Transcript The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services. Lorcan Dempsey The University of Iowa, February 21, 2008

The network reconfigures the
library: people and places,
collections and services.
Lorcan Dempsey
The University of Iowa,
February 21, 2008
Picture: Robin Alston
… a hive-like dome …
Louis MacNeice
Private and social
Collection and catalogue
Space
Expertise
Collections
• Then: vertically integrated
around collection
• Now: moving apart in network
environment
• New skills ….
Systems and
services
Place
HIGH TOUCH SERVICE
Place
• Place
– Space infused with value
– How has the value changed over time?
– Engagement with collections, expertise and services?
• Space
– Opportunity costs
– Valuable real estate
– Growing pressure in many
environments
– New spaces
Place
• Infrastructure -> “customer relations”
• Higher value activity
– Access to scarce resources – people, equipment,
specialist advice, exhibition, …
– Individual, group, social
These student comments suggest that
good study space is responsive to the
academic and social dimensions of study in
ways that allow students to control them
both.
Scott Bennett
Gleason Library
U Rochester
Photos: S. Gibbons
Place
ENGAGE WITH THE LEARNING PROCESS
PARTNERSHIP
Collections
NEW DIRECTIONS
Collections grid
STEWARDSHIP
high
Books
Special
collections
low
Freely-accessible
web resources
high
•Newspapers
•Gov. docs
•CD, DVD
•Maps
•Scores
UNIQUENESS
•Journals
low
•Rare books
•Local/Historical
newspapers
•Local history materials
•Archives & Manuscripts,
•Theses & dissertations
•Websites
•Open source software
•Newsgroup archives
Research, learning
and administrative
materials,
•ePrints/tech reports
•Learning objects
•Courseware
•E-portfolios
•Research data
•Institutional records
•Reports, newsletters, etc
Trends
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Mass digitization and off-site storage
Licensed: rented
‘Special collections’ onto the web
Thematic collections of web resources
Research, learning and administrative
materials ‘published’ on the web
• The new special collections.
Thematic research collections
Beyond books
“It is only when we translate the old style-based
thinking and language of historians into new
modes of representation that we can begin to
grasp the complex relationships between
architectural production and the creation of …
cultural identities.”
Stephen Murray, Columbia University
Then: E. Viollet Le Duc Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (1874) (1st
American Ed. 1875)
Now: Interactive, multi-dimensional navigation of a networked resource
• Published materials:
discourse
• Library
• Primary materials:
evidence
• Archive
• Interpreted materials:
exhibition
• Museum
Collections
NEGOTIATION
ENGAGEMENT WITH RESEARCHERS AND LEARNERS
AS CREATORS
ARCHIVAL PRACTICE: INSTITUTIONAL ASSETS
INTERPRETATION AND EXHIBITION
Expertise
THE PERSON IS AN ENTRY POINT
Source: Susan Gibbons, U Rochester
Expertise
IMPROVE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND LEARNING
CAPACITIES:
PUBLISHING
INTERPRETING AVAILABLE RESOURCES IN TERMS OF SPECIFIC RESEARCH
AND LEARNING NEEDS
SPECIALIST CONSULTANCY: GIS, METADATA, IPR, …
MARKETING AND ASSESSMENT: UNDERSTAND
NEEDS AND DEVELOP SERVICES TO MEET THOSE
NEEDS
Services and systems
IN THE FLOW
Network level
workflow
Google, …
Personal
Workflow
RSS,
toolbars, ..
Institutional
Workflow
Portals,
CMS, IR, …
Consumer environments
Management environment
Bought
Integrated
local user
environment?
Library web
presence
Resource
sharing, …
library
…
Licensed
Digitized
Faculty&
students
Aggregations
Resource sharing
Discovery happens elsewhere
Resources are abundant; attention scarce
Build services around workflow
Now: Federated access to multi-institutional holdings with support for personal
collection-building and sharing
Systems and services
SUPPORT FOR FACULTY AND STUDENT
GATHER/CREATE/SHARE
PLACING THE LIBRARY IN THE FLOW
DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
MORE SOPHISTICATED SOURCING DECISIONS
Leadership
VALUE TRANSLATION: SHOWING THE VALUE OF
THE LIBRARY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE VALUES OF
THE HOME INSTITUTION
SECURE RESOURCES
CREATE CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS
Thank you
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