This talk, delivered at the February 2010 OCLC Regional Council Seminar in Auckland NZ, explores the turbulent conditions in which libraries are evolving as both places and virtual spaces on the Web. How are these conditions driving change in library collections, catalogues, and cooperative systems? What are OCLC's strategies for helping today's libraries gain visibility and impact through cooperation and data sharing? If we were building a system for library cooperation today, what would it look like?
Over the last two decades libraries joined thousands of other organizations in a massive rush to claim "new lands" on the Web . Yet at the end of the first decade of the new century, libraries may have network space but insufficient network attention (“eyes”). This talk introduces the notion of the “emergent library”--attracting more attention for library analog, licensed, and digital collections ; moving to cloud-based services; effectively deploying physical and virtual space; and playing a stronger role in the support of scholarly communications, especially through repositories.
Irish Studies - making library data work harderlisld
[Check out the notes for details] Explores how WorldCat can be interrogated to reveal interesting things about a subject domain - Irish Studies. Part one looks at a move to linked data, suggesting that this will better support research enquiries. Part two provides some simple examples of how bibliographic data can support 'distant reading', literary analysis at scale. The third section looks at the collective Irish Studies collection - how Irish Studies materials are distributed across library collections.
It was presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, 1 April 2016, University of Notre Dame.
From local infrastructure to engagement - thinking about the library in the l...lisld
Libraries are rebalancing services and directions so that they are more active in the lives of their users. This presentation frames this discussion. It looks at shifts in user behaviours, collections, and spaces, and describes how OCLC Reseach is helping libraries make these transitions.
This presentation was given at the Minitex ILL Meeting in St Paul on 12 May 2015.
Open Context and Publishing to the Web of Data: Eric Kansa's LAWDI Presentationekansa
This presentation discusses how a model of “data sharing as publishing” can contribute to developing Linked Open Data resources in archaeology and the study of the ancient world. The paper gives examples from Open Context’s developing approach to data editing, documentation and quality improvement processes. The goal of these efforts is to better align the professional interests of individual researchers with the needs of the larger community to access and use high-quality data in Linked Data scenarios.
OCLC Research Update at ALA Chicago. June 26, 2017.OCLC
Rachel Frick, OCLC Executive Director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, reviews some of the broad agenda items and recent publications related to the work of OCLC Research. Rachel is then joined for two presentations on specific research topics. First, Sharon Streams (OCLC Director of WebJunction) and Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence) present on “Public Libraries and Wikipedia.” Next, Kenning Arlitsch (Dean, Montana State University Library) and Jeff Mixter (OCLC Senior Software Engineer) share their findings on “Accurate Institutional Repository Download Measurement using RAMP, the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal.”
The facilitated collection: collections and collecting in a network environmentlisld
We often think of collections as local – whether owned or licensed. Increasingly this picture is changing in several ways. Libraries are sharing responsibility for collections. Libraries are providing access to materials they do not own, but which are available to their users (freely available digital book collections for example). Demand driven acquisitions changes the view of local collections. Institutions are also thinking about how to manage locally produced materials (research data for example) and support access across institutions. This trend is supported by changes as discovery is peeled away from local collections. This presentation discusses these trends, and collections and discovery change in a network environment.
This was a presentation at the Libraries Australia Forum, Melbourne, 2015
Over the last two decades libraries joined thousands of other organizations in a massive rush to claim "new lands" on the Web . Yet at the end of the first decade of the new century, libraries may have network space but insufficient network attention (“eyes”). This talk introduces the notion of the “emergent library”--attracting more attention for library analog, licensed, and digital collections ; moving to cloud-based services; effectively deploying physical and virtual space; and playing a stronger role in the support of scholarly communications, especially through repositories.
Irish Studies - making library data work harderlisld
[Check out the notes for details] Explores how WorldCat can be interrogated to reveal interesting things about a subject domain - Irish Studies. Part one looks at a move to linked data, suggesting that this will better support research enquiries. Part two provides some simple examples of how bibliographic data can support 'distant reading', literary analysis at scale. The third section looks at the collective Irish Studies collection - how Irish Studies materials are distributed across library collections.
It was presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, 1 April 2016, University of Notre Dame.
From local infrastructure to engagement - thinking about the library in the l...lisld
Libraries are rebalancing services and directions so that they are more active in the lives of their users. This presentation frames this discussion. It looks at shifts in user behaviours, collections, and spaces, and describes how OCLC Reseach is helping libraries make these transitions.
This presentation was given at the Minitex ILL Meeting in St Paul on 12 May 2015.
Open Context and Publishing to the Web of Data: Eric Kansa's LAWDI Presentationekansa
This presentation discusses how a model of “data sharing as publishing” can contribute to developing Linked Open Data resources in archaeology and the study of the ancient world. The paper gives examples from Open Context’s developing approach to data editing, documentation and quality improvement processes. The goal of these efforts is to better align the professional interests of individual researchers with the needs of the larger community to access and use high-quality data in Linked Data scenarios.
OCLC Research Update at ALA Chicago. June 26, 2017.OCLC
Rachel Frick, OCLC Executive Director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, reviews some of the broad agenda items and recent publications related to the work of OCLC Research. Rachel is then joined for two presentations on specific research topics. First, Sharon Streams (OCLC Director of WebJunction) and Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence) present on “Public Libraries and Wikipedia.” Next, Kenning Arlitsch (Dean, Montana State University Library) and Jeff Mixter (OCLC Senior Software Engineer) share their findings on “Accurate Institutional Repository Download Measurement using RAMP, the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal.”
The facilitated collection: collections and collecting in a network environmentlisld
We often think of collections as local – whether owned or licensed. Increasingly this picture is changing in several ways. Libraries are sharing responsibility for collections. Libraries are providing access to materials they do not own, but which are available to their users (freely available digital book collections for example). Demand driven acquisitions changes the view of local collections. Institutions are also thinking about how to manage locally produced materials (research data for example) and support access across institutions. This trend is supported by changes as discovery is peeled away from local collections. This presentation discusses these trends, and collections and discovery change in a network environment.
This was a presentation at the Libraries Australia Forum, Melbourne, 2015
Library futures: converging and diverging directions for public and academic ...lisld
The major influence on library futures is the changing character of their user communities. As patterns of research, learning and personal development change in a network environment so library services need to change. At the same time, libraries are focused on engaging with their communities more strongly - getting into their work and learning flows. This means that libraries are becoming more unlike each other, they are diverging as they meet the specific needs of their communities. Research libraries diverge from academic libraries, and each is different from urban public libraries, and so on.
At the same time, at a broader level libraries are experiencing similar pressures. The need to engage more strongly with their communities. The need to assess what they do. The need to configure space around experiences rather than around collections. Libraries are converging around some of these issues.
This presentation will consider the future of libraries from the point of view of convergence and divergence between types of libraries.
Presented at Industry Symposium, IFLA, 14 August 2008. Describes a new environment of global information services using metadata, taxonomies, and knowledge organization. Makes the case that these changes will permanently affect what it means "to catalog" materials for the purpose of connecting citizens, students and scholars to the information they need, when and where they need it.
Research in context. OCLC Research and environmental trends. Lorcan Dempseylisld
Delivered at the OCLC Symposium at the Americas Regional Councils meeting at ALA, January 2015.
Reviews several major research themes - shared space and shared print, digital information behaviors, and the evolution of the scholarly record - in terms of general environmental trends. Highlights work done by OCLC Research.
This is the first part of a two part presentation. The second part was given by my colleague Chrystie Hill.
Data mining OCLC for translations.
Creating authority records for VIAF.
Remodelling the bibliorgraphic structure to make the best mutli-lingual displays from all available data in a work set.
We used to think of the user in the life of the library. Now we think of the library in the life of the user. As behaviors change in a network environment, we have seen growing interest in ethnographic and user-centered design approaches. This presentation introduces this topic. It also explores changes in how we manage collections as an illustration of this shift towards thinking of the library in the life of the user.
This presentation discusses issues and challenges related to current and future trends in STEM librarianship. This includes strategies and discusses directions which would lead to a strong, effective STEM library team for the STEM libraries and community.
Linked Data Implementations—Who, What and Why?OCLC
Presented at the CNI Spring Membership Meeting in San Antonio, Texas 4 April 2016. OCLC Research conducted an International Linked Data Survey for Implementers in 2014 and 2015, receiving responses from a total of 90 institutions in 20 countries. In the 2015 survey, 112 projects or services that consumed or published linked data were described (compared to 76 in 2014). This presentation summarizes the 2015 survey results: 1) which institutions have implemented or are implementing linked data; 2) what linked data sources institutions are consuming, and why; 3) what institutions are publishing, and why; 4) barriers and advice from the implementers.
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
Library futures: converging and diverging directions for public and academic ...lisld
The major influence on library futures is the changing character of their user communities. As patterns of research, learning and personal development change in a network environment so library services need to change. At the same time, libraries are focused on engaging with their communities more strongly - getting into their work and learning flows. This means that libraries are becoming more unlike each other, they are diverging as they meet the specific needs of their communities. Research libraries diverge from academic libraries, and each is different from urban public libraries, and so on.
At the same time, at a broader level libraries are experiencing similar pressures. The need to engage more strongly with their communities. The need to assess what they do. The need to configure space around experiences rather than around collections. Libraries are converging around some of these issues.
This presentation will consider the future of libraries from the point of view of convergence and divergence between types of libraries.
Presented at Industry Symposium, IFLA, 14 August 2008. Describes a new environment of global information services using metadata, taxonomies, and knowledge organization. Makes the case that these changes will permanently affect what it means "to catalog" materials for the purpose of connecting citizens, students and scholars to the information they need, when and where they need it.
Research in context. OCLC Research and environmental trends. Lorcan Dempseylisld
Delivered at the OCLC Symposium at the Americas Regional Councils meeting at ALA, January 2015.
Reviews several major research themes - shared space and shared print, digital information behaviors, and the evolution of the scholarly record - in terms of general environmental trends. Highlights work done by OCLC Research.
This is the first part of a two part presentation. The second part was given by my colleague Chrystie Hill.
Data mining OCLC for translations.
Creating authority records for VIAF.
Remodelling the bibliorgraphic structure to make the best mutli-lingual displays from all available data in a work set.
We used to think of the user in the life of the library. Now we think of the library in the life of the user. As behaviors change in a network environment, we have seen growing interest in ethnographic and user-centered design approaches. This presentation introduces this topic. It also explores changes in how we manage collections as an illustration of this shift towards thinking of the library in the life of the user.
This presentation discusses issues and challenges related to current and future trends in STEM librarianship. This includes strategies and discusses directions which would lead to a strong, effective STEM library team for the STEM libraries and community.
Linked Data Implementations—Who, What and Why?OCLC
Presented at the CNI Spring Membership Meeting in San Antonio, Texas 4 April 2016. OCLC Research conducted an International Linked Data Survey for Implementers in 2014 and 2015, receiving responses from a total of 90 institutions in 20 countries. In the 2015 survey, 112 projects or services that consumed or published linked data were described (compared to 76 in 2014). This presentation summarizes the 2015 survey results: 1) which institutions have implemented or are implementing linked data; 2) what linked data sources institutions are consuming, and why; 3) what institutions are publishing, and why; 4) barriers and advice from the implementers.
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
Calhoun future of metadata japanese librarians4Karen S Calhoun
Reports on the future of metadata in academic libraries and national research information infrastructures. A shorter version of this presentation was given at a September 8 post-conference of the OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Conference, Sept. 6-6, 2010, at Waseda University.
Explores how library collections have been, are and will be built in the context of changing information-seeking behavior, changes in the nature of collections, the social web, and new enabling technology.
Looking at Libraries, collections & technologylisld
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An overview of research library collection trends. Presented in the context of changing demands of research and learning in a network environment. Behaviors shape technology; technology shapes behaviors. There is also some analysis of the RLUK collective collections study and a quick look at some characertistics of The Bodleian Libraries' collections.
OCLC continues to introduce new products and services and to support innovative research and library initiatives. Attend this session to hear all about the newest OCLC activities.
Presented by Christa Burns at the Sirsi Midwest Users' Group Annual Conference - July 25, 2008.
Descubrimiento, entrega de información y gestión: tendencias actuales de las ...innovatics
Explora el ámbito de los servicios de descubrimiento basados en índices, orientado al ámbito de las bibliotecas académicas, incluyendo Primo de Ex Libris, Summon de ProQuest, Discovery Service de Ebsco y Discovery Service de OCLC WorldCat.
Se aborda la Iniciativa Open Discovery y la reciente tendencia hacia una mayor participación por parte de los proveedores de contenidos. Se discute acerca de las tecnologías más adecuadas para las bibliotecas que tienen mayor preocupación por la participación del usuario, sobre el acceso a los libros impresos y electrónicos, con menos restricciones para los artículos académicos que se encuentran en Descubrimiento. Se presenta el papel de las interfaces de descubrimiento de código abierto tales como VuFind y Blacklight. Se aborda el estado de la nueva generación de plataformas de servicios de la biblioteca. La presentación ofrecerá los aspectos más destacados de la industria de automatización de la biblioteca global, con especial atención a los protagonistas y tendencias en América Latina. Basado en el "Informe 2014 de los Sistemas de Bibliotecas" http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014
Abstract
Discovery, delivery, and management: the current wave of new library technologies and industry trends
Explore the realm of index-based discovery services oriented more to academic libraries, including Ex Libris Primo, ProQuest Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service, and OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service. An update on the Open Discovery Initiative and the recent movement toward more participation by content providers. Discuss technologies better suited for public libraries that have more concerns for customer engagement, access to print and electronic books, with less stringent requirements for article-level discovery of scholarly resources. The role of open source discovery interfaces such as VuFind and Blacklight. The status of the new generation of library services platforms. The presentation will provide highlights of global library automation industry, with a focus on the players and trends in Latin America Based on “Library Systems Report 2014” http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-systems-report-2014
The Power of Sharing Linked Data: Giving the Web What It WantsNASIG
The Web is changing. Search engines are placing more emphasis on identified entities and the relationships between them - so called Semantic Search. Google, Bing, Yahoo! and others are at different stages in the implementation of Knowledge Graph functionality. Wikidata is applying structured data techniques to organizing the world's information.
Against that background, the library community can capitalize on these developments to ensure that our resources are visible in the emerging Web of Data, significantly enhancing their discoverability. To achieve this there needs to be fundamental changes in the way libraries, and their systems, share information about what they hold and what they license. No longer can we expect library data to be treated as a special case. No longer can we expect our users to find our library discovery interface as a prerequisite to discovering our library's resources. If we want our resources to appear in the daily search workflow of our users, we need to be represented in the tools they use for everything else.
Using linked data principles to share information from individual libraries, using general-purpose vocabularies such as Schema.org, will mean that the search engines will be aware of what we have to offer and where to guide users to access it. By giving the Web what it wants in the way that it wants it, libraries will be able to use the Web to inform their users, relieving them of the need to use a library specific interface to discover library resources.
Richard will explore early examples of these techniques and what libraries and system suppliers will need to consider to take advantage of these trends in the future.
He will then lead an open discussion on the many concerns, issues, challenges, opportunities and benefits that naturally emerge from proposing fundamental changes such as these.
Presenter:
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist, OCLC
OCLC is piloting its new WorldCat Local service that will allow your library to customize WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services. WorldCat Local interoperates with locally maintained services like circulation, resource sharing and resolution to full text to present a locally branded interface to your patrons. Attend this session to learn how this new service works and to see some of the pilots currently being run.
Presented by Christa Burns at the Sirsi Midwest Users' Group Annual Pre-Conference - July 24, 2008.
Keynote Speaker: Matt Goldner, Executive Director, Cooperative Collection Services, OCLC
Expanding Our Horizons: Reaching for the Limits[PowerPoint]
The future of the library OPAC as a destination information portal is shaky at best. To surface library collections in today's information environment, libraries will have to move toward exposing themselves in multiple locations and through multiple methods. Looking at some of the successful ways OCLC has been able to surface the library's full capacity can give libraries one way to consider their futures.
Project Management in Libraries for UCLA IS 410Karen S Calhoun
A 3-hour class introducing project management in libraries, prepared and presented at the invitation of Dr. Beverly Lynch for her 3-credit graduate course "Management Theory and Practice for Information Professional," IS 410 in the UCLA Department of Information Studies.
The evolution of digital libraries as socio-technical systemsKaren S Calhoun
Introduces and orients participants to digital libraries as socio-technical systems--that is, systems based on the interplay of technology, information, and people. The objective is to expose thematic connections between digital library infrastructure, cultural heritage and scholarly collections, social forces, and online community building. Key challenges of the current environment include interoperability, community engagement, intellectual property rights, and sustainability. Invited presentation for the Nimitiz Library staff, US Naval Academy.
A detailed briefing on the current position of the library catalog and its prospects in the age of internet discovery and changing preferences for information seeking. Based on the speaker's extensive research and writings abou the catalog and metadata at Cornell University Library and for the Library of Congress. Prepared for the "New Age of Discovery" Institute sponsored by ASERL and hosted by Auburn University Libraries. Presented July 19, 2007. Includes speaker notes.
Leading from the Middle: Rationale and Impact of Pitt's ProgramKaren S Calhoun
One of three panel presentations at "Leadership Development in Action: Changing Lives, Changing Libraries," delivered March 27, 2015 at the ACRL National Conference in Portland OR, this session describes the motivation, learning objectives, curriculum, and evaluation of a leadership development program for the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh
Engaging Your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries Karen S Calhoun
Based on the book Exploring Digital Libraries, this ALA Techsource webinar examines cultural heritage collections in the context of the social web and online communities. Calhoun and Brenner explore the possibilities and provide examples of digital libraries' shift toward social platforms, along the way discussing how to increase discoverability and community engagement, for instance through crowdsourcing.
Networking Repositories, Optimizing Impact: Georgia Knowledge Repository MeetingKaren S Calhoun
Prepared as the keynote for the Georgia Knowledge Repository's annual meeting, this presentation discusses why repositories are important, the challenges they face, and solutions or opportunities for networking repositories and optimizing their impact for local, regional and global communities.
Supporting Digital Scholarship: From Collections to CommunitiesKaren S Calhoun
A webinar presented by Aaron Brenner and Karen Calhoun for ALA TechSource based on Calhoun's book Exploring Digital Libraries (ALA Neal-Schuman, 2014).
Rethinking Library Cooperatives: Prepared for the Program for Cooperative Cat...Karen S Calhoun
In the context of current initiatives around linked data and cloud-based service frameworks, the presentation invites exploration of future directions that library cooperatives might take to significantly improve the visibility and recognition of library collections on the web.
Exploring Digital Libraries: Chapter by Chapter Summary by Facet PublishingKaren S Calhoun
From Facet Publishing, on the new book by Karen Calhoun. From book cover: "thought-provoking and practical, [the text] not only weaves an enormous amount of content into a manageable resource for teaching and learning, but also covers new topics in the field, including digital library roles on the social web and in libraries' digital future."
Teambuilding Workshop - ULS Leadership ProgramKaren S Calhoun
This presentation is designed to help leaders understand why to use teams and how to lead and work with them. Includes sections on kickoff meetings, team size, dealing with issues of trust, establishing norms and getting people to participate. This is one of the workshops in Pitt’s University Library System (ULS) Leadership Program.
Delegation and Conflict Management: A Mini-WorkshopKaren S Calhoun
This presentation is designed to teach principles and processes associated with delegating tasks and managing organizational conflict. It underpins a two-hour workshop that is part of Pitt’s University Library System (ULS) Leadership Program. The workshop exercises reinforce the skills of delegating tasks and managing conflicts contextually, using a variety of approaches.
ULS Leadership Program: Presentations WorkshopKaren S Calhoun
Considers a whole brain model for enhancing creativity and how the model applies to designing and giving presentations. Explores and provides opportunities to practice ideas and techniques for presenting effectively and more creatively. Includes list of sources.
Effective Meetings Workshop: ULS Leadership programKaren S Calhoun
One of a series of workshops prepared for the University Library System (ULS) Leadership Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Covers how to make meetings more productive and deal with common problems, for example, getting people to participate and managing dysfunctional behaviors.
An interactive workshop on the changing academic library, from endings to new beginnings. Prepared at the invitation of the Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania, the workshop covers how budgets, staffing, and shifts in information-seeking behaviors and preferences are driving change in collections and services. The workshop concludes with a consideration of opportunities for innovation to add value and advance the missions of the colleges and universities that libraries serve.
Developing new services in library organizationsKaren S Calhoun
A workshop for a library and information science class on management. Includes sections on innovation and new service development in libraries; project initiation and management; teamwork and leadership; and project politics.
Workshop on Project Management and Teamwork for ULSKaren S Calhoun
A workshop for task force members of the Pitt University Library System (ULS). Includes sections on project initiation, design teams, environmental scanning and stakeholder evaluation, the Future Search methodology, the use of SharePoint for collaboration, and strategic option analysis.
From Ideas to Innovation: Powering Up for ChangeKaren S Calhoun
Presented at the December 2011 PALCI Member Meeting in Harrisburg PA. Calhoun describes her new role at the University of Pittsburgh Library as AUL for Organizational Development; the nature of and necessary conditions for transformational change; and the challenges of the the change cycle.
Rethinking Our Jobs: Toward a New Kind of Academic Library Karen S Calhoun
Invited presentation for Library Staff Day at Duquesne University, 3 January 2012. Makes a case for change in academic libraries; recommends changes and a process for enabling change. Cites a 2011 Education Advisory Board report and other evidence to support new strategies and new types of jobs for librarians and staff.
Library Process Redesign: Renewing Services, Changing Workflows Karen S Calhoun
Invited presentation for Cambridge University Library, 10 February 2011. Reviews trends in research library collections including e-resources and special collections; discusses principles and practice of library process redesign to free up time for new initiatives.
Time Management Workshop - ULS Leadership ProgramKaren S Calhoun
Prepared as a component of the Pitt University Library System's Leadership Development Program, a year-long set of learning activities to strengthen ULS leadership capacity for achieving strategic initiatives, managing projects, and working in teams across organizational boundaries.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
for beginners, providing thorough training in areas such as SEO, digital communication marketing, and PPC training in Noida. After finishing the program, students receive the certifications recognised by top different universitie, setting a strong foundation for a successful career in digital marketing.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Library as Place, Place as Library: Duality and the Power of Cooperation
1. Library as Place, Place as Library: A Dialogue on Duality and the Power of Cooperation Asia Pacific Regional Council, Auckland 5 February 2010 Karen Calhoun Vice President, WorldCat & Metadata Services, OCLC
2. Everywhere, the Library Library as Place Place as Library Auckland Public Library, by kdt http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmkdt/2276242427/
3. Abstract This talk explores the turbulent conditions in which libraries are evolving as both places and virtual spaces on the Web. How are these conditions driving change in library collections, catalogues, and cooperative systems? What are OCLC's strategies for helping today's libraries gain visibility and impact through cooperation and data sharing? If we were building a system for library cooperation today, what would it look like?
4. TURBULENT CONDITIONS FOR LIBRARIES, Collections, and Catalogues Photo: Quite Adept http://www.flickr.com/photos/quiteadept/4082692761/
18. What’s the Value of the Print Collections? $108 million Renovation of Ohio State University Library: “The books had come to clutter the library” http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Library-Renovation-at Ohio/4700
19. What’s the Value of the Print Collections and Collection-Centered Services? Median Circulation and Reference Transactions in ARL Libraries 1991-2008, With Five Year Forecast Data source: ARL Statistics 2007-2008 http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/arlstat08.pdf
20. University of Auckland Information Commons By: Margaret Cavendish http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaret_cavendish/4207644612/
21. Offsite Storage … Full to Overflowing? By: Watson Library http://www.flickr.com/photos/watsonlibrary/1336894299/
22. What Types of Collections Do Catalogues Generally Describe? Types of Materials Described in the WorldCat Cataloguing Database, 1999-2008
23. An Early Earthquake: Where Do You Begin an Online Search for Information on a Topic? (2005) College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: a Report to the OCLC Membership: http://www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm
26. The end user’s delivery experience is as important, if not more important than the discovery experience
27. Most important for analog materials: summaries, tables of contents, etc.
28. Most important for e- content: linking to the content itselfhttp://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/default.htm
29. The end user perspective: a fragmented, confusing library landscape Full Text DBs Printed Books & Serials, AV, Maps. Etc. E-books (sometimes) Digital collections Citation DBs Institutional Repository Online Catalog Records Web Lists
30. Single-search access through WorldCat Local Find it Local catalog Group catalog WorldCat Electronic resources Digital collections 3rd party databases One result set One search Get it Local systems Group availability Resource Sharing Electronic delivery
31. Today’s libraries exist in physical and virtual space. A library is thus both a manifest place and an experience of real, but intangible, “cyberspace” for those who interact with it. One may describe a library system in terms of the relationships between users, collections, library staff, and space, with “space” defined both as buildings and as virtual, networked information space. --Cornell University Library. 2003. MAS2010: Models for Academic Support: Report to the Mellon Foundation http://www.library.cornell.edu/MAS/MAS2010%20Final%20Report.pdf Another Type of Space: : The Virtual Library (Embedded, on the Web)
34. Data Synchronization and Syndication Flickr Commons Data synch WorldCat & WorldCat Partners… Other partners
35. What is Syndication? For news features like comics, syndication publishes the feature in multiple newspapers simultaneously. Web syndication makes website material available to multiple other sites. Low resolution image of copyrighted work used for commentary on the topic of syndication. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Features_Syndicate
36. WorldCat Partners Google, Google Books, Google Scholar HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources http://www.oclc.org/worldcatorg/overview/partnersites/default.htm
45. Provided that … your entry contains accurate linking data and syntax! And … OCLC numbers in your records really help with this.The WorldCat Registry Behind the Scenes
47. Rising Interest in Digital Collections on the BnF and LC Web Sites Where do people go on bnf.fr and loc.gov? BnF: Expositions: 30% Catalogue: 26% Gallica: 26% LC: American Memory: 41% Catalog: 17% Legislative information (THOMAS): 6% Source: Alexa.com, 15 Nov 2009
48. 17% of the traffic to natlib.govt.nz goes here
49. Metadata Aggregation for Digital Library Content: Monash ARROW Repository in OAIster in WorldCat More info: http://www.oclc.org/oaister/default.htm
51. Open Access Repositories Gaining Visibility and Impact 2008-2009 Traffic Compared: *Social Science Research Network *arXiv.org *Research Papers in Economics *British Library (bl.uk) Sources: Alexa.com 15 Nov 2009 and the Cybermetrics Lab’s ranking of top Repositories (disciplinary and institutional) at http://repositories.webometrics.info/about.html
53. OCLC Digital Collections Gateway A Web-based, self-service tool to contribute digital repository metadata to WorldCat (the WorldCat bibliographic and holdings database) Currently available for CONTENTdm users only By summer 2010, the Gateway will support any OAI (Open Archives Initiative) compliant repository Two paths to WorldCat: self-use of the Gateway OCLC may also proactively harvest metadata from open access digital repositories or aggregators
55. Network effects: The more libraries participate, the more valuable the network becomes for everyone. To achieve this, make a large network of shared library content and services, global in scope.
56. WorldCat Growth since 1998 31 December 2009: 170 million records, 1.5 billion holding locations
57. Putting the World in WorldCat: Progress the first half of FY10 (July – December 2009)
64. Cooperative Systems at the Crossroads Alice: 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?‘ 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
65. Summary of what is in play: OCLC's strategies for helping members gain visibility and impact
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67. Infrastructure to permit global, national or regional, and local discovery and delivery of information among open, loosely-coupled systems
68. Web-scale aggregation of licensed & digitized publications, special collections, and born digital materials online
76. What If … … Libraries could more readily share the effort and costs of collection management? What might such sharing look like? What would it take to do it?
This presentation has four main parts.A section about the environment in which libraries are operating.A section about how those conditions affect library collections and cataloguesAnd then two sections that explore how a library cooperative like OCLC is engaging or might engage with its members successfully respond to changing conditions.
Let’s get started.
Here is some additional trends in North American research libraries. The ARL libraries are the 123 largest of their type in the US and Canada. These charts show changes in median resources expended per student -- library staff per student, monographs purchased per student, volumes added per student – from 2000 to 2008. The chart tracks percentage change from the base year for analysis, the year 2000, each year through 2008.Staffing per student is the most striking decline. ARLS devoted a median of over 14 staff per student in 2000, down to around 11 in 2008. More modest declines are evident in investment per student in the print collections. Click. Meanwhile, the dollars invested per student in electronic serials changed from $39 per student in 2000 to $215 per student in 2008.
Here is a quick look at the percentage of the materials budget spent on electronic resources – journals, aggregations of full text, and the like – comparing the average research library in North America with our hosts today. A great deal is now being invested in these types of materials.
Two clicks animation. This has led to another trend affecting the print collections. Increasingly in the U.S., space on central campus for the print collections loses out to other priorities. This is a photo I took last fall shortly after the official grand re-opening of the main library at the Ohio State University. The decision to move nearly half of this library’s collections to offsite storage was controversial, but it was made to give priority to more--and more inspiring--high-tech space for the campus community .The library is truly lovely and daily traffic in the library has risen since the renovation to 12,000 visitors a day.The quote is from an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the renovation.
Here are some other trends that those of you from academic libraries may find familiar. This chart tracks median circulation and reference desk transactions in North American research libraries since 1991. Circulation is in blue, reference transactions in red. I have added a linear trend line to the chart. If the trend holds, around 2010 annual median circulation will dip below 200,000 transactions—on collections generally comprised of 4 to 7 million volumes. As a rule in ARL libraries, coming to the research library to take advantage of the local collections and services is in decline.
The popularity of the physical library is however holding up. Students want to be there and they want t the space to be used for information commons, like the one here in this library ….
While are deciding to shift the print materials to storage, and even those facilities are filling up.
What does all this imply for the relevance and value of the library catalog? What do our catalogues today largely describe? The print collections. This is a chart showing the make up of the WorldCat database for cataloging, which represents the collection of thousands of ibrary collections .It is quite persistently, since 1999, made up of 85% books. Some of these—about 2 million at the moment—are ebooks. From this data one may make an educated guess that most library online catalogues call attention to mainly to books, printed books.
It seems clear that the collections, and therefore the catalogues that describe them, are in transition.
Often, the catalogue is only one of the tools that the library uses to present its burgeoning collections of print, nonprint, electronic and digital content to its communities. There are multiple places to look, multiple interfaces to use. The infrastructure supporting the various types of resources is costly and complex to support.
OCLC is one of the organizations that has attempted to help libraries improve this situation, Quite recently OCLC improved its WorldCat Local offering to deliver single-search access to multiple types of library resources, physical, electronic, and digital. .Chris Thewlis will be telling you more about this later.
Let’s step back for a moment and look at the whole situation of the library as a place, and as part of the Web. How libraries manage to get attention for themselves in virtual space is critically important, because that’s where their users engage with information sources. In the early part of this decade I was part of an investigation at Cornell University Library funded by the Mellon Foundation to examine new service models for the library. This is a quote from our final report.ClickWe concluded that the library must continue to use its physical space to meet the needs and behaviors of 21st c scholars and students—seen here on the left side of the balance. We also concluded that we needed to push beyond our own Web pages to embed the library in the places our users they frequent on the Web.
Five years later, a team at the University of Minnesota Libraries produced an excellent report called Discoverability that extended these conclusions.. Again we see the result that users find materials of interest on the larger network, esp search engines. The team is placing a lot of emphasis on tools that capture this traffic, for example from Google Scholar, and lead it back to the U of M collections. I’ll also note here the last trend, that users increasingly rely on emerging nontraditional information objects.
One of the trends discussed in the Minnesota report is discovering resources outside library systems.
Many libraries are working to capture as much attention on the Web outside their own system as they can. I’ve tried to illustration this visually for the NLZ. The NLZ puts a bib digitized photo collection out on the FlickrCommons; they push their content out into the NZ library catalogue, and so on.In my writings I have called this “outward integration” of the collections into the Web—Collections data is synchronized with other aggregations and syndicated in other Web environments.As you know, one of the places that the NLZis outwardly integrating its collections is WorldCat.org.
The evidence from a variety of studies suggests that scholars, students, and citizens take interest in a wider range of information objects than are traditionally ‘collected’ or ‘privileged’ as part of library collection development – and which are therefore not normally surfaced in catalogues or library discovery and delivery systems. .
There are indications that digital library collections, for example, are attracting a good deal of attention. This is a chart from Alexa. com, a Web traffic analysis service, showing Web traffic to the bnf.fr and loc.gov domains. Alexa provides data about where users go once they are on a site. In the case of those who visit bnf.fr, 30% visit the expositions pages—a virtual gallery of curated exhibits around the collections. More than 50% of the traffic is split between the BnF library catalog and Gallica—the digital library of France. Over 40% of the visitors to the Library of Congress web site go to American Memory, which LC describes it as a digital record of American history and creativity. Contrast this with the other two most popular destinations for loc.gov visitors—the catalog, at 17%, and federal legislative information at 6%.
This is happening to a degree with the traffic that goes to the national library site. 17% of the traffic to the nat lib site goes to paperspast, a repository of digitized newspapers, according to data on Alexa. Com.
OAIster is a large aggregation of metadata harvested from repos of digital library and open access repos. Here is an example of a NZ digital collection that was aggregated into OAIster that is now part of WorldCat.org, Just t a few months ago, OCLC loaded the metadata from the OAIster repository describing more than 20 million objects in more than 1,000 digital collections into WorldCat.org, where it is freely availalble for discovery by anyone with an Internet connection. OCLCis also about to release a freely accessible, discrete view of the OAIster database .The pages at the URL on this slide provides more information.
QU has a highly successful, well known open access repo of scholarly eprints. This collection metadata is also harvested into WorldCat.
Like the QU open access repo, other open access repositories, both discipline- and institutionally-based, are gaining in visibility and impact. This chart, also from Alexa.com, tracks traffic in 2008 and 2009 to three of the top open access repositories, as ranked by the Cybermetrics Lab, against the traffic to bl.uk, the British Library’s domain, to give you a sense of the scope and scale of attention received by these repositories.
This is an example of the user’s path to discovery and connection to one of the arxiv.org preprints, now that the metadata is also in WorldCat. It is another place for these collections to be where users eyes are.
OCLC has introduced the Digital Collections Gateway to make it easier to contribute digital library metadata to WorldCat. Go thru bulletsOur goal is to aggregate the metadata from a very large number of digital library repositories, to make them easier to find and connect to.
I’d like to move on now to the final question I set out to examine:Let us say our various cooperative systems—OCLC, Libraries Australia, the combined NZ lib catalog and the new initiative Find—did not exist.Given the turbulent conditions that libraries face, if we were building a system for library cooperation today, what would it look like?
Talk to pointsIf you will, I would like to talk about the WorldCat network and the OCLC cooperative in these terms
The last six months have seen a great deal of progress toward putting the world in WorldCat
As a result of these loads and others, WorldCat is now improving its ability to represent the languages of the world’s library collectionsThe loads of the last six months finally swung the dial decidedly in the direction of a larger representation of materials in other languages than English
For many OCLC members, the vast majority of records come from copy cataloging of records originally created by other OCLC member institutions. The ongoing work of dedicated catalogers still provides the most valuable data used to keep collection information accurate, and make it visible and useful to information seekers. The record supply from national libraries remains very important, but the members contributions are essential to lowering the costs of cataloging for all.
The large amount of library location data is arguably WorldCats most valuable asset, because for searches that begin outside member library systems, there has to be a way to lead that searcher back to his or her local library. Holdings data is what makes it possiblefor the searcher’s discovery experience to become a delivery experience. That is, he or she is able to get hold of the item, which is after all the point. Make sure green box shows
This slide summarizes the value of the WorldCat network today.My question is, Where does the OCLC cooperative want to go from here?
I hope I have been able to give you a sense today of how the OCLC cooperative is moving forward to Embed member libraries in many places on the web and attract more attention to their collectionsBegin to more accurately represent the collections of the global library network of OCLC membersAnd not just the bibliographic collections, but collections with new types of information contentAnd improve the value and utility of the local library catalog through WorldCat Local.
Where do we want to go next?
Near and dear to my heart is what’s next for metadata. What if …
In libraries, in traditional abstracting and indexing services, and in the publication data supply chain, metadata has been for the most part professionally produced. We are beginning to see in addition a good deal of author and/or user contributed metadata which needs to be usefully folded into what we have in some way.On top of that there is metadata being produced through large scale data mining of aggregations like WorldCat, for example to produce FRBR work sets and other new services like WorldCat Identifies, which I’ll show you in a moment.
WorldCatIdentities is like People Australia but larger in scope.It is a product of data mining, an example of the kind of thing that can be done if you have enough aggregated data. Identities mines, reuses and remixes, bibliographic and authority data in a service intended for end users. You can think of it as, in a way, a Facebook or My Space for important people . Click.Here is the Identities page for my favorite Beatle John Lennon. Based on mining information in FRBR work sets of bibliographic data, and combined information from a number of authority files, we can tell a lot about him. Click. I have skipped most of the middle of this entry. This is a free public site. At the bottom of this entry is a tag cloud, drawn from facets mined from LC subject headings. One could imagine using such a cloud to seed further contributions from end users and creators themselves.
I thought you would also want to see VIAF biriefly. This is also a freely accessible public site that you can play with later if you like.I have shown here the contributing partners to this joint effort of several national libraries, hosted and implemented by OCLC.I think this work creates the foundation for a set of new services that members could employ to establish and promote online communities for researchers and other types of creators. Click. Here is the page for John Lennon, showing the various heading forms used by different national libraries and a wheel illustrating the relationships between the heading forms.Such tools might be helpful not only to make library collections more discoverable in a multilingual environment, but combined or reused in the context of a variety of services outside libraries to create higher quality discovery and delivery services for all.
Earlier I mentined publication data supply chain data and how it might be re-used to help publisher and library data interoperate and thus be more valuable to both groups My team has very recently launched a new service that does that. It takes in ONIX, enriches it through data mining of WorldCat,, and produces output for publishers and member libraries to use.
One more What If.
Libraries are operating in a changing, complex information landscape.One aspect of this challenge shows up in the information technology infrastructure that characterizes research libraries today.This is a slide that Mackenzie Smith of MIT used recently to describe the complex, labor intensive infrastructure her library maintains behind the scenes. So many systems and interrelationships! The library catalogue is one piece of this framework—it is called Barton.The cost of keeping this framework going is perhaps unsustainable for the long term. Especially when one considers the redundant effort devoted to building and maintaining a research library IT infrastructure for every institution that needs one.
What if we could take this current picture of many systems to support locally and move these systems up to a Web scale solution, or cloud computing?CLICKMy colleague will talk more about this possibility later today.