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and here we are
live i i hope and i think uh
in the international track of the the
national library conference i'll start
out in dutch with a few words of welcome
martin and we'll go back to you
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i'll switch to english martin because
you are our guest and i i don't want you
to say that i think crazy things about
you i'm not i'm just
having everyone welcome here um
very good to see you very nice to see
you and thank you for being here and
sharing your thoughts later on
um it's about digital citizenship today
it's about the role of
libraries it's about uh all the things
that are happening around us in the
digital world
uh it's a bit of a scary time with
everything going on uh
at the same time martin for me you are
like
the doctor who who can take us back in
time and forth in time
and and and and have sort of on on your
mission
you have your own digital innovation
consultancy company
i read here you focus on research and
education and
what's very interesting for live is also
as well is that you
support a network of schools that
provide peer-to-peer support
for remote education remote programming
is something that that's
that i see a lot in my mailbox what do i
know about it do i know best practice so
definitely interesting um to hear more
about
that i would say
take it away start your start your
presentation and
say hi to the people and and take it
with you in your
charles what is it the tardis uh towards
the future
and and some scenarios of what may
happen or may not
okay well well good good morning and
thank you very much eric
um really appreciate you having me here
today
i'm gonna try and share my slides so
hopefully you can
you can see those there um so i'm going
to talk about
three things today um i'm going to talk
about
the planet and by that i mean the future
of the planet so
climate change global warming whatever
we call it
what is happening to our planet what can
we do about it
i'm going to talk about the pandemic
because
we can't not talk about that we can't
not talk about
kerbic 19 and i'm going to talk about
uh populism i'm going to talk about the
impact of
if you like the the assault on
progressive values
we've spent maybe 50 years trying to
equalize
our societies and all of a sudden those
hard
fought battles uh people are trying to
overturn them
and and really what is the context for
this that the context is
actually libraries and librarians have
already played a massive part in uh
helping us to ameliorate helping us to
address
some of these things and i think that
there's a lot more that
libraries librarians information
scientists can do
so it sounds a bit gloomy it sounds a
bit
despondent pandemic populism
global warming
but i think there are some positive
messages that we can take away and i
hope you will
from my session today but first i should
say
a little bit about who i am where i'm
coming from as
eric said i've been doing quite a bit of
work with
universities and schools and
the research community so a couple of
examples here
from the last year i worked with
the association of commonwealth
universities to do a study
of the way that their members which is
500 universities in 50 countries
are responding to covert so how has
covert changed the way that people live
and work the way that students study the
way that teachers teach
and the way that administration happens
so this is a really interesting
kind of snapshot of of a huge
wealth of information that we gathered
from as i say from 50 countries so
when we want to see how people can
respond how
institutions can change and respond i
think this is very interesting
and on my kind of day job right now i'm
doing a couple of things
and as eric said i'm working with a
network of
schools that the english government we
have a uk government but we kind of have
the english department for things like
education and health
so the english department for education
has funded
50 schools and colleges to provide
free peer-to-peer support with
technology in
education and right now we're reaching
about
i'd say it's about 5 000 schools which
is
roughly a fifth of the schools in
england
and helping them to adopt the kind of
technologies that we're using
today and until the pandemic
came there were a few people who were
kind of interested in technology and
education there were
a few pioneers and there were a few
people who had managed to
embed it into what they are doing and
hey all of a sudden those people are
incredibly valuable because they can
show everyone else
how to do this so it's been
really quite a humbling experience and
particularly when we talk to schools who
have no technology
so all of a sudden their pupils are at
home they're
trying to teach them they don't know
what to do
they don't know what products tools
services are out there
and actually maybe their pupils don't
have the
equipment they don't have the
connectivity to use some of those
services
so the real combination of tricky
problems
is i say it's very humbling to be a part
of this
and then my other big day job right now
is it's quite unrelated so that's
helping to run the uk's next generation
supercomputing
program we think about um how
research happens nowadays actually an
awful lot of it is
digital first it's things like we're
sequencing the genome
of covid we're designing uh you know
model therapies
for uh marble diseases
and things like that and a lot of this
takes place first and foremost through
computer simulation
so it's quite fascinating to be kind of
pushing the envelope
of that and we've got some test beds
that we're creating which will be the
uh first of their kind in
europe in some cases first of their kind
in the uk
of new technology specific computing so
that's kind of what i get up to
day to day i also advise organizations
and companies on kind of digital
strategy
commercialization plans for new
technologies and you'll find out more
about that
on my website and back in the 1990s
i was kind of first getting started with
all this internet stuff
i have a confession to make once upon a
time i
accidentally standardized
depending on where you're from and so
every time you've had to type
w w w dot
i'm afraid that was that was me it
seemed like a good idea at the time
when there were lots of competing ways
of doing things on the internet
and before the web had really taken off
and we thought ah
www world wide web hey that makes sense
so we'll just put that on the front of
all the websites
little realizing that the web would come
to take over
and dominate the uh the infosphere
but there we are so that's enough about
me uh let's talk about the planet
and let's talk about the impact of
humanity on the planet
let's talk about climate change global
warming
um this is a sculpture of sorts that i
found in
belfast in northern ireland and it's
it's just brilliant it's it looks like a
piece of rock
that has tech kind of extruded from it
you kind of imagine
what would the archaeologists of
you know 500 a thousand years from now
be thinking when they find these circuit
boards that we've kind of casually
discarded and what will they think what
what uses will i imagine that we put
this technology to
maybe they will be astonished that we
just threw stuff away
but this is just uh this is just a
sculpture this is an artwork
the reality of global warming
is things like this hopefully the gif
will come through okay
this is uh this shrinking polar ice cap
this is the north pole polar ice cap the
big
mass of light on the right is greenland
and if you look really carefully you can
see that the north west
passage here which i'm circling with my
mouse
used to be fully iced up
over the winter there's no way that any
kind of ship could pass through it and
many people perished trying to find a
way through the northwest passage
now believe it or not you could take a
cruise there
actually i think probably this year cruz
is not so
not so big on anyone's agenda you
probably don't want to be
locked up on a ship with several hundred
other people for weeks on end but
before the pandemic hit um this
cruise ship crystal serenity was
literally taking hundreds of people at a
time
on tours of the northwest passage
so we went from a situation where this
um
whole part of the world was totally
impassive
due to ice to through global warming
uh the opening up of sea routes now that
this is now a major container shipping
route
and pleasure cruises now it has to be
said
the crystal serenity brings an
icebreaker with it
just in case which i'm i'm slightly
relieved about because i would worry
about hundreds of people
potentially being stuck in the ice if
they kind of miscalculate and
maybe take the wrong direction but this
is a very powerful symbol
of the impact that global warming is
having
it's very powerful symbol and it's also
quite fascinating that our first
instinct
perhaps a capitalism's first instinct is
to try and make some money out of it
hey you know we can use this route for
shipping we can run pleasure cruises
on here um what about librarians though
because that's kind of why we're here so
i think one of the most powerful
symbols of how this community has
responded to
climate change is is the library
in paradise in california there really
is a place called paradise
and it's one of the towns that was
particularly hard hit
by the california wildfires so a lot of
people
in paradise literally their homes were
bent to the ground
the library was practically the only
building left standing
so the library became everything the
library became the
community center the command center for
the rebuilding of the town
the place that people would come to
receive support
and i think that's a very powerful
metaphor for how
libraries can help our communities to
particularly to rebuild after covert
i think there's something quite profound
about the way that the library was
as i say practically the last building
standing
and as the quote in the article here
says in in american libraries
magazine uh we're more than just a
library
we're a symbol of hope to the community
and we're also a community center
and there they are this is a couple of
years ago there they are
uh vaccinating people in the library as
well and i wonder how many of the people
watching this today will find that their
libraries become
covered vaccinations centers there are a
few places which are
quite logical to do this kind of thing
so libraries and librarians can play a
big role
in addressing some of these problems
that we're facing but
of course the big problem right now is
the pandemic
i took this picture um a couple of miles
away from me
is one of the uk's busiest motorways so
i guess this is kind of
equivalent to the a1 in the netherlands
um i took this picture of what would
have been rush hour
so on a normal weekday
this motorway would have been full on
cars
not moving anywhere too many cars
too many people all trying to get to and
from
their place of work picking their kids
up from school and all the rest of it
um nothing nothing much
just a a couple of cars once in a while
i think it's difficult to to
underestimate the impact of the changes
that we've seen
that have been forced upon us by the
pandemic but i think there are a few
images like this that help to
kind of reinforce and and when this is
all over i think we need to come back to
these and
remind ourselves you know this really
happened
if things go back to kind of how they
were
there is a risk that we will start to
forget that any of this happened
we may uh risk not learning the lessons
of what happened and i think it's quite
nice that somebody added a little bit of
graffiti
down the bottom here just lends a little
bit of humanity to it
it's not the most profound thing to put
on the motorway bridge but it just makes
you think actually you know
there is there is hope there is hope for
it
um when we think about the the impact of
the pandemic
it is quite quite staggering i i
snapped this um a couple of days ago
on the google cover dashboard
and when we look at the the
impact the global impact of code fed i
i like to localize it i like to think
well what does this mean for me
this graph down here shows nearly 15
000 people died a couple of days ago
worldwide i live in a town which
has roughly
four times that many people it's about
60 000 people
so just picture that you you wake up in
the morning
and a quarter of the people who live in
your town
are dead you know big picture then
picture that the ambulances or the
undertakers the funeral directors are
going from house to house
collecting the bodies this is
something we've no we have no real
experience of only
only people who've been directly
affected by something like uh
ebola really can relate to this
and before these events this kind of
mortality on this kind of scale
it was just unprecedented but i think
that there is a
there is a silver lining and a
particular silver lining in this cloud
is the power of data the power of
science kind of open communication so
open science
open data open access to research
so when you think about it
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just a year ago
the coronavirus and then it wasn't
really a thing
they were just warning signs something
is brewing
but professor zhang young sen
uh in wuhan posted the genomic sequence
he posted the dna
of code 19 to a public
database and it took two days
for the first candidate vaccine to be
created from that
now when we think about this when we
think about the process of scientific
research of peer review
publishing um historically these things
have taken
years if you're a researcher you do some
research
it takes a while maybe you have to spend
a while but in funding for it too
it takes maybe a year or two to get your
publication out there
and for it to start to make an impact
and
we've talked about open science for
years
we've done quite a bit but i think that
this
last year has been the
the time that really kind of gave open
signs of open access to research the
biggest push because it was the only way
that we could share these discoveries
about how good discoveries about
how it spreads about potential therapies
and and a view variants of ovid in real
time
was the only way that we could do it
i think it's very powerful to see how
those
tools and technologies which have a
little bit like technology and education
they've been
they've been kind of the domain of
enthusiasts
they've suddenly become the mainstream
but like we're on this call now
and this doesn't feel weird this is now
the mainstream
and i think it's very hard to put the
genie back in the bottle
so here we are and we're saying look we
can do this actually
we find that we find a new virus we can
sequence the dna
and we can we can share that globally in
a matter of hours why would you not do
that
is there any reason at all why you would
not do that well there is one thing
there is one thing and this gives me
particular pause for thought i i'm a
shareholder
in most of the vaccine manufacturers
is that a good thing or a bad thing
should we have
given away the therapy so we we gave
away the gene sequence
well okay uh what about a latter day
uh jonas zulk should we should we give
away
the coronavirus vaccine in the same way
that he gave away the polio vaccine
we won't try and assert intellectual
property rights we won't try and
monetize this
and it's quite a difficult one is the
competitive nature of capitalism going
to lead to
better solutions quicker because people
are competing
to generate revenue and to build careers
around
these things or should we just make open
access
and open source in the same way that the
june sequence was opened up
very interesting and difficult questions
but we are where we are
so i've been looking at my modern shares
going up in value and thinking
not too bad but weird
people can actually be profiting from
the pandemic
it's a very strange place to be but the
information scientists
the data scientists who've opened this
stuff up
who shared the information about
diagnosing treating potentially
preventing
the virus you know there's a little bit
of librarian dna
in every one of those people even if
that's not what they would necessarily
identify as
i think the other side of this though
someone who has worked with universities
a lot
is um the universities have been
instrumental in spreading the virus and
this is
something i i'm very personally i'm very
sad about
and we saw in the states this example
and it was probably a
a pivotal date august the 7th 2020
um took two days to come up with a
candidate vaccine which is brilliant
but on august the 7th 2020
around a thousand american universities
went back after their summer break
and you can see in this quote here
nearly half of them
had big plans to do on to do in-person
teaching in lecture theatres in
classrooms
and a lot of them had to abandon these
plans in a matter of days
in my own country we had maybe six weeks
at this point
before most universities would reopen
properly
and that time was splendid that time was
wasted
that was time that we could have been
looking at the places
which reopened earlier and saying
let's see how that's going let's
you know see what we can learn from
those people so we failed to do that we
failed to do that in the uk and
you know millions of young people
and their parents traveled all around
the country at
what was probably a critical time uh
when we thought we just about got the
virus under control
and all of these people traveling around
maybe not the smartest move so
universities
not necessarily always doing the right
thing
but they had no choice in fairness
so how cloud libraries been handling
this well of course libraries have
already had electronic collections like
these have already been offering ebooks
and again it's i think it's kind of been
a little bit of a niche
thing i think for a lot of people who
visit the public libraries particularly
it's about the building it's about the
place people
it's about coming away with a book in
your hand
and i think it's probably been a little
bit of a
difficult transition for a lot of people
and this
presupposes you have a device that you
can read your ebook on
which again is a problem for a lot of
people
so but what we've seen in the uk is this
massive
massive increase in the uptake of
facilities that
already existed they were already there
most libraries already had
public libraries and and universities
already had ebooks
and people were kind of yeah maybe i'll
use that
i'm not especially keen on it but now
maybe it's the only way that you can
read um
but i think it's really fascinating to
see how uh
public libraries have embraced this
challenge
and i've got an example on the right
here from my local library
system where they have a quarantine
system for books
so yeah you can you can order your book
online
and it will be available for you to
collect
and you can be confident that it will
have been kept
away from human contact 72 hours
give the virus time to dissipate
and quarantine on the book returns as
well
so i think these two things the
adaptability
and the new processes plus this uptake
of
the existing electronic facilities that
we had i think is really
it's really encouraging and i think as
we
as we build back it but ask ourselves
you know how much
how much of this how much of these new
practices change
practices different emphasis actually
how much do we want to retain
and how much is you know a
facet of the pandemic itself
martin can i slap you slightly
interruption
we have five minutes and i want people
to know that
i forgot to mention that at first if you
have a question you can share it in the
chat
and it'll get to me and i will
definitely
use it to ask you after the five minutes
that we have left sorry
fantastic no problem um
so i want to talk about a third thing
which is
populism and this is a real place if you
ever saw the tv show little britain it
turns out there is a real street in
london
called little britain um it's not just a
tv show
and of course we're we're in the throes
of
if you like a populist
of many governments worldwide and
we saw the the trump era in the states
in the uk
where we're experiencing the likes of
brexit right now
we didn't have a brexit uh monster like
you guys did in the netherlands which
i feel slightly disappointed about but
it's a real threat to
the kind of progressive values that
i would say in general i think probably
people like us
stand for and equality and
opportunity for all a lot of the people
who've
been achieving political success
recently and i know you have your
elections coming up in
a few weeks time a lot of the people
who've achieved political success have
done it on the back of
turning around much of the progress that
we've made
in the last few decades in terms of
women's rights
in terms of recognizing non-binary
gender identities
all these things which these freedoms
were hard-won
and we've seen where this can lead uh in
the most extreme example we saw the
libraries of mosul
uh in iraq being uh destroyed by
daesh by isis and then we've seen
like two maybe more insidious examples
so
in the states uh this whole business
about
banning books in libraries books that
might promote
those progressive values that
the right the populist
uh insurgents uh really
don't like the idea that a child might
find a book about
um what it means to be transgender and
think
maybe that's me those people feel deeply
threatened by these things
but what can we do what can we do and i
again i think it's really
great to see how libraries and
librarians have responded to these kinds
of challenges so when the trump
administration tried to
disappear the evidence of climate change
then a huge network of volunteers set to
work
archiving the data archiving the
websites to make sure that the
public record will be there so if you
are interested look at
climate mirror look at data refuge it's
really
it's really inspiring to see how people
can come together like that
so i'm going to shut up in a minute and
see what the questions are
i want to leave you with with a closing
thought
so talked about how libraries and
librarians can be a
positive force for the future um
i think we need to think big i think we
need to dream big
so in that spirit i offer you um a
closing thought here
um this week spacex is
testing its interplanetary rocket it's
called starship
this is what it looks like on the left
starship will
probably in in the next
10 years take people to the moon take
people to mars
we'll have libraries on mars perhaps not
in my lifetime but probably in this
century
what will they look like what books will
you need for a library on mars and
it will work there and similarly we
worry about climate change and we think
of it in terms of
losing things there are some really
crazy ideas
um about ameliorating the effects of
climate change
uh like the north european enclosure dam
which is one of my favorites so
this is all about creating a dam across
the
top of north sea and
the end of the english channel and if
you like
reclaiming the land that was lost as the
glaciers melted
a few thousand years ago and you know
you might end up being the
librarian of doggerland and what would
that be like
a place which formerly existed and was
inhabited and was then submerged
by the oceans reclaimed again by
humanity's engineering and knowledge
what would that be like so i'm going to
i'm going to leave it there
and we'll go and see any comments or
questions
back to you eric thank you so much
martin
uh maybe you can go back to the to your
your
close the presentation and go back to
the full screen
and we're having a better view of you
thank you so much for your for your
words i mean it's a lot
there's a lot to think about and and i
i forgot to mention people because i
already thought
they would normally they're so used to
these sort of tools that i would think
they would be
uh knowing that they could post their
questions in the chat so i just
interrupted and gave them a chance
um maybe that was a bit late but i i i
do have some thoughts
of my own of course um and and
i think all anybody here beginning and
what i
know from from the online service that
we provide
especially the the the help that we can
give to the schools to reach out
to to to the young students but what did
you notice what do schools need
most uh in in skills or in
in services to be able to to to reach
out properly
to to the young students at home i think
that the
huge challenge for schools is that you
have
so many people who if you said hey we're
going to zoom
you know higher lessons will be through
microsoft teams or
you know google google classroom um
there are so many people who who can't
access those so this is the kind of
conundrum for people like us
and say okay yeah we can do this
it's how best to support the people who
they they don't have the technology
maybe they don't have the connectivity
but also not more fundamentally maybe
they don't have the confidence
so you know is this is this a thing that
i can do
is it safe will something bad happen if
we screw it up
and this applies both to the teachers
and
to the parents that they're trying to
support
i think and and and and
having said that i know we know we talk
about indeed as you mentioned the lost
children in the netherlands and that's
basically bringing me back to the idea
because
yeah we look at these um
these numbers and we see that we may
have like 98
of internet coverage in our country or
95 i don't know
but that doesn't necessarily mean that
there's more than one device
in the house to work with so if you have
more children needing
laptops tablets or any other sort of
digital device to use
it may not be present and it
used to be the case that quite a few of
those students would go to the library
to have access to internet
make homework work together and that is
all gone
and that brings me to the next thing is
that
libraries have been as you mentioned
extremely successful in their
um digital transformation the
acceleration of that and landing
e-learning
but that is also
may involve a risk that in the future
the government will say okay you did
such a good job
uh why do you need these expensive
buildings ddc do you see
a danger there or do you think libraries
are
probably part of the dna of the
community that they will
they will survive like that i i think it
it's got so much to do with you know my
thread on populism if you have a
government which feels that libraries
are
actually a threat because like spreading
the kind of information
that they don't wish to be shared
with the general public they don't wish
people
to learn these things then they might
well
say well we're going to try and check
these libraries down
and i think the other part of this it
kind of goes back to the
the nuances of capitalism
um you know the idea of a free public
library system i think
for some people is inherently
contradictory what why would you do this
why would you do something for nothing
why why not charge people and so you
might find that
some governments might say okay
we'll have we'll have libraries we will
charge people
to use them and you know this may be
something that the people who most
benefit from
libraries right now will simply not be
able to access they won't be able to
afford it
they don't have a discretionary budget
for books
well there is there is there is in the
netherlands there is a charge for
for the taking out of material uh
not for spending time in the library of
course so there is already
something existing for a longer time and
uh
so this difference this is different in
countries all over the world
so true and in the uk this um varies
depending on what you're
what you're doing as well so it's
the comparisons may be difficult to draw
but the idea of a
of a national public library system
i think it is deeply threatening to some
of the people who
are coming into power and i think
there's a real challenge for librarians
you know do you become an underground
librarian sharing the details of banned
publications
in an underground network it's um
it's the the stuff of of dystopian
thrillers but it
kind of feels like in some parts of the
world is this is
this is coming true there will be books
written about that i have a question
from femke de frise
uh and she asked him martin apart from
ebooks and audiobooks what else could
the digital library consist of
now and in the near future oh
oh i think that is really really
interesting question because
what is a library stock is a library
just about access to resources
and what we've seen in um in some of the
more
um forward-looking libraries is
the library becomes the community kind
of digital
skills training center this is a place
where people can come to
access not just the internet or computer
ebooks or physical books it's a place
where you can come to learn
stuff and be instructed
sometimes by volunteers sometimes by
people who
who actually have found that this is now
part of their job
and i think that side of things is
really really powerful
if you're not in formal education if
you're not at a school or a college
or a university um where is
a place that you can go to learn about
stuff
and a particular thing obviously right
now a lot of people is they've had to
undergo this kind of baptism of fire or
digital technology
and libraries have uh in many places
libraries had already stepped up and
said aha we know that there are a lot of
people who are
older and not so confident with
technology
that we can help to to learn this stuff
i think that's a real problem right now
is that those those people don't have
somebody to support them at the very
time when uh
we've all been kind of forced to fall
back onto technology
so it will be good when when that sort
of thing can resume
yeah that declined to the end of this uh
martin
i was just there's so many questions um
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ah i was thinking well you mentioned the
silver lining
you mentioned the the the speed
in which we we together try to solve
uh find solutions for for for the
pandemic and for the problems that are
hitting us
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is that i already mentioned this but i
would like to
be interested in in how can we use that
citizen science that that minds the
people the data that people provide
for the newer challenges that may arise
in the future can
can we what's is there a role for
libraries there
can we help to bring the citizens and
their data
together in a maybe a better way even as
we do now
to to help solve future challenges
um i i think that whole idea
is really fascinating you know if you if
you live in
a town or a city which has a university
then
you know the chances are that university
has some kind of
outreach program that you can plug into
but
say you don't you just live in a
moderate size
town somewhere um maybe there's a real
role
for libraries to be the hub for things
like
micro climate data you know where we
want to know what the air quality is
like
in our high street we want to know about
um
particular pollution things like this
where do you go what is the natural hub
for this kind of thing
you want to know about biodiversity how
many different types of
birds have you seen in your back garden
um does that does that vary from place
to place
where do we go for that information and
i think there's there's quite a nice
kind of angle there maybe that libraries
can be the kind of local
agents to raise awareness of initiatives
like biodiversity monitoring that have a
much bigger
footprint but you might not know
anything about it you might not know
that there's a
citizen science project that
you would be really interested in you
know if you
if you're simply aware of it maybe
that's a that's a
key role for libraries in the future
excellent mark well i want to thank you
very very much
for your time and no doubt uh
more questions will pop up and i know we
will be in touch
soon somewhere else on this planet and
um
once again thanks for your time and and
talk to you soon
well thank you very much and i hope the
rest of the event goes really well
goodbye for now bye-bye
you

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english department::noun | Spocien Dictionary

english department

noun

the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature

Type	Words
Synonyms	department of english
Type of	academic department

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english department::noun | Spocien Dictionary

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