Slides from keynote talk at Dawson Day 2012 (slightly revised)
Contains stats on LSE Library collection trends and overview on how we made the case for LSE Digital Library and how we are progressing with implementation.
1. Building a Digital Library
Ed Fay
Digital Library Manager
e.fay@lse.ac.uk
@digitalfay
2.
3. Building a Digital Library
Context
•Library collections and trends
•Digital/physical and local/£
What, Why, and How
•Mission | strategy | operation
•Business case
•Roles and responsibilities
•Skills
Conclusions
•Lessons learnt
Questions
14. What do the figures tell us?
Print is declining (not dead)
Digital is increasing (£ and local)
Workloads are changing
Team structures are changing
Digital is no longer a project-based
activity – it is an embedded activity
15. What does the digital shift mean
Digital preservation
• We need to do it
Surfacing content to the Web
• Wait, we’re publishers now?
• … and interaction designers?
• and …
Collaborative digital projects
• Supporting new research methods
16. Preservation responsibility
Local £
• Consortia
Digital • LSE Digital Library • LOCKSS
• Portico
• Archives Services • Print Collections
Physical • Consortium
• Print Collections
• UKRR
17. BORN-DIGITAL ARCHIVES DIGITISATION
RESEARCH OUTPUTS
WEB HARVESTING
PUBLIC LECTURES OFFICIAL PUBS FUTURE…
?
18. Mission | Strategy
“Build and preserve distinctive collections to support
research and learning, and represent a record of
thought in the social sciences”
“Develop our digital library so that we are able to acquire,
preserve and provide access to digital collections which
match the strength of our print collections”
“…information repository services to support new forms of
scholarly communication and enable the School to manage,
disseminate and preserve these intellectual assets”
19. Business Case
• Collections audit
• Formats, volume/growth
• User and functional requirements
• Preservation, access
• Options appraisal (‘market survey’)
• Best practice investigation, repository architectures
• Proposal
• Risk assessment: threats to our strategic objectives
• Solution: working practices, skills, infrastructure
• Development roadmap
20. Trust
That’s what it’s all about.
I mean everything.
Seriously.
Here’s why…
21. I [trust] LSE Digital Library
Activity
overlooked or
under
resourced
Inadequate
staff skills
Media Failure of
degradation or authenticity,
obsolescence integrity,
Loss of provenance
essential Loss of trust
characteristics or reputation
Insufficient Cannot
backups implement
preservation
Infrastructure
plans
cannot
support
requirements
26. The Iceberg Model of
Digital Libraries
interfaces
collections/objects
workflows
systems
storage
digital preservation
27. The Iceberg Model of
Digital Libraries
interfaces
collections/objects
workflows
systems
storage
digital preservation
28. Roles and responsibilities
Academic Services
Senior Management • Collection development
Collection development
• Strategy • Information skills training
Information skills training
• Resources
Digital Library Team
• Policy
Policy
• Skills expertise
Skills / / expertise
• Innovation / projects
Innovation / projects
Collection Services Archive Services
• Preservation
Preservation • Collection development
Collection development
• Description
Description • Description
Description
• Infrastructure
Infrastructure • Preservation
Preservation
29. Skills
Experts: policy, change management
Practitioners: workflows, quality assurance
Non-specialists: aware
Skills gap analysis
Role Description Skills Resource Target
30. SPRUCE
a project to inspire, guide, support and enable UK HEIs
to address preservation gaps; and to use the
knowledge gathered from that support work to
articulate a compelling business case for digital
preservation
• Events: digital preservation solutions
• Embedding: grants to continue work
• Business case: benefits, skills gaps
http://dpconline.org/advocacy/spruce
31. DICE
(Digital Communications Enhancement)
Training materials to raise awareness of
digital preservation in researchers and
library training providers
http://lsedice.wordpress.com
32. PhoneBooth
Delivering Library content
to mobile devices
Booth maps and
notebooks
http://jiscphonebooth.wordpress.com
33. Conclusions
Digital is changing the how of
libraries, not the what or why
Skills are fundamental, then working
practices and infrastructure
If we don’t do this, we fail …
… but, digital is also fun
34. Questions?
me: twitter.com/digitalfay or e.fay@lse.ac.uk
LSE Digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk
SPRUCE: dpconline.org/advocacy/spruce
PhoneBooth: jiscphonebooth.wordpress.com
DICE: lsedice.wordpress.com