From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:01:28 -0700

Since coming to ASU, I've found a mantra forming for me:  all our
students are online students.  That is, we see 1.5 million annual gate
count in our main building, 750K in the secondary site, but the
overwhelming number of them are not in our building to use our
traditional collections.  If they're using "the library", it's through
their laptops.  So how to organize for an environment where the
default is the online and the physical service points, even the ones
with lots of books, are just that -- service points, showrooms,
homes-away-from-home?  We're going live with searches
(https://lib.asu.edu/lead) for two new AULs and a third senior admin
position to try to get a handle.  They have traditional names, but
untraditional remits.  Among other things, everything at ASU is
concentrating these years on supporting student success (freshman
retention, time to degree, etc.), and we're looking to move more of
our traditional librarian staff to focus there.  Comments, kibbitzing,
remonstrations welcome.  Am I right that it's time to put the online
library first?  To try to give online users *everything* we've got --
at least everything we can?

Jim O'Donnell
ASU