ACRL 2009 – Playing on ”Practice Fields”: Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries

Playing on ”Practice Fields”: Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries
Labs – Think Tanks – Testbeds – Sandboxes
Environ. Scan:
Strat. Plans
Org charts
Position announcements
Most is R&D is tech/open source/digitization
Labs w/ user community
Portal sand gateways at GMU for grads/fac
U Minn. “Dig lib Dev. Lab”
Zotero and Bamboo
Read: James Neal re: R&D Imperative
Katherine Dice – Library Trends – 2004
Do:
Rapid Prototyping
Labs
Encourage experimentation
“Innovation Hub” – see flow chart
See .. R&D Models

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