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Moving to the Network Level: Libraries, Readers and Applications

This presentation discusses the move to the network level in libraries, focusing on resource sharing, cataloging, and A&I/e-journals. It explores the consolidation around network platforms and the impact on storage, computation, and shared cataloging. The talk also emphasizes the innovative uses of metasearch and the long tail dynamic in libraries.

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Moving to the Network Level: Libraries, Readers and Applications

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  1. Moving to the Network Level: Libraries, Readers and Applications Lorcan Dempsey ORBIS Cascade Alliance Retreat University of Washington 12-14 April 2006

  2. 3 ages • Resource sharing and cataloging • A&I and e-journals • Move to the network level: • Consolidation around network platforms ..

  3. Storage Amazon S3 Computation Sun Grid Application Salesforce.com Data Refworks Shared cataloging JSTOR Google Moving to the network level

  4. Some context for a beginning

  5. Robin Murray

  6. Synthesise, Local CSUSM, David Walker

  7. Synthesise, network

  8. Specialize, Local

  9. Mobilize, Local

  10. ‘2 clicks to full-text’ Integrate ‘find articles’ service with other services ‘Variety of pathways’ Metasearch appropriate databases from course pages Innovative Uses of Metasearch: Rethinking Metasearch for a Better User Experience David Lindahl & Jeff Suszczynski, U Rochester Looking to synthesize, specialize, mobilize

  11. Library service landscape

  12. URL is the currency of the web

  13. The library and the library network Systemwide efficiencies Cat/Resource sharingJournal lit Impact

  14. The long tail Systemwide efficiences • Aggregation of supply • Unified discovery • Low transaction costs • Aggregation of demand Impact? Synthesize-specialize-mobilize

  15. Aggregate supply? 1.7% of circulations are ILLs (60% of aggregate G5 collection owned by one library only) Aggregate demand? 20% of collection accounted for 90% of use (2 research libraries over ~4 years) Each book its reader Each reader his/her book Libraries and the long tail dynamic

  16. Libraries Australia CRL Ithaka OCLC RLG DEF OhioLink Summit California digital library JISC Pines Google Scholar Collaboratively sourced approaches

  17. At what level?

  18. Space and Consumer environments • Collections • Discovery to delivery • Business intelligence

  19. Space & consumer environments

  20. OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon

  21. Self assembled digital identity Prefabricated (e.g. CMS) Database > website > workflow

  22. Raymond Yee • Gather – create - share URL is the currency

  23. Conversation and evidence • Mobilize the edge of user contribution • Mobilize resources in user spaces • Integrity and authenticity • Versioning • Citing

  24. pentags

  25. Collections

  26. Books Journals Newspapers Gov. docs CD, DVD Maps Scores Freely-accessible web resources Open source software Newsgroup archives • Research and learning materials • ePrints/tech reports • Learning objects • Courseware • E-portfolios • Research data Special collections Rare books Local/Historical newspapers Local history materials Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations stewardship high low low uniqueness uniqueness high

  27. Print books • Preservation turn: Cost of management and preservation of print collection? • Mass digitisation: converting sharable materials to licensable materials? • Mass digitization and off-site storage present similar issues: selection and shared capacity move to network level?

  28. Licensed resources • Libraries have selected from a published resource: scholarly record. • A global knowledge base? • Complete digital and print runs – at what level? • Growing interest in audio, video, … • Mobilize: Gather, create, share?

  29. Digitized special collections • Relevance to local research and learning needs? Primary materials. • Specialise: support the curriculum/research needs • Mobilize: integration with learning materials • Aggregation and higher level services … at what level?

  30. Web • Harvest and curate • Integrity: Versioning and citation • State/government docs/websites • Specialize: • Collect websites for a particular course

  31. Institutional research and learning outputs • Differently motivated (coordinated asset management, scholarly communications, reputation management, disclosure, preservation, ..) • Domain specialties (high acronymic density) • Diversity: big data, e-portfolios, learning materials, … • Special collections of the future? • New institutional content: podcasts, TV, Blog/Wiki record, …

  32. Collections • Outside in: traditional • Inside out: new challenge

  33. Discovery to delivery

  34. Discover Locate Request Deliver Use Example: aggregate supply: transaction costs Each arrow is a potential added cost: In terms of attention or technical, policy, business or service gaps. Amazon? Google?

  35. Synthesise discovery • Metasearch • Consolidation? • Specialize discovery? • Synthesize and specialize location • Service router = resolution

  36. Locked within end to end systems where the ends are in the wrong places! • Fragmentation: major discovery ad transaction costs • Losing the competition for attention.

  37. Business intelligence

  38. Measurement • Assessment • Marketing • Reflexive product adaptation

  39. Business intelligence To think about: Consolidated holdings? Consolidated usage data? Consolidated circ data? Consolidated resolution data? Consolidated download data? ….

  40. Moving to thenetwork level

  41. From vertical integration …

  42. Libraries Australia CRL Ithaka OCLC RLG DEF OhioLink Orbis Cascade Alliance California digital library JISC Google Scholar … to collaboratively sourced approaches

  43. At what level: • Institutional (single, California Digital Library) • Regional/State (OhioLink, Pines, Orbis Cascade Alliance) • National (JISC, DEFF, Libraries Australia, …) • International (Google Scholar, worldcat, JStor)

  44. Collections Shared offsite storage Aggregate and analyse digital collections Institutional repository Digital storage and preservation Social and consumer environments Social networking services: tagging, reviews, recommendations Share mobilizing approaches Virtual reference D2D Consolidated discovery Knowledge base Resolution - Service routing – fulfilment Business intelligence Synthesize and mobilize shared usage data Recommendation, management decisions Digitization and offsite storage Multilevel approach to …

  45. A new resource sharing … Share everything … a pattern for more efficiently allocating resources within bigger units • Uncertainty • The collective collection • Service development • Concentrate expertise and share outputs • E.g. developing specialized and mobilizing services • Bank • Access to materials, innovation, …

  46. The end http://orweblog.oclc.org

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