Transcript Programs and Research Network *-intermediation Lorcan Dempsey Montana State University Libraries Symposium 29 September 2006 Overview Programs and research.

Programs and Research
Network
*-intermediation
Lorcan Dempsey
Montana State University Libraries
Symposium
29 September 2006
Overview
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Overview
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Insanity is doing more of
what you are already
doing and expecting a
different result.
Newt Gingrich quoting Albert Einstein!
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Structural changes in
new environment …
… require …
… rethinking how we do things.
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The web came …
Regardless of these advances, many library websites continue to
replicate the physical and functional organization of the traditional
library.
Web-based access to services has evolved as a thin veneer over
library technical infrastructures that were designed to support
traditional library services.
As such, library websites are typically organized around library
functions (interlibrary loan, circulation, reference) or existing
information stores (the card catalog, print indexes).
Krisellen Maloney
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The web came inside …
Then
 We can no longer expect people to come into the
library.
Now
 We can no longer expect people to come to the
library website.
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The web is inside?
netWorkflow …
A web: multiple paths and interfaces …
Disclosure vs discovery …
Supporting research and learning asset
management and processes …
 Moving to the network level …
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Networkflow
Libraries serve research, learning and teaching.
The focus should be on how the network is changing research,
learning and teaching practices, and how libraries respond. Not on
internal library operations and technologies.
People used to build their workflow around the library. Now the
library needs to build its services around people’s workflow.
The world is ‘incorrigibly plural’.
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Gather – create - share
Raymond Yee
URL is currency
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Zotero
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University of Minnesota
http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps
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Netvibes, onfolio, my yahoo, myspace, RSS aggregator, …
Self assembled digital identity
Prefabricated (e.g. CMS)
Database > website > workflow
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Multiple paths and interfaces
 No single site is the sole focus of a user’s
attention
 The network is the focus of attention.
 The library needs to be in multiple places, in the
flow.
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Google scholar
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Virginia Tech resolver
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Innovative Uses of Metasearch:
Rethinking Metasearch for a
Better User Experience
David Lindahl & Jeff
Suszczynski, U Rochester
 ‘2 clicks to full-text’
 Integrate ‘find articles’
service with other services
 ‘Variety of pathways’
 Metasearch appropriate
databases from course
pages
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At what level?
 pentags
Penn tags
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 Course pages
 Course management
system
 Citation managers
 Social bookmarking
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URL
RSS
OpenURL
Remix: web services
Disclosure and discovery
 How do people discover materials of interest?
 Search engines and other web resources
 Bibliographic/citation chaining
 Colleagues.
 DEFF report: people turn to library to retrieve
materials not to find them.
 If ‘discovery’ is limited at the library, can we
‘disclose’ library resources in the places where
discovery happens?
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Chris Beckett
http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html
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Supporting research and learning …
 Insitutional assets
 Creation to curation
 Research and learning
processes
 What does it mean to
support research and
learning workflows?
 Support for gather, create,
share
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OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon
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 Institutional websites
(curricula, course
calendars, annual reports,
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 Ingest and persistently
manage websites of
interest to courses, etc.
 Materials cited in
institutional papers
 Special collections.
 Digital archives of faculty.
 ‘Institutional repository’
 Learning materials
 Data curation
 ePrints
A growing
archival
perspective
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Provenance
Evidential integrity
Citability
Versions
Moving to the network level
In the lone houses and very small villages
which are scattered about in so desert a
country as the Highlands of Scotland, every
farmer must be butcher, baker and brewer
for his own family.
Adam Smith
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Flat world
Management
 Focus on where can create
distinctive value.
 Move routine and nondistinctive activities into
shared services.
 Collaborative sourcing.
 Make space for valuecreating services.
 Examples
User
 Unify discovery
 Larger pools
 Project into workflows
 Reduce transaction costs
 Find it – get it
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Managing print collections
Digital storage
Preservation
Repository
Tagging
Knowledge bases/ERM
URL is the currency of the web
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The long tail
Systemwide
efficiences
Aggregation of supply
•Unified discovery
•Low transaction costs
Aggregation of demand
Impact?
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 Unified discovery
 Metasearch?
 Disclose to other environments
 Reduced transaction costs
 Integrate discovery to delivery
 Resolution
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The web is inside?
netWorkflow …
A web: multiple paths and interfaces …
Disclosure vs discovery …
Supporting research and learning asset
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