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13 ways of saying something ordinary in New Haven:
some notes about libraries in a changing environment
A presentation to the staff of Yale University Libraries, 5 December 2003
Lorcan DempseyOCLC
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Overview
• Some trends (1-7)• It’s research and learning, stupid .. (8)• It’s the library, stupid … (9-13)
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1. Collections grid
high low
low
high
stewardshipun
ique
ness
BooksJournalsNewspapersGov. docsCD, DVDMapsScores
Special collectionsRare booksLocal/Historical newspapersLocal history materialsArchives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations
Research and learning materials •ePrints/tech reports•Learning objects•Courseware•E-portfolios•Research data
Freely-accessible web resourcesOpen source softwareNewsgroup archives
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Universities will provide open access to their digital assets, including
elevation of these assets into global access platforms;
develop digital asset holdings in line with their strategic interests;
and foster and sponsor national and global communities that will be built around education, research, and research training.
Robin Stanton, Australian National UniversityIn: Emerging visions for access in the Twenty-first Century library. Washington: CLIR, 2003.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub119abst.html
2. Research and learning
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science
Science projects are data publishers. The scale and complexity of current and future science data changes the nature of the publication process. Publication is becoming a major project component. At a minimum, a project must preserve the ephemeral data it gathers.
Jim Gray (Microsoft research), et alOnline Scientific Data Curation, Publication, and Archiving
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?msr_tr_id=MSR-TR-2002-74
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http://www.lib.washington.edu/digitalscholar/projects.html
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the humanities“The digital scholarship initiative* will bring (or at least help to bring) focus to an emerging need and opportunity to many scholars on campus who have been struggling individually with attempting to articulate and elucidate this area of study. Both the opportunity and challenges are enormous for making significant contributions in scholarship previously impossible without digital technology.”
Quoted in Ogburn, JoyceSPARC Forum – Scholarly Communication Advocacy on CampusALA Annual Meeting Toronto 2003June 21, 2003
*New models of academic support. An initiative of the University of Washington Libraries supported by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation
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learning materials, courseware
• Digital assets• ‘Learning objects’• Content packages• E-portfolio• Courses Increase in number of courses which use
course management systems
2000 2002 Change
Carnegie Mellon University* 150 567 378%
Denison University* 25 150 600%
[i] * Information Technology and Libraries, June 2003 (p. 80).
* personal communication, Scott Siddal
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oclc taskforce on elearning
• Diffusion of information skills and use through the learning process
• Life cycle management of learning materials
• Systems interaction between library and learning management systems
Picture courtesy Dan Rehak, Carnegie Mellon University
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Institutional repository
Our institutions of higher education have overlooked an opportunity to support our most innovative and creative faculty for at least a decade now, to the detriment of both the faculty members and the institutions themselves.
Cliff Lynch, http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html
And yet …
•First steps …•Mission …•Long term costs …
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what is institutional interest in institutional asset management?
• Reputation management• Curatorial responsibility to the ‘intellectual record’• Enrich the discourse of scholarly communication
– Surface rich resources– New opportunities for access, analysis, re-use
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3. The web
• What to expose?• Selectively harvest and persistently manage scholarly
resources?
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4. Bought materials
• Cost and effectiveness of managing a redundant, distributed print collection– Depositories – nascent national infrastructure?– Collection analysis and management– Space
• Growing divide between – mass market (see music) and – scholarly materials (evolving forms)?
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5. Licensed materials
• Homogeneous collections• Gated environments
– Cost– Licenses (what is publishing?)
• Serials crisis <> Optimal diffusion and impact?
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6. Reclaiming the special
• Mainstreaming ‘special’ as primary research materials
• Special?–Primary materials–Costly to process
and manage–Unique/rare
• Special collections of the future
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7. Above and below the line
• Industrialized • Cottage
• Standards/best practice
• Out of the box
• Routine
• Operational
• Gated
• Multiple copies
• Open source/homegrown
• Learning curve
• Soft money
• Open reusable
• Unique
• Emerging
• Local physical/access digital
• Digital content management
• preservation • preservation
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8. Mission, value and change
• Mission StatementThe Yale University Library, as one of the world's leading research libraries, collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. It fosters intellectual growth and supports the teaching and research missions of Yale University and scholarly communities worldwide.
• It’s research and learning stupid …
• Focus on ends …• What drives
change?
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Resource allocation
• But universities are a problem for governments, and they are an especial problem for populist governments in market democracies. The only two forms of justification that such governments can assume will be accepted by their electorates are, first, the benefits of 'research', especially the medical, technological and economic benefits; and, second, manpower planning, the training of future employees in a particular economy.
• A third function, the preservation, cultivation and transmission of a cultural tradition, cuts some ice if it is understood to be confined to a small number of outstanding institutions, somewhat analogous to the case for national galleries and museums.
• A fourth justification, one that has had considerable purchase in the United States and, in a different idiom, in France, concerns socialisation in civic values, but has never played very well in Britain, where the implicit nature of the political and social ideals allegedly governing our lives have not, to most people, seemed to need explicit formulation and inculcation.
Stefan Collini, London Review of Books
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Resource allocation
• NSF has requested $5,481 M for 2004 • NEH has requested $152 M for 2004
• Support?• Special collections• Institutional repositories• Learning materials
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9. It’s the library, stupid …
• The ‘digital library’ is the library– The library has a responsibility to the scholarly record in its
historical continuity and media diversity.
• And yet …
• The ‘digital library’ is not a library– Lacks:
• Systemic perspective• Shared understanding manifest in common architectural principles
– Displays:• Ad hoc development• Service stovepipes
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10. Digital library developments …
• Consolidated access to licensed materials:automating the discovery to delivery chain
• Access to licensed resources• Z39.50• Industry driven?
• Framework for digital collections
• Digital content management• Harvesting• Community driven?
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11. Components
• Repositories– Life cycle management of materials– Metadata, content and service models – Preservation as integral part of responsible data curation– Creating the persistent stuff of scholarship – ‘excitable’
• Services– Search/request/deliver– Recommend/analyze/compare– Create/edit/annotate/manipulate/combine
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Components
• Portal/presentation– Orchestrate services– Workflow integration– Multiple workflows – multiple presentations– Unplug and play – architectural perspective
• Environment of use– Creation, curation, use– Aggregate, manipulate,
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Directory: ILL policy
Application architecture
Common services
Repositories
Services
PresentationThe User
Authentication
Directory: user profile
Query broker
Directory: service description
Reference db
Request broker
Circ/ILL systemOpenURL resolver
Directory: local knowledge base
Article db
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13. Moving forward
• Locally responsive• Architecture and service development a community activity• Which community?
– Pool uncertainty– Create shared view– Share development and service– Federated services
• Need to take a much more instrumental view of available organizations
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So ..
• Responsibility to the scholarly record involves complex balance of external and internal, common and unique, commodity and special.
• Support for research and learning creates value. This is measured in terms of political support.
• Securing future services requires a systemic approach to library service design and development. Needs to be driven in concert.