Hello. I'm the Smarter Library.
2017 OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Meeting
29–30 November 2017 • Tokyo, Japan
What does it take to become a “smarter library”?
Join fellow OCLC member leaders at the Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting and address the challenge of supporting increasingly personalized customer relationships while also scaling to meet growth in population, materials and expectations. We live in the age of Alexa, big data, autonomous cars, smart everything. What does this mean for libraries, their services and their value and values? Together we’ll look at how “smarter libraries” can remake user experiences to be more customized, effective and intuitive. We’ll investigate ways to leverage data to improve both services and outcomes. And we’ll see how, by applying and strengthening our professional values, libraries can strengthen the communities they serve. All with the never-ending requirement to innovate and reimagine every facet of the library.
Together we will:
Reimagine customer experiences
Be more personalized, effective and intuitive
Leverage data
Improve services and outcomes
Confirm professional values
Strengthen the communities you serve
Innovate continuously
Keep pace with change
We hope you’ll join us for this exciting event held in the vibrant city of Tokyo. The active two-day agenda was designed for attendees representing all library types, and will feature thought leaders from within and outside of the library community, including library colleagues and OCLC leadership. This is your opportunity to connect with fellow library leaders to share ideas, learnings and insights.
Member-driven programming
The programming and agenda at APRC17 are led by the Asia Pacific Executive Committee, composed of respected leaders from the library community. We sincerely appreciate their expertise and partnership.
Chair
Craig Anderson
Deakin University, Australia
Vice Chair
Shirley Chiu-wing Wong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Secretary
Kuang-hua Chen
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Howard Amos
University of Otago, New Zealand
Yoshiaki Fukazawa
Waseda University, Japan
Paul Poon
University of Macau, Macau
Jaesun Lee
National Library of Korea, Korea
DG Rukiah AG Amit
University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Shuqing Chu
Hangzhou Public Library, China
Special thanks to Professor Fukazawa, Library Director at Waseda University Library, and member of the OCLC Asia Pacific Executive Committee, and his staff, for welcoming us and the Asia Pacific library community for this event.
OCLC is proud and grateful to cooperate with Kinokuniya for the organization of the event. Established in 1927, Kinokuniya Company Ltd. is one of the largest bookstore chains in Japan.
Kinokuniya is also working as a subscription agent contributing to the development of Japanese academia while having business relationships with more than 3,000 publishers and academic societies worldwide. It represents renowned publishing houses and content providers, including Cambridge University Press, the MIT Press, The American Physical Society, Annual Reviews, ProQuest and Gale. Kinokuniya has been a distribution agent of OCLC since 1986, and it continues to help spread not just OCLC's products and services, but also its core values to Japanese libraries.
About OCLC membership
All libraries—both OCLC members and non-member institutions—within the Asia Pacific region can take part in the OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council (APRC). Representatives from OCLC member libraries are encouraged to attend member meetings and community activities, to share insights through various member forums and channels, and to participate in elections and governance. Learn more about APRC and OCLC governance.