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Building Bridges That Last Libraries and the Long Haul

Building Bridges That Last Libraries and the Long Haul. Roy Tennant. Health Science Libraries in a Networked World. Roy Tennant. Our Users…. Have lives Prefer to avoid pain Satisfice Seek efficiencies Are diverse Need one thing one day and another the next (their needs are also diverse).

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Building Bridges That Last Libraries and the Long Haul

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  1. Building Bridges That LastLibraries and the Long Haul Roy Tennant

  2. Health Science Libraries in a Networked World Roy Tennant

  3. Our Users… • Have lives • Prefer to avoid pain • Satisfice • Seek efficiencies • Are diverse • Need one thing one day and another the next (their needs are also diverse)

  4. …Our Systems • Are many and offer few clues as to their purpose • Are often painful to use • Don’t offer everything our users expect • Tend to be tailored for expert users, not novices • Do not enable the kinds of interactions people have come to expect (e.g., save to a personal list, tag, easily add to social bookmarking site, etc.)

  5. Our Services… • Need serious review in light of user need • May not always be what we’ve done in the past • May be provided at the global level, group level, local level, or (most likely) by a combination • Will need to interact with many other services seamlessly

  6. Collections

  7. Mass Digitization • Google Library Project: • A number of large research libraries participating • Online at Google Books and Univ. of Michigan (theirs only) • Hundreds of thousands of books now online (an unknown number freely available) • Only searchable as a unified resource at Google Books • Open Content Alliance: • A number of libraries and sponsors (including Yahoo! and Microsoft) • Digitizing more slowly than Google, but steadily • Content online at the Internet Archive • Anyone can download all the files

  8. Implications for Libraries • With help from OCLC, possibility of all libraries becoming virtually huge • Online content may actually drive desire for print • Will require better methods of unifying access to print and digital • Increased need to split inventory controlfromdiscovery

  9. Discovery

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  11. WorldCat Local • Customized view of WorldCat.org that can serve as a library or library consortium’s local discovery service • In prototype now at the University of Washington, Peninsula Library System, etc.

  12. Open WorldCat • Over 90 million bib records • Over a billion physical items

  13. Customized WorldCat.org Local Branding Downloadable Search Box & Custom Ranking Inherits all features of WorldCat.org Faceted Browse Article Metadata

  14. Holdings: Local, Group, Global UW First Then Summit Rest of WorldCat

  15. Full record display Local Availability

  16. WorldCat Local Possibility • Instead of a group based on region, how about one based on topic affinity such as health sciences? • First level: local institution • Second level: a consortium of health science libraries • Third level: everything else

  17. Providing One-Stop Shopping • Most metasearch tools are optimized for bibliographic information… • …but health science libraries also need to provide access to a great deal of non-bibliographic sources

  18. Delivery

  19. Better Linking Through Chemistry • Our goal: get the user to what they want as quickly and as painlessly as possible • OpenURL resolvers are the beginning, not the end • Example: GUF

  20. GUF: Getting Users to Full-Text* • Title links on results screen lead to either: • Full-text (best) • Print-holdings information with map (2nd best) • Pre-filled interlibrary loan request form (worst) • Issues Addressed: • Follow long click-paths • Get stuck at dead-ends • Resubmit search mid-session * This slide by David Lindahl, University of Rochester

  21. GUF Uses Other Services • Database of print journal holdings • OpenURL resolver • OCLC’S xISBN service • DOI resolver • Etc.

  22. Delivery • Must be available from any and all discovery locations, which means APIs for: • Holdings and availability • Licensed content (OpenURL resolver) • Requesting • Can we go all the way?

  23. Infrastructure

  24. The WorldCat Grid “OCLC is restructuring to make an information basedgrid that will power OCLC systems and services and also the systems and services of OCLC member libraries, associates, and partners.”

  25. WorldCat GridObjectives • Expose data at the services layer • Make data work harder • Enable new kinds of services • Increase the value of being a OCLC member • More ways to access data • More business functions implemented at the service level

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