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The world’s libraries. Connected. What’s Hot, What’s Not Synergies Between Research and Education in Digital Libraries Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2012 Zadar, Croatia, June 18, 2012 Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist OCLC

Synergies between research and education in digital libraries: What’s hot, what’s not

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The world’s libraries. Connected.

What’s Hot, What’s Not

Synergies Between Research and Education in Digital Libraries

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2012

Zadar, Croatia, June 18, 2012

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D.

Senior Research ScientistOCLC

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What’s Hot, What’s Not

• On Demand Digital Library

• Involving & Educating Students

• Creating digital library

jobs

• Lack of funding

• Little integration

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Digital Environment

“The future is digital…digitize and democratize.”

(Darnton, 2009)

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What is a Digital Library?

"Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities."

(Waters, 2007, 5)

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What is a Digital Library?

(Lesk, 1997, xix)

"Digital libraries are organized collections of digital information. They combine the structuring and gathering of information, which libraries and archives have always done, with the digital representation that computers have made possible. Digital information can be accessed rapidly around the world, copied for preservation without error, stored compactly, and searched very quickly. No conventional back-of-the-book index compares with the text search engines we now have."  

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What’s Hot

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Expand Our Concept of Research

FOUR KINDS OF EXPERTISE

•Domain (or subject) expertise

•Analytical expertise

•Data expertise

•Project management expertise

“Institutions and scholarly societies must expand their

notions of what kinds of activities constitute research

and reconsider how these activities are supported,

assessed, and rewarded.”(WILLIFORD & HENRY, 2012, 2)

Expertise

RE-EVALUATE

Hot!

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Expand Our Concept of Research Data

CARING FOR DATA

•Test (skepticism)

•Correct, enhance, and integrate

•Make the data meaningful, reliable, and useful

“In fact, some scholars…see the new data they create as

their most significant research outcome.”

(WILLIFORD & HENRY, 2012, 3)

Caring for data

BIG DATA

Hot!

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Embrace Interdisciplinarity

CULTIVATING INTERDISCIPLINARITY

•Organizational flexibility

• Intellectual flexibility

•Sustained collaboration

“Today’s colleges and universities must equip

students with skills appropriate for a rapidly

changing and diverse workforce…”

(WILLIFORD & HENRY, 2012, 3)

Inter-disciplinarity

PERSPECTIVE

Hot!

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Models for Sharing Credit

COLLABORATIVE CREDIT SHARING

•Enhances assessment of work

•Quality and impact of digital projects will grow

“…encourage engagement…by noting and appropriately

rewarding their faculty, staff, and students for making

substanial contributions to collaborative efforts.”

(WILLIFORD & HENRY, 2012, 3)

Credit Sharing

ENCOURAGEMENT

Hot!

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On Demand Digital Libraries

ON DEMAND DIGITAL LIBRARIES

•Brain Hive

•Rental service for K-12 schools

•School pays $1/rental

•Helps libraries make digital shift to e-books

•New publishing models

“…rental service may not appeal to schools that want to own their collections and pay a one-time fee for their books. A Netflix for

books, all-you-can-eat subscription service would likely

resonate much better with educational institutions, but that

could be difficult to arrange in terms of licensing agreements

with publishers.”

(LEE, 2012)

On Demand Digital Library

WHAT MAY BE NOT-SO-HOT

Hot!

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Involving and Educating Students

INVOLVING AND EDUCATING STUDENTS

•UCLA Library’s Center for Primary Research and Training

•Archival methods training

•Students paired with underprocessed collections

• Cost effective

• Provides feedback

• Makes collections more accessible

“Students have access to materials that others have not

yet fully investigated, and their training in archival

organization and description results in making those

collections more accessible to other researchers.”

(CENTER FOR PRIMARY RESEARCH TRAINING, 2012) Involving and

Educating Students

IT’S A WIN-WIN SITUATIONHot!

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Involving and Educating Students

INVOLVING AND EDUCATING STUDENTS

•University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab

• Visualizing Emancipation

•Team of grad & undergrad students

• Primary texts

• Digitally map events

•New opportunities for undergraduate research

“And of course, scholarship will eventually be digital. Everything

is digital, and people will be working from the ground up imagining how to explain the

things people are fascinated by. That’s what is exciting for me

about the field. I’m just trying to keep it warm until the young people come along; for them, this is their native language.” 

(CHEN, 2012)Involving

and Educating Students

MILLENNIALS TAKE OVER Hot!

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Creating Digital Library Jobs

CREATING DIGITAL LIBRARY JOBS

• Create digital infrastructure

• Engage with research data needs

• Explore new modes of scholarly communication

• Keep up with changing research and learning practices

Associate Director for Digital Library Programmes and Information Technologies, Bodleian Libraries, University of OxfordAssociate Vice President for Digital Programs and Technology ServicesColumbia University Libraries/Information ServicesHead of Digital LibraryInformation Services, The University of Edinburgh

(DEMPSEY, 2011)

THE JOBS ARE OUT THEREHot!

Creating Digital Library Jobs

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What’s Not

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Lack of Funding for Educational Programs

LACK OF FUNDING

• Substantive funding for research in digital libraries

• Little funding set aside for educational programs

• Education is far behind research and practice

"Unfortunately, education has had little direct or organized connection with any of these rapid and substantive developments. There was little or no funding for education in digital libraries, as related to any of the multitude of the diverse activities.”

(SARACEVIC & DALBELLO, 2001)

EDUCATION IN LAST PLACE Not

So

Hot!

Lack of funding

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Lack of Funding for Educational Programs

LACK OF FUNDING• Resources and tools change rapidly

• Research a big investment

• Adopt models for resource sharing• Share resources, skills, & services

“Faculty, staff, and students need strong, reliable training programs that correlate sound methodological strategies with appropriate new technologies.”

( WILLIFORD & HENRY, 2012, 3)

ONGOING COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION

Getting

warmer

Lack of funding

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Limitations to Adoption

LIMITATIONS TO ADOPTION• Need evidence of benefits

• Attitudes toward adoption vary• Discipline & Years of Experience

• Reluctant to use new technologies• Time consuming to learn• Do not know they exist

• Concern about privacy & desire to limit shared data

ADVOCACY

LimitationsTo

Adoption

“…confusion about the varying requirements of data security between social scientist and sciences. Social science researchers need processing of private or constrained data.”

Not

So

Hot!

(CONNAWAY & DICKEY, 2010, 5)

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Lack of Integration in Research and Practice

LACK OF INTEGRATION• Research, practice & education differ

• Research• Based in computer science• Future-thinking

• Practice• Operational libraries• Present-thinking• Little research involved• Diverse

• Education• Lag behind both practice and

research• Concepts taught vary greatly

  

"Mostly, the existing rationale for digital library education, if offered at all, is reactive, meaning that education reacts with a time lag to both research and practical developments in digital libraries.”  

(SARACEVIC & DALBELLO, 2001)

THEY DON’T MEET IN THE MIDDLE…YET.

Not

So

Hot!

Lack of integration

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What’s Next?

• What is available in digital format?

• Who are the users?

• Who are we educating

• Archivists/curators

• Librarians

• Computer scientists

• How do we integrate resources & encourage the different user groups to interact & support each others’ needs?

• Data reuse

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What’s Next?

• How do people discover the resources?

• Metadata

• Who creates?

• From whose perspective?

• Are the resources accessible?

• Limited to specific campuses, organizations, or institutions?

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• Center for Primary Research Training. (2012, May 2). Center for primary research and training opportunities. Retrieved from UCLA Library: Department of Special Collections web site: http://www.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/researchlibrary/9613.cfm

• Chen, A. (2012). Interactive map traces slaves’ path to emancipation. The Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012, June 12). Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/interactive-map-traces-slaves-path-to-emancipation/36729?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

• Connaway, L. S., & Dickey, T. J. (2010). Towards a profile of the researcher of today: What can we learn from JISC projects? Common themes identified in an analysis of JISC Virtual Research Environment and Digital Repository Projects. Retrieved from http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/418/2/VirtualScholar_themesFromProjects_revised.pdf

• Darnton, R. (2009). On the ropes? Robert Darnton’s case for books. Publishers Weekly, 256(37), http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20090914/451-on-the-ropes-robert-darnton-s-case-for-books-.html

• Dempsey, L. (2011, August 17). The ILS, the digital library and the research library [Web log]. Retrieved from http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002188.html

References

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• Lee, J. (2012). Brain Hive debuts on-demand digital library for schools. Betakit, (June 4). Retrieved from http://betakit.com/2012/06/04/brain-hive-debuts-on-demand-digital-library-for-schools

• Lesk, M. (1997). Practical digital libraries: Books, bytes & bucks. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

• Saracevic, T., & Dalbello, M. (2001). A survey of digital library education. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 38, 209-223.

• Waters, D. J. (2007). What are digital libraries? In D. Kresh (Ed.), The whole digital library handbook (pp. 5-7). Chicago: American Library Association.

• Williford, C., & Henry, C. (2012). One culture: Computationally intensive research in the humanities and social studies: A report on the experiences of first respondents to the digging into data challenge. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources.

References

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Questions and Discussion

Lynn Connaway, [email protected]