2014 Charleston Conference Thursday, Nov 6, 11:30 AM Presented by Cynthia Sorrell, University of Maryland Libraries

1. DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL:
CO-EVOLVING FORMATS IN
TODAY’S RESEARCH
LIBRARIES
Cynthia Sorrell
University of Maryland Libraries
Charleston Conference
November 6, 2014
Francis Marion Hotel – Laurens Room

2. BIG TEN ?
BIG FIFTEEN

3. COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION
MEMBER UNIVERSITIES AS OF 2012
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

4. Cooperative Sharing of Research
Resources in Various Formats
–Digital Collections
–Print Collections

5. Committee on Institutional Cooperation
CIC
90 Million Books
“Unmediated Consortial” Book Service

6. Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s
Shared Print Repository
CIC-SPR
1st Host Site: Indiana University
[Auxiliary Library Facility= ALF]
July, 2010 – Launch Date
June, 2014 – Ingested 93,274 Volumes
By 2016 -- ~ 250, 000 Volumes [Capacity]

7. Libraries are:
• Businesses in Academe, Creating More Research Spaces
• New Service Models w/Cutting-edge Delivery of Services
• Working in Collaborative, Consortial Environments
• Providing a Balance of Resources -- Digital & Physical

8. “ How do we creatively do what we
know we know to match the needs of
the libraries’ users?”
+
“How do we do what we need to do as a
consortium to affect changes in
libraries?”

9. U.S. Secretary of Defense – Donald Rumsfeld (2002)
Statement regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction and Iraq:
“Reports that say something hasn’t happened are always
interesting to me, because as we know, there are known
knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know
there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are
some things we do not know. But there are also unknown
unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…the
latter category tend to be the difficult ones.”
http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2636

10. “KNOWN KNOWNS” in 2014
University of Maryland Libraries
Fast Facts – Collections Statistics
 4.3 Million Books
 17,000 e-Journals
 900,000 e-Books
 352+ Databases

11. “KNOWN KNOWNS” in 1998
University of Maryland Libraries
Fast Facts – Collections Statistics
 2.4 Million Books
 20,425 Periodicals

12. “KNOWN KNOWN” in 2009
NEW DEAN -- PATRICIA STEELE
• Knowledge of CIC
• Co-Founder of HathiTrust
• User-Centered Focus Philosophy
• Future of Academic Research Collections &
Digital Format Use

13. CIC Press Release – Newest Consortium
Member
“ … [The University of Maryland] library system is
positioned to … save money, share assets, and
increase teaching, learning and research
opportunities…”
http://www.cic.net/news-and-publications/news/maryland-and-rutgers-to-join-cic/
announcement

14. Terrapin Learning Commons -- 2010
• Multi-media Workstations
• Lockers that Re-charge Laptops
• MakerSpace Lab
• Individual & Group Study Rooms
• MACs on 100+ Desk Study Spaces
• Equipment-on-Loan
• Copy Center

15. “Learning Outcomes for Embracing Online Courses, Reducing
Expenses, Educating More People”
“Services Address Key Issues Facing the
Academic Community”
JSTOR
PORTICO
ITHAKA
ITHAKA S+R
Strategic consulting
+Research

16. “UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS”
at the University of Maryland Libraries
• 2011 -- Earthquake:
13,000+ Books Toppled
• 2013 -- Mold Outbreak:
10,000+ Books Damaged

17. ITHAKA -- Constantine P. Cavafy
As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

18. ITHAKA cont. -- Constantine P. Cavafy
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard
(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George
Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)

19. Resources
• http://www.sr.ithaka.org/
• http://about.jstor.org/10things
• http://www.lib.umich.edu/database/jstor
• Lavoie, Brian, Constance Malpas and JD Shipengrover. 2012. Print Management
at “Mega-scale”: A Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North
America. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research.
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-05.pdf.
• Suggested citation: Malpas, Constance. 2011. Cloud-sourcing Research
Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment. Dublin,
Ohio: OCLC Research.
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-01.pdf.
• www.portico.org
• http://www.lib.umd.edu/about
• http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/newton.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_P._Cavafy
• http://www.oclc.org/about.en.html

20. QUESTIONS?

21. THANK YOU!