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
high low
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stewardship
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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