for these copies. Photocopies should be free for faculty members.

 •  A lot of research can happen virtually, but I think the Library should provide learning areas where people can gather to work on joint projects in an area that is not a classroom. There should be many smaller gathering spaces for getting together. There should be adequate rooms for intruction and for all of the non-virtual resources of the Library.

 • Comfortable space for students to "hang out" --the Lake Effect Cafe is a great start! The 24 hr study room is also a great space. Getting students *into* the building is important; I have had seniors who claim that they have never been in the library before.

 • Spaces need to be flexible and able to serve a variety of functions from quiet reading space to interactive space to do layouts and design presentations.I see dry erase boards that can also serve as room divders, ever improving wireless options, elmos, overheards and LCDs so students can bring their learnign to life.

 • In addition to the current environment one might envision an interactive forum center for teaching-research classes. An area open to all community members for wireless internet access as well as a special area for Oswego community historical studies.

 • It should be a welcoming space with a staff that is representative of the college community which includes employees and student workers of color. This space could accomodate a colloquia series, academic seminars, video conferences, etc.

 • It would be great to have an accessible web cam to link with off campus sites for sharing seminars etc. 

 • The library should be hub of intellectual activity on the campus.  There need to be spaces for students to congregate to work on projects in close proximity to resources.  It is the best choice for a Professional Development Center that will serve the needs of faculty and staff congruent with its role of information provider and evaluator.  This will include feedback on new and interesting resources that may be of use and that can be provided both virtually and through more traditional delivery systems.The library can also provide the necessary social component to learning that has been found to be so crucial to the learning process.  Students and faculty need space to work together in informal ways with support available.  The library is the obvious place for such things to occur.  If the idea of the library as the hub of intellectual activity   can be used to structure the design of the building that will be a powerful way to conceptualize what should happen in the building and how to provide the best ways to make it happen.  There are a number of good books (librarians will know these!) that relate space to the conceptual frameworks that they will embody.

 • See above. In general, I am rather skeptical of virtual learning. In my discipline, students often use the web to find material to include in papers, etc., and often this material is unattributed. 

 • kiosks and small resource tables with computer access and user-friendly seating.  perhaps more, but smaller, classroom for instruction--and certainly many places to access library data-bases, journals (electronic), and other computer housed resourcesmost of the classroom team-projects that require information access will be handled virtually and, it may be that students become computer/libarary literate by completing course "modules" electronically.  most students come to campus with advanced skills in this realm based on their public school experience.  we might even want to consider droping the Gen Educ requirement about computer literacy (CSC 101) in favor of a new one that is focused on information management and data based systems: Gen Educ would require each student to be literate in information technology 

 • The library's computer facility is already too small.  The students we have now have never known life without computers and will demand more resources to alleviate the crowding.  We will also need more smart classrooms -- not only with one computer in the front for the instructor but with workstations for each stusent in the classroom.

 • Students obviously use the new coffee shop to meet and to discuss group projects or study together.I would be in favor of keeping the carrels and the other study spaces in the library that already exist. Obviously much can now be accessed from computers outside the library. Nevertheless, the library should be a repository for our fine collections of monographs, periodicals, and other materials.

 • The building, in addition to securing library holdings and resources, should be a central location for learning activites, more so than it is now. The cafe was a wonderful addition. 

 • It should be a place where people can think, concentrate, and learn.  It should be quiet and peaceful.  Meeting rooms, study carrolls and large study spaces should be available.

 • Most kinds of activities will happen virtually so the size of the space needed will be less.  However, computer hardware will comprise much of the library space.  

 • It should contain different sorts of spaces.  Part should be like my favorite fishing hole: quiet, but in a free and peaceful way.  Part should facilitate transaction in the marketplace of ideas, encouraging hubbub, with plenty of coffee.  The virtual environment should facilitate connection through cataloguing, as it always has (the card catalog, e.g., was a virtual "environment").  The physical environment should have a friendly sort of audible hum in it, to mask small distractions--some very unintrusive form of aleatoric music, possibly.

 • Every academic building cannot be outfitted with state of the art lecture halls, etc.  The library, easily accessible "neutral" ground, is a likely place to locate expensive resources that cannot be widely replicated, but could be shared.  Other spaces the library should provide (or continue to provide):1. 24-hour study areas, including computers and workstations(both Windows and UNIX).  There should be a sub-area where students may eat and drink.  Having more than one modest-sized study area would help students sort themselves out into groupswith difference tolerances for "background noise", etc.2. All computers should be equipped so that audio/video may be used individually.3. One (or several) modest spaces for group viewing/discussion  of videos would be nice.  One such space could be dedicated to the exhibition of educational films on a near-continuous (or at least frequent) basis.  Different series of films on given themes or within given disciplines could be arranged.  This would help circulate the existing video stock and encourage its expansion.4. If the future campus networking environment will be sufficiently capacious, much activity could happen virtually, e.g., video on demand, e-books, etc.

 • The space should be open. Most if not all services should be on line.

 • The physical space will be that which serves the providers of the virtual information service.  There may not be any physical space that is accessible to the general university population.

 • All kinds of spaces.  More spaces for users: too much is devoted to offices.

 • The Lake Effect Cafe is a wonderful space.  It is a truly enjoyable space to work and to socialize.We need more spaces like the Lake Effect Cafe.What makes the cafe so nice is that I am able tosit in a comfortable chair, at a pleasant clean table,with a warm drink, while I eat a bagged lunch,read the daily news, watch recent news updates, meet with students, prepare for lectures, and socialize with other faculty.  The temperature of the cafe is always pleasant and there are no annoying noises or smells.  Although I have not signed out a laptop yet, I enjoy seeingstudents using the laptops in the cafe. I also enjoy looking out the windows of the cafe. 

 • Should be a comfortable building, with different colors than the current stark white.  Different seating should be provided for different body types.  Quiet study areas should have softer lighting to encourage keeping quiet.  Murals, rotating/circulating collection of artwork, perhaps soft music on the 1st and second floors.  Maybe a fish tank (soothing) on the main floor.  Comfortable seating, arranged in secluded 'nooks' where groups can gather and yet have privacy. 

 • Small gathering places like those that exist on the cafe, where group can work together and get assistance at the same time.  Wireless access everywhere.  Journals and books should still exist in hard form.  

 • I think the building should serve both students and faculty because to have a successful student you need a successful faculty. It should be connected to everything on campus to help reep the great benefits Oswego has to offer. 

 • * Inviting!  Inspiring!*Core/hub of the academic side of campus (see above)*Provide a variety of learning spaces and opportunities: space for cooperative or collaborative ("group") learning (for large and small groups), private, quiet space.  Comfortable, aesthetically pleasing spaces: niches and "cubbies" for those needing privacy, conference type space for groups.  At least one additional "smart" (technology equipped) classroom needs to be built, or perhaps a new wing to the building, due to the recent loss of academic space to a non-academic entity, and in order to adequately house all the services we envision as melding with the library of the future, to wit:*Faculty Development Center (currently called CELT), the Writing Center:  placement of these services in the library building would draw both faculty and students to the library, encouraging interaction, discussion and opportunities for learning outside the formal classroom (in a neutral space).*A social space, as well as an academic space.  Anyone who thinks students will do everything virtually has not visited one of the campus dining areas recently.  Students have a need and desire to gather together, be it for social or academic reasons.  The two are often combined.  A trip to the library is a social event: they're together as a group, but working through a class project at the same time.  * Space for students to practice presentations.*A viewing room (for videos, DVDs or whatever the latest motion picture medium will be 15 years from now, but easily adapted to new technologies).* A decent work environment for library employees.  Natural light, heating, ventilation and air conditioning are serious issues that need to be delt with.  These issues also affect the materials housed in the library - mold is currently a serious issue for both materials and employee health.

 • The building will have open access ADA-compliant areas for book and media collections that still make sense in paper copy, plus storage areas for selected lesser used materials (unless SUNY comes through with centralized storage for very low use books and periodicals)and environment-controlled rooms for old or special materials.  The social and interactive spaces should include at least two computer classrooms; seminar rooms for smaller groups to meet formally or otherwise; up-to-date technology and assistants to teach its use and solve technical problems; nicley lit and comfortable spaces for casual reading and exploring resources and meeting other people; a cafe like we have now; a space for small group viewing of films or student produced material; a space for faculty from other departments to meet with librarians or others to stay current with changing resources and technology [faculty dev. center, celt, etc]; and a very visible  information/reference service area that is staffed and linked to virtual users as well as face to face. Bathrooms will include one family bathroom to accommodate parents using the library.  THe circulation desk functions should change and diminish some, when checkout isn't needed for electronic works and patrons can check out most other material themselves. We'll still need a reserve area, but perhaps circ and reference and techinical information can be centered in one place and staffed differently. Processing of materials will still need space, as long as print material is purchased or used and in need of repair.  The college writing center would be a good fit with the library, giving assistance in writing projects as librarians do.  

 • Penfield's spaces for students and faculty are pretty good now and into the forseeable future.  What is not served well now, and if the college were to begin to take seriously its obligation to provide for genuine scholarship in this "learning community," is space for BOOKS.  For many years the library staff has justified its own version of a Savonarola or Nazi book burning–they label in the Spring Book Sale–on the grounds that they don't have space for more books.  (OK, I am quite aware that most of the stuff in that sale is trash, but there are always some books in that mess that should be cataloged and put on the shelves.)  And now we even take a large hunk of Penfield's precious space for–of all things!–the radio station!I suppose some of those who were involved in stealing that space think everything needed for a library will be on-line; I dealt with that notion in the previous question. 

 • I think the library will become more of a "virtual" entity: more of an interface than a structure. I think the physical building will still exist- as a place to meet, read (yes, I think books will still exist and be valued!) I foresee the library also beoming more of a place to experience events- digital exhibits , for example.

 • Training.Access to media.Research and study space.

 • wireless connections, printable journals, articles etc.  still need quiet, private study & relaxation spaces - would still like to visit and handle books

 • All articles and shorter works (essays, poems, short stories) will be available online, and most books will be, too. Interlibrary loan will be a primary way patrons will access books. The library's collection of non-print media (movies, documentaries, lectures, radio programs) will be much larger, with patrons able to check out these programs online. 

 • While many meetings and discussions will take place virtually, I would hope that the opportunity for face to face meetings, committee meetings, student groups, etc. could meet in the library.

 • The building can best serve students and faculty by offering a welcoming place where everyone can experience either traditional library activities, or as a place to explore new technologies, new ideas, new approaches.  As it now stands, when you enter the library, you are immediately greeted by the circulation desk and looking straight ahead, the back of the stairwell leading upstairs.  Perhaps a desk with a staff member (not a student) facing the front doors to act as a focal point for those entering and to act as a directional aid to library services.

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3) How will librarians serve students and faculty?

    What services will be offered?

    What skill sets will librarians bring?

• Reference, orientation, instruction. Librarians need to be very well versed in online searching, filtering, finding info fast.

 • Drew Hill is a model here.

 • Instruction in finding information perhaps linked with writing and statistical services (how to present information in a paper).

 • Being able to access information in a wide variety of data bases and forms is most important.  

 • Librarians should be prepared to teach individual students how to use the sources available, to provide classes on research methodologies  tailorded for specific classes, and by working with faculty to develop collections  

 • Librarians will work like consultants, guiding studnets and faculty through the range of resources available, and providing insight into the relative usefulness of resources.  I do not think that intsructor model works UNLESS the librarians also grade the students - only then do students have incentives to take to heart the instruction.Librarians will be masters of resources, and a set of research skills.

 • The major skill I would like to see is helping students locate research articles. 

 • Librarians will hopefully serve students, faculty, and staff in groups and as individuals.  They will make their best effort to server the individual based on his/her unique needs but not in such a way that the needs of the masses are compromised.  Library services should be offered free of charge.Librarians should continue to purchase information resources that best support the curricular needs of the campus.  They should make these resources accessible to the campus community. Librarians should help students evaluate the resources they find and intend to use for their assignments.Librarian skill sets will increasingly be more technical in nature.  They will likely need advanced degrees in other disciplines in order to liaison with other academic departments more fruitfully.

 • Librarians will be experts in access to information in all its formats.  They will posess interdisciplinary skills with the ability to teach others how to meet their information needs.  Librarians should NOT be involved in services a student worker can do: caring for printers, copiers, and setting up computers for individula and classroom use.

 • Librarians need to be even more inviting and offer help in finding resources for faculty. In general, they have been helpful, but informing faculty of more things they might do for them will help. I still feel like I am imposing when asking for help. I think this is a problem for most faculty members. Librarians have to have personal-interaction skills and seek out faculty members they can help. 

 • I don't think the functions of the librarians will change that much, but they need to continue their teaching roles and accessibility to students and staff. I think instruction opportunities should be available aside from when classes are sined in, such as advertised workshops.

 • Services: aid with searchs (helping students,not doing it for them)  running classes for professors on how to do research,how to use the librarySkill sets: how to search more effectively  how to weigh the merits of various online offerings  how to find good resources (I prefer upper level students use Project MUSE, JSTOR, Am Hist & Life; they like InfoTrac)

 • Staff will need to be technically savvy and help to facilitate learning and growth by teaching the campus community how to utilize such a vibrant and lively space.  Along with assisting students and staff in research and material development.

 • All current services as well as an expanded communication connection with inter library loans nationally and internationally. Librarians will be well versed in computer and internet resources.

 • Continue and expand the current services offered to departments. Include distance learning technologies.

 • Librarians have been great about keeping up to date with online resources.  We could use more access to online video to embed in our course powerpoints etc. 

 • Librarians will take on a more powerful role as they work closely with departments in the design of effective ways to integrate information literacy.  They may work on teams, they may offer modules, etc.  In addition, they will still have to play the critical role of determining what resources students and faculty need to have access to to be able to provide high quality, timely knowledge experiences to students and to be on top of the technology that makes this both most efficient and most accessible.  The web will continue to grow in its important as a delivery system, but will only amplify the need   for students to be information literate.  Librarians will need to develop frameworks that help students in this critical area and to help faculty to support students in this endeavor.  LIbrarians will play an increasingly central role in the mission of the institution.

 • Librarians should continue to be as efficient as possible. My unscientific, informal observations of the reference librarians in Penfield leads me to conclude they actually perform to many tasks for the students when assisting their research. The quantity and quality of this hand holding prevents mediocre students from learning important research skills on their own. Undoubtedly motivated by the best of intentions, I have witnessed some librarians spend 10-15 minutes with students doing the type of leg work the students themselves should be accomplishing.  

 • see information developed above in 1 and 2librarians will have to become skilled at knowing how to share their expertise in information technology with students e.g., what must be done first to help students, how should presentations be organized, how to establish tutorials on the computer for individual instruciton

 • The library staff will, as always, maintain and keep current the collection of books and other resources.  In addition, they will lead the educational effort so members of the college community can use the new resources most effectively.

 • Students need to learn how to use on-line data bases. They have to know that web sources are not reliable. Librarians (and faculty) therefore have to teach students how to use the electronic material that is now available. At the same time, students have to know that some of the best research material is not available on line, and they have to know how to research information in more traditional media.

 • We should continue to build the electronic capabilities of the library.

 • The librarians will be able to assist faculty and staff in finding the resources they need, and possibly in recommending resources they may not know about.

 • Librarians will need to be strong teachers because we will all need to learn how to access information.  They will continue to need to know how to find things, but rather than finding hard copies of materials, they will need strong information systems skills.

 • Connect.  Connection.  Mapping of resources and of ideas.  Show students around a clearly mapped world of ideas, more than we show them at present.  Provide the main things they lack: the big picture--the glue that connects their bits of information.  Also, the university is and should be learning-centered, not just student-centered.  Serve the faculty as well (as you do, very well, already).

 • Services should increasingly be concerned with integrating electronic resources (on-line journals, books, etc.) for easy look-up by users.  This means librarians should become increasingly adept at creating websites that stitch together pre-fab resources (Nexis-Lexis, journal catalogs, etc.) in user-friendly ways.  Also, as text is clearly heading the way of the electron, building and maintaining special collectionswill probably become a more significant part of librarians' activities, and of what makes each library unique (_everyone_ has Nexis-Lexis, etc.)  For example, original artwork cannot be fully replicated electronically.

 • Librarians should be resource people - know how to use the resources of SUNY Oswego, SUNY and the internet as a whole to help people find what they need. Not only campus but the community.

 • Librarians will serve the students, faculty, and staff of the university by procuring information from diverse sources and making it available efficiently.  The primary person-to-person service offered will be assistance with searches.  Other services will be behind-the-scenes maintenance activities.

 • Same as now.

 • Librarians should be a convenient resource for the students and faculty. Why is the information desk all the way in the back of the building? Why not have the desk at the front of the building where students can first see them?  Why not have roaming librarians available in the stacks, at the point of need.  Rather than asking a student to come down to talk to a librarian, librarians should have information points on every floor.  

 • Librarians have faculty rank and I believe that the teaching aspect of their services will be formalized.  THere will be more short classes, maybe one credit quarter courses, to assist the students in the proces of using the internet to obtain and making judgments about info they find online.  

 • Librarians should be on staff to help students, faculty, and staff with anythign they need or to direct them in the area that will best possibly help them find their goal. Librarians should be knowledgeable of the library, its resources, and up to date on technology.

 • Librarians need to keep up-to-date on how to search and access on-line material and teach these skills to the students.  They should have classes/sessions for each discipline on how to search and obtain information in their field.

 • * Librarians are finally beginning to be recognized as the teachers ("professors of information" as on person put it) that they are and always have been.  In the future, they should continue to be recognized as such.* Information literacy guides, espceially to help with the access to and evaluation of information for both faculty and students, and to use information legally and ethically.*  Assist with technology in close cooperation with campus technology services - an "Information Commons" type environment, with librarians handling the academic/reference type queries, and some technical questions, and the bulk of the technical questions being fielded by campus technology services.

 • Librarians will manage and develop collections in various formats, seeking to share responsiblity for these with faculty most involved in courses with student research. They will need to demonstrate and teach use of these adademic resources and take time to stay abreast of new products and technologies all the time. Librarians should have some level of demonstrated skills in finding and using information in their own scholarly work.  The skills for today's academic librarian are growing in breadth, and in 10 years we may need librarians to specialize more, so they aren't too fractured in their responsibilities. Globalization and multicultural trends will make some foreign language skills and international experience useful, along with depth in our strong areas like education and psychology and earth sciences. But at the same time strong skills in web development, database management, computers (printers and hardware), computer programs for various media, etc are also  needed.  It's hard to get the needed depth of knowledge in disciplines, the people and teaching skills to work with students and faculty, the techinical skills, and the  skills to stay up with changes in the scholarly and commercial publishing worlds. Librarians will make digitized local resources available  through the Internet, doing their part to share unique resources far and wide.   

 • This is already in process: the librarians already are labelling themselves as information technitions.  That service is of course necessary.  However, in jumping on that bandwagon, I perceive that the librarians are forgetting (or, God forbid, quite consciously abandoning!) that their first and foremost calling is to be lovers of BOOKS.

 • I think technology-- video, audio, print-- will become very valuable assets. I can see the rol.e of the lirbary becomming equally focused on media of all kinds rather than focasing on publications. For example, the future lirbarian might focus on archiving websites, which due to thier ephemeral nature, would otherwise be lost. 

 • research assistance - interlibrary loans - general knowledge

 • It seems to me the main changes will occur in the integration of search options, so patrons will not have to search multiple databases one at a time. Librarian assistance will take the form of helping patrons navigate the wealth of information available online--helping to refine search terms, narrowing results. Librarians will need to explain and in fact be arbiters of what is credible and reliable information. 

 • See the answer to question 1

 • Much in the same way they are serving now, with obvious changes owing to as yet unknown technology and pedagogy.  Hard to be specific, as I have no crystal ball to gaze into the future.

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4) What values will the library reflect?

• I don't understand the question.

 • Respect for human progress through the growth of wisdom, critical reasoning, and the free flows of ideas.  A citadel to protect us from provincialism and the growing right-wing and fundamentalist attacks against academic freedom.

 • What??

 • Scholarly and well rounded.

 • I have no idea - I am not sure why values they reflect now. Much of the ordering seems to be done willy-nilly, policies are weird  and change without reference to faculty needs. Why don't we start with stated values. 

 • The library SHOULD convey the importance of learning and questioning.  It should encourage a deep appreciation of the past, emphasizing the importance of understanding the past to understanding the present, as well as a critical attitude toward the status quo.It should not be a hectic environment, but instead provide a serene atmosphere in which a person can quietly reflect on what they are reading.  It should remind us of the joys of reading and learning.

 • Free access to information and technology.  Value and respect differences and similarities with a mind that considers ethical values and practices discernment.

 • The continued free access to information for all.

 • Scholarship, collaboration, lack of censorship, life-long learning, valuing faculty research and student research. I like the "Display to Archives" project of the library. Could there be another display that focuses on one or two faculty members per semester and their research (or creative works)? More than just showing the papers published - a display that discribes a couple of research projects with photographs, etc. This would give other faculty members and students an idea of what is going on. Also, there should be a place for students involved in research to be featured. 

 • The Library will reflect the values of serious scholarship and life-long learning. It should have some feel of being a haven of learning and serious contemplation. 

 • hard work, ethical research

 • You should know it is a community of learning and development as you walk in and feel the energy of interactive groups working on projects and individuals focusing on their reading and attainment or knowledge.

 • The library will promote social justice historically and currently in the school of education and the Oswego community.

 • scholarship, research, literature, art, technologies of communication (video conferencing, distance learning)

 • A continued caring for matching resources with people.  They make the match feel authentic and that's important.  This should continue as we get even more virtual. 

 • Freedom of ideas, intellectual integrity, and the values that accrue to the institution in general

 • The library should be a practical resource center as well as a more abstract, and ideal institution reflecting what is best about the "life of the mind." This is one reason why books must continue to be fundamental to the institution. Reading books continues to be the best "student-centered" act of learning as well as an important link to the best enlightenment ideals of the past. Indeed, the very ideals that helped lead to the creation of the modern university.

 • committment to life long learning in our students recognition that we live in the information agechange is good and necessary to be an effective graduate of SUNY Oswego

 • The library of 2020 should be the resource of choice either when one needs guidance amassing information on a specific topic or access to print or visual media (in digital form)  

 • The library is the intellectual core of the campus.

 • The library will reflect the values of the university -- that learning is an ongoing process and that it is an enjoyable process.  

 • The library must reflect the past, present and future, as it does now.  

 • Honesty in full and clear communication; reasonableness and courage in finding and facing the limits of knowledge and understanding; compassionate welcoming and support.   Beyond those first things, let me add that energy and passion should be strongly apparent there.  Let the environment vibrate with the joy of good work.  (Sound corny?  I think it's quite feasible.)

 • Free inquiry.  The library should reflect all the conflicting values of its contents.  Let the users decide.

 • Openness and accessibility

 • Integrity and helpfulness.

 • The library should reflect the joy of learning.

 • Support of something between autodidactism and formalized instruction.  The library should both support faculty and programs as well as inspire students and community learners to pursue their own individual research/ academic interests. The library should be a campus hub, not a dungeon for the drudgery of study.  

 • Service and equity 

 • The library will be a place a student can go for anything. They will feel comfortable in the enviroment and want to go their to furthur their learing and education.

 • * The library will promote, encourage and support: learning, intellectual curiosity, thinking, the value of working together in groups as well as alone, democracy, equality, privacy, cooperation, differing viewpoints, civility (for all learners: SUNY Oswego students, faculty and staff, the greater Oswego community, and the wider community).

 • a. Independent exploration and discovery, academic and casual.b.Patience and persistence and integrity needed to carry out substantive research.c.  Chance/serendipity of browsing and reading for fun.d. Value of learning communities that arise from shared places of active learning --group learninge.  Interdisciplinary interactions with students and librarians.f. Another venue, apart from dorms and classrooms and the union, where resources of all kinds ( music, great art books, new browsing books, college history, other students) are found.g.  quiet, pleasant space for study--the value of study itself; the standard that expects real study from our students.h. value of help in getting answers, for school projects or other issues: reference librarian as ombudsman to some degree.i. the value of institutional memory, housed in the college archives.j. value of connections to our community that started with the founder E. A. Sheldon, which constitutes the local history long taught and pursued by our history faculty and kept in Special Collections.k. exposure to and the processing of multiple views and dealing with ambiguity--the stuff of the real world that makes us all uncomfortable and challenges students to struggle to reach understanding and be able to articlulate their reasoning and conclusions well.

 • I would like the library to be a beacon on our campus of the love of learning and of the almost holy quest of knowledge.  And to that end the symbol and testimony that true learning, knowledge, and wisdom come not through some kind of short-circuit revelation, but rather through dedicated study and scholarship.  

 • I think the same values will remain, just the tools will change.

 • The library should reflect an atmosphere of serious pursuit of knowledge. It should not have a casual, living room feel.

 • ????

 • Academic integrity, critical thinking, creativity, preservation of history, institutional pride

 • I hope the library will stimulate intellectual curiosity and academic honesty, as well as information. 

 • Obviously, the missions of the college and library.  Once again, I cannot be specific as I cannot see into the future.

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5) What other ideas about the library of 2020 do you want to share?

     Is there anything you do not want the library to be or do?

• We have an excellent library staff and infrastructure. We must not think we are starting from scratch in that context. Change is good (usually), but only with careful planning. Whatever is done must be within the grasp and training of the current staff, and any new staffing related to changes that may come must fit.

 •    The library might look a lot more like a borders bookstore.

 • Continue to evolve to best serve your community.

 • We need to continue to emphasize the important role of reading in our culture, not just getting facts quickly, but engaging with an author and her perspective on an issue.

 • It would be helpful to update the video collection. A great idea would be to have each department make a list of books/DVDs, etc. they would like to see the library purchase. 

 • The facility is sorely in need of a comprehensive facelift. There is a real shortage of clean sofas, overstuffed chairs, and attractive spaces with windows.  The library should integrate appropriate non-library services (which WRVO is certainly not), but they should not consume more than 20% of the space.  By 2020, WRVO should be moved out, and the space returned to the students, in the form of a large classroom and small group study rooms that overlook the lake.

 • The library should sponsor some more "scholarly" clubs and provide a meeting place for them. Perhaps some reading clubs and some other research-oriented clubs. The library should also reach out to the community and sponsor some scholarly lectures of general interest. I think the library needs to be open more hours during the summer and during in-between semester times. OR, perhaps faculty could have a special key or pass to the library? Maybe arrangements could be made for faculty working on research to have access?

 • I don't want there to be huge open spaces, but many special study and work areas built around the resources.

 • Boring, drab, univiting, the traditional 20th century library!

 • The library should not become a student union. It is an academic reference space.

 • We are looking for more ways to make a live connection with our students off campus. For my personal time in the library I like the displays, cafe and atmosphere plus willing individuals to help me find necessary resources. 

 • small spaces for students to work in teams, less big spaces devoted to large group library instruction, find a way to re-cycle and re-used some of the inter-library loan materials that students seem to request again and again each semester as faculty assign the same term papers each semester!

 • I look forward to the day when the contents of all scientific journals are available accessible digitally in a form just as complete as in hard copy.  Many are available today (some for hefty subscription cost) but not enough.  Maybe the cost will go down as hard copy availability becomes harder to justify.I also think the library of 2020 will be much more heavily involved in collecting visual media.  It will never replace the print media, but I believe it will take a more dominant role.  I also see a day when "journal" articles will contain links that provide access to the actual research process in the form of video clips and interviews with the researchers.

 • I want the library to buy the periodicals and monographs I need (Art History, Bulletin Monument, Word & Image, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute, etc.). I want the library to purchase at least the monographs published by academic publishers and university presses that relate to the courses we teach.

 • I don't want to see it go entirely paperless or bookless. Library as "space" is an important feature of our current library and I think we ought to really embrace the space and utilize the space in new ways, all while continue to build our electronic capabilities

 • I hope that libraries do not change completely in the years between now and 2020.  I have wonderful memories of libraries in my past and would like to think that the kind of atmosphere that I loved in a library will still be there in some form in 2020.  I do not want the library do devolve into a social space.  I have noticed that the librarians are permitted to listen to music now at their desks.  You can hear "Sting" on the 2nd floor and Billy Joel on the 1st floor.  I have NEVER been to a library where music was playing -- not even classical music.  I think this is distracting and is an indicator that the library "visions" itself more and more as a social space.  The coffee shop is a different story -- the ironic thing is, there is no music playing in The Lake Effect Cafe!

 • I hope that the library will continue to provide some information in hard copy form for us old-timers!  I still have the need to feel the weight, carefully handle and smell the wonderful aroma of books!  Also, if I don't know what I'm looking for, perusing journals and books will often trigger an idea or thought for further development.  I fear that all of these opportunities for exploration may be lost when everything is online.  

 • Sky's the limit as far as I'm concerned.  I would discredit any notion that the library could be poaching on others' turf.  Such people should revise their territorial assumptions.  

 • One suggestion I would like to make about the library now and in the future is to order books currently requested on inter-library loan as part of the permanent collection. This policy was in place at another institution with which I am familiar. It has the advantage that it ties book acquisition to patterns of actual use of students and faculty.

 • I would not want the library to make decisions for me about what information I can have access to or how I should use it.

 • Want the library to offer a drive through book drop and closer parking.

 • I enjoy seeing the art displays, and the displays offaculty work.  I also enjoyed the banned book displays.It might be nice if groups like the Rainbow Allianceand the Women's Centre were housed in the library.

 • Multiculturalism on every floor.  Have a Asian corner, with Asian inspired furniture and decorations. Have an African corner, with the same.  Have events and club meetings in the library to support these endeavors.  Be courageous enough to risk being 'weird' in trying new things.  Circulate data storage devices, mp3 players, personal book lamps, snow shovels, bicycles during the summer, etc.

 • I have heard some people talk of it being a tutoring center.  I don't agree with that in general.  Perhaps consultants for wrting papers could be present but those should be graduate students or professionals/faculty.  

 • Keep purchasing access to on-line journals (increase the number of journal subscriptions; check with departments for which journals are most needed) - this is the future of obtaining information!

 • * Everything mentioned above hinges on a viable, reasonable and reliable budget - year after year.* Other departments or office should not be thrown into the library in a willy-nilly fashion or for the sake of convenience.  If there is no connection to direct academics (teaching and learning), it should not be housed in the library.*  College Archives have not been mentioned yet.  To preserve the history of the College and local history, special attention should be given to this area.  Another personnel line should be devoted to archives and special collections.*  Some mention has been made that the College library should provide more in terms of pleasure reading.  The College library's primary purpose is to collect in the areas of academic disciplines and studies.  The *public library's* primary purpose is to collect for general reference and pleasure reading.  For those wanting more pleasure reading, perhaps it would behoove them to support their own local public library, rather than have the College library spend its limited collection budget on this type of material.  We already do, when possible, purchase some pleasure reading materials, and collect more via donations.

 • I don't think the library is truly THE HUB of this college or campus. How could it be, when the materials budget remains what it was over 15 years ago?  What happens in the classroom and with teachers is most important to students.  However, the library plays a central role in creating the values I listed above; they are important products of education that the library does best or contributes to in significant ways. Faculty should be able to rely on the library and librarians for needed resources and help with student work. The library collections and staff should reflect the interdisciplinary and graduate programs we have, so we're not trying to get by on the least that we can. 

 • It is a scandal, an appalling scandal, that over the past seven years, while inflation for books and journals has increased about 20%, Oswego's expendature for these has dropped by 20%.  That means in real dollars we have reduced our purchases by 40%!  Shame on us!  And it gives use the dubious distinction among the comprehensive colleges of our SUNY system of being second to last.  We need to reconsider our values and rekindle our committment to the pursuit of knowledge, and to the love of books.   

 • I think books will remain, but become less of a presence. I can see a time when studetns carry all their books on one book reader.

 • I want it to still exist as a physical space 

 • I do not want the library to be just a virtual respository.  That is one facet that should be provided, but all the other foci mentioned above should also be provided and promoted.

 • The library should neither be ignored or marginalized on campus.  Also, the library should NOT be seen as simply "open space" for whoever wants to expand their program or create new ones.  The library is and should remain a distinct and important campus entity, not the campus dumping ground or playground for those with personal agendas.  A marginalized library means a marginalized campus.  Such a campus has drifted from its mission or is kidding itself that it is actually meeting its mission.  

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