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UTS Library, the future & research support

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Future Library

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Entirely produced, written and directed by Ryan Diefenbach: a UTS student.The video is available here: http://youtu.be/V1n0rgyQ4YQ

Future Library

UTS: Library Vision

Connecting people, knowledge & culture at the heart of the campus

Future Library

Future Library

Culture is both critical and pivotal to our future. It helps to distinguish us from online services and from a world in which libraries have become storage buildings for books. As well as providing inspiration, meaning and context for knowledge, it helps us connect people to knowledge and to connect people within our community.It is an intangible asset, but something our patrons do expect from us.

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UTS Library: Towards 2017 & Beyond

Providing Inspiration

Adding Context to the Knowledge

Recognising UTS Achievements

Future Library

Culture is both critical and pivotal to our future. It helps to distinguish us from online services and from a world in which libraries have become storage buildings for books. As well as providing inspiration, meaning and context for knowledge, it helps us connect people to knowledge and to connect people within our community.It is an intangible asset, but something our patrons do expect from us.


Future Library

Our efforts with discovery must drive curiosity about our collections and our services. The new technologies we are employing like RFID and ASRS will lead to the design and development of a new service model for our library. That is already starting with research in 2012 into how our users behave and what they need from us.

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Knowledge

New Services for future Education,

Data

Exciting Curiosity, Discovery

New Technology


Future Library

Our efforts with discovery must drive curiosity about our collections and our services. The new technologies we are employing like RFID and ASRS will lead to the design and development of a new service model for our library. That is already starting with research in 2012 into how our users behave and what they need from us.


Future Library

Collaboration can be enhanced by spatial and furniture design, but we must also be more active in connecting our users to encourage collaboration and in going beyond just providing access to a neutral space that isn’t owned by a particular faculty or school within the University. Interactivity between faculties must be encouraged by the provision of spaces and services in the Library that facilitate those connections.

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Collaboration

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Connections

Neutral Space

Inter-disciplinarity


Future Library

Collaboration can be enhanced by spatial and furniture design, but we must also be more active in connecting our users to encourage collaboration and in going beyond just providing access to a neutral space that isn’t owned by a particular faculty or school within the University. Interactivity between faculties must be encouraged by the provision of spaces and services in the Library that facilitate those connections.

Future Library

Our Design Challenges1. Designing the New Library Spaces

2. Designing a New Service Model

3. Designing a New Organisation to Move into the New Space & Deliver the New Service Model.

That support future directions in learning, research and the intelligent use of data at UTS.

These three challenges are deeply linked and cannot be dealt with in isolation of each other. All must be considered and progressed in concert with each other. And they obviously must be cognisant of UTS future directions and priorities.

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Business Law and EthicsBarker, David 349.25 Available

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Supporting Researchers

OUR STRENGTHS networks, partners |diversity of expertise | OA: repository & publishing |clear strategy, targets, framework | copyright/IP expertise |data management & curation |

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So apologies for using the SWOT format, but it just allows me a logical way to organise some talking points that cover my thoughts on this subject.STRENGTHS:Libraries have well developed networks for all kinds of things. In many ways we are excellent networkers and we make good partners for researchers.We usually have a good deal of diverse expertise and that is certainly the case at UTS. Many of our librarians have excellent reputations for their expertise in all of our faculties and in most research centres.At UTS Library we run the OA research repository and we run UTSePress (the largest publisher of OA journals in Australia). That gives us good credibility in this space, gets us partnering with many academics for their research and publication and keeps our professional skills sharp in relevant contemporary fields. I think it is a huge advantage.As I said we have a very clear UTS research strategy, targets and framework. It is easy for us to see where we could have the best impact and help the most.At UTS we are also trusted and enjoy institution-wide respect. We also occupy a “neutral” position within the university and are not seen as a competitor by anyone else. That is a strength to exploit.We hold the UTS Copyright Officer within the Library and provide much advice to researchers and others about protecting their IP and not signing it all away when publishing.As mentioned earlier we manage the UTS data repository and two large research data archives, so we have hands-on experience at data curation.

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CHALLENGES open access is misunderstood | lacking expertise (in some fields) |article processing charges (Gold OA) | our language |

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Some of these weaknesses are our own perceptions and others are how others may see us.In many ways we are still at least partially invisible. I think we need a more visible profile in order to stay relevant, engaged and aligned with UTS priorities and directions and in order to be seen as valuable partners.Sometimes our own perceptions of ourselves are a little too negative and we probably need to be more confident about the services we offer and our own professionalism.Open Access is still misunderstood, so we still need to raise awareness about its benefits, be better advocates for it, and teach people about it to correct some false assumptions.Our budgets are certainly limited. Sometimes worthy initiatives can only be afforded at the expense of something else.In some respects we still need to learn to be more flexible and be prepared to compromise. We should be less defensive of our position and also some of our “traditions”.I think we need a better sense of urgency, we need to learn about managing, not avoiding risk and thus become less cautious in our approach. Sometimes we are far too slow to respond or to initiate action.In some fields of research we will always lack professionally trained expertise, so we must learn to make a valued contribution in other ways.We currently say no to APCs, but it is probably an inflexible position that we cannot hold for much longer without damaging our reputation and the university’s research standing. I think we will have to find a compromise position and a better way forward. It isn’t a black and white issue.The language we use can sometimes be confusing and unhelpful to our clients. We need to use more plain English and terms that any of our clients can clearly understand.

Supporting Researchers OPPORTUNITIES OA promotion | data advisory | connecting | personal relationships | bibliometrics | research metadata collection & harvesting | online help | lit review | alignment | multi-disciplinary research |specific software help | social networks | OA publishing innovation | profile creation & management | crowd-funding? | altmetrics

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This is a recent image I took (from the Empire State building) of the bridges to Manhattan from Brooklyn. There is also a tunnel under the river in much the same area. I think libraries are more like bridges than a destination. Bridges imply opportunities.We must do more to promote Open Access, not just raising awareness, but educating our researchers and academics about it and addressing the many myths. We have to help make it work, to improve the way it can be used and to assist however else we can.Providing a professional data advisory service will just become more and more important into the future. That means helping with everything to do with data - across the whole curatorial process: finding, using, creating, managing (describing, arranging, preserving, etc.) and sharing.One of the best things librarians can do is to help with connections - connecting researchers to each other, expert assistance in the library, to data archives, to sources of knowledge, to inspiration, etc.The development of trusted personal relationships with our researchers is really the only way to make all of this work. If we simply rely on ads on our website or email we are fooling ourselves. We have to get out on campus and into the faculties, research centres and schools to get into the faces of our researchers and market our valuable series or they will simply dry on the vine.We are already working with researchers with regard to bibliometrics and helping them to maximise the impact of their research publications. It is in some ways related to the collection and (potentially) automated harvesting of research metadata (for ERA and HERDC purposes). We have for some time been looking at the Symplectic product that is used by some unis (e.g. UNSW) to harvest metadata & citations, manage identities, etc. This has been done with our university research office and a proposal is going forward to implement that at UTS. It should also assist with profile creation and management.We have online help available via our website (see links in later slides), but it is nowhere near enough by itself. Researchers in particular need the personal help.I know it is time consuming, but some researchers do need our professional assistance with literature review and I know that some our librarians spend time on this for certain researchers.Our efforts much be aligned with the university’s key research goals and priority targets to have any impact. Our resources are limited, but as I said earlier the goals in UTS are very clear for us.At UTS there is a growing trend in multi-disciplinary research and we need to be able to respond to this appropriately. If we are too siloed in our own arrangements we will be of no use. Learning how this works for researchers and how best to support such initiatives is now a real need. In a later slide you will see examples of the ways we assist with specific software and other online skills. These are particularly targeted to the needs of our researchers and those classes are well attended and the subject of ongoing requests for more.Some of the most popular awareness raising that we’ve done is to make our researchers aware of various, sometime discipline specific social networks that exist and can be very useful to them.Maybe libraries can do more in a creative sense in supporting format changes and even multi0media in OA publishing. We are more agile and have the resources to do that, perhaps ahead of traditional publishers.The competition for research funds is now very fierce, but perhaps in some areas that have a high public profile or that address particular needs crowd-funding is a possibility. We will look into assisting with this in potential areas.Alt-metrics aims at collecting non-traditional online measures of use of research data and publications. It may even tell a different story to traditional measures (usage, peer-review and citations). See next slide and the links. I think there is mileage here and it seems like an area for libraries to lead on.

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