21 st Century Academic Library in South Africa “ Access for all @ your library” Prof Derek W. Keats Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://kim.wits.ac.za [email_address] 16-21 March 2009 South African Library Week

I was born on an island in the North Atlantic Ocean

I grew up in Gambo, a small town 300 km from the Newfoundland capital, St. John's

And went to school at Smallwood Academy in Dark Cove

One month after my 17 th birthday I had to leave Gambo and travel down the Trans Canada Highway ... to St. John's ...

... to study Marine Biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland

The library aggregated content resources into a physical location

The library aggregated content resources into a physical location Aggregation

Education as an industrial process - Graham Attwell

Classrooms aggregate demand to scarce supply

Traditional libraries aggregate scarce content resources ...and do things that enable people to locate and use them

Opening access in the 21 st Century

What is scarce in the 21 st Century?

Copyright with all rights reserved creates scarcity and limits access

Not all content needs all rights reserved or to be scarce to be valuable.

Creative Commons licenses

Creative Commons licenses

Traditional proprietary publishing Open access / Free Licensing

Libraries and access for all Facilitate locating open access journals Special focus on those that permit reuse Help users find content that they can reuse for their own purposes (Free and Open Educational Resources) The discipline of librarianship Explain an promote the use of Free licenses for academic content Drive institutional policies on reuse Maintain and promote Institutional repositories Market the rights and options for academics to use them Encourage licenses that promote reuse

Facilitate locating open access journals

Special focus on those that permit reuse

Help users find content that they can reuse for their own purposes (Free and Open Educational Resources)

The discipline of librarianship

Explain an promote the use of Free licenses for academic content

Drive institutional policies on reuse

Maintain and promote Institutional repositories

Market the rights and options for academics to use them

Encourage licenses that promote reuse

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