Transcript Academic libraries and the network: seven things to think about

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Slide 1. Picture of Sterling Memorial Library. Günter Waibel.
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Slides 30-32. OCLC
Slide 43. Courtesy of Janifer Gatenby.
Interlude
RANKIN IN WORLDCAT
IDENTITIES
Overview
End User Access
Bought/ Elctronic/Digitised/ Special
Physical Licensed Digital colls/
Archives
Management
Management
Part one
WEB 2.0
Then: Users built workflow around
libraries
Now: Library must build
services around user workflow
Discovery happens elsewhere
Disclosure
Google
Facebook
Google
Facebook
LibraryThing
So …
Concentration
Diffusion
• Aggregation of data
at the network level
• Syndication to many
destinations
– Descriptive
– Mining the
clickstream:
“Database of
intentions”
– Social
• Network effects
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A feed based universe
Data
APIs
Widgets
• Mobilization in user
workflows
• Encourage social
participation
Part two
LIBRARY SYSTEMS
User
environment
Library &
Network
Resource
Management
environment
End User Access
Bought/ Electronic/ Digitised/
Digital
Physical Licensed
Management
Management
Special
colls/
Archives
User
environment
Library &
Network
Resource
Find It
End User Access
Get It
Bought/ Electronic/ Digitised/
Digital
Physical Licensed
Metadata
Content
Management
environment
Management
Management
Manage It
Special
colls/
Archives
User
environment
Find It
OPAC
End User
MetaSearch
A-Z Access
NextGen
Get It
ILL/CIRC
Library &
Network
Resource
Website
LINK RESOLVER
SPECIAL
Bought/ Electronic/ Digitised/
Digital
Physical Licensed
Special
colls/
Archives
Metadata
MARC
A&I
XXX
DC
EAD
Content
Management
environment
ILS
ERM
REPOSITORY SPECIAL
Management
Management
Manage It
Diffusion
Network level – website - workflow
Concentration
A thin layer around
complex legacy systems
Low gravitational pull?
Little social dynamic
Limited usage data
Difficult to ‘mobilize’
library resource into
workflows
Stuck in the middle
‘Monolithic fragmentation’
• Move to ‘concentrate’ at local level
– Single search environments
• Move to ‘diffuse’ at local level
– RSS, APIs, ….
• But …
– Have to manage presence at the local, group and
global level
Part three
SYSTEMWIDE ATTENTION
Remember ….
I WAS ASKED TO BE PROVOCATIVE ….
Put another way...
“It is not necessary to change.
Survival is not mandatory.”
—W. Edwards Deming
A historic note: the good old days
Move to group and global
1. Cataloging and resource
sharing
2. A&I databases and
electronic journals
3. Logic of network
environment suggests
moving more ….
Historic central actors
• British Library Document
Supply Centre
• JISC
• ‘group’ structures less well
developed in UK than
elsewhere.
Network level services are heavily used,
and in many cases are the first port of call
for library users
Increasing opportunities to build shared capacity,
remove unhelpful redundancy, and aggregate data
(cf government shared services agenda).
Release time and resource to support specific
learning and teaching needs of institution.
Disclose resources into group and network
level services.
So:
… WITH VARYING DEGREES
OF PLAUSIBILITY …
Group
Data?
• Knowledge base
• Aggregate usage data
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Resolver data
Download data
Database usage data
Circulation
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• Shared catalog (cf OhioLink)
• Syndicate to global (e.g.
Google Scholar and union
catalogues)
• Switch to local for fulfilment
Applications?
• Repository
• Search
– Institutional search (Primo,
WC Local, etc)
– Metasearch
– Catalogue
• ILS????
– Network effects: e.g.
circulation and
recommendation
– Shared selection
– CIRC <> resource sharing
Group
The collective collection?
• Competition for space and
ongoing cost a concern
• Legacy print collections (cf
UK RR)
– Storage
– Preservation
– Access
• Physical delivery
architecture
The collective collection?
• Managing a licensed
collection
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Ebooks
Journals
Preservation
Access models
Where data aggregation is beneficial
• More effective exposure in a web scale site (metadata)
• To attract users and social engagement
• Avoid redundant data management (suppliers details, supplier suggestions)
• Collective knowledge - tasks less complicated or more accurate (serial
prediction)
• New knowledge via deduction or mining (holdings count indicating
rareness and popularity, supplier performance, enriched name metadata)
• Most effective management of links and imported enriched data
• Comparison of collections; facilitating the management of the collective
collection
Global
• Discovery
• Registry (of institutions, services, collections)
• Electronic delivery architecture
Local
• Interpretation of specific research and learning
needs of institution
• Intersection of research/learning and
information management
• Reputation management
• Disclosure to group and global levels
• Funding
Management models
• Collaboratively sourced
• Centrally provided
• Third parties
Think local:
Act local, group(al) and global.
Thank you
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