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