[1] French academic libraries: acting and supporting for the digital transformation of pedagogy, research and documentation in higher education

Abstract: The French academic library managers association (adbu) is now identified in the French higher education landscape as a key-partner in order to help any librarian who wishes to engage digital transforming processes by implementing similar workshops in his/her institution, consistent with national orientations. Context: In 2013, the EU High level group on Modernization of higher education published its “Report to the European Commission on improving the quality of teaching and learning in Europe’s higher education institutions”, and the French Higher Education Department issued the French national higher education strategy (StraNES). In 2016, the French Conseil national du numérique (CNNum) organized collaborative workshops on a design-thinking model, in which the French Association for academic libraries Directors and managers was acting as both a partner and a DIY-workshop kit tester. National advocacy and leverage: following the partnership with the CNNum and this librarian-designed workshop, adbu provided CNNum with comments, suggestions and points of vigilance from library professionals, with a view to integrating in the best manner the human resources and action repository for transforming pedagogy/research/documentation digital policy and practices in both the local and national French higher education. This framework (transformation repository and DIY kit for setting up a collaborative workshop in one’s working environment/institution) was presented to the Secretary of State in charge of Higher Education and Research, Mr. Thierry Mandon, on December 14, 2016, along with the the co-design methods of these collaborative and reproducible workshops. Local pollinating: the adbu cross-pollinated this collaborative workshop model aiming at engaging digital transformation processes at a local level, considering that each and every librarian has all the potential needed to act as an incentive and a facilitator in his or her institution. You will find the restitution in images of the adbu workshop that took place on December 7, 2016 on https://padlet.com/AdbuPedagogie/TransfoNumeriqueESR . Various papers and posts were published in France about this initiative. Today, some academic libraries started working on a local institutional background : they suggested and impulsed collaborative meetings and workshops in order to enhance or accelerate their institutional digital transformation. Bio: Cécile Swiatek represents the French academic library managers association (adbu) where she is in charge of the Pedagogy and Documentation Committee. She is Deputy Director at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas academic library in Paris, France. She is particularly involved with pedagogy and HE digital innovation. She was previously in charge of Law, Economics, Management and Journalism collections in Paris II. Before that, she was Collection manager in Medicine Science and Technology at the BUPMC – Université Paris6 academic library – and head of medical and computer science research sections. She spent over nine years engaged on the BUPMC collections and on both professional and users training services. In 2014 she committed herself in the IFLA Lyon national committee for Cfibd. She is currently an active member of adbu, ABF and LIBER in the Research and Education Support working group, Reshaping the Research Library steering committee, where she represents the French Librarians Association (ABF)