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OCLC Online Computer Library CenterCollections, networks, places
Presentation to New York University Libraries Faculty, April 25 2003
Lorcan Dempsey, VP Research, OCLChttp://www.oclc.org/research/
When, early in this century, Virginia Woolf needed to find out the truth about women, she headed to the Round Reading Room of the British Museum, for ''if truth is not to be found on the shelves of the British Museum, where,'' she asked, ''is truth?'' Truth, it pains me to report, decamped last month to a new library near St. Pancras Station, loosed from its moorings in the British Museum after an intermittently happy marriage of nearly two and a half centuries. …
Among divorces, it was perhaps one of the more easily predictable, but nonetheless painful to those of us whose inner landscape has been irreversibly redrawn.
Angeline Goreau. New York Times, Nov 9 1997
Libraries in the space of places have …
…been vertically organised around the management of places – multiple redundant repositories– Information hubs.
… facilitated particular economies of presence and patterns of experience – ‘inner landscape’– Agora, archive and service.
… manifested the institutional role of libraries– authoritative, well-understood and persistent agency.
user environmentsresource environment
lab books
exhibitions
PDAs
learning management systems
campus portal
course materialtext book
new scholarly resources
readinglists
Institutional repository
Digital collections
E-reserveCatalog Licensed
collections
Aggregations
Virtual reference
CatalogingILL
Library serviceLibrary serviceenvironmentenvironmentLibrary serviceLibrary serviceenvironmentenvironment
Collections grid
high low
low
high
stewardship
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ssBooksJournalsNewspapersGov. docsCD, DVDMapsScores
Special collectionsRare booksLocal/Historical newspapersLocal history materialsArchives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations
Research and learning materials •ePrints/tech reports•Learning objects•Courseware•E-portfolios•Research data
Freely-accessible web resourcesOpen source softwareNewsgroup archives
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The Archival Research Center is a direct outgrowth of the belief that primary resource materials should be a major focal point of instruction and research. …. However, traditional access to these materials is cumbersome and labor-intensive and most institutions do not allow copying. …Digitizing these materials keeps them alive and relevent for modern users … (ARL report)
Knowledge bank – OSU – in planning
April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of an OSU knowledge bank
Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) Motion Capture LabSource: http://www.accad.ohio-state.edu/mocap/mocap_info.htm
Below the line
There is growing appreciation among libraries that unique or rare materials – are valuable research and
learning resources– have been underutilized.
There is a growing interest in digitizing cultural heritage materials – as it offers opportunities for
releasing their value in new ways
– as a way of disclosing the memory and identity of communities.
Research and learning behavior is increasingly entering the network space– Library resources need to be
available at the appropriate stage within the learning or research environment
– New forms of engagement and support.
– Research and learning outputs will present major management and curatorial issues
– Institutions and faculty are interested in ‘disclosing’ research and learning materials as part of the scholarly enterprise (OAI)
Manage commodity materials and services - cost.
Streamline discovery to delivery for print (bought) and digital (licensed) materials
Portalization and resource sharing
Management intelligence – collection management and analysis (print collections)
Incentive to preserve?
Institutional digital content management
Immature (diverse metadata creation practice -- hierarchical description, multiple standards and practices, diverse content management approaches)
Disclose metadata for harvest?
Extend knowledge organization approaches?
Incentive to preserve
high low
low
high
stewardship
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“Special collections”
Disclosure, Licensing
high low
low
high
stewardship
uniq
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Scholarly communication
high low
low
high
stewardship
uniq
ue
The google factor
Trends
Centralization and decentralization
Cataloging/metadata
Archiving– web pages, third party
content, insitutional content
Harvesting
Virtual reference
At what level should services be secured?
Presence
We will, I believe, plot our actions and allocate ourresources within the framework of a new economyof presence. In conducting our daily transactionswe will find ourselves constantly consulting the benefits of the different grades of presence thatare now available to us, and weighing these againstthe costs.
William J Mitchell. E-topia. 2000.
Hubs
All networks produced privileged places at theirjunctions and access points.
William J Mitchell. e-topia. 2000.
… the web pages to which we prefer to link are not ordinary nodes. They are hubs. The better known they are, the more links point to them. … We prefer hubs.
Alberto-Laszlo Barabasi. Linked. 2002.
lab books
exhibitions
PDAs
learning management systems
campus portal
course materialtext book
new scholarly resources
readinglists
Presence
The dialecticof place and network
Analysis, linking, comparing, manipulation, ..
AgoraAgora
ServicesServices
ArchiveArchive
Supporting scholarly behavior in humanities
…contextual mass. (not the canon and top scholarly journals)
Iterative reading?
– personal, full-text collections
Wide reading and chaining?
– federated collections anchored by bibliographies
Collaborating?
– collection communities
Searching and browsing?
– “rich” finding aids that cross institutions and fields of study
Tracking of reading, searching, and writing
Carole Palmer, various