Are you UpNext?
Share your thoughts on the Future of Museums and Libraries Wiki
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invites you to help invent the future of museums and libraries through your participation in UpNext: The Future of Museums and Libraries Wiki. IMLS’s first-ever wiki is a platform where individuals inside and outside of museums, libraries, and related fields can discuss, dissect, expand, and inform the issues outlined in the Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide (PDF, 255KB). IMLS will use the knowledge shared in the wiki to help shape the agency’s strategic plan, research directions, publications, convenings, and grant making.
Join the discussion at http://imlsupnext.wikispaces.com.
The wiki will be an opportunity to share resources, examples of what works, and vexing questions. We hope that it will be a thought provoking five weeks for all participants and provide food for thought for your career, your institution and the choices you face.
Nine discussion themes and one theme on next steps will each be featured on the wiki for a two-week period, introduced by expert discussion leaders. The themes and discussion leaders include:
March 3-16 |
1. Changing Definitions & Roles of Museums and Libraries
Martín Gómez, City Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library
2. Shifts in Power & Authority
Cassie Chinn, Deputy Executive Director, Wing Luke Asian Museum
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March 17-30 |
3. Museums & Libraries as the “Third Place”
Susan Hildreth, City Librarian, Seattle Public Library
4. Technology & Policy Development
John Wilkin, Associate University Librarian for Library Information
Technology (LIT), University of Michigan, Executive Director of HathiTrust
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March 31-April 13 |
5. 21st Century Learning & Information Use
Tom Scheinfeldt, Managing Director for Center for History and New
Media at George Mason University, OMEKA Project Director
6. New Models & Structures for Collaboration
Mark Wright, Director of Partnerships, National Children's Museum
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April 14-27 |
7. Planning for a Sustainable Future
Emlyn Koster, President & CEO, Liberty Science Center
8. Metrics for Evaluating Service & Impact
John Fraser, Director, Institute for Learning Innovation-New York
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April 28-May 12 |
9. The 21st Century Museum & Library Workforce
Joanne Marshall, Alumni Distinguished Professor, School of Information
and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10. UpNext: Where Do We Go From Here?
Larry Johnson, CEO, The New Media Consortium |
May 19 |
Last official “Wiki Wednesday” IMLS will
post wiki final summary. |
The Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide
 The Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide (PDF, 255KB) is the result of a two-day meeting in which a diverse group of leaders with many perspectives on the future came together to share and debate. The guide is designed to spark continued dialogue on the issues presented in institutions, communities and professional groups invested in the future of museums and libraries.
In July 2008, IMLS sponsored a meeting at the National Academy of Sciences to surface big questions about the future of libraries and museums, bringing together leaders from across and outside the museum and library communities. The Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide is the result of the two-day meeting, published in order to capture that conversation and encourage others to take up those big questions and enter the dialogue. The guide is designed to spark continued debate of the issues presented in institutions, communities and professional groups invested in the future of museums and libraries. The Discussion Guide was broadly disseminated and has spurred dialogue in schools of library and museum studies, in library and museum service organizations and in individual institutions, small and large, throughout the nation.
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