electronic resources and libraries keynote

From access to associations

Making connections with electronic resources

Elizabeth Goodman School of Information | University of California, Berkeley

About me

Libraries are very stable

The uses of libraries

What new things could we do?

From access to associations?

Digital information changes how things are available

Building relationships around data

Information science fictions

Illustration by Frank R. Paul for Amazing Stories magazine, 1927. http://flickr.com/photos/outofpaper/43112546/

Fiction 1: Library activity displays

Visually appealing displays of circulation metadata in

public places outside the library

Publicizing the intellectual life of groups of patrons

Connecting the library to other places

Visualizing slow and fast change over time

Making metadata visible

http://www.walkingpaper.org/1123

Inspirations Personal data visualization

Community murals

City screens

Fiction 2: Patron matchmaking

Introducing patrons based on borrowing habits

Building on trust in libraries as institutions

Actively facilitating intellectual partnerships

Supporting informed privacy decision-making

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From:

Subject:

Recommend@library.edu

Shared interests?

Dear John Smith,

Thanks for opting in to our patron recommender program. Your interest in George Eliot appears to be shared by another patron.

If you are tnterested in contacting this patron, please reply to this email. Your response will be forwarded to the patron. ���We will not disclose your email address or any other personal information until you choose to share it.

Recall notices

Book clubs

Online dating

(Non) fiction 3:

Enhancing digital texts with relevant resources.

Automatically detecting the names of places and people

Assisting learning by links to other documents

Providing a new “reference room” for online research

Following slides borrowed from the Contexts and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies project - http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/ Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal funding agency, and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg; Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ., 1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof, Akad. f. graphische Künste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925; search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d. 1970.

WHO?

Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg; Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ., 1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof, Akad. f. graphische Künste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925; search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d. 1970.

WHERE?

Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg; Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ., 1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof, Akad. f. graphische Künste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925; search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d. 1970.

WHAT?

Digitizing the ‘reference room’?

Making associations flexible and durable

Library activity displays Space and scale Publicizing rhythms of thought and attention

Patron matchmaking Building on trust in libraries Facilitating translucency

Enhancing texts with context Allowing for comparison and exploration – individual and collective

Thanks!

Photo credits http://flickr.com/photos/limonada/6270210/ http://flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/248594239/ http://flickr.com/photos/todojuanjo/2630161117/ http://flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/4462965/ http://flickr.com/photos/liz/6315099 http://flickr.com/photos/aldask/2313594798 http://flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/2949365635/ http://flickr.com/photos/playfullibrarian/3229563802/

Video credits

http://www.walkingpaper.org/1123

http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/

Elizabeth Goodman www.confectious.net