Libraries Redefining Peter Brantley Digital Library Federation Jan 2009

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Prelude “ In 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. ‘That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,’ says a person who was there.” - “ From Major to Minor ,” The Economist , Jan 10 08

“ In 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. ‘That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,’ says a person who was there.”

- “ From Major to Minor ,” The Economist , Jan 10 08

Google ... the world’s library

Google ... the world’s library

GBS is a dream long anticipated. (with some nightmares.) All the books online .

GBS is a dream

long anticipated.

(with some

nightmares.)

All the books online .

commercialization of access loss of our individual privacy increasing content hegemony ... y mas Stress and Erode Old Institutions

commercialization of access

loss of our individual privacy

increasing content hegemony

... y mas

• Bank tellers • Typewriters • Typesetting • Carburetors • Vacuum tubes • Slide rules • Disc jockeys • Stockbrokers • Telephone operators • Yellow pages • Repair guys • Bookbinders • Pimps • Cassette and reel-to-reel recorders • VCRs • Turntables • Video stores • Record stores • Bookstores • Recording industry • Courier/messenger services • Travel agencies • Print and cinematic porn • Porn actors • Stenographers • Wired telcos • Drummers • Toll collectors • Book publishing (especially reference works) • Conventional-watch makers • "Browse" shopping • U.S. Postal Service • Printing-press makers • Film cameras • Kodak … • Xerox machines “ The digital slay ride”, Jack Shafer, Slate (2008 Dec 16)

• Bank tellers

• Typewriters

• Typesetting

• Carburetors

• Vacuum tubes

• Slide rules

• Disc jockeys

• Stockbrokers

• Telephone operators

• Yellow pages

• Repair guys

• Bookbinders

• Pimps

• Cassette and reel-to-reel recorders

• VCRs

• Turntables

• Video stores

• Record stores

• Bookstores

• Recording industry

The digital uplift continues, unceasing. The death of the library -- as we have known it, for the last several hundred years.

The digital uplift continues,

unceasing.

The death of the library --

as we have known it, for the

last several hundred years.

ARL, Median Ratio, 1995-2003 Reference Queries to Full Time Students

ARL, Median Ratio, 1995-2003

Reference Queries to Full Time Students

ARL, Median Ratio, 1995-2003 Total Circulation to Full Time Students

ARL, Median Ratio, 1995-2003

Total Circulation to Full Time Students

Libraries are (in danger of becoming): merely Warm fuzzy places to study and chill Licensing agents for commercial content Warehouses for the print artifact

Libraries are (in danger of becoming):

merely

Warm fuzzy places to study and chill

Licensing agents for commercial content

Warehouses for the print artifact

Library as warehouse of books “ deserted” by Eisenvater, Flickr

Library as warehouse of books

“ deserted” by Eisenvater, Flickr

So, like, dude. Where shall we go next?

We must re-enter our old foundries. “ Around & Through”, Kevinhooa, Flickr

We must re-enter our old foundries.

“ Around & Through”, Kevinhooa, Flickr

(New and Redacted) Proverbs 4 Libraries

Libraries should be accessible Libraries must make their Special Collections digitally accessible through search.

Libraries must make their

Special Collections digitally

accessible through search.

Libraries are portable People (have a fundamental right to) constant and ubiquitous information access.

People

(have a fundamental right to)

constant and ubiquitous

information access.

Libraries know where they are Information must be provided in the dual contexts of time and place.

Information

must be provided

in the dual contexts

of time and place.

Libraries tell stories The world is visual. | Immersive stories The world is virtual; | engage the viewer.

The world is visual. | Immersive stories

The world is virtual; | engage the viewer.

Libraries help people learn We must facilitate learning ( acquiring ) vs Focusing only on teaching ( providing )

We must facilitate learning

( acquiring )

vs

Focusing only on teaching

( providing )

Libraries are recombinant Re-mixing content re-envisions the world; re-invents the user.

Re-mixing content

re-envisions the world;

re-invents the user.

Libraries help forge memories Preservation is an archival strategy for increasing access and use. Flickr (Commons) is transient … CDC, Unisys, DEC, …

Preservation is

an archival strategy

for increasing access and use.

Flickr (Commons) is transient …

CDC, Unisys, DEC, …

Libraries speak for people Issues owned by libraries: Fair use of copyrighted material Right of information access Control of information privacy Network rights of way

Issues owned by libraries:

Fair use of copyrighted material

Right of information access

Control of information privacy

Network rights of way

The library of the future - ______________________ enables information flow across the network.

The library of the future -

______________________

enables information flow

across the network.

The new library is all about : PEOPLE working with DATA.

The new library is

all about :

PEOPLE

working with

DATA.

«Acquiring « Managing « Describing « Preserving making « Accessible making « Actionable

«Acquiring

« Managing

« Describing

« Preserving

making « Accessible

making « Actionable

Sky surveys “Pinwheel Galaxy”, jimkster, Flickr

JHU Sheridan Libraries ++ Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC), for Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Digital archiving and preservation services for the entire SDSS data which have been produced over about 15 years during the second phase of SDSS. ~100 TB and growing

JHU Sheridan Libraries ++

Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC), for Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Digital archiving and preservation services for the entire SDSS data which have been produced over about 15 years during the second phase of SDSS.

~100 TB and growing

Genomes “Décodage du génome humain”, Christophe ALARY, Flickr

Images “Ise_shrine_46”, ajari, Flickr

Repositories

Repositories

Hathi Trust stats: 12/2008: ~ 2.5 million books ingested ~ 350,000 books ingested per month ~ 375,000 public domain by 12/2009 ... ~ 5 million books ingested ~ 1 million public domain

Hathi Trust stats:

12/2008:

~ 2.5 million books ingested

~ 350,000 books ingested per month

~ 375,000 public domain

by 12/2009 ...

~ 5 million books ingested

~ 1 million public domain

books are data “Torah”, Tmuna Fish, Flickr

Smelting books down for information: integrated into wikipedia queryable in world languages and digitally living as documents

Smelting books down for information:

integrated into wikipedia

queryable in world languages

and digitally living as documents

Our world is a sensored world - increasingly constant video record, surveillance of street, earth, + space increasing transparency of lives and living

Our world is a sensored world -

increasingly constant video record,

surveillance of street, earth, + space

increasing transparency

of lives and living

And we can explode the old library as a physical interface to the virtual ... In the midst of the world around us.

And we can explode the old library

as a physical interface to the virtual ...

In the midst of the world around us.

Omnipresence

Omnipresence

Network POPs will be really, frickin’ anywhere we might want them to be.

Network POPs will be

really, frickin’ anywhere

we might want them to be.

At our beck and call. “ Old folks with new technology”, Wanderingsolesphotography, Flickr

At our beck and call.

petiteinvention

For what we have gone through - Is the Transition -

For

what we have gone through -

Is

the Transition -

Not: Us, and separately _____________ our machines + our computers.

Not:

Us,

and separately

_____________

our machines + our computers.

But, Us, and the data with us.

But,

Us,

and the data with us.

“ Small objects travel further and travel faster - their meaning adapting to the ever-changing context. Every step an opportunity. ” -- Jan Chipchase, “Future Perfect”

“ Small objects

travel further and travel faster -

their meaning adapting to the

ever-changing context.

Every step an opportunity. ”

-- Jan Chipchase, “Future Perfect”

- “She’s on the phone” by Nice Logo, Flickr, Nov 20 07

- “She’s on the phone” by Nice Logo, Flickr, Nov 20 07

“ This is Dewey for the digital age: a profoundly social construction of understanding enabled by the Internet.” - John Seely Brown, “Exploring the Edge”

“ This is Dewey for the digital age: a profoundly social construction of understanding enabled by the Internet.”

- John Seely Brown, “Exploring the Edge”

new generation services are PEOPLE not CONTENT FOCUSED

are PEOPLE

not CONTENT

FOCUSED

ramifying -- placing people first: { putting content in the hands of each of us working, learning, playing } -- with others ...

-- placing people first:

{

putting content in

the hands of each of us

working, learning, playing

}

-- with others ...

and this will not come without a struggle

and this

will not come without a struggle

“ Implicit in the markup for computer recognition, extraction and manipulation is a license to actually do those things.” Georgia Harper

(CC) “No known copyright restrictions”

(CC) “No known copyright restrictions”

In Sum

We together must build The People’s Library ... to be available everywhere around us .

We

together

must build

The People’s Library ...

to be available

everywhere

around us .

“ Generation Gap” by Joi Ito, Flickr

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