1. Overview of the University Libraries
Council of Deans - May 20, 2008
Joseph J. Branin
The Ohio State University Libraries A great university. A great library

2. Overview of the University Libraries
Real estate and print collections
Knowledge management in the digital realm
Major information policy issues in scholarly and scientific communications

3. The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary
A Few Quick Facts
The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary
The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary
10th largest collection among U.S. public research institutions (16th in U.S. overall)
304 FTE faculty and staff employees
Collections budget near $12 million, with additional $1 million of support annually from OhioLINK
46% of collections budget now spent for e-resources
5.5 million full-text article downloads annually
2nd in U.S. for total interlibrary loan transactions
500,000 circulations of OSU books to OSU users per year

4. The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary
Physical locations
The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary
The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary

5. Redesign of Library Facilities
Undergoing major change
Thompson (Main) Library
Science and Engineering Library
Journalism
Theater Research Institute Library
Under active review for change
Sullivant Hall Library
Cartoon Research Library
Business Library
Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences Library

6. New Learning Space Design in Libraries
New balance between collections and user space
Consolidation of collections and service points
Robust information technology infrastructure
Variety of public spaces: quiet, private, gathering places, much more group study, very flexible meeting and learning
Partnerships with CIO, Teaching Centers, Student Services space
Attention to social amenities: café, lighting, displays, soft furniture
More events and programs: exhibits, displays, lectures, tutoring, seminars

7. Digital Union

10. Expanding Document Delivery Services
Scanning and electronic delivery
of articles from print journals
for students and faculty = 24,000 items per year (at start up)
Books from Libraries’ collections delivered to nearest library or through campus mail to faculty offices and student dorms = 56,000 items per year
Document
Delivery
Material borrowed from other libraries for pick up or document delivery = 102,000 items per year
Interlibrary Loan

11. Mass digitization of print collections
Google/CIC Libraries project to digitize 10 million print titles in the next 6 years
Digitizing underway at Michigan and Wisconsin and soon to start at Indiana and Purdue
CIC Shared Digital Repository to preserve and share digital copies
Can share full text of public domain works; indexing and snippets of in-copyright works. About 20% of titles are in public domain

12. Thompson Library Renovation: Timeline
$109 million, 9-year effort:
Library Task Force:
Feasibility Studies:
Design Work: – 2005
One Phase Construction:
Re-opening: September 2009

13. Aerial view (SE) of the Project, August 2007

14. Aerial view (NE) of the Project, January 2008

15. Proposed eastern facade

16. New Western Elevation

17. Colby College
Ohio State

18. 2002

19. The Grand Reference Hall, 2009 (rendering):

20. Continuing Growth of Publication
OCLC: 2004 Information Format Trends

21. Recent Environmental Scans and User Studies
OCLC 2005
Where Electronic Information Searches Begin—by College Students across all Regions
Search Engine: 89%
Library Website: 2% 1%
Online database: 2%
Topic-specific Web sites: 1%
Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future,
Univ. College London, 11 January 2008
Google Generation
In general terms, this new form of information seeking
behaviour can be characterized as being horizontal,
bouncing, checking and viewing in nature.

24. From Collection Management to Knowledge Management
One of the first and largest digital repositories to curate digital assets of an institution (8th largest)
7000 items added in this academic year
Diverse communities including undergraduate honors theses, faculty research, open access journals, conference proceedings, oral histories, and distinguished lectures

25. Expertise Management: Key to Knowledge Management
Libraries are part of Extended Project team and are early adopters
Using expertise to promote consistency in data input and provide standards for data output
Providing training and assistance to faculty and staff

26. Data Curation: the Latest Knowledge Management Challenge
Challenge to develop sustainable methods to support digital data curation in science and engineering
Create full life-cycle management for digital data sets
Application for NSF DataNet grant ($100 million)
New competencies in science librarians

27. Major Information Policy Issues
Ownership of Information
Copyright Help Center
Access to scholarship and science
Author’s Rights
Open Access Movement
NIH funded research reports
MIT Open Courseware
Harvard faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Law
Self-publishing and peer review
arXiv.org for pre-pubs in physics, math, computer science, quant. biology, and statistics
Wikipedia, web sites, blogs, virtual reality sites
Appropriate use of information
Security, privacy, and censorship

28. Thompson Library viewed from the Oval, 7 December 2007
Thank You!