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Some collection directions

Some collection directions. Lorcan Dempsey With contributions from Brian Lavoie CRL Retreat October 6-7 2006 Chicago. Overview. Some topics. Reflections on collection directions Rareness is common The long tail and library logistics Aggregate collections Open for business

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Some collection directions

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  1. Some collection directions Lorcan Dempsey With contributions from Brian Lavoie CRL Retreat October 6-7 2006 Chicago

  2. Overview

  3. Some topics • Reflections on collection directions • Rareness is common • The long tail and library logistics • Aggregate collections • Open for business • Access to scale: moving to the network level • Conclusions

  4. Reflections on collectiondirections …

  5. stewardship high low Books Journals Newspapers Gov. docs CD, DVD Maps Scores Freely-accessible web resources Open source software Newsgroup archives low uniqueness • 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 high

  6. Opportunity costs? • How many times do you pay for it? • The end of publishing - through the gates? Ingest into local collections New behaviors and support for research and learning Digital ‘record’ more important(prospectus, course catalog, student records) Focus of much digital library activity. Why?

  7. Special: primary materials? Curatorial responsibility for more unique materials? Institutional Capacities? Sourcing? • Examples • Thematic research collection • Curated databases

  8. Managing digital? • An archival perspective? • Provenance • Evidential integrity • Versioning • Institutional • Capacities? • Sourcing?

  9. Access Gather, create, Share Disclose to where user is

  10. University of Minnesota http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps

  11. Securing? Securing the scholarly record • Community? • How? The scholarly record ain’t what it used to be? Institution?

  12. OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon

  13. Mature? • Institutional maturity – an industry and cooperative structures • Structures under pressure • Libraries organized around this quadrant (‘owned’) • Emerging techniques for licensed • New systems framework for licensed Institutional immaturity • Organizational models for collective activity, reducing costs, etc, in development. • Commodity systems not available

  14. 2. Rareness is common

  15. Rareness is common … in the G5 • G5 aggregate collection: • 10.5 million books • ~60 percent represent unique • contribution by one or another • of the G5 libraries 3% Held by 5 6% Held by 4 10% Held by 3 61% Held by 1 20% Held by 2

  16. TRLN collection analysis http://www.trln.org/TaskGroups/CollectionAnalysis/TRLN_CollAnalysis_June2Report.pdf

  17. … and beyond • System-wide print book collection (as of January 2005) • ~32 million print books 5% Held by > 100 3% Held by 51 - 100 5% Held by 26 - 50 37% Held by 1 20% Held by 6 - 25 30% Held by 2 - 5

  18. 3. The long tail and library logistics

  19. Library “Inventory” 20% head 80% long tail Libraries aggregate supply at the local level… “About the only places you could explore outside the mainstream were the library and the comic book shop.” Chris Anderson, “The Long Tail”

  20. The long tail Systemwide efficiences • Aggregation of supply • Unified discovery • Low transaction costs • Aggregation of demand Impact?

  21. 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

  22. But the global library resource is diffused across thousands of locations … • Limited aggregation of supply at network level: • Fragmented discovery • Management data not used • High transaction costs – find it/get it • Fragmented inventory/shipping • Limited aggregation of demand at network level: • Difficult to mobilize a large number of users • Not projected into user environments Leads to weak gravitational pull and low network visibility for libraries and library collections

  23. Get real about … • Logistics • Inventory • Supply chain • Management information • D2D

  24. 4. Aggregate collections

  25. Collection development Mass digitization Off site storage Discovery to delivery Find it – get it Preservation Thinking about collections in aggregate terms Opportunity costs Space Attention/value On demand Print on demand Buy on demand Digitize on demand Logistics: very inefficient Management data: holdings, circulation, … Aggregate collections

  26. Mass Digitization Issues Framework PRESERVE USE DISCLOSE DESCRIBE ECONOMICS RIGHTS STORE DIGITIZE SELECT

  27. Best practices + organizational contexts for: • Off site storage (see NAST) • Mass digitization • Preservation • D2D ?

  28. 5. Open

  29. Open This means that any use of “Open” is likely to be fuzzy and confusing. The “Open Access” movement is broad and supports several major points of view which, though overlapping, have significant differences either in pragmatics or philosophy. Moreover “Open Foo” does not imply “Open Bar”. Thus “Open Access” publications will not by themselves ensure “Open Data”. Peter Murray Rust

  30. Subscription • Advertizing • Transaction

  31. Conclusions 6. Access to scale: moving to the network level

  32. In the lone houses and very small villages which are scattered about in so desert a country as the Highlands of Scotland, every farmer must be butcher, baker and brewer for his own family. Adam Smith

  33. Trajectory … Then • Cataloging & resource sharing • A&I and e-Journals • Collections Now • Growing realization that much more can be done at the network level

  34. 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 …

  35. 7. Conclusions

  36. Recalibrate local and ‘collaboratively’ sourced • Plural business and delivery models • Develop a more instrumental view of organizations at the network level?

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