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Credits • • • • • • • • Slide 1. Picture of Sterling Memorial Library. Günter Waibel. Slide 9. From avlxyz on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/2077892948/. License: Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Slide 10. eBoy foobar poster. http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/wpcontent/uploads/shop/EBY_FooBar_35t.png. Available from http://shop.eboy.com/. Slide 12. Hugh MacLeod, Gaping Void. http://www.gapingvoid.com/widget.jpg Slide 15. Bondi Bay. Sydney. Powerhouse Museum. On Flickr commons. http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2363539264/ Also at: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=30669. No known copyright restrictions. Slides 21-27, 37. Courtesy of Jim Michalko. Slides 30-32. OCLC Slide 43. Courtesy of Janifer Gatenby. Interlude RANKIN IN WORLDCAT IDENTITIES Overview End User Access Bought/ Elctronic/Digitised/ Special Physical Licensed Digital colls/ Archives Management Management Part one WEB 2.0 Then: Users built workflow around libraries Now: Library must build services around user workflow Discovery happens elsewhere Disclosure Google Facebook Google Facebook LibraryThing So … Concentration Diffusion • Aggregation of data at the network level • Syndication to many destinations – Descriptive – Mining the clickstream: “Database of intentions” – Social • Network effects – – – – A feed based universe Data APIs Widgets • Mobilization in user workflows • Encourage social participation Part two LIBRARY SYSTEMS User environment Library & Network Resource Management environment End User Access Bought/ Electronic/ Digitised/ Digital Physical Licensed Management Management Special colls/ Archives User environment Library & Network Resource Find It End User Access Get It Bought/ Electronic/ Digitised/ Digital Physical Licensed Metadata Content Management environment Management Management Manage It Special colls/ Archives User environment Find It OPAC End User MetaSearch A-Z Access NextGen Get It ILL/CIRC Library & Network Resource Website LINK RESOLVER SPECIAL Bought/ Electronic/ Digitised/ Digital Physical Licensed Special colls/ Archives Metadata MARC A&I XXX DC EAD Content Management environment ILS ERM REPOSITORY SPECIAL Management Management Manage It Diffusion Network level – website - workflow Concentration A thin layer around complex legacy systems Low gravitational pull? Little social dynamic Limited usage data Difficult to ‘mobilize’ library resource into workflows Stuck in the middle ‘Monolithic fragmentation’ • Move to ‘concentrate’ at local level – Single search environments • Move to ‘diffuse’ at local level – RSS, APIs, …. • But … – Have to manage presence at the local, group and global level Part three SYSTEMWIDE ATTENTION Remember …. I WAS ASKED TO BE PROVOCATIVE …. Put another way... “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” —W. Edwards Deming A historic note: the good old days Move to group and global 1. Cataloging and resource sharing 2. A&I databases and electronic journals 3. Logic of network environment suggests moving more …. Historic central actors • British Library Document Supply Centre • JISC • ‘group’ structures less well developed in UK than elsewhere. Network level services are heavily used, and in many cases are the first port of call for library users Increasing opportunities to build shared capacity, remove unhelpful redundancy, and aggregate data (cf government shared services agenda). Release time and resource to support specific learning and teaching needs of institution. Disclose resources into group and network level services. So: … WITH VARYING DEGREES OF PLAUSIBILITY … Group Data? • Knowledge base • Aggregate usage data – – – – – Resolver data Download data Database usage data Circulation … • Shared catalog (cf OhioLink) • Syndicate to global (e.g. Google Scholar and union catalogues) • Switch to local for fulfilment Applications? • Repository • Search – Institutional search (Primo, WC Local, etc) – Metasearch – Catalogue • ILS???? – Network effects: e.g. circulation and recommendation – Shared selection – CIRC <> resource sharing Group The collective collection? • Competition for space and ongoing cost a concern • Legacy print collections (cf UK RR) – Storage – Preservation – Access • Physical delivery architecture The collective collection? • Managing a licensed collection – – – – Ebooks Journals Preservation Access models Where data aggregation is beneficial • More effective exposure in a web scale site (metadata) • To attract users and social engagement • Avoid redundant data management (suppliers details, supplier suggestions) • Collective knowledge - tasks less complicated or more accurate (serial prediction) • New knowledge via deduction or mining (holdings count indicating rareness and popularity, supplier performance, enriched name metadata) • Most effective management of links and imported enriched data • Comparison of collections; facilitating the management of the collective collection Global • Discovery • Registry (of institutions, services, collections) • Electronic delivery architecture Local • Interpretation of specific research and learning needs of institution • Intersection of research/learning and information management • Reputation management • Disclosure to group and global levels • Funding Management models • Collaboratively sourced • Centrally provided • Third parties Think local: Act local, group(al) and global. 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