The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services. Lorcan Dempsey The University of Iowa, February 21, 2008
Picture: Robin Alston
Private and social Collection and catalogue … a hive-like dome … Louis MacNeice
Then: vertically integrated around collection Now: moving apart in network environment New skills …. Space Expertise Collections Systems and services
HIGH TOUCH SERVICE Place
– Space infused with value – How has the value changed over time? – Engagement with collections, expertise and services? Space – Opportunity costs – Valuable real estate – Growing pressure in many environments – New spaces
Place Infrastructure -> “customer relations” Higher value activity – Access to scarce resources – people, equipment, specialist advice, exhibition, … – Individual, group, social
These student comments suggest that good study space is responsive to the academic and social dimensions of study in ways that allow students to control them both. Scott Bennett
Gleason Library U Rochester Photos: S. Gibbons
ENGAGE WITH THE LEARNING PROCESS PARTNERSHIP Place
NEW DIRECTIONS Collections
Collections grid highlow high STEWARDSHIP UNIQUENESS Books Journals Newspapers Gov. docs CD, DVD Maps Scores Special collections Rare books Local/Historical newspapers Local history materials Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations Research, learning and administrative materials, ePrints/tech reports Learning objects Courseware E-portfolios Research data Institutional records Reports, newsletters, etc Freely-accessible web resources Websites Open source software Newsgroup archives
Trends Mass digitization and off-site storage Licensed: rented ‘Special collections’ onto the web Thematic collections of web resources Research, learning and administrative materials ‘published’ on the web The new special collections.
Thematic research collections
Beyond books “It is only when we translate the old style-based thinking and language of historians into new modes of representation that we can begin to grasp the complex relationships between architectural production and the creation of … cultural identities.” Stephen Murray, Columbia University
Then: E. Viollet Le Duc Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (1874) ( 1 st American Ed. 1875)
Now: Interactive, multi-dimensional navigation of a networked resource
Published materials: discourse Primary materials: evidence Interpreted materials: exhibition Library Archive Museum
NEGOTIATION ENGAGEMENT WITH RESEARCHERS AND LEARNERS AS CREATORS ARCHIVAL PRACTICE: INSTITUTIONAL ASSETS INTERPRETATION AND EXHIBITION Collections
THE PERSON IS AN ENTRY POINT Expertise
Source: Susan Gibbons, U Rochester
IMPROVE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND LEARNING CAPACITIES: PUBLISHING INTERPRETING AVAILABLE RESOURCES IN TERMS OF SPECIFIC RESEARCH AND LEARNING NEEDS SPECIALIST CONSULTANCY: GIS, METADATA, IPR, … MARKETING AND ASSESSMENT: UNDERSTAND NEEDS AND DEVELOP SERVICES TO MEET THOSE NEEDS Expertise
IN THE FLOW Services and systems
library Consumer environments Management environment Licensed Bought Faculty& students Digitized Aggregations Resource sharing … Institutional Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … Personal Workflow RSS, toolbars,.. Network level workflow Google, … Integrated local user environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, …
Discovery happens elsewhere Resources are abundant; attention scarce Build services around workflow
Now: Federated access to multi-institutional holdings with support for personal collection-building and sharing
SUPPORT FOR FACULTY AND STUDENT GATHER/CREATE/SHARE PLACING THE LIBRARY IN THE FLOW DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT MORE SOPHISTICATED SOURCING DECISIONS Systems and services
VALUE TRANSLATION: SHOWING THE VALUE OF THE LIBRARY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE VALUES OF THE HOME INSTITUTION SECURE RESOURCES CREATE CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS Leadership
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