OCLC Online Computer Library Center Collections and access in light of changing patterns of research and learning: Place and space: a schematic view Lorcan Dempsey A community commons:
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OCLC Online Computer Library Center Collections and access in light of changing patterns of research and learning: Place and space: a schematic view Lorcan Dempsey A community commons: libraries in the new century 142nd ARL Membership Meeting, 15 May 2003 University of Kentucky, Lexington Place Collection Service Overview Overview Collections grid stewardship high Books Journals low high Special collections Freely-accessible web resources uniqueness uniqueness Newspapers Gov. docs CD, DVD Maps Scores low Rare books Local/Historical newspapers Local history materials Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations Open source software Newsgroup archives Research and learning materials •ePrints/tech reports •Learning objects •Courseware •E-portfolios •Research data Some comments on the grid • Grid is a mnemonic … placed over complicated field • Libraries and their environments now • 5 years time? • Credits: – Eric Childress (OCLC), – Nancy McGovern (Cornell) The Archival Research Center is a direct outgrowth of the belief that primary resource materials should be a major focal point of instruction and research. …. However, traditional access to these materials is cumbersome and labor-intensive and most institutions do not allow copying. …Digitizing these materials keeps them alive and relevant for modern users … (ARL report) Knowledge bank – OSU – in planning April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of an OSU knowledge bank Below the line There is growing appreciation among libraries that unique or rare materials – – are valuable research and learning resources have been underutilized. There is a growing interest in digitizing cultural heritage materials – – as it offers opportunities for releasing their value in new ways as a way of disclosing the memory and identity of communities. Research and learning behavior is increasingly entering the network space – Library resources need to be available at the appropriate stage within the learning or research environment – New forms of engagement and support. – Research and learning outputs will present major management and curatorial issues – Institutions and faculty are interested in ‘disclosing’ research and learning materials as part of the scholarly enterprise (OAI) • Institutional maturity – an industry and cooperative structures • Structures under pressure • Institutional immaturity – organizational models for collective activity, reducing costs, etc, in development. • Manage commodity materials and services - cost. • Streamline discovery to delivery for print (owned) and digital (licensed) materials • Portalization and resource sharing • Management intelligence – collection management and analysis (print collections) • Incentive to preserve? • Institutional digital content management • Immature (diverse metadata creation practice -hierarchical description, multiple standards and practices, diverse content management approaches) • OAI? Shining a light on hidden resources. • Extend knowledge organization approaches? • Incentive to preserve? The example of metadata stewardship high MARC, Onix uniqueness low Books Journals MARC, METS, EAD, DC, TEI high Special collections low Dublin Core DC, DDI, IEEE/LOM, FGDC, EAD, TEI, SCORM Freely-accessible web resources Research and learning materials Trends Scholarly communication “Special collections” stewardship low Special collections high low Books, Journals unique low high high high Disclosure, Licensing low Web Research & Learning Trends stewardship high Web high low low Books, Journals unique high low E-reserves low high Special collections Research & Learning The google factor Some issues • Different materials call forward different types of attention – Selection – Organization – Collection management – Securing access – Preservation • What is a collection? • Responsibility to the scholarly record – Licensed – Below the line – Print • Fragmentation of knowledge technologies? – Knowledge organization – topics, places, names, educational standards, resource types – Identifiers – etc lab books PDAs campus portal learning management systems exhibitions course material text book new scholarly resources reading lists Library service environment Virtual user environments resource environment reference Institutional repository Aggregations Digital collections E-reserve Catalog Cataloging ILL Licensed collections lab books PDAs campus portal learning management systems course material text book exhibitions new scholarly resources reading lists Hub • Create hub? • Project services into other hubs • Reconfigure services – fine-grained “Creative knowledge you can put in your pocket” OCLC Online Computer Library Center Thank you … …. [email protected] www.oclc.org/research/