Make your library smarter with inspiration from ARC17
Presenters, attendees, and guests at the 2017 Americas Regional Council meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, shared ideas, stories, examples, and challenges that helped us all better define what makes for smarter libraries. Whether you couldn’t attend—or were there and want to see all the parallel break-outs—take a look at the presentations, visual summary images, and video links, below. There was a lot of “smart” in the room, and we hope you can take advantage of what we learned for use at your library.
Graphic recorder illustrations
We asked ARC17 attendees to share their insights on “what it takes to become a smarter library” and used those insights to create a visual summary to fuel our closing plenary session. Both visual summaries created by our graphic recorder are now available for download.
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Presentations
Monday, 30 October
Featured Keynote
Dr. Carla D. Hayden
Plenary—A Shared Vision for a Smarter Future
Skip Prichard
Breakout session—Harnessing the Power of a Smart Staff
Jennifer Bowen, Karlie Johnson, Jeff Steely, Kimberly Westbrooks
Breakout session—Proving Library Relevance in Higher Education
Ashley Ireland, Constance Malpas, Adam Murray
Breakout session—Strategic Planning
Alison Armstrong, Evan Simpson
Breakout session—Take Control of Your Space!
Janet H. Clarke, Laura Costello, Suzanne Payette
Plenary—Getting Smarter with Technology, Customer Insights and Data
Jeff Jacobs, Cathy King, Mary Sauer-Games
Plenary—Smarter Data for Smarter Libraries
Rachel Frick, Jeff Mixter
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Breakout session—Community Discovery and Ideation: Creating Smart Libraries
Mary Lou Carolan, Betha Gutsche
Breakout session—Innovate Smarter
Missy Laytham, Katy O'Neill, Shali Zhang
Breakout session—Leadership that Crosses Boundaries
Constantia Constantinou, Michael Miller, Kenneth Schlesinger
Breakout session—The Digital Collection Differentiator
Jolie O. Graybill, Kendra Morgan, Jason Roy
Plenary—The LIT Room: Reading Reinvented
George Schafer, Tony Tallent
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Tuesday, 31 October
Keynote—Building for the Future of Free Knowledge
Katherine Maher
Plenary—Leveraging Wikipedia
Kelly Doyle, Andrew Lih, Monika Sengul-Jones, Scott Walter
Breakout session—Harnessing the Power of Data
Jared Howland, Rebecca L. Lubas
Breakout session—Implementing RIM (Research Information Management)
Ryan Miller, Maliaca Oxnam, Keith Webster, Indira Yerramareddy
Breakout session—Nurturing Informed Citizens and Patrons
Peter Broadwell, Mary Lou Carolan, Todd Grappone
Breakout session—The Future of Resource Sharing
James Michalko, Hilary Thompson
Breakout session—Demonstrating Relevancy
Maggie Farrell, John-Bauer Graham, Bethany Latham, Jodi Poe
Breakout session—Libraries Transformed
Julie Brophy, Jeff Julian, Lynette Schurdevin, Hong Yao
Breakout session—Strong Communities Start with Engaged Staff
Laura Costello, Pilar Martinez
Breakout session—The Big Print Shift
Brian Rennick, Matt Rosendahl
Plenary—Working Smarter Together
Christopher Cronin, Virginia Steel, Sandy Yee
Plenary—Closing
Helene Blowers, Christopher Cronin, Lorcan Dempsey