Keynote for Internet Librarian International 2016. In a world where we compete about knowledge jobs libraries are more important than ever. They are the one place where everyone's learning is actively supported. This is important to acknowledge when designing library strategy.

1. Smart libraries create smart communities
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2. From showing what we
produce to producing
what we want to show.

3. Towards an ambitious
strategy for libraries
#ILI2016

5. Your strategic plan is
not your strategy

6. Your strategic plan is
not your strategy

7. Libraries are more
important than ever

9. To which challenges in society
is your library the answer?
Rolf Hapel

10. Challenges

11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnpJGaMiXo&feature=youtu.be

12. Groups of 2 – for 2 minutes:
What are the implications for
libraries if Hans Rosling is
right – and the journalist is
wrong?

13. The idea is to go
from numbers to
information to
understanding.
Hans Rosling

15. Unlearn
H A C K
Learn

16. Libraries are more
important than ever

20. Artist and
photographer:
@petermartindk

21. A filter bubble is a result of a personalized
search in which a website algorithm selectively
guesses what information a user would like to
see based on information about the user (such
as location, past click behavior and search
history) and, as a result, users become
separated from information that disagrees with
their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in
their own cultural or ideological bubbles.
(Wikipedia)

22. Confirmation bias, also called
confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the
tendency to search for, interpret, favor,
and recall information in a way that
confirms one's preexisting beliefs or
hypotheses, while giving
disproportionately less consideration to
alternative possibilities. Wikipedia

23. Groupthink

25. The one percent

26. The poor stay poor,
the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows.

27. The one % of the knowledge society are
those can search, find and evaluate
information and convert that information
to knowledge

28. Librarians

30. Librarians are more
important than ever

31. Challenge and opportunity

32. “We need to out-
innovate,
outeducate and
outbuild the rest
of the world”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us/politics/26speech.html

34. Libraries are
strategically important
for modern knowledge
societies

35. Examples of library strategies

37. Our strategy influence what
services we offer, how we
meet the people of our
communities and how we
interpret our core mission

38. National
Strategy for
Public
Libraries in
Scotland

41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgkUZylvsP0

44. CONNECT
the dots

45. Your strategy: The headlights
Foundation: The challenges
in society the library is the
answer to.

46. Libraries are
strategically important
for modern knowledge
societies

47. Unlearn
H A C K
Learn

48. Libraries are more
important than ever

50. janholmquist.net

52. Jan Holmquist
janholmquist.net
Twitter: @janholmquist
janholmquist@gmail.com
about.me/janholmquist
Keep in touch…

54. “…we are not in the coffee
business serving people. We are in
the people business serving
coffee. We're not in the fast food
business. We really, sincerely
want to enhance people's lives.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/jul/13/foodanddrink.features

59. When I think back On all the crap I
learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Paul Simon - Kodachrome

61. I don't trust my eyes any more
They don't know what they're looking for
Thinking back on what they didn't see
I think my eyes were blinding me
Mary Gauthier - Sweet Words

62. I accept chaos, I am not sure
whether it accepts me.
Bob Dylan

70. The one % of the knowledge society are
those can search, find and evaluate
information and convert that
information to knowledge
Librarian