The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services. Lorcan Dempsey The University of Iowa, February 21, 2008
Feb 22, 2016
The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services.Lorcan Dempsey
The University of Iowa, February 21, 2008
Picture: Robin Alston
Private and social
Collection and catalogue
… a hive-like dome …Louis MacNeice
• Then: vertically integrated around collection
• Now: moving apart in network environment
• New skills ….
Space Expertise
CollectionsSystems and services
HIGH TOUCH SERVICEPlace
Place• Place
– Space infused with value– How has the value changed over time?– Engagement with collections, expertise and services?
• Space– Opportunity costs– Valuable real estate– Growing pressure in many
environments
– New spaces
Place
• Infrastructure -> “customer relations”• Higher value activity
– Access to scarce resources – people, equipment, specialist advice, exhibition, …
– Individual, group, social
These student comments suggest that good study space is responsive to the
academic and social dimensions of study in ways that allow students to control them
both.
Scott Bennett
Gleason LibraryU Rochester
Photos: S. Gibbons
ENGAGE WITH THE LEARNING PROCESS
PARTNERSHIP
Place
NEW DIRECTIONSCollections
Collections gridhigh low
low
high
STEWARDSHIP
UN
IQU
ENES
SBooks•Journals•Newspapers•Gov. docs•CD, DVD•Maps•Scores
Special collections•Rare books•Local/Historical newspapers•Local history materials•Archives & Manuscripts,•Theses & dissertations
Research, learning and administrativematerials, •ePrints/tech reports•Learning objects•Courseware•E-portfolios•Research data
•Institutional records•Reports, newsletters, etc
Freely-accessible web resources•Websites•Open source software•Newsgroup archives
Trends
• Mass digitization and off-site storage• Licensed: rented• ‘Special collections’ onto the web• Thematic collections of web resources• Research, learning and administrative
materials ‘published’ on the web• The new special collections.
Thematic research collections
Beyond books
“It is only when we translate the old style-based thinking and language of historians into new modes of representation that we can begin to grasp the complex relationships between architectural production and the creation of … cultural identities.”
Stephen Murray, Columbia University
Then: E. Viollet Le Duc Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (1874) (1st American Ed. 1875)
Now: Interactive, multi-dimensional navigation of a networked resource
• Published materials: discourse
• Primary materials: evidence
• Interpreted materials: exhibition
• Library
• Archive
• Museum
NEGOTIATION
ENGAGEMENT WITH RESEARCHERS AND LEARNERS AS CREATORS
ARCHIVAL PRACTICE: INSTITUTIONAL ASSETS
INTERPRETATION AND EXHIBITION
Collections
THE PERSON IS AN ENTRY POINTExpertise
Source: Susan Gibbons, U Rochester
IMPROVE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND LEARNING CAPACITIES:PUBLISHING
INTERPRETING AVAILABLE RESOURCES IN TERMS OF SPECIFIC RESEARCH AND LEARNING NEEDS
SPECIALIST CONSULTANCY: GIS, METADATA, IPR, …
MARKETING AND ASSESSMENT: UNDERSTAND NEEDS AND DEVELOP SERVICES TO MEET THOSE NEEDS
Expertise
IN THE FLOWServices and systems
libraryConsumer environmentsManagement environment
LicensedBought
Faculty&studentsDigitized Aggregations
Resource sharing
…
Institutional WorkflowPortals,
CMS, IR, …
PersonalWorkflow
RSS, toolbars, ..
Network level workflow
Google, …
Integratedlocal user
environment?Library web
presenceResource sharing, …
Discovery happens elsewhere
Resources are abundant; attention scarce
Build services around workflow
Now: Federated access to multi-institutional holdings with support for personal collection-building and sharing
SUPPORT FOR FACULTY AND STUDENT GATHER/CREATE/SHARE
PLACING THE LIBRARY IN THE FLOW
DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
MORE SOPHISTICATED SOURCING DECISIONS
Systems and services
VALUE TRANSLATION: SHOWING THE VALUE OF THE LIBRARY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE VALUES OF THE HOME INSTITUTION
SECURE RESOURCES
CREATE CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS
Leadership
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