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The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services.

The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services. Lorcan Dempsey Lir Seminar 2008 14 April 2008 Liberty Hall, Dublin. Picture: Robin Alston. Space. Expertise. Then: vertically integrated around collection Now: moving apart in network environment

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The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services.

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  1. The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services. Lorcan Dempsey Lir Seminar 2008 14 April 2008 Liberty Hall, Dublin

  2. Picture: Robin Alston

  3. Space Expertise • Then: vertically integrated around collection • Now: moving apart in network environment • New skills …. Collections Systems and services

  4. Place High touch service

  5. Space Opportunity costs Valuable real estate Growing pressure in many environments New spaces Place • Place • Space infused with value • How has the value changed over time? • Engagement with collections, expertise and services?

  6. Place • Infrastructure -> “customer relations” • Higher value activity • Access to scarce resources – people, equipment, specialist advice, exhibition, … • Individual, group, social

  7. These student comments suggest that good study space is responsive to the academic and social dimensions of study in ways that allow students to control them both. Scott Bennett

  8. Gleason Library U Rochester Photos: S. Gibbons

  9. Place engage with the learning processPartnershipRepurpose and recalibrate

  10. Collections New directions

  11. Collections grid STEWARDSHIP high low • Books • Journals • Newspapers • Gov. docs • CD, DVD • Maps • Scores • Freely-accessible web resources • Websites • Open source software • Newsgroup archives low UNIQUENESS • Research, learning and administrative • materials, • ePrints/tech reports • Learning objects • Courseware • E-portfolios • Research data • Institutional records • Reports, newsletters, etc high • Special collections • Rare books • Local/Historical newspapers • Local history materials • Archives & Manuscripts, • Theses & dissertations

  12. Trends • Mass digitization and off-site storage • Licensed: rented • ‘Special collections’ onto the web • Thematic collections of web resources • Research, learning and administrative materials ‘published’ on the web • The new special collections.

  13. Thematic research collections

  14. Published materials: discourse • Primary materials: evidence • Interpreted materials: exhibition • Library • Archive • Museum

  15. Collections negotiation engagement with researchers and learners as creatorsarchival practice: institutional assetsinterpretation and exhibition

  16. Expertise The person is an entry point

  17. Source: Susan Gibbons, U Rochester

  18. Expertise Improve university research and learning capacities:publishinginterpreting available resources in terms of specific research and learning needsspecialist consultancy: GIS, metadata, IPR, …Marketing and assessment: understand needs and develop services to meet those needs

  19. Services and systems In the flow

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

  21. Discovery happens elsewhere Resources are abundant; attention scarce Build services around workflow The big squeeze

  22. Now: Federated access to multi-institutional holdings with support for personal collection-building and sharing

  23. Systems and services Support for faculty and student gather/create/sharePlacing the library in the flowdigital asset managementmore sophisticated sourcing decisions

  24. Leadership value translation: showing the value of the library in the context of the values of the home institution

  25. Thank you http://orweblog.oclc.org

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