{Tech}changes: the technological state of Greek Libraries.

{Tech}changes: the technological

state of Greek Libraries

Giannis Tsakonas Library & Information Center,

University of Patras, Greece

!EBLIDA 2014 - Libraries in Transition: Changes? Crisis? Chances!

Session: Changes? / May 14, 2014

τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν(all entities move and nothing remains still)

Introduction

• Libraries are between early adaptors of changes • technological, economical, societal • easily absorbing changes from abroad

• In the recent years we have seen the Greek libraries landscape changing

• This change could be dramatic, yet it wasn’t. • ineffectiveness • conservatism • State roles

Library technology! For whom?

• Technology is not an isolated concept. • We have a different type of interaction with our audience. • On the move! • On the cloud! • Reusability and device agnosticism are the keys.

Information carriers

• Low penetration of eBooks in the Greek market • Few eBook shops • Elementary formats • No sophisticated business models (rather narrow

approaches)

[enhanced] information carriers

• Kallipos * • Enhanced publications in academic textbooks • A project to allow the open access to multiple textbooks

with numerous added value functionalities to increase interactivity.

✤ www.kallipos.gr

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στιγµιαία ταχύτητα

χρόνος χρόνος

διάστηµα

ταχύτητα

ΠαύσηΔοκιµή Νέο σηµείο Αφαίρεση σηµείου

Example provided by M. Hirtzler, Modifications by A. Neumann, N. Mitrou

Διαδραστικό σχήµα για την επίδειξη τηςευθύγραµµης, τµηµατικά οµαλής κίνησης. Τασηµεία αλλαγής της ταχύτητας (µικροί κόκκινοικύκλοι στο διάγραµµα 'διάστηµα-χρόνος') µπορούν να αλλάξουν διαδραστικά (µε mousedrag). Μπορούν ακόµη να προστεθούν ή νααφαιρεθούν σηµεία µε χρήση των αντίστοιχωνπλήκτρων. ---- Τα σχόλια αυτά είναιενσωµατωµένα στο svg, γίνεται δε χρήση ειδικώνσυναρτήσεων (στο αρχείο textFlow.js) ώστε ναεγκιβωτιστούν σωστά σε δοσµένη περιοχήκειµένου. Παρατηρείστε ότι τα γράµµατακλιµακώνονται (π.χ. µε resizing του παραθύρουτου φυλλοµετρητή σας) κατ' αναλογία µε το σχήµα.

Open the Gates [of knowledge]

Open Source • Repositories & Digital

Collections • DSpace, Fedora, OJS,

Omeka, plus in-house systems

• ILS • Koha

Open Data • Open Linked Data

• Polaris (Panteion Open Linked AuthoRItieS) for authority files of social sciences.*

• Open Bibliographic Data licenses in various IRs

✤ library.panteion.gr/polaris/

Open the Gates [of knowledge]

Open Access • OA advocacy* • Nation-wide retrieval of

OA sources * • Registry of OA initiatives*

✤ www.openaccess.gr ✤ www.openarchives.gr ✤ www.lis.upatras.gr/?

page_id=494

Open Education • Open Courseware

program • Libraries as key agents in

the project by helping with copyright management (and not only).

Fuelling the technological change

• EU/GR funding allocated to library projects: horizontal and vertical actions of HEAL.

• Centralized technological solutions as a response to scarcity of resources:

• ILSaS • SmILLe

• Horizontal streams of actions • Current Research Information Systems by HEAL and

NDC with UPatras as the pilot case. • Various vertical actions for specific institutions

Fuelling the technological change

• Opportunities for Public/Private sector cooperation. • Libraries as benchmarking/pilot spaces of innovative

services and infrastructures • SELIDA - UPatras project about RFID integration as

means to the Internet of Things.

Making technology affordable

• The Media Lab initiative of FutureLibrary with Google • Providing technology to enable citizens to their tasks, to

introduce technologies, to reveal competencies.

Using technology to transform literacy

• Virtual worlds and Digital storytelling to transform information literacy programs.

Libraries as...

• The academic libraries are transforming into information hubs; our public libraries into community hubs.

• introducing technologies • supporting best practices • cultivating cultures of progression and growth

ending thoughts

THANK YOU for your attention

!mail: john@lis.upatras.gr | twitter: @gtsakonas

Credits: Heraclitus image by Johannes Moreelse from www.wikimedia.org M. Faraday image by Thomas Phillips from www.wikimedia.org Kallipos book screenshot from www.kallipos.gr

!MediaLab photo from www.futurelibrary.gr UNESCO infographic from visual.ly/reading-mobile-era E-Read graphic from www.eblida.org