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Graduate Open Day

Digital librarianship

Simon Barron

Systems Librarian – Senate House Library

@SimonXIX

“Human beings now produce more than five

exabytes worth of recorded information per

year: documents, e-mail messages, television

shows, radio broadcasts, Web pages, medical

records, spreadsheets, presentations, and

books…”

Wright, A., 2007. Glut:

mastering information

through the ages.

London: Cornell

University Press, p. 6.

5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

5,000,000,000,000

megabytes

or

Hilbert, M., and López, P. (2011) The World’s

Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and

Compute Information. Science, 332 (60).

Hilbert, M., and López, P. (2011) The World’s

Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and

Compute Information. Science, 332 (60).

“Human beings now produce more than five

exabytes worth of recorded information per

year: documents, e-mail messages, television

shows, radio broadcasts, Web pages, medical

records, spreadsheets, presentations, and

books…”

Wright, A., 2007. Glut:

mastering information

through the ages.

London: Cornell

University Press, p. 6.

Hilbert, M., and López, P. (2011) The World’s

Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and

Compute Information. Science, 332 (60).

Mathews, J. M., & Pardue,

H. (2009) The Presence of

IT Skill Sets in Librarian

Position Announcements.

College & research

libraries, 70 (3). 72% of job ads contained

at least one IT skill.

From ALA’s online

JobList over five months:

38% referred to a

requirement for Web

development skills.

57% of those required

at least one more.

Four ads required

programming

languages.

Mathews, J. M., & Pardue,

H. (2009) The Presence of

IT Skill Sets in Librarian

Position Announcements.

College & research

libraries, 70 (3).

“…significant inter-section

between the skill sets of

librarians and the skill sets of

IT professionals.”

1. Books are for use.

2. Every reader his [or her]

book.

3. Every book its reader.

4. Save the time of

the reader.

5. The library is a growing

organism.

Nemeth, E., at al., 2007.

Linux administration

handbook. Second edition.

Upper Saddle River: Pearson

Education.

Essential tasks of the

system administrator:

Adding, removing, and

managing user accounts

Adding and removing

hardware

Performing backups

Installing and upgrading

software

Monitoring the

system

Troubleshooting

Maintaining local

documentation

Vigilantly monitoring

security Helping users

“…there is little to no evidence about

the consideration of user needs and

perspectives in the literature about

the development of the early Online

Public Access Catalogues (OPACS).”

Christensen, A., 2013. ‘Next-generation catalogues:

what do users think?’ In: Chambers, S., ed., 2013.

Catalogue 2.0: the future of the library catalogue.

London: Facet Publishing, p. 2.

Simon’s remarks do

not reflect the

views of either

Senate House

Library or the

University of

London.

Though they really should.

DISCLAIMER:

Doctorow, C., 2010. ‘Why I won't buy an iPad (and

think you shouldn't, either).’ Boing Boing, 2 April

2010. Available at

http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-

buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html.

“…if you can’t

open it, you

don’t own it.”

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it

does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the

source code is a precondition for this.

The freedom to redistribute copies so you

can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

The freedom to distribute copies of your

modified versions to others (freedom 3).

By doing this you can give the whole

community a chance to benefit from your

changes. Access to the source code is a

precondition for this.

The GNU four freedoms From:

http://www.gnu.org/phi

losophy/free-sw.html

lol my thesis, 6 March 2013. Available at:

http://lolmythesis.com/post/78809120074/make-shit-easy-to-find

Chambers, S., ed., 2013. Catalogue 2.0: the

future of the library catalogue. London: Facet

Publishing.

Christensen, A., 2013. ‘Next-generation

catalogues: what do users think?’ In:

Chambers, S., ed., 2013. Catalogue 2.0: the

future of the library catalogue. London: Facet

Publishing, pp. 1-15.

Doctorow, C., 2008. Little brother. Available at

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

Doctorow, C., 2010. ‘Why I won't buy an iPad

(and think you shouldn't, either).’ Boing Boing,

2 April 2010. Available at

http://boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-

wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-yo.html.

Hilbert, M., and López, P., 2011. ‘The World’s

Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate,

and Compute Information.’ Science, 332 (60).

References

Mathews, J. M., & Pardue, H., 2009. ‘The

Presence of IT Skill Sets in Librarian

Position Announcements.’ College &

research libraries, 70 (3).

Nemeth, E., at al., 2007. Linux

administration handbook. Second edition.

Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education.

Wright, A., 2007. Glut: mastering

information through the ages. London:

Cornell University Press.

‘Happy Binary Day’ by Flickr user: EJP Photo.

'dvds' by morgueFile user: hotblack.

‘Rise of the digital information age’ infographic from The Washington Post.

‘Newcastle City Library – Self Issue’ by Flickr user: ricaird.

‘iRiver Story eBook Reader Review’ by Flickr user: Andrew Mason.

‘Samsung Galaxy S3 – white, tilted’ by Flickr user: o2 in Deutschland.

All images licensed under

Creative Commons licenses

'Untitled' by Flickr user: naught_facility.

Ranganathan portrait from Wikimedia Commons.

Evil Windows 95 from Neil Cicierega, http://windows95tips.com

'Day 174: Amazing Push-Button Shushing Action!' by Flickr user:

Laura Taylor.

‘exclamation mark’ by Flickr user: Leo Reynolds.

‘Fixing the big apple’ by Flickr user: kylethale.

‘Lock’ by Flickr usre: walknboston.

Various screenshots from Simon Barron, Senate House Libraries.

Kuali OLE screenshots from a presentation by Andrew Preater,

Senate House Libraries.

‘Paper Sheets 3’ by Flickr user:

dantaylr.

‘Polaroid Land Camera 1000 & Q-

Light electronic flash (front)’ by

Flickr user: Timmy Toucan.