The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services. Lorcan Dempsey The University of Kansas, December 5/6 2007

Picture: Robin Alston

Private and social Collection and catalogue … a hive-like dome … Louis MacNeice

Then: vertically integrated around collection Now: moving apart in network environment New skills …. Space Expertise Collections Systems and services

Then: vertically integrated around collection

Now: moving apart in network environment

New skills ….

HIGH TOUCH SERVICE Place

Place

Place Place Space infused with value How has the value changed over time? Engagement with collections, expertise and services? Space Opportunity costs Valuable real estate Growing pressure in many environments New spaces

Place

Space infused with value

How has the value changed over time?

Engagement with collections, expertise and services?

Space

Opportunity costs

Valuable real estate

Growing pressure in many environments

New spaces

Place Infrastructure -> “customer relations” Higher value activity Access to scarce resources – people, equipment, specialist advice, exhibition, … Individual, group, social

Infrastructure -> “customer relations”

Higher value activity

Access to scarce resources – people, equipment, specialist advice, exhibition, …

Individual, group, social

These student comments suggest that good study space is responsive to the academic and social dimensions of study in ways that allow students to control them both. Scott Bennett

Gleason Library U Rochester Photos: S. Gibbons

ENGAGE WITH THE LEARNING PROCESS PARTNERSHIP Place

Place

NEW DIRECTIONS Collections

Collections

Collections grid high low low high STEWARDSHIP UNIQUENESS Books Journals Newspapers Gov. docs CD, DVD Maps Scores Special collections Rare books Local/Historical newspapers Local history materials Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations Research, learning and administrative materials , ePrints/tech reports Learning objects Courseware E-portfolios Research data Institutional records Reports, newsletters, etc Freely-accessible web resources Websites Open source software Newsgroup archives

Books

Journals

Newspapers

Gov. docs

CD, DVD

Maps

Scores

Special collections

Rare books

Local/Historical newspapers

Local history materials

Archives & Manuscripts,

Theses & dissertations

Research, learning and administrative

materials ,

ePrints/tech reports

Learning objects

Courseware

E-portfolios

Research data

Institutional records

Reports, newsletters, etc

Freely-accessible web resources

Websites

Open source software

Newsgroup archives

Trends Mass digitization and off-site storage Licensed: rented ‘ Special collections’ onto the web Thematic collections of web resources Research, learning and administrative materials ‘published’ on the web The new special collections.

Mass digitization and off-site storage

Licensed: rented

‘ Special collections’ onto the web

Thematic collections of web resources

Research, learning and administrative materials ‘published’ on the web

The new special collections.

Thematic research collections

Beyond books “ It is only when we translate the old style-based thinking and language of historians into new modes of representation that we can begin to grasp the complex relationships between architectural production and the creation of … cultural identities.” Stephen Murray, Columbia University

“ It is only when we translate the old style-based thinking and language of historians into new modes of representation that we can begin to grasp the complex relationships between architectural production and the creation of … cultural identities.”

Stephen Murray, Columbia University

Then: E. Viollet Le Duc Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (1874) ( 1 st American Ed. 1875)

Now: Interactive, multi-dimensional navigation of a networked resource

Published materials: discourse Primary materials: evidence Interpreted materials: exhibition Library Archive Museum

Published materials: discourse

Primary materials: evidence

Interpreted materials: exhibition

Library

Archive

Museum

NEGOTIATION ENGAGEMENT WITH RESEARCHERS AND LEARNERS AS CREATORS ARCHIVAL PRACTICE: INSTITUTIONAL ASSETS INTERPRETATION AND EXHIBITION Collections

Collections

THE PERSON IS AN ENTRY POINT Expertise

Expertise

Source: Susan Gibbons, U Rochester

IMPROVE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND LEARNING CAPACITIES: PUBLISHING INTERPRETING AVAILABLE RESOURCES IN TERMS OF SPECIFIC RESEARCH AND LEARNING NEEDS SPECIALIST CONSULTANCY: GIS, METADATA, IPR, … MARKETING AND ASSESSMENT: UNDERSTAND NEEDS AND DEVELOP SERVICES TO MEET THOSE NEEDS Expertise

Expertise

IN THE FLOW Services and systems

Services and systems

library Consumer environments Management environment Licensed Bought Faculty& students Digitized Aggregations Resource sharing Integrated local user environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, … … Institutional Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … Personal Workflow RSS, toolbars, .. Network level workflow Google, …

Discovery happens elsewhere Resources are abundant; attention scarce Build services around workflow

Now: Federated access to multi-institutional holdings with support for personal collection-building and sharing

SUPPORT FOR FACULTY AND STUDENT GATHER/CREATE/SHARE PLACING THE LIBRARY IN THE FLOW DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT MORE SOPHISTICATED SOURCING DECISIONS Systems and services

Systems and services

VALUE TRANSLATION: SHOWING THE VALUE OF THE LIBRARY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE VALUES OF THE HOME INSTITUTION SECURE RESOURCES CREATE CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESS Leadership

Leadership

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