OCLC Research supports global library cooperation by providing data analyses and collective research. It focuses on research libraries accounting for <20% of spending but >70% of costs. Changes in this sector impact the whole system. OCLC draws on its reach and capacity for quantitative analysis, consultation, and outreach. It explores shifting collections priorities, strategies for a changed environment, and a framework for organizing the library system around "mega-regions." Consortia leverage economies of scale for cost-effective externalization and expanded collaboration from automation and resource sharing to digitization, licensing, and impact measures. Optimal models for coordination and shared services will vary depending on context.
The document discusses the Wf4Ever project, which aims to create a technological infrastructure for preserving and enabling efficient retrieval and reuse of scientific workflows across disciplines. The project will develop complex research objects that account for the static and dynamic nature of workflows. It will also semantically archive workflows and associated materials to allow for advanced search and recommendation. The project aims to support scientific communities in collaboratively sharing, reusing, and evolving workflows. Key challenges include ensuring quality, preservation, sharing/reuse, classification of workflows and associated resources.
Understanding the Collective Collection: Canadian library resourcesConstance Malpas
- Canadian libraries hold 31% of titles and 6% of print book inventory in the overall North American print book collection. The Canadian print book resource represents a distinctive asset within the broader North American system.
- 92% of the North American print book collection is concentrated in 12 major economic regions, with 40% of Canada's print books distributed outside of these regions, posing challenges for cooperative stewardship.
- Regional consortia provide opportunities for coordination at a supra-institutional level to leverage networks and manage the collective print book collection.
Collection Directions: some reflections on the future of library stewardshipConstance Malpas
This document discusses the changing landscape of academic libraries and their role in stewardship of the scholarly record. It notes that collections are becoming more fragmented as they shift from local to group-scale management, and libraries are redirecting resources from commodity collections to distinctive services. Academic library consortia will need to collaborate more deeply on collection management and custodial responsibilities to adequately support the evolving scholarly record across its various formats. Questions are raised about whether existing consortia represent the right stakeholders and scale to meet these collaborative stewardship needs going forward.
El documento presenta una introducción al turismo efímero y proporciona definiciones básicas. Explora diversos tipos de turismo como el activo, individual, de negocios, de masas y natural, así como los servicios turísticos. También examina los derechos, deberes y funciones de los prestadores de servicios turísticos y el estudio de las emociones en el contexto del turismo.
This document lists several bibliographic resources for research. It includes the URLs for SpringerLink, a multidisciplinary digital library; BVS, an online catalog of biomedical and health literature; ProQuest, a database for journals, dissertations and publications; ebrary, an online collection of full-text books and documents; and Gale, a database for academic journals, books, and documents.
This document discusses how to support young people in becoming confident digital makers. It describes the Nominet Trust's Young People's Investment Programme which aims to demonstrate how digital technologies can help young people engage socially and economically in their communities. Some key areas of digital making that could be developed include coding, design, content creation, and computer science. The document raises challenges around helping young people overcome disconnects to digital making, defining the skills needed, and coordinating different digital making activities.
The document discusses the Wf4Ever project, which aims to create a technological infrastructure for preserving and enabling efficient retrieval and reuse of scientific workflows across disciplines. The project will develop complex research objects that account for the static and dynamic nature of workflows. It will also semantically archive workflows and associated materials to allow for advanced search and recommendation. The project aims to support scientific communities in collaboratively sharing, reusing, and evolving workflows. Key challenges include ensuring quality, preservation, sharing/reuse, classification of workflows and associated resources.
Understanding the Collective Collection: Canadian library resourcesConstance Malpas
- Canadian libraries hold 31% of titles and 6% of print book inventory in the overall North American print book collection. The Canadian print book resource represents a distinctive asset within the broader North American system.
- 92% of the North American print book collection is concentrated in 12 major economic regions, with 40% of Canada's print books distributed outside of these regions, posing challenges for cooperative stewardship.
- Regional consortia provide opportunities for coordination at a supra-institutional level to leverage networks and manage the collective print book collection.
Collection Directions: some reflections on the future of library stewardshipConstance Malpas
This document discusses the changing landscape of academic libraries and their role in stewardship of the scholarly record. It notes that collections are becoming more fragmented as they shift from local to group-scale management, and libraries are redirecting resources from commodity collections to distinctive services. Academic library consortia will need to collaborate more deeply on collection management and custodial responsibilities to adequately support the evolving scholarly record across its various formats. Questions are raised about whether existing consortia represent the right stakeholders and scale to meet these collaborative stewardship needs going forward.
El documento presenta una introducción al turismo efímero y proporciona definiciones básicas. Explora diversos tipos de turismo como el activo, individual, de negocios, de masas y natural, así como los servicios turísticos. También examina los derechos, deberes y funciones de los prestadores de servicios turísticos y el estudio de las emociones en el contexto del turismo.
This document lists several bibliographic resources for research. It includes the URLs for SpringerLink, a multidisciplinary digital library; BVS, an online catalog of biomedical and health literature; ProQuest, a database for journals, dissertations and publications; ebrary, an online collection of full-text books and documents; and Gale, a database for academic journals, books, and documents.
This document discusses how to support young people in becoming confident digital makers. It describes the Nominet Trust's Young People's Investment Programme which aims to demonstrate how digital technologies can help young people engage socially and economically in their communities. Some key areas of digital making that could be developed include coding, design, content creation, and computer science. The document raises challenges around helping young people overcome disconnects to digital making, defining the skills needed, and coordinating different digital making activities.
The New York Giants are a successful NFL franchise worth over $1 billion. They have won 4 Super Bowls, most recently in 2008 and 2012 led by quarterback Eli Manning. The Giants play their home games at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which they share with the New York Jets.
A Mega-regional Perspective on Print Books in Southern California LibrariesConstance Malpas
This document summarizes data on print book holdings in libraries across Southern California. It finds that the region holds over 9.7 million book titles, accounting for 20% of titles in North America. The majority (78%) of titles are held by fewer than 5 libraries. While most titles are held by academic libraries, particularly non-ARL institutions, pressures may lead these libraries to invest less in print over time. Regional coordination could help leverage existing resource sharing to improve access and preservation of this important research collection.
The Big Shift: Managing Research Collections in the CloudConstance Malpas
The document discusses managing research collections in the cloud. It notes the shift from print to electronic resources and the need for shared print services to preserve legacy print collections. Specifically, it outlines the growth of off-site storage facilities and digital repositories like HathiTrust, and explores opportunities for libraries to leverage these shared infrastructures to reduce costs while ensuring long-term access and preservation of collections.
Reorganizing the Research Library: a system-wide perspectiveConstance Malpas
The document discusses reorganizing research libraries from a system-wide perspective. It notes that as more content becomes available electronically, the boundaries and functions of individual libraries are changing, with collections moving off-site and resources redirecting from print to digital. This large-scale transition is impacting the entire academic library system and requiring collaboration between institutions.
Part of panel discussion at Harvard University Library Symposium on Sustainable Models for Print Storage in 21st-Century Libraries, 1-2 October 2014. Co-panelists were Bob Wolven (Columbia University) and Ivy Anderson (California Digital Library)
The document discusses the structure and identification of conveyor belts, including their tension members (textile plies or steel cables) and covers. It provides details on ordering conveyor belts according to standards, and the material properties and identification coding for different types of textile ply belts. Technical data is also presented for various CON-MULTEX and CON-BITEX belt types.
Scarcity and Abundance: the cooperative imperative in special collectionsConstance Malpas
Slides from panel presentation on collaborative management of special collections (with Jackie Dooley, Elizabeth Joffrion and Sean Quimby) at RBMS 2012 .
Libraries, OA research and OER: towards symbiosis?Nick Sheppard
The document discusses the potential for libraries and repositories to play a greater role in supporting open educational resources (OER). It describes how the Leeds Met repository currently hosts both research publications and OER. It argues that integrating research and teaching materials in repositories, along with staff profiles and other systems, could help create a "virtuous circle" of OER creation, sharing, and reuse. The document also examines challenges around different technologies and promoting greater awareness of libraries' potential contributions to OER.
This presentation was given at Bobcatsss2013 in Ankara.
Once the library assembled a collection and people came to the library to use it. Now, people build communication, workflows and behaviors around a variety of network resources. The library needs to think about how it is visible and relevant in those workflows and behaviors.
This document discusses what business libraries are in and how they should reposition themselves. It argues that libraries should move away from being centered around physical collections and toward prioritizing user engagement, expertise, services and digital infrastructure. Specifically, it suggests that libraries focus on space that encourages social interaction and knowledge sharing, make their expertise more visible, provide more user-centered services, leverage cloud-based systems, and use data to better support research and learning.
The document discusses the emergence of web-scale library platforms that move away from locally-housed systems towards globally shared platforms. These new library services platforms offer opportunities for libraries to operate less in isolated silos and more within broad, web-scale environments of highly shared data and unified workflows across physical, digital, and electronic collections. Discovery services have led the way towards this web-scale approach, and library management systems are now following a similar path.
RLUK members meeting 25-11-11 discovery presentationRDTF-Discovery
The document discusses the business case for investing in better resource discovery through the JISC Discovery initiative. It summarizes the goals of Discovery to make learning, teaching and research resources more discoverable through open metadata and linked data principles. Several early Discovery projects showed business cases for institutions, practitioners, users and researchers by amplifying impact, improving user experience and contributing to the research ecosystem. The conclusion discusses how Discovery exemplifies use cases and needs to identify the right scale for initiatives while leveraging the library community. It also suggests priorities for the Research Libraries UK consortium to further the goals of Discovery.
Current trends in library management systems Morten Nielsen
Marshall Breeding will present his view of the current state of the art of library management systems, the role of discovery products to improve end-user experiences, and give some perspective on what's emerging in the near future in the technologies that libraries will need to manage their operations and to provide services to their users.
Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of academic institutions. They contain scholarly works and research in various formats and stages of academic work. The goal is typically open access to research. Major systems for developing institutional repositories include DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, and Digital Commons. Key considerations for starting an institutional repository include getting faculty buy-in, submission policies, intellectual property issues, and interoperability through standards like OAI-PMH. Ensuring ongoing contributions and use remains a challenge.
1) The document discusses the challenges facing libraries in developing digital strategies and managing digital assets in a changing environment.
2) It notes the difficulty stems from technological convergence and lack of recognized patterns or models, and the impact of digital library research is unclear regarding changing user behaviors.
3) The world is changing rapidly due to factors like limited application platforms, a vendor environment unprepared to support new forms of content, and a history within libraries of consumption rather than contribution. Libraries need to think holistically about their role rather than focusing solely on digital aspects.
This document provides an overview of the UK RepositoryNet (RepNet) project. It discusses:
1. The proposal and objectives of RepNet, including providing infrastructure to support open access research literature.
2. Progress made so far, including engagement with stakeholders and changes to the project timeline and plan.
3. Plans for the next 8 months, including moving services to a sustainable model and focusing on service orientation.
The document discusses the need for repository systems that combine features from different products to provide flexibility. It describes the Catmandu and LibreCat projects which aim to create a repository environment that allows mixing of metadata schemas, workflows and front-ends from different systems rather than being restricted to a single specialized solution. The projects seek to provide repositories that can be customized for different user needs through an integrated but modular approach to metadata, protocols and interfaces.
The New York Giants are a successful NFL franchise worth over $1 billion. They have won 4 Super Bowls, most recently in 2008 and 2012 led by quarterback Eli Manning. The Giants play their home games at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which they share with the New York Jets.
A Mega-regional Perspective on Print Books in Southern California LibrariesConstance Malpas
This document summarizes data on print book holdings in libraries across Southern California. It finds that the region holds over 9.7 million book titles, accounting for 20% of titles in North America. The majority (78%) of titles are held by fewer than 5 libraries. While most titles are held by academic libraries, particularly non-ARL institutions, pressures may lead these libraries to invest less in print over time. Regional coordination could help leverage existing resource sharing to improve access and preservation of this important research collection.
The Big Shift: Managing Research Collections in the CloudConstance Malpas
The document discusses managing research collections in the cloud. It notes the shift from print to electronic resources and the need for shared print services to preserve legacy print collections. Specifically, it outlines the growth of off-site storage facilities and digital repositories like HathiTrust, and explores opportunities for libraries to leverage these shared infrastructures to reduce costs while ensuring long-term access and preservation of collections.
Reorganizing the Research Library: a system-wide perspectiveConstance Malpas
The document discusses reorganizing research libraries from a system-wide perspective. It notes that as more content becomes available electronically, the boundaries and functions of individual libraries are changing, with collections moving off-site and resources redirecting from print to digital. This large-scale transition is impacting the entire academic library system and requiring collaboration between institutions.
Part of panel discussion at Harvard University Library Symposium on Sustainable Models for Print Storage in 21st-Century Libraries, 1-2 October 2014. Co-panelists were Bob Wolven (Columbia University) and Ivy Anderson (California Digital Library)
The document discusses the structure and identification of conveyor belts, including their tension members (textile plies or steel cables) and covers. It provides details on ordering conveyor belts according to standards, and the material properties and identification coding for different types of textile ply belts. Technical data is also presented for various CON-MULTEX and CON-BITEX belt types.
Scarcity and Abundance: the cooperative imperative in special collectionsConstance Malpas
Slides from panel presentation on collaborative management of special collections (with Jackie Dooley, Elizabeth Joffrion and Sean Quimby) at RBMS 2012 .
Libraries, OA research and OER: towards symbiosis?Nick Sheppard
The document discusses the potential for libraries and repositories to play a greater role in supporting open educational resources (OER). It describes how the Leeds Met repository currently hosts both research publications and OER. It argues that integrating research and teaching materials in repositories, along with staff profiles and other systems, could help create a "virtuous circle" of OER creation, sharing, and reuse. The document also examines challenges around different technologies and promoting greater awareness of libraries' potential contributions to OER.
This presentation was given at Bobcatsss2013 in Ankara.
Once the library assembled a collection and people came to the library to use it. Now, people build communication, workflows and behaviors around a variety of network resources. The library needs to think about how it is visible and relevant in those workflows and behaviors.
This document discusses what business libraries are in and how they should reposition themselves. It argues that libraries should move away from being centered around physical collections and toward prioritizing user engagement, expertise, services and digital infrastructure. Specifically, it suggests that libraries focus on space that encourages social interaction and knowledge sharing, make their expertise more visible, provide more user-centered services, leverage cloud-based systems, and use data to better support research and learning.
The document discusses the emergence of web-scale library platforms that move away from locally-housed systems towards globally shared platforms. These new library services platforms offer opportunities for libraries to operate less in isolated silos and more within broad, web-scale environments of highly shared data and unified workflows across physical, digital, and electronic collections. Discovery services have led the way towards this web-scale approach, and library management systems are now following a similar path.
RLUK members meeting 25-11-11 discovery presentationRDTF-Discovery
The document discusses the business case for investing in better resource discovery through the JISC Discovery initiative. It summarizes the goals of Discovery to make learning, teaching and research resources more discoverable through open metadata and linked data principles. Several early Discovery projects showed business cases for institutions, practitioners, users and researchers by amplifying impact, improving user experience and contributing to the research ecosystem. The conclusion discusses how Discovery exemplifies use cases and needs to identify the right scale for initiatives while leveraging the library community. It also suggests priorities for the Research Libraries UK consortium to further the goals of Discovery.
Current trends in library management systems Morten Nielsen
Marshall Breeding will present his view of the current state of the art of library management systems, the role of discovery products to improve end-user experiences, and give some perspective on what's emerging in the near future in the technologies that libraries will need to manage their operations and to provide services to their users.
Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of academic institutions. They contain scholarly works and research in various formats and stages of academic work. The goal is typically open access to research. Major systems for developing institutional repositories include DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, and Digital Commons. Key considerations for starting an institutional repository include getting faculty buy-in, submission policies, intellectual property issues, and interoperability through standards like OAI-PMH. Ensuring ongoing contributions and use remains a challenge.
1) The document discusses the challenges facing libraries in developing digital strategies and managing digital assets in a changing environment.
2) It notes the difficulty stems from technological convergence and lack of recognized patterns or models, and the impact of digital library research is unclear regarding changing user behaviors.
3) The world is changing rapidly due to factors like limited application platforms, a vendor environment unprepared to support new forms of content, and a history within libraries of consumption rather than contribution. Libraries need to think holistically about their role rather than focusing solely on digital aspects.
This document provides an overview of the UK RepositoryNet (RepNet) project. It discusses:
1. The proposal and objectives of RepNet, including providing infrastructure to support open access research literature.
2. Progress made so far, including engagement with stakeholders and changes to the project timeline and plan.
3. Plans for the next 8 months, including moving services to a sustainable model and focusing on service orientation.
The document discusses the need for repository systems that combine features from different products to provide flexibility. It describes the Catmandu and LibreCat projects which aim to create a repository environment that allows mixing of metadata schemas, workflows and front-ends from different systems rather than being restricted to a single specialized solution. The projects seek to provide repositories that can be customized for different user needs through an integrated but modular approach to metadata, protocols and interfaces.
The document discusses the development of UK RepositoryNet+ (RepNet), a socio-technical infrastructure that aims to increase the cost effectiveness of open access institutional repositories. RepNet will offer a suite of services like deposit tools, reporting, and registries to enable repositories to operate more cost effectively. It outlines RepNet's context, scope, and focus, and details its planned implementation in waves, with wave 1 integrating existing services and wave 2 exploring additional components like curation microservices. The goal is to transition RepNet from a project to a sustained service by March 2013.
Observations on the Future Nature of Library CollectingConstance Malpas
This document summarizes Constance Malpas' presentation on the future of library collections at the Libraries Australia Forum on October 20, 2010. The key points are:
1) Academic library collections are shifting from purchased print materials to licensed electronic resources, driven by the availability of digital content and changing research practices.
2) This transition is leading libraries to reduce their print collections and prioritize electronic resources, resulting in less focus on print stewardship and preservation.
3) Mass digitization of books provides an opportunity for libraries to outsource management of low-use print collections to shared print repositories, reducing costs and space needs.
Knowledge Base+: a Cloud-Based Community Knowledge Basesherif user group
Knowledge Base+: A cloud-based community knowledge base by Ben Showers, JISC. Presentation at the JIBS User Group Workshop and AGM Back to the Future and Into the Cloud, 24 February 2012, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
Bibliographic Infrastructure for Shared Print ManagementConstance Malpas
Slides from ALCTS pre-conference on Shared Print Management, 5 June 2012. Outlines strategy behind OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot project. (First part of session; second half was by Lizanne Payne, on detailed metadata guidelines.)
An introduction to the background, history, scope, and activities of the NISO Open Discovery Initiative. Part of the "Everyone's a player: Creation of standards in a fast-paced shared world" session.
Presenter: Marshall Breeding
The document summarizes a meeting about library systems programmes. It discusses past reports on library management systems (LMS) from 2008-2010 that highlighted stagnation in the market, investing cautiously, and the need for a new LMS footprint. It also discusses the complexity of the current landscape with many commercial, open source, and JISC-funded systems and initiatives. The goal is to develop a new vision for library systems in UK higher education and deliver a roadmap for that vision, leveraging disruptive technologies, communities, and 'pathfinders'.
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University Futures, Library Futures: institutional and library directions in ...Constance Malpas
The document summarizes a presentation given by Constance Malpas at the OhioLINK Directors Meeting on university and library futures. Malpas discussed a collaboration between OCLC Research and Ithaka S+R examining how the increasing diversification of US higher education impacts academic libraries. As universities invest in different areas like teaching, learning, or research, libraries may shift from a collection-centric model to one that supports each institution's distinctive needs. Malpas presented a model for classifying institutions based on their research, liberal education, or career preparation focus. She noted libraries need to consider how their services align with different institutional types and priorities like student success.
Presentation from CNI Spring Membership Meeting 2018, describing four-part series of research reports examining university research data management services. Further information about this project can be found at oc.lc/rdm This joint presentation included a slide deck (not included here) describing research data services at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, presented by Heidi Imker.
University Futures, Library Futures: aligning aligning academic library servi...Constance Malpas
Joint presentation (with Jeff Steely) at CNI Spring Membership Meeting, examining the future of academic libraries through an application of the University Futures, Library Futures model to members of the University Innovation Alliance, with a special focus on Georgia State University libraries.
Approaching the Long-Term Preservation of Print Documentation: international ...Constance Malpas
This document summarizes a presentation on approaches to preserving print research collections through increased collaboration and shared responsibility. It discusses models from North America and Europe where print collections are concentrated in a smaller number of institutions through cooperative agreements. The benefits of shared collections include reducing duplication and risks to materials held by only one institution. National bibliographic data and consortial partnerships are seen as enabling effective coordination of print collections across organizations.
University Futures, Library Futures: re-examining academic library relevanceConstance Malpas
This presentation describes the methodology behind, and demonstrates the application of, a new typology of US higher education institutions based on IPEDs statistical indicators. Further information about the project is available here: oc.lc/libfutures
Library Roles in Research Information Management: some emerging trendsConstance Malpas
University libraries can play an important role in research information management by supporting both the institution and individual researchers. For institutions, libraries can help manage research outputs and metadata to maximize visibility, reputation, and compliance with funder mandates. For researchers, libraries can support evolving workflows and help manage professional reputation. As research assessment regimes increase globally, libraries are well-positioned to manage author and organization identifiers, metadata flows, and activity data to demonstrate institutional research impact and performance. Opportunities for Japanese libraries include extending identifier resolution, leveraging the national research output view in JAIRO, and deepening engagement with research administration and processes.
Rightscaling stewardship: a multi-dimensional perpsective on OSU & CIC print ...Constance Malpas
Presentation at March 2014 symposium on shared print, summarizing findings from an analysis of print book collections of academic libraries in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation/Big 10.
Redefining Academic Library Roles: How Trends in Higher Education are Drivin...Constance Malpas
This document summarizes a presentation about how trends in higher education are driving changes in academic libraries and library roles. It outlines trends like increasing stratification of institutions, fiscal constraints, adoption of new technologies, and more emphasis on student success. These trends are pushing libraries to adopt new roles in areas like digital scholarship, coordinated collections management, learning analytics, and facilitating adaptive and competency-based learning. New library roles and operational models will vary depending on the type of institution, with elite universities retaining distinctive services while others rely more on shared resources and commercial options.
Evolving Scholarly Record - implications for rank and reputation assessmentConstance Malpas
This document summarizes discussions from an OCLC Research Library Partner meeting about the evolving scholarly record. Key points discussed include:
- How changes in scholarly practice like evolving manuscripts and metrics like reputation and ranking will affect library services and operations. Libraries may need to reconsider which services they provide internally versus externally.
- The roles of libraries, publishers, and research administrators are shifting as boundaries around the scholarly record change. Metadata practices will need to focus on identifiers and relationships.
- Libraries should consider ways to better support researcher workflows through profiling services, guidance on tools, and selective integration of modules. They should also develop best practices for identifier assignment and prioritize metadata interoperability.
- Future directions include quantifying
Slides from OCLC Research workshop on the Evolving Scholarly Record held in San Francisco, 2 June 2015, preview of upcoming report from OCLC Research (Lavoie and Malpas).
Library Stewardship and the Evolving Scholarly Record: A Ten Thousand Foot V...Constance Malpas
This document discusses the evolving landscape of library collections and stewardship. It notes that the scholarly record is growing in volume and complexity, and stewardship models are evolving in response. Responsibility for collections is becoming more distributed, and there is a trend toward greater coordination and resource sharing between institutions. This includes the development of shared print repositories and initiatives where groups of libraries commit to long-term stewardship of portions of collections. The value of local collections is shifting from depth and breadth to facilitating system-wide access and curation of print collections through collaboration at different scales.
Understanding the collective shared print collection (January 2015)Constance Malpas
Prepared for discussion by OCLC Shared Print Advisory Council, based on snapshot of data in WorldCat as of December 2014. Selections presented at OCLC Reserach Update at ALA-MW, 2 February 2015.
Collection Directions - Research collections in the network environmentConstance Malpas
1. The document discusses trends in research collections in the networked environment and directions for collections.
2. Key trends include collections as a service across a spectrum from owned to borrowed, workflow becoming the new content as researchers organize around different systems and services, and a shift from curation to creation as libraries take on new roles in research lifecycles.
3. Collection directions involve right-scaling stewardship through shared print collections and partnerships for coordination, and positioning libraries as experts that support the full research process.
OCLC Research Update, ALA Annual - Evolving Scholarly RecordConstance Malpas
This document summarizes a presentation about the evolving scholarly record and the changing roles of stakeholders. As the scholarly record transitions from print to digital, its format and content are diversifying beyond traditional articles and monographs to include research data, videos, and more. This is impacting how the scholarly record is created, fixed, used, and collected. Responsibility for stewardship of the scholarly record is also increasingly distributed across different stakeholders like libraries, publishers and researchers. Moving forward, there is a need for community consultation on frameworks and models to help coordinate custody of the distributed scholarly record.
This document discusses the critical role of research libraries in supporting international education through their collections. It notes that while the amount of non-English content in WorldCat has grown significantly, coverage of important languages remains limited and unevenly distributed across institutions. In particular, the Title VI National Resource Centers that support area studies have wide disparities in their coverage of global resources. The document calls for greater coordination across libraries to improve discoverability and access to distributed collections, as well as priorities investments to expand digital access to materials in targeted languages and regions.
How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
How to Manage Your Lost Opportunities in Odoo 17 CRMCeline George
Odoo 17 CRM allows us to track why we lose sales opportunities with "Lost Reasons." This helps analyze our sales process and identify areas for improvement. Here's how to configure lost reasons in Odoo 17 CRM
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
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Redefining the 21st Century Collection
1. Game Changers
Redefining the 21st
19 March 2012 Century Collection
Constance Malpas
Program Officer
OCLC Research
2. OCLC Research: what we do
Supports global cooperative by providing internal data
and process analyses to inform enterprise service
development (R&D) and deploying collective research
capacity to deepen public understanding of the evolving
library system
Special focus on libraries in research institutions:
in US, libraries supporting doctoral-level education account for
<20% of academic libraries;>70% of library spending
changes in this sector impact library system as a whole;
collective preservation and access goals, shared infrastructure, &c.
3. OCLC Research: how we work
OCLC has a particular interest in
understanding how the scope and scale of
library service provision are changing, and a
special responsibility to help libraries plan
for and implement shared services. To
advance thinking on these issues within and
beyond the library community, OCLC
Research has developed a dedicated
program area that draws on OCLC’s unique
research capacity and broad institutional
reach, encompassing both quantitative
analysis , community consultation and
outreach . . .
4. Roadmap
• Collections grid – shift in attention and resources
• Sourcing / scaling - group strategies for a changed
environment
• Mega-regions – framework for exploring the
„natural‟ organization of the library system
Along the way, some illustrative examples of how the
collections environment is evolving…
Please feel free to interrupt and ask questions!
5. Collections Grid
In many Open Web
Purchased materials
Licensed E-Resources collections Resources
Licensed
Purchased
High Low
Stewardship Stewardship
Special Collections In few Research & Learning
Local Digitization collections Materials
Credit: Dempsey, Childress (OCLC Research. 2003)
6. Library attention and investment are shifting
In many
collections
Less
Licensed
attention
High
Purchased Occasional
High attention Low
Stewardship Stewardship
Limited Aspirational
Tactical Intentional
In few
collections
OCLC Research, 2010.
7. Academic institutions are driving this change
In Many
Collections
Redirection of library
Licensed
resource
Purchased
High Low
today +5 yrs
Stewardship Stewardship
In Few
Collections
OCLC Research, 2010.
8. Externalize non-distinctive operations, internalize value creation
In Many
Collections
Licensed
„commodity‟ resources,
less distinctive value
Purchased
High Low
Stewardship Stewardship
collections of distinction, organizational impact,
centers of excellence institutional reputation
In Few
Collections
OCLC Research, 2010.
9. Shared Infrastructure
In Many
Collections
Group licensing,
ERM, ArchiveIT
Portico,
Shared print, &c
Shared storage
High Low
Stewardship A Stewardship
Dspace, Fedora,
ContentDM,
Blackboard,
HathiTrust
Sakai
In Few
Collections
OCLC Research, 2010.
10. Mechanisms for
externalization Scaling
Institution Group Web
Tripod:
Collaborative DSpace (Tri-college RePEc
library catalog)
Sourcing
Bibliographic OhioLink
Standards (resource sharing &
Public negotiation of PubMed
(LC Classification,
MESH, LCSH) licenses &
subscriptions)
VTLS Virtua JISC Collections worldcat.org
Third-Party (hosted ILS)
11. Where are groups and consortia in all this?
• Leveraging economies of scale to support cost-
effective externalization
• Supporting an expanding scope of collaborative
activity
From To
Library automation Shared print
Resource-sharing/ILL Digitization at scale
Group licensing Data curation
Coop. collection developm‟t Impact measures, advocacy
Can existing cooperative structures do all this?
13. Mechanisms for
Licensed / Electronic
externalization
JSTOR
Source of Provision
PORTICO
CRKN
Tennessee
Electronic Library
MeL
OCUL Scholars
Portal [Scrib‟d
library.nu]
LOCKSS
Institution Group Web
Scale of Benefit
14. 90
Auburn
Alberta E/P
80
Johns Hopkins
Licensed Content as % of Library Materials $
70
Majority of research libraries shifting toward
60 e-centric acquisitions, service model
50
Columbia
Michigan
40
Princeton
30
Harvard
20 Yale
Shrinking poolIllinois, Chicago with mission and resources
U
of libraries
10
to sustain print preservation as ‘core’ operation – 25?
0
0 5,000,000 10,000,000 15,000,000 20,000,000 25,000,000 30,000,000 35,000,000 40,000,000 45,000,000
Library Materials Expenditures – derived from ARL 2008-2009 statistics
OCLC Research, 2011.
15. Is spending more on an
individual basis a viable
solution?
Cf. “Radical collaboration –
new, drastic, sweeping and
energetic…”
James G. Neal
16. Print preservation: it‟s academic.
[„20M scanned‟]
46M print book titles
4.3M Google
in North American libraries
Books in
~5M in 4.8M WorldCat
shared HathiTrust
storage books in
WorldCat
889M WorldCat holdings:
Based on WorldCat statistics.
{ ~60% in academic libraries
(~25% in ARL libraries )
18. Learning how to Play with Books
This doesn‟t look like play…
19. As devices and formats
evolve, digital books are
becoming increasingly
congenial
toys (and tools) for a
new generation
6 in 10 students…
20. Mechanisms for
Purchased Collections
externalization
NERD
Source of Provision
(Pr)Internet
Archive?
FLARE
Ohio Depository
UC RLF
CIC SPA
WEST
WRLC
Institution Group Web
Scale of Benefit
21. Optimal locus of coordination,
shared service provision will vary
Google Books?
Straight Web-scale
Third-Party Externalization Externalization
New England
Regional Depository 4
3
Sourcing
Public Collaborative
Externalization
WEST
CIC Shared Print
2
Hathi Print
Collaborative NN/LM Print Archiving
ASERL Depository
Self-
Sufficiency
University of Chicago
1 Mansueto Library
Internalized
Institution Group Web
Scaling
22. Mechanisms for
Digital / Digitized Content
externalization
Source of Provision
ArtStor Luna Insight
Ohio DRC
Kentuckiana American Memory
Digital Library
FCLA Digital Archive
HathiTrust
Fedora
DSpace ContentDM hosted
Institution Group Web
Scale of Benefit
23. Value lies in impact on institutional reputation – D
not (or less) on transforming publication models
maximizing global reach
24. Shared infrastructure: a survival strategy
UC libraries aim to
achieve $15M in cost
reductions in 2011-2012
In this climate, shared services
must deliver real impact
Source: University of California Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee Library
Planning Task Force Interim Report, May, 2011 .
25. A 22M Budget for a 21st Century Library . . .
E
P
D
http://www.flbog.org/about/librarytaskforce/_doc/Unified-Library-Services-Business-Plan-Final-Report-From-the-
Chancellors-12-22-11.pdf
26. Cooperative infrastructure: scaling up
Orbis -Cascade
University of Idaho
NERL
CIC
SCELC
GWLA
Johns Hopkins
ASERL
Univ. of Maryland
FCLA
http://www.creativeclass.com/whos_your_city/maps/#Mega-Regions_of_North_America
27. Size and Density (holdings : publications)
of Mega-region Collections
3:1
3:1
9:1
3:1
7:1
3:1
4:1 2:1 3:1 6:1
3:1
Where is aggregate library
resource most abundant?
Where are changes in sourcing 5:1
and scaling most likely to occur?
OCLC Research, 2012.
28. How can we leverage
existing networks to
strengthen library
cooperation?
OCLC Research, 2012.
29. For discussion
• Accountability and assessment – how are consortia
measuring and communicating the value of current
investments in print, electronic and digital content?
• Impact and advocacy – what counts as adequate impact? Is
cost saving enough? Are shared services enabling partners
to „collaborate to customize‟?
• Sourcing and scaling – where is cooperative action likely to
deliver maximum benefit? When does externalization to
third parties make sense?
Why collections? Because they are a major driver of library operations and expense; because the definition of a ‘collection’ – as it is managed by an individual library or as it is managed by a group of libraries, is undergoing significant change.
A few words of introduction… to help frame my remarks, to make it clear that I am speaking from the perspective of OCLC Research.OCLC serves libraries of many stripes.In Research, we have a particular interest in libraries that serve higher education and research. This is because they represent a very large share of the library ‘marketplace’ and changes in investment have far-reaching impact throughout the library system as a whole.
Will base my remarks on some conceptual frameworks we’ve been using internally; useCollections Grid to describe some important shifts in attention and resourcing that we believe are ‘game changers’ for academic librariesSourcing / scaling matrix to explore some different strategies for supporting academic library operationsMega-regions framework, an effort to map zones of economic activity to understand the natural boundaries of cooperation at scale.Peppered with some real-life examples, just to reassure you that Research doesn’t really live in a world of sterile abstractions.
This is a model we have used to frame some discussions about library collections and operations in the past. The horizontal axis is a measure of the stewardship or curation efforts that have traditionally been needed to manage these materials in libraries. The vertical axis is a measure of how widely held the materials are in the library system: at the top are resources that are abundant in the library community, at the bottom are materials that relatively rare.In the upper left quadrant are the materials that libraries traditionally purchased and increasingly are leasing. Below that are special collections, rare books and manuscripts. The bottom right includes research outputs and teaching materials. The upper right includes a wide variety of resources found on the Open Web – web sites, discussion lists, blogs etc.Libraries may be interested in all of these areas, but not equally. Traditionally, library acquisitions and operations have focused on the upper left quadrant: published materials in print. Licensed resources were a secondary focus. And, except for research and academic libraries, there was limited attention to managing rare books and manuscripts, instructional course materials, or Web archiving.materials, which are now more ubiquitous and also require less local management effort.
Increasingly, [click] we have seen this attention shift to licensed electronic materials, which are now more ubiquitous and also require less local management effort. At the same time we have seen
In some sense the obvious answer is “no” – existing cooperative infrastructure largely lacks the scale to take on some of these new activities and deliver the level of benefit that is expected. This is as true for OCLC as it is for any other library cooperative and this is one reason why you see OCLC redoubling its efforts to develop a scalable platform architecture
http://negonat.inist.fr/Licences-Nationales.htmlOne way in which groups of institutions work together to control the costs of electronic resources is of course through consortial licensing programs. I wanted to highlight this particular example, from the French national research agency, because it helpfully highlights the fact that effective ‘group’ or consortium strategy is about a great deal more than buying power. This is a new initiative in France, in which the ministry of education will make direct payment to publishers for full-text resources that will be mounted in a shared platform. They’ve contracted with JISC Collections – a UK based procurement agency – to negotiate with publishers. It’s really about maximizing institutional impact – in this case the national research reputation of French higher education. They make this quite plain in the language of the announcement – its not about ‘cheaper databases’ it’s about stoking the fires of innovation and strengthening national research infrastructure.This is a level of group sourcing that we are unlikely to see in the US, though our Canadian colleagues have certainly made headway with national licensing under the rubric of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.
I call our Scrib’d and library.nu (recently under take-down orders) because I think they are important examples of what happens when students and scholars take collections into their own hands. Cost containment is a major driver in collaboration around licensing….
Now take a quick tour around the collections grid to look at some illustrative examples of the shifts in attention and resourcing that I’ve just described. This is a view of resource allocation in ARL libraries, clearly showing the shift in balance from print to electronic collections. >70% of ARL libraries are spending more than half of the materials budget on e-resources.And this has important knock-on consequences for print management, as a diminishing number of institutions have the resources to sustain print preservation. This is a trend that you are all I think intimately familiar with.~73% of ARL university libraries are spending in excess of 50% on e resources. (Was ~61% in 2007-2008)So print management is one of the ‘core’ operations that is now being sourced differently
http://www.cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2012/03/15/cornell-library-collections-lag-behind-peers%E2%80%99-professors-sayCornell ranks 12th in the most recent (2009-2010) ARL investment index.The perverse logic of ARL institutional investment index – focuses on the spend and not the return.
The point here is that only 10 to 20% of the North American print book collection (in WorldCat) is represented in HathiTrust and/or Google. As many of you will know, we have done quite a bit of work studying the HathiTrust corpus, and we believe that the relatively small number of titles in HathiTrust is sufficient to duplicate a third or more of the print titles in virtually all academic libraries. Nevertheless, there is some concern that the pace of digitization is slowing and that Google is becoming more selective about what it scans. And this is important because many libraries are concerned about how consumer access to the books Google does provide will have a dramatic effect on how libraries are used.Cf 84.8M print books in 2009 (77% of WorldCat; 15M US imprints; 56% of those in academic libraries. In 2011, 128M print books (60% of WorldCat), of which 60% are held in North Am librariesPlease change or simplify your search and try again.Query ComponentCountmt: bks and (li: zas or li: zap or li: ohdep) 4,355,441 bks 203962604 zas 2844057 zap 2262588 ohdep 408771mt: bks and li: googl 4266577
Open a parenthesis here to spend a minute looking at a potentially important ‘game changer’ for libraries. Google launched Play earlier this month. Play is an entertainment hub combining Google music, the Android store, Google ebooks and other media. It’s yet another example of how the network favors the emergence of big content hubs. The positioning of books in this space is interesting and marks a shift from the Google Books experience that many of us have grown accustomed to. This is true not just for the commercially vended content (like this title) but also for the titles supplied by libraries.
A little surprised to discover that while Google is tracking my every move, it hasn’t bothered to transfer my bookshelf from Google Book Search into Google Play.On the other hand, it’s clearly making some effort to understand my reading preferences, by inserting a preview to a book on the Beat Generation, which is an interest of mine, and providing access to Library Journal. I had to go back into GBS to track down another book I had been reading [click] , this history of the London Goldsmiths’ Company. The notion that books can be seamlessly integrated into the ‘gamified’ social entertainment space is still a little challenging. For example [click] when I downloaded this book, Google wanted to provide instruction on ‘how to read my new book’. And while this title is 130 years old, it actually is a kind of ‘new book’. To me it will feel a little un-natural on my tablet, but to others….
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/tablet-ownership-triples-among-college-students/35764Cf last year’s highly publicized UC study that found that students preferred print over digital versions. My own view is that many such surveys are missing the point, asking students to judge ebooks against the standard of print books, when the scholarly apparatus for ebook usage is likely to be very different and is still taking shape. This latest survey from the PeasonFdn found that 60% of college students prefer e-books to print books.This change will of course have a major impact on how academic libraries fulfill their mission. And while print isn’t ‘going away’ it will certainly be moving to the side.
Shared print is an area where cooperatively sourced group solutions appear to be carrying the day.
Ohio DRC was originally a cloud-based service but has since been moved back ‘inside’ Ohio Academic Resources shared network.
Let’s look at Digital … some of you might have seen this recent news announcement from MIT, reporting a new peak in downloads from the institutional repository. Want to emphasize that the importance of this is not the ‘open access’ dimension of scholarly communications but in the way this news is positioned to emphasize MIT’s global reputation. Does MIT research have more impact in this OA repository than in the published peer reviewed lit? No. But it does the provide the university with an unrivalled opportunity to tell its story.Now the “D” dimension in collections is one that is relatively under-resourced where group services are concerned. This is partly because there is limited incentive to develop group solutions for something that is essentially competitive. But still, we might wonder why major research consortia like the CIC haven’t developed an unsurpassed repository infrastructure.Interesting, perplexing that no robust shared service has developed around consortial management of institutional repository infrastructureCF Norway’s efforts (or the Netherlands) to develop shared academic repository infrastructure that is explicitly tied to increasing national research impact – why don’t we see something similar for e.g. CIC?
Last year, UC system projected ongoing losses to library budget and proposed strengthening reliance on the shared service infrastructure of the California Digital Library. Shared print was part of the plan, but the greatest savings were to come out of revisions to technical services workflows.
In Florida, the planned consolidation of FCLA and CCLA is an interesting case of ‘scaling up’ . The two organizations will be merged in an effort to reduce costs and create a single shared library infrastructure for higher education.This is a page from the proposal for the merged organization, and its clear that the total cost of P, E and D collections infrastructure is considerable – about half of the total services-related budget. Most of it goes to e-resources. Which means that print and digital will continue to operate with marginal budgets and will probably not gain much scale.So the question becomes, how can regional and peer-group consortia achieve the kind of scale that will be needed to deliver value into the future? And the answer is… we don’t know. But we are doing some work that we hope will cast some light on how the library system is currently organized -- not as a set of organizations, but as a set of activities and resources – so that we can better understand where additional infrastructure may be needed.
I think it’s no accident that we are seeing these supra-regional consortia move to the fore, as individual institutions look to hook their wagon to the most powerful engine available. And increasingly that means not only which organization can do the best job of securing good licensing arrangements, but which one can provide the kind of cooperative infrastructure that’s needed to support a range of other jointly sourced operations:Shared print management – WEST, CIC, ASERLDigital repository development - HathiShared management systems – WorldCat Local in UC and Orbis, new statewide shared LMS for Florida.The question is: is the legacy infrastructure of our existing consortia fit to purpose for emerging needs?
Asset map of library print resourceThe fact that there is a an abundance of resource in one zone or another is not in itself a sign of any impending change – but in combination with other factors, like changes in provisioning of higher education, we believe it can be a strong predictor
Another dimension we are looking at is the rate of bilateral duplication between regional collections. And some interesting things are emerging. For example, it’s clear that some regional collections are better positioned than others to provide ‘national level’ services. The region from Boston to Washington comprises the larges print book collection in North America – it is so vast that it largely subsumes every other print book collection in the continent.