The document discusses the evolving concept of libraries in the digital age, emphasizing the need for accessibility and the transformation from physical to digital resources. It highlights the importance of libraries in providing information access, supporting learning, and preserving cultural heritage. The text also warns of the potential decline of traditional libraries due to commercialization and technological advancements, urging a focus on creating a people's library that meets contemporary needs.

1. Libraries Redefining Peter Brantley Digital Library Federation Jan 2009

2. DLF is a ... {description} (member ()) (library ())

3. Prelude “ In 2006 EMI, the world's fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. ‘That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,’ says a person who was there.” - “ From Major to Minor ,” The Economist , Jan 10 08

4. Google ... the world’s library

5. GBS is a dream long anticipated. (with some nightmares.) All the books online .

6. commercialization of access loss of our individual privacy increasing content hegemony ... y mas Stress and Erode Old Institutions

7. • Bank tellers • Typewriters • Typesetting • Carburetors • Vacuum tubes • Slide rules • Disc jockeys • Stockbrokers • Telephone operators • Yellow pages • Repair guys • Bookbinders • Pimps • Cassette and reel-to-reel recorders • VCRs • Turntables • Video stores • Record stores • Bookstores • Recording industry • Courier/messenger services • Travel agencies • Print and cinematic porn • Porn actors • Stenographers • Wired telcos • Drummers • Toll collectors • Book publishing (especially reference works) • Conventional-watch makers • "Browse" shopping • U.S. Postal Service • Printing-press makers • Film cameras • Kodak … • Xerox machines “ The digital slay ride”, Jack Shafer, Slate (2008 Dec 16)

8. The digital uplift continues, unceasing. The death of the library -- as we have known it, for the last several hundred years.

9. ARL, Median Ratio, 1995-2003 Reference Queries to Full Time Students

10. ARL, Median Ratio, 1995-2003 Total Circulation to Full Time Students

11. Libraries are (in danger of becoming): merely Warm fuzzy places to study and chill Licensing agents for commercial content Warehouses for the print artifact

12. Library as warehouse of books “ deserted” by Eisenvater, Flickr

13. So, like, dude. Where shall we go next?

14. We must re-enter our old foundries. “ Around & Through”, Kevinhooa, Flickr

15. (New and Redacted) Proverbs 4 Libraries

16. Libraries should be accessible Libraries must make their Special Collections digitally accessible through search.

17. Libraries are portable People (have a fundamental right to) constant and ubiquitous information access.

18. Libraries know where they are Information must be provided in the dual contexts of time and place.

19. Libraries tell stories The world is visual. | Immersive stories The world is virtual; | engage the viewer.

20. Libraries help people learn We must facilitate learning ( acquiring ) vs Focusing only on teaching ( providing )

21. Libraries are recombinant Re-mixing content re-envisions the world; re-invents the user.

22. Libraries help forge memories Preservation is an archival strategy for increasing access and use. Flickr (Commons) is transient … CDC, Unisys, DEC, …

23. Libraries speak for people Issues owned by libraries: Fair use of copyrighted material Right of information access Control of information privacy Network rights of way

24. The library of the future - ______________________ enables information flow across the network.

25. The new library is all about : PEOPLE working with DATA.

26. «Acquiring « Managing « Describing « Preserving making « Accessible making « Actionable

27. Sky surveys “Pinwheel Galaxy”, jimkster, Flickr

28. JHU Sheridan Libraries ++ Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC), for Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Digital archiving and preservation services for the entire SDSS data which have been produced over about 15 years during the second phase of SDSS. ~100 TB and growing

29. Genomes “Décodage du génome humain”, Christophe ALARY, Flickr

30. Images “Ise_shrine_46”, ajari, Flickr

31. Repositories

32. Hathi Trust stats: 12/2008: ~ 2.5 million books ingested ~ 350,000 books ingested per month ~ 375,000 public domain by 12/2009 ... ~ 5 million books ingested ~ 1 million public domain

33. books are data “Torah”, Tmuna Fish, Flickr

34. Smelting books down for information: integrated into wikipedia queryable in world languages and digitally living as documents

35. Our world is a sensored world - increasingly constant video record, surveillance of street, earth, + space increasing transparency of lives and living

36. And we can explode the old library as a physical interface to the virtual ... In the midst of the world around us.

37. Omnipresence

39. Network POPs will be really, frickin’ anywhere we might want them to be.

40. At our beck and call. “ Old folks with new technology”, Wanderingsolesphotography, Flickr

41. petiteinvention

42. For what we have gone through - Is the Transition -

43. Not: Us, and separately _____________ our machines + our computers.

44. But, Us, and the data with us.

45. “ Small objects travel further and travel faster - their meaning adapting to the ever-changing context. Every step an opportunity. ” -- Jan Chipchase, “Future Perfect”

46. - “She’s on the phone” by Nice Logo, Flickr, Nov 20 07

47. “ This is Dewey for the digital age: a profoundly social construction of understanding enabled by the Internet.” - John Seely Brown, “Exploring the Edge”

48. new generation services are PEOPLE not CONTENT FOCUSED

49. ramifying -- placing people first: { putting content in the hands of each of us working, learning, playing } -- with others ...

50. and this will not come without a struggle

51. “ Implicit in the markup for computer recognition, extraction and manipulation is a license to actually do those things.” Georgia Harper

52. (CC) “No known copyright restrictions”

53. In Sum

54. We together must build The People’s Library ... to be available everywhere around us .

55. “ Generation Gap” by Joi Ito, Flickr

56. kthxbai! peter at diglib.org naypinya {twitter, skype}