Slides and audio from presentation given at the LOUIS Users Group meeting, 4-Oct-2013, Baton Rouge, LA. Libraries have been digitizing materials for decades as surrogates for access to physical materials, and in doing so have broadened the range of people and uses for library materials. With projects like Hathi Trust and Google Book Search systematically digitizing massproduced monographs and making them available within the bounds of copyright law, libraries continue the trend of digitizing what is local and unique, and the emergence of projects like the Digital Public Library of America and OCLC's WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway expand discoverability of the the local and unique well beyond the library's traditional reach. This presentation provides an overview of this trend, updates on what libraries can do, and describes activities LYRASIS is doing to help libraries and other cultural heritage institutions expand their reach.

1. Local and Unique and
Digital: A Evolving Trend for
Libraries and Cultural
Heritage Institutions
Peter Murray – Twitter: @DataG
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2. Introduction: Waves of Content
Waves crashing at Iluka by Graham Cook

3. Local, Physical
special collections [University of Tennessee] by Joel Kramer

4. Commercial, Physical
seattle library pix #001 by Matt

5. Commercial, Digital
How do I find the kind of articles I need in the maze that is the databases? by clemsonunivlibrary

6. Local, Digital
Digitisation of a Dunhuang manuscript in the IDP UK studio by Vicswift

7. Mix over time
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
Local, Physical
Commercial, Physical
Commercial, Digital
Local, Digital

8. Mix over time
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
Local, Physical
Commercial, Physical
Commercial, Digital
Local, Digital

9. Mix over time
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
Local, Physical
Commercial, Physical
Commercial, Digital
Local, Digital

10. Mix over time
1990
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
Local, Physical
Commercial, Physical
Commercial, Digital
Local, Digital

11. OCLC Research Library Partnership Report
Michalko, Jim. “Are We Reconfigured Yet? US Research
Libraries – Priorities, Trends, Directions.” Webinar.
OCLC Research Library Partners. 14 February 2013.

12. OCLC Research Library Partnership Report

13. David W. Lewis’ Perspective
Lewis, David W. “A Strategy for Academic Libraries in
the First Quarter of the 21st Century.” College &
Research Libraries 68(5):418-434 September 2007.

14. 2005 2015 2025
Traditional Special Collections
Curated Digital
Content
Purchased Materials
Percent of
Library
Resources
Allocated
10%
60%
Figure One: Transition from Purchased Materials to Curated Content
David W. Lewis’ Perspective

15. “pipes of pan” by Lele
One object, Many venues

16. LOUISiana Digital Library

17. DPLA

18. OCLC Digital Collection Gateway

19. Search Engines
Wait. How do you REALLY feel about yourself? by Kevin Pereira

20. Projects to Programs
Harper, dog class graduate by Adam Sowers

21. Following Standards
imperial standards by Kio Stark

22. Following Standards
imperial standards by Kio Stark
• MARC
• RDF
• OAI-PMH
• BIBFRAME
• MODS
• OAI-ORE
• Schema.org
• OpenURL
• DOI
• HTML
• XHTML
• PDF
• ISBN
• Daisy
• EPub

23. Share the Load
Share the load by CJ

24. Trends
Line chart by Andreas Levers

25. Linked Data
Links by Ruby Gold

26. Research Outputs
CMU’s research wagon by TfUnQ

27. Usage Metrics
Human Graphing - 20 by Travis Nep Smith

28. Functional Convergence
Confluence of Labe and Vltava in Mělník by Ondra Anderle

29. Functional Specialization
_-_ complexity [1] by nerovivo

30. LYRASIS Digital Programs

31. LYRASIS Digital Programs
•Digitization Collaborative

32. LYRASIS Digital Programs
•Digitization Collaborative
•Metadata Guidance

33. LYRASIS Digital Programs
•Digitization Collaborative
•Metadata Guidance
•Training and Consulting

34. LYRASIS Digital Programs
•Digitization Collaborative
•Metadata Guidance
•Training and Consulting
•Hosting Services

35. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. To view
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Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org
Twitter: @DataG
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