 Okay good morning everyone as we were planning this institute we thought a lot about the balance between listening and engaging as a community and so we wanted to frame the event with Anne and Judy's comments I think they did a wonderful job giving you kind of a history of of the thinking in this profession on liaison work but also the sort of the catalyst for getting this together we've all noticed over the last few months or even year a lot of discussion at conferences about liaison work and we were excited by the prospect of bringing you all together here to think through that with us so the next activity is really our chance to pick your great brains to hear some of the your thoughts about the future of this work and I'm wondering how many of you had a chance to read these scenarios most of you good excellent they all should be on your table if I'm not mistaken the reason for these scenarios are really to get you thinking a little bit outside of the box and the idea is that these are possible futures these are not definite futures I don't want you to think this was administrators coming together saying this is the future of liaison work thank you so we just we put together some possible futures and I thought we'd walk through what they are and then actually talk about what we'd like you guys to do for the next hour so the beginning of this is just a sort of kind of summary of where we are and I think and covered this really nicely in the the fact that the higher education in library landscape is changing dramatically and with that is our need to respond to that and to really make sure that we're engaging our communities in the way that's most effective and so we have these scenarios and what we want you all to do you're in groups at tables and we're gonna have for an hour you discuss all four scenarios so you're not just assigned one scenario but to actually walk through all four take some notes and think about someone at your table who could be a spokesperson you can do this sort of collaboratively but think of someone who might be your note taker who will be able to relay this back you'll see in the agenda we will take a break after this hour and then we'll have you do a kind of report back so we can engage as a group on the scenarios but what we want you to think about is if these scenarios are to happen how do how do you as an individual prepare for that future and many of you know we've got a lot of sort of training programs we've heard reskilling we've heard these kinds of ideas about how one prepares for the future of their work in libraries so we want you to kind of think about that if these are going to come true how do we get from here to there very importantly what do you need from your library management for this future what kind of support do you need what kind of resources I think often we are in libraries are expected to do things and aren't always resource to do them think through what you would actually need this is hugely helpful for us as we think about this what would this future future change or how would this future change your relationships with faculty with administrators and with colleagues and I think for this particular question it's really helpful to think about Anne's notion of outside in approach where we really like you to all think about the larger campus context in which you're operating I think we have a tendency in libraries to think about what we do for our communities or the types of things we you know we do reference we do instruction the things that we do but we want you to think a little bit about sort of the impacts you're making and how that fits into the larger ecosystem in which you're operating that could be higher ed or that could be your larger campus community what what are your provosts priorities what are your deans priorities how do you begin to think about what you're doing as impacting and supporting those priorities and then finally is the question of is this a plausible future and by this question we don't want you to debate the sort of merits of these scenarios is it like and spend a lot of time saying oh this could never possibly happen but more is this plausible or do you see other possible futures that could result in our future so just to kind of go through each one briefly scenario one is really about thinking of sort of teams partnering in new ways so in the future disciplinary expertise among liaisons will be the exception rather than the rule that this is really to focus on what Judy mentioned in the Toronto report about sort of teams or teaming which is was a new concept to me this notion of forming teams in an ad hoc way to support particular priorities or strategic things in a library so this is really about rather than the sort of lone subject expert out there with their their community but really thinking about how might we work as teams and liaisons really partnering with faculty in new areas such as digital scholarship and research and data management scenario two this one might is maybe a little bit more confusing this is really about unbundling this the the notion of support at a single institution and address this too cool would be an example of this this idea that support doesn't just happen in one particular place but that you might work with colleagues across institutions you also might want to think of this scenario from the perspective of how faculty think so faculty's primary affiliation is often not their institution their affinity group is often their scholarly society so thinking broadly like that as a faculty member might be more aligned with that modern language association than their home institution how do we tap into that kind of thinking when we're doing liaison work the third scenario is really focused on the teaching process and the idea of how we integrate and support teaching and learning on campus when reading these scenarios I'm imagining that all of you had reactions to them in different ways some may have felt more threatening than others full disclosure this was most threatening to me I love teaching I think one-shot sessions are great it's one of the reasons I went into librarianship is I love teaching so this got me out of my comfort zone to think about this but that's good we want you to sort of lean into that discomfort a little bit on the scenarios and and think about how this this could be a positive thing so as you read further in this scenario it's really about more deeply embedding in the teaching and learning process and actually starting to think about things like learning analytics and how the library actually knows a lot about learners and can it can sort of help the faculty on campus think through that and then finally our shortest and sweetest one is really all liaison work will begin with outreach and many of you may already feel that you're that is what you're doing but really think about that if you start from a place of outreach I think this again calls for that outside-in approach then you you'll be thinking a little bit I think in different ways about the work you're doing so for the next hour you're going to work in groups take some notes use Twitter use shared Google Docs whatever you want to do but really just think about how we're going to do a report back on this and and really share with the group what we're thinking the flip charts I guess that could yeah maybe that's a that's probably a good idea because then we can put them up around thank you I was going totally digital let's stick with some analog methods here and do the do the the post-its