Libraries and networks: the new cooperative context

1. Libraries and networks:the new cooperative context Lorcan Dempsey University of Illinois, Springfield 30 March 2005

2. Overview

3. 3 ages • Resource sharing and cataloging • A&I and e-journals • Consolidation around network platforms ..

4. Some context for a beginning

5. Robin Murray

6. Library servicelandscape

9. URL is the currency of the web

10. The library and the library network Systemwide efficiences Cat/Resource sharingJournal lit Impact

11. The long tail Systemwide efficiences • Aggregation of supply • Unified discovery • Low transaction costs • Aggregation of demand Impact? Synthesize-specialize-mobilize

12. 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

13. Libraries Australia CRL Ithaka OCLC RLG DEF OhioLink California digital library JISC Pines Google Scholar Collaboratively sourced approaches

14. At what level?

15. Collections • Discovery to delivery • Space and Consumer environments

16. Space and Consumerenvironments

19. OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon

20. Self assembled digital identity Prefabricated (e.g. CMS) Database > website > workflow

21. Raymond Yee • Gather – create - share URL is the currency

23. Conversation and evidence • Mobilize the edge of user contribution • Mobilize resources in user spaces • Integrity and authenticity • Versioning • Citing

24. pentags

25. Collections

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

27. Print books • Preservation turn: Cost of management and preservation of print collection? • Mass digitisation: converting sharable materials to licensable materials? • Mass digitization and off-site storage present similar issues: selection and shared capacity move to network level?

28. Licensed resources • Libraries have selected from a published resource: scholarly record. • A global knowledge base? • Complete digital and print runs – at what level? • Growing interest in audio • Gather, create, share?

29. Digitized special collections • Relevance to local research and learning needs? Primary materials. • Specialise: support the curriculum/research needs • Mobilize: integration with learning materials • Aggregation and higher level services … at what level?

30. Exhibition at Wesleyan: http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/exhibit/Teaching/Pedagogy/home.htm

31. Web • Harvest and curate • Integrity: Versioning and citation • State/government docs/websites

32. Institutional research and learning outputs • Differently motivated (coordinated asset management, scholarly communications, reputation management, disclosure, preservation, ..) • Domain specialties (high acronymic density) • Diversity: big data, e-portfolios, learning materials, … • Special collections of the future?

33. Some questions about collections

34. Structures, budgets, skills, routine systems ….… are organized aroundthe ‘upper left’.

35. At what level? Creation, organization and curation

36. Discovery to delivery

37. Discover Locate Request Deliver Use Example: aggregate supply: transaction costs Each arrow is a potential added cost: In terms of attention or technical, policy, business or service gaps. Amazon? Google?

38. Synthesise discovery • Metasearch • Consolidation? • Specialize discovery? • Synthesize location • Service router = resolution

40. Request: Service router Place hold Place ILL request Initiate purchase request, …. Deliver: From multiple sources Shared physical and digital collections? Challenges: find it?

41. Locked within end to end systems where the ends are in the wrong places! • Competition for attention. • At what level: • Insitutional (single, California Digital Library) • Regional/State (OhioLink, Pines) • National (JStor) • International (Google Scholar, worldcat)

42. Moving to thenetwork level

43. Trajectory: from vertical integration …

44. Collections Shared offsite storage Aggregate and analyse digital collections Institutional repository Digital storage and preservation Social Social networking services D2D Consolidated discovery Service routing – fulfilment Business intelligence Synthesize and mobilize shared usage data Multilevel approach to …

45. Libraries Australia CRL Ithaka OCLC RLG DEF OhioLink California digital library JISC Google Scholar … to collaboratively sourced approaches

46. Find the right level to … • Collectively strategise • Collectively specify • Collaboratively source • Solutions • Products Synthesise-specialise-mobilize