Transcript Programs and Research Some collection directions Lorcan Dempsey With contributions from Brian Lavoie CRL Retreat October 6-7Chicago.

Programs and Research
Some collection
directions
Lorcan Dempsey
With contributions from Brian Lavoie
CRL Retreat
October 6-7
2006
Chicago
Overview
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Some topics
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Reflections on collection directions
Rareness is common
The long tail and library logistics
Aggregate collections
Open for business
Access to scale: moving to the network level
Conclusions
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1.Reflections on collection
directions …
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stewardship
high
low
Books
Journals
low
Open source software
Newsgroup archives
Research and learning
materials
high
Special
collections
uniqueness
Newspapers
Gov. docs
CD, DVD
Maps
Scores
Freely-accessible
web resources
•ePrints/tech reports
•Learning objects
•Courseware
•E-portfolios
•Research data
Rare books
Local/Historical
newspapers
Local history materials
Archives & Manuscripts,
Theses & dissertations
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•Opportunity costs?
•How many times do
you pay for it?
•The end of publishing
- through the gates?
Ingest into
local collections
New behaviors and
support for research
and learning
Focus of much digital
library activity.
Why?
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Digital ‘record’
more important
(prospectus, course
catalog, student records)
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Special: primary materials?
Curatorial
responsibility for
more unique materials?
Institutional
Capacities?
Sourcing?
Examples
•Thematic research collection
•Curated databases
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Managing digital?
An archival perspective?
Provenance
Evidential integrity
Versioning
Institutional
Capacities?
Sourcing?
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Access
Gather, create,
Share
Disclose to
where user is
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University of Minnesota
http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps
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Securing the scholarly record
Community?
How?
The scholarly
record ain’t
what it used to
be?
Institution?
Securing?
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OCLC adaptation of Liz Lyon
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Mature?
Institutional maturity – an industry and cooperative structures
•Structures under pressure
•Libraries organized around this quadrant (‘owned’)
•Emerging techniques for licensed
•New systems framework for licensed
Institutional immaturity
Organizational models for collective
activity, reducing costs, etc,
in development.
Commodity systems not available
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2. Rareness is common
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Rareness is common … in the G5
G5 aggregate collection:
• 10.5 million books
• ~60 percent represent unique
contribution by one or another
of the G5 libraries
10%
Held by 3
6%
Held by 4
20%
Held by 2
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3%
Held by 5
61%
Held by 1
TRLN collection analysis
http://www.trln.org/TaskGroups/CollectionAnalysis/TRLN_CollAnalysis_June2Report.pdf
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… and beyond
System-wide print book collection
(as of January 2005)
• ~32 million print books
5%
Held by > 100
3%
Held by 51 - 100
5%
Held by 26 - 50
37%
Held by 1
20%
Held by 6 - 25
30%
Held by 2 - 5
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3. The long tail and
library logistics
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Library “Inventory”
20% head
80% long tail
Libraries aggregate supply at the local level…
“About the only places you could explore outside the
mainstream were the library and the comic book shop.”
Chris Anderson, “The Long Tail”
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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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Libraries and the long tail dynamic
Each book
its reader
Each reader
his/her book
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Aggregate supply?
 1.7% of circulations are ILLs
 (60% of aggregate G5
collection owned by one
library only)
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Aggregate demand?
 20% of collection accounted
for 90% of use
 (2 research libraries over ~4
years)
But the global library resource is diffused
across thousands of locations …
Limited aggregation of supply at network level:
Fragmented discovery
Management data not used
High transaction costs – find it/get it
Fragmented inventory/shipping
Limited aggregation of demand at network level:
Difficult to mobilize a large number of users
Not projected into user environments
Leads to weak gravitational pull and low
network visibility for libraries and library
collections
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Get real about …
 Logistics
 Inventory
 Supply chain
 Management information
 D2D
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4. Aggregate collections
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Aggregate collections
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 Thinking about collections
in aggregate terms
 Opportunity costs
Collection development
Mass digitization
Off site storage
Discovery to delivery
 Space
 Attention/value
 Find it – get it
 On demand
 Preservation
 Print on demand
 Buy on demand
 Digitize on demand
 Logistics: very inefficient
 Management data:
holdings, circulation, …
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Mass Digitization Issues Framework
PRESERVE
USE
DISCLOSE
ECONOMICS
DESCRIBE
STORE
DIGITIZE
SELECT
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RIGHTS
 Best practices + organizational contexts for:
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Off site storage (see NAST)
Mass digitization
Preservation
D2D
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5. Open
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Open
This means that any use of “Open” is likely to be fuzzy
and confusing. The “Open Access” movement is broad
and supports several major points of view which,
though overlapping, have significant differences either
in pragmatics or philosophy. Moreover “Open Foo” does
not imply “Open Bar”. Thus “Open Access” publications
will not by themselves ensure “Open Data”.
Peter Murray Rust
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 Subscription
 Advertizing
 Transaction
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Conclusions
6. Access to scale:
moving to the network level
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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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Trajectory …
Then
 Cataloging & resource sharing
 A&I and e-Journals
 Collections
Now
 Growing realization that much more can be done
at the network level
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Multilevel approach to …
 Collections
 D2D
 Consolidated discovery
 Knowledge base
 Resolution - Service
routing – fulfilment
 Shared offsite storage
 Aggregate and analyse
digital collections
 Institutional repository
 Digital storage and
preservation
 Business intelligence
 Social and consumer
environments
 Social networking services:
tagging, reviews,
recommendations
 Share mobilizing
approaches
 Virtual reference
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 Synthesize and mobilize
shared usage data
 Recommendation,
management decisions
 Digitization and offsite
storage
7. Conclusions
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 Recalibrate local and ‘collaboratively’ sourced
 Plural business and delivery models
 Develop a more instrumental view of
organizations at the network level?
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