We often think of collections as local – whether owned or licensed. Increasingly this picture is changing in several ways. Libraries are sharing responsibility for collections. Libraries are providing access to materials they do not own, but which are available to their users (freely available digital book collections for example). Demand driven acquisitions changes the view of local collections. Institutions are also thinking about how to manage locally produced materials (research data for example) and support access across institutions. This trend is supported by changes as discovery is peeled away from local collections. This presentation discusses these trends, and collections and discovery change in a network environment. This was a presentation at the Libraries Australia Forum, Melbourne, 2015

1. Lorcan Dempsey
OCLC Research
Libraries Australia Forum 2015
Unique to ubiquitous: Library resources in a linked data world
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 1 December 2015
@LorcanD
The facilitated collection:
collections and collecting in a network environment
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2. The new context
of collections

3. Shared
Engagement with research practices

4. Shared
Engagement with research practices

5. The evolving
scholarly record

6. Framing the Scholarly Record …

8. Grid: collection
attention

9. Low
Stewardship
Institutional
In few
collections
In many
collections
Research & Learning
Materials
Open Web Resources ‘Published’ materials
Special Collections
Local Digitization
Licensed
Purchased
High
Stewardship

10. Journals
1. Licensed materials are now the larger part of
academic library budgets
2. Publishers looking to research workflow
(Elsevier – Mendeley, Pure)
3. National science/research policy and open
access
4. A part only of the scholarly record.
Monographs
1. Emergence of ‘e’ (platform)
2. Shift to demand driven acquisition
3. Digital corpora
4. Disciplinary differences
5. Growing difference beween market and
distinctive (e.g. area studies)
6. Managing down print - shared print

11. Special collections, archives, …
1. Release more value through digitization,
exhibitions, …
2. Streamlining processing, production, …
3. Network level aggregation for scale and
utility – DPLA, Europeana, Pacific rim digital
library,
Research and learning material
1. Evolving scholarly record: research data,
eprints, ..
2. IR – role and content?
3. Research information management (profiles,
outputs, …)
4. Support for digital scholarship
5. Support for open access publishing

12. Workflow is the new
content?

16. Workflow is the new content supply
chain
• In a print world,
researchers and
learners organized their
workflow around the
library.
• The library had limited
interaction with the full
process.
• In a digital world, the
library needs to
organize itself around
the workflows of
research and learners.
• Workflows generate
and consume
information resources.

17. The inside out
collection

18. Market
In few
collections
In many
collections
A
Licensed
Purchased
Outside, in
OCLC Collections Grid
Distinctive
Library as broker
Maximise efficiency
Then
Low
Stewardship
High
Stewardship
Inside, out
Library as provider
Maximise discoverability
Now
Figure: OCLC Collections Grid, shift in emphasis. OCLC Research, 2014.

19. Outside-in
Bought &
Licensed
Borrowed
Inside-out
Institutional
Resources
Facilitated

20. From curation
to creation

21. 21
Transformation of the academic library
Kurt de Belder
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/events/dss/ppt/dss_debelder.pptx

24. Towards the
collective (print)
collection
Collection directions

25. The bubble of
growth in twentieth-
century printed collections
has left … librarians with a
tricky problem.
Barbara Fister
New Roles for the Road Ahead:
Essays commissioned for ACRL’s 75th Birthday

26. http://library.osu.edu/blogs/cartoons/2012/02/28/blog-launch-and-the-construction-of-our-new-home-in-sullivant-hall/
Infrastructure <> engagement

27. http://www.slideshare.net/malbooth/uts-future-library-more-than-spaces-technology
Mal Booth, UTS Library

28. Shared print- collective collection
Then: Value relates to depth and
breadth of local collection.
Now: Value relates to systemwide
curation of and access to print
collections – ‘rightscaling’.
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Decision support through
shared data.

29. OCLC Research, 2013
North American print book resource:
45.7 million distinct publications
889.5 million total library holdings

30. The facilitated
collection (collections as a service)

31. Owned
Catalog
Available
LibGuides, etc
Licensed
KB/Discovery
Global
Google, ResearchGate, etc …
Separation of
discovery and
collection?:
• Focus shifts from
owned to facilitated
(available)?
• Focus shifts from
collection to other
services (creation, …)?
• Systemwide thinking
becomes stronger?
OCLC Research, 2015.Figure: Discoverability redefines collection boundaries.

32. The ‘owned’
collection
The ‘facilitated’
collection
The ‘licensed’
collection
The ‘borrowed’
collection
• Pointing people at
Google Scholar
• Including freely
available ebooks in the catalog
• Creating resource
guides for web resources
• Purchased and
physically stored
A collections spectrum
The ‘demand-
driven’
collection
The ‘shared
print’
collection
The ‘shared
digital’
collection
The evolving
scholarly
record
Requires greater
‘conscious coordination’
at network level

33. In conclusion

34. Then: the user in the life of the library
Now: the library in the life of the user
The practice of research and learning is changing.
Research and learning outputs are diversifying.
Research outputs are the subject of policy attention
Publishers supporting workflow and reputation.
Move to facilitated access to materials – collection as a service.
Move to management and disclosure of institutional materials – inside out.
Move to collaborative attention to collections – collective collection.
Move to deeper engagement with research and learning – creation.
Effective stewardship of the print and digital scholarly record
needs conscious coordination at the network level.

35. @LorcanD
http://www.oclc.org/research

36. Credits
This presentation reflects ongoing shared work with
Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie. Thanks to our
colleague JD Shipengrover for graphics.
• The Evolving Scholarly Record
http://oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-scholarly-
record-2014.pdf
• Understanding the Collective Collection
http://oclc.org/research/publications/library/2013/2013-09r.html
• Collection Directions
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-collection-
directions-preprint-2014.pdf
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