Transcript Towards the Information Ecology

Michael Ridley
Chief Information Officer (CIO) & Chief Librarian
University of Guelph
Canadian Chief
Information Officers
and University
Librarians
JISC
November 26, 2007
Understanding Canadians
Why did the chicken
cross the road?
Understanding Canadians
If a Canadian had written
Gone With the Wind,
what would Rhett Butler
have said to
Scarlett O’Hara?
“When simple change
becomes transformational
change, the desire for
continuity becomes a
dysfunctional mirage.”
The Mirage of Continuity Hawkins & Battin
Getting Our Act Together
Current Status in Canada:
• Plethora of agencies & organizations
• Informal linkages & initial partnerships
• Converging objectives & emerging strategies
CARL & CUCCIO
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
Canadian University Council of Chief Information Officers
Current & Emerging Issues
Federated Identity Management
Community Source
Data Curation
Evaluation & Analysis
Consortial Acquisition & Licensing
CyberInfrastructure
National Strategies
LibQual+ & TechQual+
Evaluation & Analysis: user assessment of service quality
• Institutional insights
• Regional comparators
• Benchmarking
• Integrative findings
Consortial Acquisition & Licensing
• CARL initiative (1999)
• Incorporated (2004)
• Digital Content
Infrastructure - $50M
• CUCCIO liaison
– Vendor relations
– Business practices
– Durable rights
– Strategic alignment
CyberInfrastructure
National Strategies
Canadian Digital Information Strategy
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cdis
“If I had asked my customers
what they wanted,
they’d have said
a faster horse.”
Henry Ford
Reality Check
“Culture eats strategy for lunch
every day of the week.”
Elson Floyd, President
University of Missouri