The Digital Library Biography:The Next Chapter is Being Written Now!

Suzanne E. ThorinUniversity Dean of Libraries and

Associate Vice President for Digital Library DevelopmentIndiana UniversityJanuary 11, 2005

Looking back…

Looking back…

Looking back…

Fast forward…

Fast forward…

Fast forward…

Off-site Storage Facilities

Cornell University

Indiana University

Yale University

Reduced Need for Some Print Materials CIC (Committee on Institutional

Cooperation or Big Ten) libraries print journal pilot Obtaining only one jointly-owned print

copy of all Wiley and Springer Kluwer journals beginning in 2005 and using electronic version for most purposes

Indiana University Libraries and the Indiana State Library are planning for combined print government document collections

Reduced Need for Some Print Materials—cont’d California Digital Library (http://www.cdlib.org/)

The University of California campuses are exploring shared print collections. To assess the feasibility of such a policy, the libraries on each campus began a pilot project in 2003 that includes Elsevier and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications. The Elsevier collection includes only journals, but the ACM collection includes journals, monographs, and non-print formats.

Courseware

ANGEL—Penn State

Sakai Project

https://cms.psu.edu/frameIndex.htm

http://www.sakaiproject.org/

ANGEL

Sakai Project

The Sakai Project is a $6.8M community source software development project founded by the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  The project is producing open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software.

Sakai Partners andSEPP Members Sakai Project Founders

Indiana University JA-SIG MIT OKI Stanford University University of Michigan

ARL SEPP Members: Arizona State University Brown University Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth Georgetown University Harvard University Johns Hopkins University New York University Northwestern University

Ohio State University Princeton University State University of New York University of Arizona University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Barbara University of Colorado at Boulder University of Delaware University of Hawaii University of Illinois, Urbana-

Champaign University of Oklahoma University of Texas, Austin University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin, Madison Yale University

Supporting the ClassSupporting the Class

Supporting the LabSupporting the Lab

Millennial or NextGen Students

NextGen Expectations

OpenOpen

24/724/7Open

Open

24/724/7

Emerging Library Servicesfor Faculty Indiana University—Research Commons

Mission: “We envision a physical environment where faculty and graduate students can consult with Libraries’ and IT staff about substantive aspects of their research, both print and digital. They would gain knowledge about new and traditional research tools and digital content as well as learn how to use, create, manipulate, and preserve research data. Services would be available through walk-in consultation and via the Web and telephone. These services will support the University’s mission in scholarly and artistic creativity, and would serve the University’s diverse array of scholars, artists, and clinicians.”

Emerging Library Servicesfor Faculty Indiana University—Research Commons

Services: General Information Service Reference and Research Collections Digital Media Production, Delivery, Archiving, and

Online Delivery of Text and Information Research Compliance, Intellectual Property, and

Technology Transfer Data Analysis and Advanced Computation Collaboration and Visualization Software Support and Distribution and Support for

Scholarly Writing

Renovated Library Spaces for Faculty and Grad Students

Indiana University Research Commons

Emerging Library Servicesfor Faculty University of Michigan—Duderstadt Center

http://www.ummu.umich.edu/duderstadt/Welcome.htm

Emerging Library Servicesfor Faculty Duderstadt Center– Opened in1996, the

Center is a special place to provide faculty and students with the tools and collaborative space for creating the future. The Center houses the Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library, the College of Engineering Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), the Digital Media Commons, and the Millennium Project. The Mujo Cafe provides a space for refreshment and social interaction.

Online Research and Publishing

The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive with thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County Pennsylvania. The Valley Project tells forgotten stories of life during the era of the Civil War.

http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

Online Research and Publishing

Eserver.org provides an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, it offers 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues.

Online Research and Publishing

       arXiv.org e-Print archive

arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

Online Research and Publishing

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is proposing to make research articles available to the public free of charge on PubMed Central (PMC) within six months after publication in a scientific journal.

http://www.nih.gov/

The Young Digital Library

Origins Mission Leadership and Ownership Organizational Location

Funding Characteristics

Innovation Quest for “Killer Apps” Competition

The Maturing Digital Library

Characteristics Interest in Modular Systems Architecture Desire for Common Standards Focus on the User

Technical and Organizational Integration Marketing and Promotion

The Adult Digital Library

Digital Libraries as Infrastructure Move Toward Permanent Funding Continued Experimentation Deep Interdependency

Off-Campus On-Campus

Competition Within the University Archiving University Information Instructional Technologies

Transforming Impacts

“The transforming impacts of information technology cannot be confined to the library but imply a fundamental reorganization of the host institution.… To recognize the new conception of the library is to recognize and accept the inevitability of a new conception of the university.”

The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resourcesfor the 21st Century by Patricia Battin and Brian L. Hawkins

Next Challenges

“…the next challenges will surely include the ability of the research library to imbed itself ever more deeply in the scholarly environment and in the transformational change that will occur from the pervasive use of information technology.”

The Digital Library: A Biography by Daniel Greenstein and Suzanne Thorin

Draft Revision of Digital Library Federation Criteria for Membership

Has significant research and development capacity that is devoted to digital library development

Is able to contribute to DLF initiatives through staff time, expertise, and creative leadership;

Shows evidence of substantial digital accomplishments, ongoing institutional support, and of digital library initiatives that are advanced well beyond start up or project-based phases; and

Is an acknowledged regional, national, or international leader in some part of the digital library arena.

Indiana University’sDigital Library Model The Indiana university Digital Library Program

(DLP) is dedicated to the production, maintenance, distribution, and preservation of a wide range of high quality networked resources for scholars and students at Indiana University and elsewhere.

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/

DLP Organization

The Indiana University Digital Library Program was established in 1997, a collaborative venture among: IU Libraries University Information Technology Services (UITS) IU Faculty

Funded by: IU Libraries UITS Grants

University Funding

Infrastructure – hardware, software, staff Production Services: Library Electronic Text

Resource Service (LETRS), Digital Media and Image Center (DMIC)

Instructional services: Variations Digital Music Library, Digital Images Delivered Online (DIDO)

Consultation with organizational units and individuals Collaborative ventures to support the development of

digital libraries – Digital Library Federation, TEI Consortium

Some projects Short-term and smaller, local projects Pilot projects and prototypes for large projects Collaborative projects with partners within the university or

with other institutions – Wright, Sheet Music Harvester

Grant History

Large-scale research projects and digitization funded by: National Science Foundation ($3 million) Institute for Museum and Library Services ($1.74

million) U.S. Department of Education ($240,000) National Endowment for the Humanities

($270,000) Mellon Foundation ($1.28 million)

Size

13 full-time equivalent (FTE) permanent staff 3 librarians 9 information technology professionals 1 support staff (imaging specialist)

10 grant-funded programmers/project managers Student staff, including graduate assistants and

interns from the School of Library and Information Science and Computer Science

Activities

Developing and maintaining digital library infrastructure – hardware, software, staff expertise

Creation of digital resources for instruction (Variations and DIDO)

Creation of digital resources for research (archival collections, indexes)

Consultation with individuals and departments with ideas about potential digital projects

Increasing involvement with statewide digital library planning and development

Recent Program Highlights

IMLS grant of $939,618 awarded to create a digital library education specialization at Indiana University Bloomington in conjunction with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

IMLS grant of $343,437 awarded to create an online sheet music collection in partnership with the Indiana State Library

IMLS grant of $139,902 awarded to digitize IU School of Music performance tapes

The Next Chapter: Integration

Teaching and Learning DIDO and Variations

Digital Images Delivered Online(DIDO)

Monet, Claude. Poplars on the Bank of the Epte River Rivera, Diego. Night of the Poor

Variations

Teaching and Learning

Growth of digital library infrastructure Bibliographers contributions Faculty course development Next steps for Sakai Librarians working with Students TLTC

Research

Digital Library Programs work with faculty EVIA—A joint effort of Indiana University and the University

of Michigan to establish a digital archive of ethnomusicological video for use by scholars and instructors

Isaac Newton Manuscripts—A project working with a History and Philosophy of Science faculty member to edit and digitize the manuscripts of Isaac Newton

Practical Ethics Case Archive—A collaborative effort with the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions to create a digital case archive that would contain entries on discrete cases in practical ethics

Inscription project—A completed project in partnership with a Religious Studies faculty member to digitize inscriptions on monuments and buildings from biblical Israel

Writing the Next Chapter

The digital library must developed at the same time that the library transforms itself internally

Research and development is crucial in any large academic library

Librarians need to integrate and synchronize our work with faculty and students

Writing the Next Chapter

As research libraries develop new digital collections and access tools, new physical spaces where scholars, information professionals, and technologists can work together on digital challenges, and new ways to assist scholars in their work, the next challenges will include the ability of the research library to embed itself ever more deeply in the scholarly environment and in the transformational change that will occur in the academy at some point from the pervasive use of information technology.