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The Network Rewrites the Library: Supporting Research and Learning

This presentation discusses the impact of the network on libraries, highlighting the need for libraries to adapt and build their services around user workflows. It also emphasizes the importance of consolidation, brand, attention, diffusion, and flow in library management.

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The Network Rewrites the Library: Supporting Research and Learning

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  1. The network rewrites the library:supporting research and learning Lorcan Dempsey Solinet annual meeting Atlanta, May 10 2007

  2. Overview Footnotes to what Roy said

  3. Words Pictures Screenshots

  4. The network rewrites behaviors

  5. Consolidation Brand and attention Diffusion Flow

  6. Consolidation Brand and attention Diffusion Flow

  7. Database > website > workflow

  8. Self assembled digital identity Prefabricated (e.g. CMS)

  9. ~18 months old No FaceBook, MySpace Library?

  10. URL? Just use Google .. Why isn’t the library in Wikipedia

  11. ?

  12. Susan Hollar - Inside the Course at Michigan Diane Dallis - Inside the Course at Indiana • Sakaibrary: • Michigan • Indiana

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

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

  15. Consolidation Brand and attention Diffusion Flow

  16. No website is the sole focus of a user’s attention

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

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

  19. The rich get richer! Brand is network real estate

  20. Impact? The long tail: manage attention? Systemwide efficiences • Aggregation of supply • Unified discovery • Low transaction costs • Aggregation of demand • Mobilize users • Brand

  21. University of Washington on WorldCat.org (screen shot)

  22. Holdings: Local, Group, Global Univ Washington collections Summit collections WorldCat

  23. Detailed record – item held by UW

  24. Article citations

  25. Article citations

  26. And so …

  27. Network level workflow Google, OhioLink, … Personal Workflow RSS, toolbars, .. Institutional Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … … Integrated local user environment? Library web Presence, … library User environments Management environment Bought Licensed Faculty& students Digitized Aggregations Resource sharing

  28. Takeaways • Increase impact and improve efficiences • Diffusion • Build services around workflow • Syndicate services and data to where the user is • Disclose resources to major discovery hubs • Consolidation • Scale matters: reduce fragmentation and remove clicks • Brand matters: capture attention in consolidated services

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