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The network rewrites the library

Explore how the network has transformed libraries, focusing on the impact on space, place, and workflow. Learn about the changing nature of attention, the value of space, and the role of collections in a networked environment.

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The network rewrites the library

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  1. The network rewrites the library Lorcan Dempsey Phineas L. Windsor Lectureship GSLIS, UIUC Feb 23 2007

  2. Photo: Robin Alston

  3. … a hive-like dome … Louis MacNeice

  4. Private and social Collection and catalogue Space and place

  5. Some environmental factors • Workflow • Attention • Gravitational hubs

  6. ~18 months old No FaceBook, MySpace Library?

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

  8. Netvibes, onfolio, my yahoo, myspace, RSS aggregator, … Self assembled digital identity Prefabricated (e.g. CMS) Database > website > workflow

  9. Workflow • Then • Users built workflow around the library • Now • The library must build its services around user workflow Get into the flow Disclose into other environments

  10. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert Simon

  11. Attention • Then • Resources scarce, attention abundant • Now • Attention scarce, resources abundant Competition for attention

  12. Then: vertically integrated around collection Now: moving apart in network environment Space Expertise Collections Systems and services

  13. Place Space infused with value How has the value changed over time? Engagement with resources? Space Opportunity costs Valuable real estate Growing pressure in many environments New spaces Place

  14. Place • Exhibitions • Access to scarce resources – people, equipment, … • Social and learning encounter

  15. Collections 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

  16. Collections Ingest into local collections • Print collections • Storage, digitization, … • ERM • Knowledge bases New behaviors and support for research and learning Digital ‘record’ more important(prospectus, course catalog, student records) Focus of much digital library activity.

  17. Industrialized practices in upper left quadrant. Elsewhere expensive More digital everywhere Collection development:all quadrants? Rebalancing system focus ERM/resolver/knowledge base ILS/catalog Repository Digital asset management Archival perspective (provenance, versions, context, integrity, …) Situational and relational (rights, …) Collections [Shift of expertise]

  18. Workflow Attention The website is not the sole focus of a user’s attention Get into the flow Engagement Examples The catalog: discovery and disclosure Research and learning support Services &systems

  19. Chris Beckett http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html

  20. Discovery: focus on catalog with some related … • Local Discovery Environments • Shared Discovery Environments • Syndicated Discovery Environments • Leveraged Discovery Environments

  21. Local Discovery environment • Some (not necessarily aligned) motivations • Make data work harder • Integrate access to locally managed resources • Escape from ILS limitations • NCSU • Rochester • SOLR • Worldcat 2.0 • Primo • Encore …

  22. Shared discovery environment • Increase impact • Create gravitational pull • Aggregate demand and supply • Reduce costs

  23. Some comments • Integration of discovery to delivery becoming essential • A move to shared environments seems more likely with increased ability to ‘view’ different levels • Increased gravitational pull: greater use of collections • Growing evidence

  24. Syndicated discovery experience • Syndicate data or service or links

  25. RSS Portlets APIs, Protocol-based Projects Sakailibrary … Syndicating services Not as rapid as one might expect?

  26. Some remarks • Syndication of data now common among data providers • Routing issue for non-unique materials • Resolution services • Worldcat and other union catalogs • Libraries exposing licensed content holdings interesting • Google Scholar

  27. Service disclosure of growing importance • APIs • Web services • Portlets • HTML fragments – ‘search boxes’ • Toolbars • Widgets, extensions, …

  28. The Leveraged discovery experience • In some ways the most interesting • Use another discovery service to connect back to your resources • Compare to the situation with article databases and resolvers

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