Keynote plenary given by Derek Law at the Institutional Web Management Worksh, 28 - 30 July 2009, University of Essex

1. ‘ Guarding the past and neglecting the future: how to reframe the future of libraries or libraries for the future: reframing their purpose or It's all on the web - isn't it?’ Professor Derek Law University of Strathclyde Headlights on Dark Roads

4. “ Because of the fundamental role that academic libraries have played in the past century, it is tremendously difficult to imagine a college or university without a library. “ Considering the extraordinary pace with which knowledge is moving to the Web, it is equally difficult to imagine what an academic library will be and do in another decade. “ But that is precisely what every college and university should undertake to determine. Given the implications of the outcome, this is not an agenda that librarians can, or should, accomplish alone”. Campbell, J. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 1 (January/February 2006): 16–31

6. Cabinets of curiosities C.A.I.N. Scottish Antarctic Expedition Glasgow Digital Library

8. Microsoft’s View http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/tc/scholarly_communication.mspx

9. What if. . . Users have materially changed? A-literacy is acceptable? Images replace words? New cultural reference points

14. Great expectations: final report

16. Action Man: Available from All Good Bookshops….. Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance man. He was a master of painting, science, language and the inspiration for Leonardo Di Caprio’s name

17. The wisdom of crowds Professional judgement Youtube, Flickr, Institutional Repositories, Open Access Collections Bedroom and Starbucks with a laptop Working space Chatrooms User Instruction Digital Archives and repositories Preservation Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia Reference e-bay, Paypal, Amazon and Abebooks Acquisitions Folksonomies and the semantic web Classification Automated metadata, del.icio.us Cataloguing Web 2.0 World Traditional Library Activity

18. Teaching retrieval skills The wisdom of crowds Professional judgement Aggregation of unique content Youtube, Flickr, Institutional Repositories, Open Access Collections Wired campus and 24-hour workspace Bedroom and Starbucks with a laptop Working space Moderate chatroom Chatrooms User Instruction Institutional repository Digital Archives and repositories Preservation Branded links to trusted resources Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia Reference E-archives, e-data trust metrics and quality assurance e-bay, Paypal, Amazon and Abebooks Acquisitions Locally provided and relevant folksonomy Folksonomies and the semantic web Classification Metadata Automated metadata, del.icio.us Cataloguing Library 2.0 World Web 2.0 World Traditional Library

20. Web 2.0: A Research Agenda

25. Headlights on Dark Roads “ For once I want to be the car crash Not always just the traffic jam Hit me hard enough to wake me And lead me wild to your dark roads” Snow Patrol: Eyes Open

26. Digital Overlap Strategy

29. Digital footprint

31. The Good Old Days……..

32. Trust Metrics

35. “ I think a wiki is highly appropriate for scholarly communication if all the scholars trust one another and are collaborating on a text …, and security and rollback mechanisms are in place.” >>> http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2004-August/000993.html David Mattison

37. Expect the Unexpected