1. M.G. Sreekumar (mgsree@iimk.ac.in) Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) Information Management Strategies for Information Professionals in the Digital Era: Opportunities and Best Options for Information Professionals

2. Agenda The Information Paradigm – Some Thoughts Information Management Trends in Libraries Strategy Prescriptions (Best) Practices in LIS Library Automation – the ‘KG’ thing of LIS Modernization Digital Library – Concepts, Principles and Technologies, Architecture… OSS; Open (Source) Digital Libraries Open Access Open Access Archives – Institutional Repositories IIM Consortium - Overview Information Aggregation and Integration Strategies Roadmap for Future

3. Strategy Laws Constant = Change Context = Scenarios, Paradigms Content = Aggregate, Integrate

4. Trends in Net/Web 2002 was the year of the blog2002 was the year of the blog 2003 was the year of the RSS feed2003 was the year of the RSS feed 2004 was the year of the Wiki2004 was the year of the Wiki 2005 was the year of the podcast2005 was the year of the podcast

5. Top Tech Trends in LIS Web 2.0/Library 2.0Web 2.0/Library 2.0 StorageStorage OA, OAP, OAA, Google ScholarOA, OAP, OAA, Google Scholar Blogs / RSS FeedsBlogs / RSS Feeds E-BooksE-Books Web OPACs, and Interface DesignWeb OPACs, and Interface Design Harvesting, Federation, MetasearchingHarvesting, Federation, Metasearching User Tagging, Automated TaggingUser Tagging, Automated Tagging Digital Rights ManagementDigital Rights Management

6. Popular Information Popular Information Scholarly Information Scholarly Information Digitized Information (DL Initiatives) Digitized Information (DL Initiatives) Web Resources Web Resources The Information Landscape The Information Landscape Books, eBooks POD, JLs, eJLs, Newspapers AV media Books, eBooks POD, JLs, eJLs, Newspapers AV media Books, eBooks, JLS, eJournals, Scholarly Articles, ePrint Archives, ETDs, eCourses Books, eBooks, JLS, eJournals, Scholarly Articles, ePrint Archives, ETDs, eCourses Commercial, National, State & Local Level NGOs Commercial, National, State & Local Level NGOs Surface Web, Deep Web, Multi-Modal Semantic Web Surface Web, Deep Web, Multi-Modal Semantic Web

7. Penetration of E-Content in Libraries PUBLICATION TYPES E-Books, E-Journals… Aggregated Scholarly E-Journal Databases Databases, CBT/ WBT Portals, Vortals… Value added services Preprints, Eprints, E- Documents…. DOCUMENT FORMATS ASCII, RTF, HTML, SGML, Postscript, PDF, Proprietary, Native Application Formats Images, Graphics Audio Video XHTML, ASP, PHP, XML...

8. The Changing (challenging) Role of Information Professionals Book keepers Bit Keepers (Book/Journal) Stores Officers/Custodians Information providers Content / knowledge providers Content / knowledge sellers

9. Good (Best) Practices Skill Sets – Leadership, Communication, Team Work, CE, Perseverance, Persistence…. Flexibility / Open to Learning / Accept Changes Open Source Philosophy Open Access Advocacy Preach as well as Practice Sharing of Knowledge Acquired

10. Award Winner, ASIST - SIG III - International Paper Contest, 2005

11. Strategy Facets (for an excellent hybrid ambience) 1. Value the Traditional Systems while Embracing Technology for Development 2. Aggregation / Integration Strategies 3. Library Automation (integration of the traditional library activities/collection) 4. Digital Library (creation of efficient information systems using digital collections for effective browse, search, retrieval and long-term preservation) 5. OA Archives (pooling the intellectual capital) 6. Library Portal (seamless integration of the library’s entire knowledge base—traditional, paper as well as electronic technologies) 7. Consortium Approach to Library Resources

12. Strategic Planning How to map / scale (assess) the information needs / requirements of the Organization How to Convince the Management How to Educate ! The Management How to build infrastructure – Planning, Execution How to Collect, Consolidate, Build and Preserve Local Content How to build E-Resources / Published Content How to Educate ! The Information Professionals How to Educate ! The Users

13. Libraries - Shifts Traditional / Automated »Organization is physical »Shelving of documents - Based on Subject Cln »Key - Index / Catalogues / Cards / Digital Catalgs »Cards - Real/Virtual - Author, Title, Descriptions Digital »Organization in terms of digital files /objects »Contains material digitized form »Contains digital material »Architecture »Key - Metadata

14. Shift in Approaches Traditional Automated Dig. Library AACR2 ISO 2709 CCF MARC Thesauri AACR2 CCC CC / LCCS DDC / UDC Thesauri/LCSH Metadata DCMI -- W3C EAD, TEI, DTD METS,MODS, Z39.50 MARC21 Limited/ RigidEfficient/ FlexibleImproved

15. Multimedia Library Info System Multimedia Library Info System Internet / Intranet Gateway-out Data capture USER @ anywhere (access to information from anywhere)

16. DL - Hardships Copyright Issues Technology Complexities Infrastructure Issues Publications/Formats – Diverse Datastreams Digital Objects/Formats - Multiple Publishers’ Policies – Stringent, Inconsistent

17. Data/ Objects METS/MODS EAD TEI DCMI OS Z39.50 /OAI-PMH Network DL Software DIGITAL LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE

20. A Word About Open Access

23. IV Information (Content) Aggregation / Integration Library Portal Digital Library

24. Need for Content Integration / Organization Assuring Seamless Access to the Content Need for a single Info. Gateway / Access Point Multi - Formats, Media, Platforms ( Content / Data in different formats) Data encoding (role of markup languages) Role of Metadata (role of Standards) Structured Metadata (role of XML) Need for Interoperability Interface / Delivery / Presentation Exorbitant cost of proprietary DL S/W

26. IIM Ahmedabad IIM Library Consortium ABI/Inform BSP (EBSCO) ACM Digital Library IEEE E-Library Elsevier Science Direct Emerald Library JCCC Insight (Asian CERC) GMID (Euromonitor) Cris Infac Capitaline Taylor & Frnacis John WileyKluwer Aggregated full-text E-Journal Databases E-Journals (from Publishers) Bibliographic Databases Corporate Databases (Company/Industry) Value added information services (Portals…) IIM Calcutta IIM Bangalore IIM Lucknow IIM Kozhikode IIM Indore Organization Structure Institutionalization (MoU) Resources Identification Liaison & Negotiations Annual Meetings Usage Monitoring Agreements & Licensing Blackwell Three-Tier Architecture of IIM Library Consortium

27. Growth of E-Journals in IIMs: 2000-2005

28. Message Respect, Value and Preserve the Traditional Systems Seamless Access to Information / Knowledge is the Foundation to Sustainable Development Awareness, Availability and Accessibility – The Keys Digital Libraries are the best for sustainable Knowledge Dissemination / Long Term Preservation Content in Context is the KING! Let’s Share and Preserve it for National Development Promote Open Access – OAA + OAP Seamless Aggregation and Integration of Diverse Datastreams –Portals / Vortals / DLs/ IRs Let’s Evolve with the Times-Don’t let others lock us in