An Introduction for New Faculty August 2008 University Libraries:

An Introduction for New Faculty August 2008

University Libraries:

What is a library?

… 2004 might well be remembered as the Year of Search … If we get through these rocky times with civilization’s underpinnings intact, our descendants, swimming in total information, might be required to memorize the date of last August’s Google IPO as a cultural milestone…

Newsweek, December 2004

“Where attention is scarce, the library needs to provide services which save time, which are built around user workflow, and which are targeted and engaging … Aggregating resources may not be enough. They will be shaped and projected into user environments in ways that support learning and research objectives.”

Lorcan Dempsey, Ariadne, 2006

“The internet lies at the core of an advanced scholarly information infrastructure to facilitate distributed, data- and information-intensive collaborative research. These developments exist within a rapidly evolving social and policy environment, as relationships shift among scholars, publishers, librarians, universities, funding agencies, businesses, and other stakeholders.”

Christine Borgman

LIBRARY ROLES: getting in the flow

• Knowledge resources: build collections … work with content creators/providers.

• Access: catalogs/indexes … develop technology infrastructure & personal/group tools.

• Services & Expertise: reference/research services…information literacy, collaborative learning centers, online research environments.

An Introduction

• Overview of Libraries system• Connecting with the organization• Services & resources• Your intellectual work, publishing, your

rights, etc.

OVERVIEW

Facts & Figures• 14 physical sites in Twin Cities• 6.8 million volumes (15th largest

research library in North America), all media types

• Nearly 30,000 electronic journals, over 266,000 e-books (campus licensing)

• 350 staff, over 500 student employees• Major contributor to campus technology

infrastructure• Largest external lending volume

Mpls. MainLibrariesWilson Library – Main Humanities and Social Science

Andersen Library – Special Collections and Archives; Research Materials and Storage Collections

Walter Library – Science and Engineering; Video and audio materials

Bio-Medical Library – Health Sciences

Subject LibrariesArchitecture and Landscape Architecture

Math Library

Music Library

MainLibraries

Magrath Library

Entomology/ Fisheries/Wildlife

Forestry

Plant Pathology

Vet Medical

Also:

Horticulture (Chaska)

Lake Itasca Bio Station

St. PaulLibraries

Independent Libraries

• Journalism Library (CLA)• Law Library (Law)• Coordinate campus libraries

– Crookston, Duluth, Morris, Rochester• Many, many departmental libraries &

reading rooms

ORGANIZATION

Discipline Liaisons• Collection development, access

– New journals, monographs– Electronic content licenses

• Instructional services, customized web services

• Research support• Program development, grants, outreach

SERVICES & RESOURCES

http://www.lib.umn.edu

Customized

PersonalizedYour Information

Citation management tool• Web-based• Import/export citations• Integrate with word processing applications• Manage citations• Create bibliographies, reference lists• Shared reference lists

Copyright Information & Education

Instructional RoleUMN Undergraduate Learning Outcomes• The ability to identify, define, and solve problems• The ability to locate and evaluate information• Mastery of a body of knowledge and mode of inquiry• An understanding of diverse philosophies and cultures

in a global society• Ability to communicate effectively• An understanding of the role of creativity, innovation,

discovery, and expression in the arts and humanities and in the natural and social sciences

• Skills for effective citizenship and lifelong learning

Instructional Services

• Online tutorials (QuickStudy)• Discipline resource guides• Course-specific websites (CourseLib)• Unravel the Library workshop series• Course-specific sessions

SMART Learning Commons

• Wilson Library (West Bank)• Magrath Library (St. Paul)• Walter Library (East Bank)

– Research support– Writing support– At risk course support– Peer learning consultants– Technology assistance

Your Work, Publishing, Rights

Scholarly Publishing:A Circle of Gifts

PublisherPublisher

LIBRARYLIBRARY

READERREADER

AUTHORAUTHOR

Reviewer

Creator Rights (copyright)• To publish and distribute a work in print or other

media• To reproduce it (e.g., through photocopying)• To prepare translations or other derivative works• To perform or display the work publicly • To authorize others to exercise any of these

rights

These rights may be both segmented and transferred to others.

Surrendered Copyright?May Need Permission to:

• Post the work on your web site or to a course management system like WebCT

• Re-use excerpts in another work• Translate the work into another language• Make copies of the work for your colleagues• Place the work in course-packs• Place the work in a digital repository or

archive

Creator OptionsOption 1 Option 2 Option 3Continue the frequent existing practice of transferring ownership of copyrights to publishers, in exchange for

publication

Reserve some specific rights (e.g., the right to republish an essay in a book, the right to copy material for instructional purposes, etc.) but otherwise transfer ownership of the copyright to the publisher

Retain ownership of the copyright and license to publishers all the rights the publishers need to conduct

their business

CIC Authors’ Addendum

Open Access: A new model for rights

Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright & licensing restrictions. OA focuses on royalty-free scholarly communication.

Author agrees to a license that may require attribution or

block commercial re-use, but permits the uses required by legitimate scholarship (reading, downloading, sharing, storing, printing, searching, linking…)

Open Access Models

• OA Journals: (peer reviewed), often author-pays; grew 19% in 2007; ~3000 titles

• OA archives, repositories: institutional, disciplinary, governmental

UMN = University Digital Conservancyhttp://conservancy.umn.edu/

NIH Policy (2007) The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall

require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.

Institutions and investigators are responsible for ensuring that any publishing or copyright agreements concerning submitted articles fully comply with this Policy.

Negotiating: Success StoryProfessor Gary Balas, of U of M’s department

of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, initiated a change within his professional organization:

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) agreed to modify their self-archiving policy to allow web posting without requesting permission

Author rights• Assigning your rights matters• Authors have options, agreements are

negotiable• Open access: journal venues, self-

archiving• The Libraries can help:

– Document publisher policies– Guidance on rights options (templates)– Identify open access venues– Archive your works

What is a library?

• Core and distinctive knowledge resources• Pervasive information services: teaching,

learning, research support• Tools to enhance inquiry, productivity• Counsel on publishing options

…in the flow

QUESTIONS?