Libraries and networks:the new cooperative context

Lorcan Dempsey

University of Illinois,Springfield30 March 2005

Overview

3 ages

1. Resource sharing and cataloging2. A&I and e-journals3. Consolidation around network

platforms ..

Some context for a beginning

Synthesize - to combine often diverse conceptions into a coherent whole.

Synthesize

Web services

Patron services

Content

Policies

Registries

Forward knowledge

Fulfillment services

Mobilize

Specialize - involve specific knowledge in order to serve a particular purpose; to apply or direct to specific end or use.

Specialize

…

Mobilize - to put into action

Workplace applications - points of need

Profiles

• Local service• Local added value• Local context• Local knowledge

Robin Murray

Library servicelandscape

URL is the currency of the web

The library and the library network

Impact

Systemwide efficiences

Cat/Resource sharingJournal lit

The long tail

Impact?

Systemwide efficiences

Aggregation of supply•Unified discovery•Low transaction costs

Aggregation of demand

Synthesize-specialize-mobilize

Libraries and the long tail dynamic

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 reader his/her book

Each book its reader

Collaboratively sourced approaches

Libraries AustraliaCRLIthakaOCLCRLGDEF

OhioLinkCalifornia digital libraryJISCPines

Google Scholar

At what level?

Collections Discovery to deliverySpace and Consumer environments

Space and Consumerenvironments

OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon

Database > website > workflow

Prefabricated (e.g. CMS)

Self assembled digital identity

Gather – create - share

Raymond Yee

URL is the currency

Conversation and evidence

Mobilize the edge of user contributionMobilize resources in user spaces

Integrity and authenticityVersioning

Citing

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Collections

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BooksJournalsNewspapersGov. 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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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?

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?

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?

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

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

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?

Some questions aboutcollections

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

At what level?

Creation, organization and curation

Discovery to delivery

Use

RequestLocateDiscover Deliver

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?

Synthesise discovery Metasearch Consolidation?

Specialize discovery?Synthesize location

Service router = resolution

Challenges: find it?

Request:

Service router Place hold Place ILL request Initiate purchase

request, ….

Deliver:

From multiple sources

Shared physical and digital collections?

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)

Moving to thenetwork level

Trajectory: from vertical integration …

Multilevel approach to …

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

… to collaboratively sourced approaches

Libraries AustraliaCRLIthakaOCLCRLGDEF

OhioLinkCalifornia digital libraryJISC

Google Scholar

Find the right level to …

Collectively strategiseCollectively specify Collaboratively source

Solutions Products

Synthesise-specialise-mobilize