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Translated version will be available pretty soon.
Citrine is native mobile framework.
▶ About Citrine
- It’s a component based structure and mobile app development platform with Web
technologies (XML(MOML), Java Script)
▶ Feature of Citrine
- Object Oriented Approach
This approach solves inefficiency for mobile app development through object oriented
approaches using MOML (Mobile Object Markup Language)
- Simple functional definition
This defines complicated functions by abstracting them matched with actual usage.
- Independent development
This independently separates library developers from application developments and
implements a base to integrate them easily.
- Component based structure
It provides a base by which services developed by service providers are integrated
with other applications.
Joyce L. Ogburn
Risk and Entrepreneurship in a Time of Uncertainty
Especially in a time of uncertainty librarians should be aggressively seeking new opportunities for experimentation and entrepreneurship to advance library programs and serve our users better. An essential element of being an entrepreneur is assuming and managing risk effectively. Strategies for risk and entrepreneurship will be explored and suggestions offered to help librarians achieve our desired outcomes.
Joyce L. Ogburn is the University Librarian and Director of the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. Previously Joyce was at the University of Washington, Old Dominion University, Yale University, and Penn State University. She holds degrees in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Indiana University, and an MS in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the University of Utah Joyce co-chairs the Knowledge Management Committee, and is a member of the Council of Academic Deans, the Information Technology Council, and the Cyberinfrastructure Council.
She has led national activities and served many national organizations, among them the American Anthropological Association, American Library Association divisions of ACRL and ALCTS, the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, and SPARC. As a researcher, Joyce is interested in the history of anthropology, scholarly communication, the future of libraries, and leadership. She believes strongly in interdisciplinary knowledge and the interweaving paths of scholarship that libraries inspire and is passionate about the creation, sharing, and preservation of knowledge in its many forms
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Information of main programmes and internships available for students throughout EMEA.
Language of presentation: Russian.
Translated version will be available pretty soon.
Citrine is native mobile framework.
▶ About Citrine
- It’s a component based structure and mobile app development platform with Web
technologies (XML(MOML), Java Script)
▶ Feature of Citrine
- Object Oriented Approach
This approach solves inefficiency for mobile app development through object oriented
approaches using MOML (Mobile Object Markup Language)
- Simple functional definition
This defines complicated functions by abstracting them matched with actual usage.
- Independent development
This independently separates library developers from application developments and
implements a base to integrate them easily.
- Component based structure
It provides a base by which services developed by service providers are integrated
with other applications.
Joyce L. Ogburn
Risk and Entrepreneurship in a Time of Uncertainty
Especially in a time of uncertainty librarians should be aggressively seeking new opportunities for experimentation and entrepreneurship to advance library programs and serve our users better. An essential element of being an entrepreneur is assuming and managing risk effectively. Strategies for risk and entrepreneurship will be explored and suggestions offered to help librarians achieve our desired outcomes.
Joyce L. Ogburn is the University Librarian and Director of the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. Previously Joyce was at the University of Washington, Old Dominion University, Yale University, and Penn State University. She holds degrees in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Indiana University, and an MS in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the University of Utah Joyce co-chairs the Knowledge Management Committee, and is a member of the Council of Academic Deans, the Information Technology Council, and the Cyberinfrastructure Council.
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Risk and Entrepreneurship in a Time of Uncertainty
1. Risk and Entrepreneurship
in aTime of Uncertainty
Joyce L. Ogburn
University Librarian
Director, J.Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
June 3, 2009
1
2. Themes
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Risk Management
• The Library Environment
• Focus on Knowledge
• Opportunities
• Leading the Way
• Examples and Strategies
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5. Entrepreneurs and Innovation
• Peter Drucker:
• “What all successful entrepreneurs I have met have in
common is not a certain kind of personality but a
commitment to the systematic practice of innovation.”
• Innovation is “the effort to create purposeful, focused
change in an enterprise’s economic or social potential.”
• Innovation is simple and focused
• Entrepreneurs are opportunity focused
5
6. Risk Management
• Think of risk management rather than risk
taking
• Financial investment strategies
• Inflation, time and risk
• Conservative and aggressive strategies
• Planning diversifying, rebalancing, reserves
• Don’t panic
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7. • Risk mitigation strategies
• Determine what’s at risk
• Policies
• Find partners
• Seek resources and assistance
• Size and risk
• Leverage our investments to help each other
• Understand what you are doing
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8. Library Environment
• Support for entrepreneurs
• Resisting order and completeness
• Managing for exceptions
• Dealing with ambiguity and authority
• Fear of failure
• Fear of success
• Never stop anything
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10. Knowledge Management
• Differs from business
• Open and collaborative
• Bifurcates:
• Institutional business data
• Mission-based scholarly assets
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14. E-science and data curation
• Intersections of
knowledge
management, scholarly
communication and
cyberinfrastructure
• Growing aspect of
scholarship, literacy and
decision-making
• Collaboration of IT,
Office of Research and
Library
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15. Other opportunities
• Open Movement
• Social Networks - services and research
• Teaching new literacies and the digitally
challenged
• The advantage of location and relationships
• The challenge of tradition and competition
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16. New skills and contributions
• Data mining for trends, meta-analysis, and textual and
numerical studies
• Adding content, layers of service, and contextual information
• Running multimedia and visualization labs, recording studios,
text conversion and mining operations, publishing and editing
arms, metadata services, repository audits, digital formatting
and curation centers, and copyright offices
• Building a complex, interwoven, open system of data,
software, and ideas presented in text, images, charts,
spreadsheets, and more
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17. Leadership
• Build a supportive environment
• Instill principles and values
• Provide resources, rewards, incentives
• Use data but take a leap of faith
• Celebrate
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18. Leadership at the U
• Technology (cyberinfrastructure, digitization, hosting,
capturing, streaming, teaching, multimedia, podcasting)
• Special Collections (oral histories, science and technology
archives, media, rare books, design and printing)
• Literacy (visual, information, technology, book arts,
scholarly communication)
• Publishing (U of U press, Bonneville Books, Red Butte
Press,Tanner Trust Series)
• Preservation (conservation, workshops, disaster planning
and recovery)
• Teaching, lectures, and outreach (on campus, in the
community, K-12, iTunes U)
• Sustainability and green initiatives
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19. Approaches at the U
• Find Solutions (knowledge management, digital
scholarship, open source software)
• Pursue collaborations (Internal: OIT, CHPC,
Office of Research,American West Center,
Writing Center, Graduate School,
Interdisciplinary Studies, Undergraduate
Studies, Hinckley Institute of Politics. External:
GWLA, UALC, local business, donors)
• Get grants (IMLS, NEH, LSTA, Mellon)
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20. Faculty response to our Innovative Directions
Ellen Bromberg-Modern Dance
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Exciting place of
research, technology
and creation.
Exited about the
future. Up to our own
imaginations as to what
we can make that be.
Library is at the table
with you to help
envision what is
possible.
21. Innovation and Program
Enrichment Grants
• Mobile Computing
• Digital Stotytelling
• GIS
• Multimodal learning
• Television archives and media
• OA undergraduate research journal
21
22. Marriott Library & CHPC
New Learning Environments
Second Life
Interplay: AnARTomy
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24. On Demand Books The Espresso Book Machine 2.0®
OVERVIEW
OPERATION
The Espresso Book Machine® (“EBM”), a Time Magazine “Best Invention
of 2007,” provides a revolutionary direct-to-consumer distribution and
print model for books. Described as “the ATM of books,” the EBM Version 2.0 is a fully
integrated patented book-making machine that can automatically print, bind, and trim on
demand at point of sale perfect-bound library-quality paperback books with 4-color covers
(indistinguishable from a book on a bookstore shelf) in minutes for a production cost of a
penny a page. The EBM’s software automatically tracks all jobs and remits all royalty
payments. The EBM makes it possible to distribute virtually every book ever
published, in any language, anywhere on earth, as easily, quickly, and cheaply as e-mail.
Designed to operate in a variety of environments, the EBM requires
minimal human intervention and only occasional maintenance, such as
refilling paper trays, replacing toner cartridges, emptying the trim-paper receptacle, and
clearing paper jams. An onboard computer controls the EBM’s operation and provides a
simple user interface for controlling print jobs and managing content.
The EBM includes custom software that connects it to a virtual network
EBM LOCATIONS:
The Library of Alexandria,
Alexandria, Egypt
The World Bank InfoShop,
Washington, DC
(exhibition, 2007)
The New York Public Library,
New York, NY
(exhibition, 2007)
The New Orleans Public
Library, New Orleans,
Louisiana
The University of Michigan
Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The University of Alberta
Bookstore, Edmonton,
Canada
McMaster University
Bookstore, Hamilton, Canada
The University of Waterloo
Bookstore, Waterloo, Canada
Northshire Bookstore,
Manchester Center, Vermont
Angus & Robertson,
Melbourne, Australia
NewsStand UK,
London, UK
Open Content Alliance,
San Francisco, California
McGill University Library,
Montreal, Canada
(coming spring 2009)
POD2:
Print on Demand / Purchase on Demand
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28. Advanced Technology Studio
• Teach faculty to use technology
• Advanced digital scholarship
• Data management starting point
• Co-located with TACC
• Possible new Stats Center
• Audio and video recording studios
• Usability lab
28
29. Strategies
• Fast track decisions
• Be ready for opportunities
• Reinvent and reinvigorate
• Experiment, shift, adapt
• Assume more risk but manage it
• Partner with others
• Plan in shorter time frames
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30. Validation by the faculty
30
Ellen Bromberg
Modern Dance
Incredible transformation of
how we think of libraries.
A powerful statement about
what a library can do for a
university.
Not just housing existing
knowledge, but to help
generate new knowledge is a
paradigm shift about what a
library is.
31. Key Points
• Risk is unavoidable
• Entrepreneurs make and exploit opportunities
• Innovation can occur in small focused steps
• Libraries are not about information but knowledge
• Spend resources to create transformative work
• Good ideas and innovations should be shared
• There is no way to make a perfect decision
• Don’t protect the institution of the past, propel to the
future
• There is no such thing as a killer app or a magic bullet
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32. 32
Nothing breeds success like failure.
Leaders, innovators, and
entrepreneurs fail all the time.
Jump in - the water’s fine.