From access to associations
Making connections with
electronic resources
Elizabeth Goodman
School of Information | University of California, Berkeley

About me

Libraries are very stable

The uses of libraries
What new things could we do?

From access to associations?

Digital information changes how things are
available
Building relationships around data

Information science fictions
Illustration by Frank R. Paul for Amazing Stories
magazine, 1927.
http://flickr.com/photos/outofpaper/43112546/

Fiction 1: Library activity displays
Visually appealing displays of circulation metadata in
public places outside the library
Publicizing the intellectual life of groups of patrons
Connecting the library to other places
Visualizing slow and fast change over time

Making metadata visible
http://www.walkingpaper.org/1123

Inspirations
Personal data visualization
Community murals
City screens

Fiction 2: Patron matchmaking
Introducing patrons based on borrowing habits
Building on trust in libraries as institutions
Actively facilitating intellectual partnerships
Supporting informed privacy decision-making

From: Recommend@library.edu
Subject: Shared interests?
Dear John Smith,
Thanks for opting in to our
patron recommender program.
Your interest in George
Eliot appears to be shared
?
by another patron.
If you are tnterested in
contacting this patron,
please reply to this email.
Your response will be
forwarded to the patron. 
We will not disclose your
email address or any other
personal information until
you choose to share it.

Online dating
Book clubs
Recall notices

(Non) fiction 3:
Enhancing digital texts with relevant resources.
Automatically detecting the names of places and people
Assisting learning by links to other documents
Providing a new “reference room” for online research
Following slides borrowed from the Contexts and Relationships: Ireland
and Irish Studies project - http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/
Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal funding agency, and by the
National Endowment for the Humanities.

Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg;
Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ.,
1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof,
Akad. f. graphische Künste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon,
Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925;
search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi
SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d.
1970.
WHO?

Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg;
Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ.,
1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof,
Akad. f. graphische Künste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon,
Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925;
search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi
SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d.
1970.
WHERE?

Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg;
Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ.,
1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof,
Akad. f. graphische Künste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon,
Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925;
search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi
SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d.
1970.
WHAT?

Digitizing the ‘reference room’?

Making associations
flexible and durable
Library activity displays
Space and scale
Publicizing rhythms of thought and attention
Patron matchmaking
Building on trust in libraries
Facilitating translucency
Enhancing texts with context
Allowing for comparison and exploration – individual and collective

Thanks!
Photo credits
http://flickr.com/photos/limonada/6270210/
http://flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/248594239/ Elizabeth Goodman
http://flickr.com/photos/todojuanjo/2630161117/
http://flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/4462965/
www.confectious.net
http://flickr.com/photos/liz/6315099
http://flickr.com/photos/aldask/2313594798
http://flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/2949365635/
http://flickr.com/photos/playfullibrarian/3229563802/
Video credits
http://www.walkingpaper.org/1123
http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/