2. What are we talking about? the long tail the long tail Chris Anderson, in his 2004 Wired Magazine article, defined a new economic model. The internet has changed our marketplace.
3. Traditional Thinking Pareto’s Principle (80/20 rule) hit-driven economics mainstream tastes products must “earn their keep” local supply and demand
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8. the long tail There is clearly a demand for “unpopular” titles. The CEO of Ecast, a digital jukebox company, says 99% of the top 10,000 tracks sell every month (qtd. in Anderson, Wired).
18. This is “the long tail.” How does this apply to libraries? the long tail
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20. We offer a wide-reaching world of resources through Interlibrary Loan.
21. We can get you that article in pdf form in hours.
22. We wouldn’t be around if all we offered were Twilight and John Grisham.
23. We were saying “Hey, if you liked A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, you might like A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin” long before Amazon invented an algorithm to do it.the long tail
24. We have competition in some of these areas now, but we should not panic. Nor should we smugly assume we’ve got it figured out, of course. the long tail
28. One lesson: Aggregate supply and demand. aggregate, v. (ægrget) [f. aggregate a. Cf. mod.Fr. agréger.] 1. trans. To gather into one whole or mass; to collect together, assemble; to mass. “Aggregate.” The Oxford English Dictionary. Ed. J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989. OED Online. 2009. Oxford UP. 23 Apr. 2009 http://dictionary.oed.com
29. We aggregate supply with services like Interlibrary Loan. We have to keep figuring out ways to gather resources and make them accessible. the long tail
30. We pull together demand by consolidating library web presences. the long tail
32. Our culture is going through exciting changes and our libraries are, of course, growing too. Studying the long tail offers us some guidance and direction. the long tail
33. Want to Learn More? Anderson, Chris. “The Long Tail.” Wired 12.10 (Oct. 2004). 22 Apr. 2009 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. New York: Hyperion, 2006. Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail Blog. 22 Apr. 2009 http://longtail.typepad.com/ Dempsey, Lorcan. “Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts About Libraries in a Network Age.” D-Lib Magazine 12.4 (April 2006). 22 Apr. 2009 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/dempsey/04dempsey.html Mossman, Katherine. “Serving the Niche: Viewing Libraries Through Chris Anderson’s ‘Long Tail’ Lens.” Library Journal 1 July 2006: 38-40. 15 July 2006. 22 Apr. 2009 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349032.html Cats: Percival Gray Walters and Tristan Cole Walters. Photos: Carol Rain Hagy and Nathan Walters.
