Lund University Libraries Head Office The Digital Library Environment and beyond – more than modern library & information services? Digilib Conference,

Lund University LibrariesHead Office The Digital Library

Environment and beyond –

more than modern library & information services?

Digilib Conference, Helsinki – September 8-9, 2003

Lars Björnshauge, Director of Libraries, Lund University, Sweden

September 2003 Lars Björnshauge

Line up of presentation

• The Digital Library Environment

• The Whole Package• and there is more …..• Strategic issues


The Digital Library Environment

• Collection Development & Management– Content, Archiving

• User related issues:– Access, Integration,

Personalization, User Training

• Branding


Content

• Building Digital ”Collections”– licensing (often via Consortia)– reallocating funds from print to

digital– organizing free web resources

– digitizing existing collections– institution based electronic

publishing


Archiving

• Not solved!!• Current license agreements do

not really cater for archiving• Can we/will we rely on

– commercial publishers? – national libraries?

• Can we/will we really cooperate on this??


Access

• Controlling Access – legal issues – authentication

• Facilitating Access– remote access, – proxy solutions– single sign on etc.


Integration

• Too many different services• Too many different interfaces• Too much redundancy/overlap• How to promote/integrate Open

Access material?• Portals, Linking Software • Adapting commercial software or

develop applications ourselves


Personalization

• The need for taylored library & information services– Towards the one stop shop even for

TOC-alerts, SDI-alerts, MyLibrary etc.

• Fitting in with the research & educational processes– Courseware – Managed Learning

Environments– Reference management, CV`s etc.


User Training

• Numerous interfaces• Information literacy

– Fighting existing habits, the Google-syndrome

• On-line tutorials• In the digital library

environment: more user training than ever


Branding

• End users exposed to publishers and aggregators– the publisher trap– library bypass– individualization

• ”Free on the internet”• Who pays??• Gaining control??



The Whole Package

• The seamless integration of print and digital collections

• The use of the physical facilities

• Developing new services• Organizational changes• Staffing


The printed collections

• More users, more use• Digitizing• Cooperative storage – freeing

space for other purposes


The use of physical facilities

• New demands due to changes in education

• Student workspace– Collaborative work facilities, IT-equipment

etc.

• Learning Resource Centers• New staff mix required

– IT-support staff– Technology literate librarians– Information literate teachers


Developing new services

• User initiated services:– Automated check-in/out, document

delivery, ILL etc.

• On-line, real-time reference/chat services (often in collaboration)

• MLE-integration• Portalable personalization

services


Changing the organizational setup

• Integration of collection development and access strategies

• Re-engineering internal & external processes

• Reallocating resources– from selecting & processing print

to handling digital resources• Reallocating staff


Staffing – Human Resources

• Developing competencies – new staff mix

• Working with attitudes & cultures– Selectors and cataloguers– Licensees, negotiators, metadata experts,

software engineers– The need to understand the technology

that underpins the information products and the industry cannot be overemphasized

– Facilitate the path of the end user


and there is more… Beyond Library Services

• Changes in the proximity of academic libraries:– Changes in how research is

conducted, communicated etc.– Changes in teaching & learning– Internationalization of universities– More focus on evaluation,

performance, outcomes and competition


”New” land??

• Technology & portability of content provide new opportunities

• Integration of content & services in the core processes – research, teaching & learning

• Collaboration: – new services developed in

collaboration with researchers, teachers & students


The ”new” areas for supporting core

university processes• Communication technologies

and digital content offer new opportunities for:– Supporting research– Supporting teaching & learning– Supporting institutional

knowledge management


Supporting research

• Disseminating research output– OAI-MHP

• Archiving research output– E-Print, Dspace etc

• Research Evaluation support:– Bibliometrics, Bibliomining (prof. Wormell)

• Marketing the department, the university

• Facilitating changes in Scholarly Communication


Scholarly Communication

• Working with – the university– researchers– editors & referees– learned societies

• Engage in and provide electronic publishing opportunities

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Supporting teaching & learning

• The changes in educational processes & technologies– Problem based learning– Distributed, distance & e-learning– ICT-based learning– Managed Learning Environments


Supporting teaching & learning

• Information literacy• Integration of LIS in Managed

Learning Environments• Developing tools to facilitate

cooperation/collaboration betw. teachers & librarians

• Contribute to development of teaching & learning


Supporting information infra-structure & knowledge

management• Operating IT-network & support

– Developing modern IT-environments

• Developing & operating university web-services

• Organizing, archiving and disseminating information about the university, its research, education etc.


Strategic issues for libraries –

the agenda for the near future• Reorganization/Reallocation

• Staff competencies• Cooperation & collaboration• Scholarly Communication• Dependence – Independence


Requirements

• Management:– Re-organization– Re-allocation– Re-orientation

• Staff Qualifications– Technology literacy (prof. Varis!)


Additional skills required• Meeting new challenges with new

skills:– good pedagogic skills– practical knowledge of computing– Understanding:

• technologies and the potential in these

• digital information products, the legal issues etc.

• impact of technologies on research, teaching & learning

• users (especially the new generation of users)


Staff competencies in support of teaching &

learning• Serving distance learning

(teachers & students) requires technical competence

• More focus on pedagogical credentials.

• Understanding of the learning process important as well


Cooperation/collaboration

• Where to put the focus?• Working with

– libraries, the library community– the publishing/information

industry – the university– the research communities– the educational communities


Scholarly communication

• Initiate, support and engage in new activities in scholarly communication:– Intellectual Property Rights

issues– Low barrier technologies– Institutional Repositories– Open Access publishing


Dependence/Independence

• Portals, Linking Applications etc.: – All our eggs in the basket of the

industry??• Targetting the end users

– The industri will potentially bypass the brokers and traditional intermediaries

– Inducing market economy at the level of individual user (after the Big Deals??)


So ……..!?


Transformation of the roles of the library

• From collection building & management • to facilitation of research, teaching &

learning by – changing our workflows – adapting technologies, – integrating information resources,– developing new services,– building stronger relations to

researchers & teachers– supporting changes in scholarly

communication


Libraries do really have the potential of being the

institution wide infrastructural change

agent!

Let´s go for it!!


Thank you for your attention!

Contact: [email protected]

Lund University Libraries Head Office The Digital Library Environment and beyond – more than modern library & information services? Digilib Conference,

Documents

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lars bjrnshauge integration

lars bjrnshauge archiving

lars bjrnshauge line

purposes slide

sweden slide

user training branding