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Beyond Print Summit: TRLN History, Context, and Motivations
TRLN has a long history of collaboration dating back to the 1930s to share resources and collections across its member universities. As content has increasingly moved to digital formats, TRLN has worked to extend this collaboration to licensing e-journals, e-books, and databases for shared access. However, e-books present new challenges as they currently do not allow for the same sharing capabilities as print books due to copyright restrictions and digital rights management. TRLN aims to shape the future of e-books by spearheading new collaborative models that enable scholarship while leveraging the benefits of digital content and repositioning resource sharing in a hybrid print and electronic environment.
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Beyond Print Summit: TRLN History, Context, and Motivations
- 1. Beyond Print Summit: TRLN History, Context, and Motivations Greg Raschke North Carolina State University/TRLN August 23, 2011 Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- 2. A Brief Historyof Time Began collaborative development of research collections in 1930’s Expanded in 1950’s Formalized in 1980’s with MOU and Principles of Cooperation Governance structure, formal committees, and central staffing/funding “ to marshal the financial, human, and information resources of their research libraries through cooperative efforts in order to create a rich and unparalleled knowledge environment that furthers the universities' teaching, research, and service missions.” Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- 3. Value Equation Valuedrives collaboration One collection In our DNA – budget, structure, culture, staffing, etc. Services – direct borrowing, joint catalog, etc. to enable along with geographic proximity Statistics Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- 4. Extending the ValueEquation Scaling to digital environment with collaborative licensing (e-journals, e-books, databases, and all variety of content) Joint catalog – scales up and beyond Incorporate special and locally managed digital collections – move into the cloud as partners (LOCKSS, Hathi, etc.) Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- 5. Short Story andthe Vexing Challenge of E-books No sharing Sharing Profit No profit Copyright DRM Mechanisms to loan e-book Leakage Revenue streams Economic transference Demand-driven Short-term loans Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- 6. From Anecdote toData
- 7. From Anecdote toData, cont.
- 8. From Anecdote toData, cont.
- 9. Shaping the FutureSpearhead new models – shape evolving models to: enable scholarship, re-distribute funds more effectively, leverage the benefits of e-content, and re-position resource sharing in hybrid/ e-book environment
- 10. Shaping the Future,cont. Contradiction of personal apps/devices and open resources Bet on numbers of Amazon, Google, and Apple Embrace nuances and connections of print and electronic Holistic e-book strategy for TRLN – to get out-front
- 11. All We Want…All he benefits of e-books with traditional benefits of print Pay the same for e-books as we do for discounted paper print versions No DRM Unlimited ILL/resource sharing Full ownership and archiving rights No new taxes Now – let’s negotiate!
Editor's Notes
- #4 TRLN lent a total of 40,749 items among its members in 2010/2011 8,453 were direct borrows 23,250 were returnables (e.g. books) 9,046 were non-returnables (e.g. copies of articles) 2009/2010 = 43,138 2008/2009 = 29,748 2007/2008 = 24,065 2006/2007 = 22,408 2005/2006 = 24,806
- #5 Nobody would argue with those – the trick and the key is actually changing strategies and practices based on realities and likely scenarios. Way we meet these core roles is changing quickly.
- #6 * Last two slogans for TRLN have been TRLN Digital and TRLN United – in some cases digital content fits right into both of those slogans and in the case of e-books, it often does not – embraces the digital, but not the united – too many barriers.
- #7 We have this emerging issue – green = e-books and the green is getting bigger Particularly in the last two years, the pace has accelerated quite a bit and will only grow Add in individual demand-driven approaches and resource sharing of books is an increasingly splintered proposition
- #8 We have this emerging issue – green = e-books and the green is getting bigger Particularly in the last two years, the pace has accelerated quite a bit and will only grow Add in individual demand-driven approaches and resource sharing of books is an increasingly splintered proposition
- #9 We have this emerging issue – green = e-books and the green is getting bigger Particularly in the last two years, the pace has accelerated quite a bit and will only grow Add in individual demand-driven approaches and resource sharing of books is an increasingly splintered proposition
- #10 Faced with the choice to deliver a slice of content in a localized environment and ability to offer exponentially more content from a variety of sources – most of us, particularly users, will choose the latter to be able to get more content. Creates opportunities related to sense-making. Getting content to users in the way they want to consume it is one of our greatest challenges and opportunities. “ Web browser’s dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet’s founding ideology – that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral – suddenly seems naïve and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans.” Apps are a risk – silo(ing) networked, web environment. Open resources impact ability to control and command discovery environments, content delivery, and data analysis. Increase in open resources and scaling while at the same time the predominant means of consuming digital content – desktops via open networks – is declining in favor or personalized devices and applications.
- #11 Faced with the choice to deliver a slice of content in a localized environment and ability to offer exponentially more content from a variety of sources – most of us, particularly users, will choose the latter to be able to get more content. Creates opportunities related to sense-making. Getting content to users in the way they want to consume it is one of our greatest challenges and opportunities. “ Web browser’s dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet’s founding ideology – that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral – suddenly seems naïve and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans.” Apps are a risk – silo(ing) networked, web environment. Open resources impact ability to control and command discovery environments, content delivery, and data analysis. Increase in open resources and scaling while at the same time the predominant means of consuming digital content – desktops via open networks – is declining in favor or personalized devices and applications.
- #12 * Actually, I have one place that we might start – or perhaps this is too tough an area to begin – re-defining resource sharing and re-distributing those costs throughout the system to support the ecosystem of scholarly publishing.