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Loosely Joined. Library and Publisher networks for the digital era.

Loosely Joined. Library and Publisher networks for the digital era. MENA-IUG 2013 Doha, Qatar. Paul Coyne Technical Systems Director Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation. It is VERY important you remember ONE thing about this talk. Tweet ONLY the good stuff! Oh, and this, which is the next

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Loosely Joined. Library and Publisher networks for the digital era.

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  1. Loosely Joined. Library and Publisher networks for the digital era. MENA-IUG 2013 Doha, Qatar Paul Coyne Technical Systems DirectorBloomsbury Qatar Foundation

  2. It is VERY important you remember ONE thing about this talk. Tweet ONLY the good stuff! Oh, and this, which is the next half hour summed up: In the digital, mobile and networked age we serve our respective communities better when we decide to build Open, Networked Services together.

  3. The size of the library collection will double every 16 years. In reality it’s doubled about every 20... ACLS, 1967, ix

  4. Cutting edge technology or blunt instrument?

  5. “Vague but exciting”

  6. 1993 ARL calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions to Springer journals 1977 CAUL calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions Elsevier journals 2012 Cost of Knowledge calls on libraries to cancel subscriptions Elsevier journals Stam, 1992

  7. Librarians are a group of talented professionals fiercely dedicated  to the notion that the effective exchange of information among people is absolutely essential to the welfare and well-being of modern civil society.   They believe that market forces create barriers to achieving that end.

  8. Publishers are a group of talented professionals fiercely dedicated  to the notion that the effective exchange of information among people is absolutely essential to the welfare and well-being of modern civil society.   They believe that  market forces are the means to achieving that end.

  9. Together, we can do amazing things

  10. There is much work to do What else can we do?

  11. We are a privileged generation. Where’s the smoking gun? In your lifetime you will define how digital, mobile and networked services in the library (and in publishing) will evolve for the decades to come.

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