Presentation slides by Kirsty Lingstadt as part of the "Information Professionals at the heart of orchestrating change" discussion.

1. CHANGE IN THE LIBRARY
Rethinking digital
Kirsty Lingstadt, Director of Library, Archives and Learning Services
University of York

2. 1.
Digital Transformation
2

3. Edinburgh
Context
▷ Converged Service
▷ City Deal awarded 2018
▷ Data-driven innovation
focus
▷ Focus on data economy
▷ Focus on skills delivery
▷ Growth of interest in
digital scholarship
3

4. Digital Transformation at Edinburgh
4

5. Where next for the Library?
5

6. 2.
Digital Making and Scholarship
6

7. Digital Making and Scholarship
7
3-D modelling
3-D printing
Scanning – lidar etc
Visualisation
GIS/mapping
AR/VR
Digital exhibitions
Project planning
Experimentation
Collboration
Electronics –
arduino, rasberry
pi Model Making
Arts & crafts
Including fabrics
Text & Data
Mining
Encoding content
Computational
text analysis
Digital publishing
Developing Digital
Scholarship tools

8. GLAM Labs 8

9. 3.
uCreate - Makerspace
9

10. uCreate
Makerspace
▷ Pilot project 2016/17
▷ Consumer grade equipment
▷ Multiple business cases
▷ Move from pilot to project
to service 2018/19
▷ Staffed 50 hours per week
▷ 2 staff and 9 student staff
▷ Students from all 21
schools participate
10

11. Expansion in AR/VR
▷ University’s first holodeck!
▷ VR/AR systems acquired to
allow room scale use with
eye and full body tracking
▷ VR set loan kits
▷ Upgrades in scanning
including lidar
11

12. uCreate Studio
▷ Supporting Students and staff
▷ Flipped to online delivery during pandemic
12

13. uCreate Collection
Challenges
▷ Astrolabe – Reconstruct a
medieval astrolabe using modern
technologies.
▷ Book Mounts – Build a kit for
easily customisable book mounts.
▷ Digitising the Campus – Carry
out LIDAR scanning to build a
detailed record of the University
of Edinburgh campus.
▷ Fantasiescope – Construct a
replica fantasiescope and
develop templates for creating
custom animations. 13

14. 14
Open Educational Resources

15. Digital Scholarship Centre
▷ Opened in 2018
▷ Supporting researchers
▷ Training focused
▷ Collaborative – multi user groups
working together to offer a co-
herent digital scholarship offer
▷ Awareness
▷ Specialist – demand lead eg Library
Carpentries
▷ Engagment & Network
development eg TEI community
▷ Flipped online during pandemic 15

16. 4.
Digital Library Programme
16

17. Vision for the Digital Library
Programme
▷ Ensuring ease of discovery and accessibility of collections
▷ Create a fresh and exciting website, responsive on all
devices, where you can discover our collections
▷ Providing an efficient and prompt digitisation request service
(now moving to Digitisation as a Service
▷ Provide a range of digital scholarship tools for our students and
academics
▷ Guaranteeing long term accessibility to collections
▷ Delivering digitised items as ‘collections as data’, as standard
▷ Growing digital capability/skills in our Digital Library Team
▷ Supporting growth of Digital Scholarship at Edinburgh by
collaborative working with the Digital Scholarship Team
17

18. Programme Benefits
▷ Increase awareness and appreciation of University of Edinburgh collections so they may
be used to their fullest potential
▷ Increase the opportunities for engagement with digital collections in complex and
meaningful ways – ‘generous interfaces’, digital tools, and collections as data
▷ Provide technological support in conjunction with the subject matter expertise in CRC to
help employ digital content in ways that supports research and scholarship
▷ Provide instruction and access to digital scholarship services and techniques to students,
researchers, staff, and others interested in working with the University of Edinburgh
digital collections and other digital collections
▷ Increase the range of partnerships with peer institutions and other UoE divisions such as
Centre for Data, Culture & Society, contributing to a digital research/scholarship eco
system at University of Edinburgh
▷ Provide a sustainable infrastructure for the University of Edinburgh Collections
▷ Provide an infrastructure which supports efficient processes and ways of working 18

19. ‘Generous Interfaces’
Search, visualisations, data
analysis, processing,
browsing (DLIB007)
Digital
Scholarship
Tools + TDM
VRE
Noteable
Collections as
Data
(DLIB002a)
DAMs (DLIB005)
- Provides IIIF and
manages all content
types for dissemination
Museum
Catalogue -
Vernon
Archive
Catalogue -
ArchivesSpace
Digital Preservation Other
Remote Access to
Collections
Digitisation
Workflows –
Goobi (DLIB004)
Storage
Digital Library Programme
19

20. Remote Access to Collections
On demand digitisation One-to-one consultation
Digitisation Workflows
Goobi DLIB004
DAMs
DLIB005
‘Generous Interfaces’
DLIB007
Remote Access to Collections
20
Virtual Reading Room

21. Collections as
Data
▷ Launched 2021
▷ Utilising OCR and
other ML processes
▷ 2 datasets more to
come
21

22. Online Exhibitons
▷ Launched in 2021
▷ Widening access to collections
▷ Utilising IIIF
▷ Built on knowledge gained from working with
Google Arts and Culture
22

23. EDINA
Digital
Imaging
Unit
Dev
Services
Archivists
Museums
23
Collaboration – Projects and Library Activities
Project
Services
Tobar An
Dualchais
Special
Collections
Academic
Support
Librarians
Procurement
PGR / UG
Students
Collections
Services
Development
& Systems
LTW -
Web
Platform
Centre for
Data
Culture &
Society
CAHSS
Enterprise
Architecture
Dev
Services -
API
Standards

24. Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
@klingstadt
Kirsty.Lingstadt@york.ac.uk
24