Transcript Programs and research Libraries in the new network environment San Jose 16 November 2007 Lorcan Dempsey OCLC.

Programs and research
Libraries in the new network
environment
San Jose
16 November 2007
Lorcan Dempsey
OCLC
Part 1
Part 2
Part 1:
Environment
(CC) licensed 2007 eBoy
Getting things
done
Workflow
Brand is the
new real estate
Discovery
happens
elsewhere
Chris Beckett
http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html
The rich get
richer
Then: the user built their
workflow around the library
Now: the library must build its service
around the user workflow
Then: resources were scarce and attention
was abundant
Now: attention is scarce and resources
are abundant
People are
entry points
Enter what you're
reading or your
whole library—it's
an easy, libraryquality catalog.
LibraryThing also
connects you with
people who read the
same things.
Meet the world's
largest book club.
Find people with
eerily similar
tastes.
Personal
Workflow
RSS,
toolbars, ..
Network level
workflow
Google, …
Institutional
Workflow
Portals,
CMS, IR, …
Consumer environments
Management environment
Bought
Licensed
Digitized
Faculty&
students
Integrated
local user
environment?
Library web
presence
Resource
sharing, …
library
…
Aggregations
Resource sharing
Catalog
Metasearch
Resolver
Print
Licensed
ILS
ERM
Knowledgebase
Repositories …
Digital
Research
&
learning
outputs
Repositories …
…
User environment
Switch: delivery, routing, resolution
…
Management environment
PAUSE
Webscale …
A library
experience which
matches the
experience of the
web?
Comprehensive
Short path from
discovery to fulfilment
Traverse from
personal to global
Machine interface:
scale with use
Navigation
Adaptive
Recombinant
Part 2:
The catalog:
from
discovery to
disclosure
 Local Discovery Environments
 Shared Discovery Environments
 Syndicated Discovery Environments
 Leveraged Discovery Environments
Remember: focus on catalog
Require
disclosure
Local Discovery environment
 Some (not necessarily aligned) motivations
Make data work harder
 Integrate access to locally managed resources
 Escape from ILS limitations
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NCSU
Rochester
SOLR
Worldcat local
Primo
Encore …
Making data
work
harder:
simple
search
followed by
rich
navigation
and
participation
Glancability
Some remarks
 How does MARC data play with other data
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Subjects, authors, ..
Historic investment in structure?
 Duplicate cost?
 Relationship to Metasearch?
 Social and scale
Shared discovery environment
 Increase impact
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Create gravitational pull
Aggregate demand and supply
 Reduce costs
Some comments
 Integration of discovery to delivery becoming
essential
 A move to shared environments seems more
likely with increased ability to ‘view’ different
levels
 Increased gravitational pull: greater use of
collections
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Growing evidence
 Integration of materials?
Syndicated discovery experience
 Syndicate data or service or links
Syndicating services
 RSS
 Portlets
 APIs, Protocol-based
 Projects
Sakailibrary
 …
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Not as rapid as one might expect?
Susan Hollar - Inside the Course at Michigan
Sakaibrary:
Michigan
Indiana
Diane Dallis - Inside the Course at Indiana
Some remarks
 Syndication of data now common among data
providers
 Routing issue for non-unique materials
Resolution
 Worldcat
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 Libraries exposing licensed content holdings
interesting
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Google Scholar
 Service disclosure less common
APIs
 Web services
 Portlets
 HTML fragments – ‘search boxes’
 Toolbars
 Widgets, extensions, …
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Social?
The Leveraged discovery experience
 In some ways the most interesting
 Use another discovery service to connect back to
your resources
 Compare to the situation with article databases
and resolvers
Some remarks
 Some of these are toy-like now, but indicate a
direction
 Increased capacity to ‘sense’ structure
(microformats) will improve ability.
So …
 How to get to webscale
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User environment
Management environment
 A new balance between
Institutional development
 Shared activities
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 How to most release value in research and
learning lives of users
The end
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