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Lund University
Libraries
Head Office
The Digital Library
Environment and beyond –
more than modern library &
information services?
Digilib Conference, Helsinki –
September 8-9, 2003
Lars Björnshauge, Director of Libraries,
Lund University, Sweden
Line up of presentation
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The Digital Library Environment
The Whole Package
and there is more …..
Strategic issues
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The Digital Library
Environment
• Collection Development &
Management
– Content, Archiving
• User related issues:
– Access, Integration, Personalization,
User Training
• Branding
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Content
• Building Digital ”Collections”
– licensing (often via Consortia)
– reallocating funds from print to digital
– organizing free web resources
– digitizing existing collections
– institution based electronic publishing
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Archiving
• Not solved!!
• Current license agreements do not
really cater for archiving
• Can we/will we rely on
– commercial publishers?
– national libraries?
• Can we/will we really cooperate on
this??
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Access
• Controlling Access
– legal issues
– authentication
• Facilitating Access
– remote access,
– proxy solutions
– single sign on etc.
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Integration
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Too many different services
Too many different interfaces
Too much redundancy/overlap
How to promote/integrate Open
Access material?
• Portals, Linking Software
• Adapting commercial software or
develop applications ourselves
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Personalization
• The need for taylored library & information
services
– Towards the one stop shop even for TOCalerts, SDI-alerts, MyLibrary etc.
• Fitting in with the research & educational
processes
– Courseware – Managed Learning
Environments
– Reference management, CV`s etc.
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User Training
• Numerous interfaces
• Information literacy
– Fighting existing habits, the Googlesyndrome
• On-line tutorials
• In the digital library environment:
more user training than ever
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Branding
• End users exposed to publishers and
aggregators
– the publisher trap
– library bypass
– individualization
• ”Free on the internet”
• Who pays??
• Gaining control??
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The Whole Package
• The seamless integration of print and
digital collections
• The use of the physical facilities
• Developing new services
• Organizational changes
• Staffing
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The printed collections
• More users, more use
• Digitizing
• Cooperative storage – freeing space
for other purposes
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The use of physical facilities
• New demands due to changes in
education
• Student workspace
– Collaborative work facilities, IT-equipment etc.
• Learning Resource Centers
• New staff mix required
– IT-support staff
– Technology literate librarians
– Information literate teachers
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Developing new services
• User initiated services:
– Automated check-in/out, document
delivery, ILL etc.
• On-line, real-time reference/chat
services (often in collaboration)
• MLE-integration
• Portalable personalization services
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Changing the
organizational setup
• Integration of collection development
and access strategies
• Re-engineering internal & external
processes
• Reallocating resources
– from selecting & processing print to
handling digital resources
• Reallocating staff
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Staffing – Human Resources
• Developing competencies – new staff mix
• Working with attitudes & cultures
– Selectors and cataloguers
– Licensees, negotiators, metadata experts,
software engineers
– The need to understand the technology that
underpins the information products and the
industry cannot be overemphasized
– Facilitate the path of the end user
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and there is more…
Beyond Library Services
• Changes in the proximity of
academic libraries:
– Changes in how research is conducted,
communicated etc.
– Changes in teaching & learning
– Internationalization of universities
– More focus on evaluation, performance,
outcomes and competition
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”New” land??
• Technology & portability of content
provide new opportunities
• Integration of content & services in
the core processes – research,
teaching & learning
• Collaboration:
– new services developed in collaboration
with researchers, teachers & students
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The ”new” areas for
supporting core university
processes
• Communication technologies and
digital content offer new
opportunities for:
– Supporting research
– Supporting teaching & learning
– Supporting institutional knowledge
management
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Supporting research
• Disseminating research output
– OAI-MHP
• Archiving research output
– E-Print, Dspace etc
• Research Evaluation support:
– Bibliometrics, Bibliomining (prof. Wormell)
• Marketing the department, the university
• Facilitating changes in Scholarly
Communication
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Scholarly Communication
• Working with
– the university
– researchers
– editors & referees
– learned societies
• Engage in and provide electronic
publishing opportunities
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LU res
Institutional repository
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http://lu-research.lub.lu.se/
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www.sciecom.org
ScieComSRC
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DOAJ is hosted by:
DOAJ is supported by:
Open Society Institute
www.doaj.org
http://www.doaj.org/
SPARC
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Supporting teaching & learning
• The changes in educational
processes & technologies
– Problem based learning
– Distributed, distance & e-learning
– ICT-based learning
– Managed Learning Environments
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Supporting teaching & learning
• Information literacy
• Integration of LIS in Managed
Learning Environments
• Developing tools to facilitate
cooperation/collaboration betw.
teachers & librarians
• Contribute to development of
teaching & learning
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Supporting information infrastructure & knowledge management
• Operating IT-network & support
– Developing modern IT-environments
• Developing & operating university
web-services
• Organizing, archiving and
disseminating information about the
university, its research, education
etc.
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Strategic issues for libraries –
the agenda for the near future
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Reorganization/Reallocation
Staff competencies
Cooperation & collaboration
Scholarly Communication
Dependence – Independence
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Requirements
• Management:
– Re-organization
– Re-allocation
– Re-orientation
• Staff Qualifications
– Technology literacy (prof. Varis!)
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Additional skills required
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Meeting new challenges with new skills:
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good pedagogic skills
practical knowledge of computing
Understanding:
• technologies and the potential in these
• digital information products, the legal
issues etc.
• impact of technologies on research,
teaching & learning
• users (especially the new generation of
users)
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Staff competencies in support
of teaching & learning
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Serving distance learning (teachers
& students) requires technical
competence
More focus on pedagogical
credentials.
Understanding of the learning
process important as well
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Cooperation/collaboration
• Where to put the focus?
• Working with
– libraries, the library community
– the publishing/information industry
– the university
– the research communities
– the educational communities
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Scholarly communication
• Initiate, support and engage in new
activities in scholarly
communication:
– Intellectual Property Rights issues
– Low barrier technologies
– Institutional Repositories
– Open Access publishing
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Dependence/Independence
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Portals, Linking Applications etc.:
– All our eggs in the basket of the
industry??
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Targetting the end users
– The industri will potentially bypass the
brokers and traditional intermediaries
– Inducing market economy at the level
of individual user (after the Big
Deals??)
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So ……..!?
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Transformation of the
roles of the library
• From collection building & management
• to facilitation of research, teaching & learning by
– changing our workflows
– adapting technologies,
– integrating information resources,
– developing new services,
– building stronger relations to researchers &
teachers
– supporting changes in scholarly
communication
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Libraries do really have the
potential of being the
institution wide
infrastructural change agent!
Let´s go for it!!
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Thank you for your attention!
Contact:
[email protected]
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