The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Week, University of London, 16 June 2017.
Web archiving has become imperative to ensure that our digital heritage does not disappear forever, yet many institutions have not begun this work. In addition, archived websites are not easily discoverable, which severely limits their use. To address this challenge, OCLC Research has established the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group to develop a data dictionary that will be compatible with library and archives standards. Three reports on this project are available in July 2017, focused on metadata best practices guidelines, user needs and behaviors, and evaluation of web archiving tools.
More information: oc.lc/wam
Contact: Jackie Dooley, dooleyj@oclc.org
The identity of the library is closely bound with its collections. In a print world, this made sense, as the central role of the library was to place materials close to the user and arrange them for effective use.
However, in a network environment this is no longer the case. Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Membership and Research, and Chief Strategist at the Online Computer Library Center, will discuss the following three trends that are changing the character of library collections:
The facilitated collection, where the library connects users to resources of interest to their research and learning needs, whether or not they are assembled locally.
The collective collection, where libraries begin to think about moving to shared environments to manage their collections and assuming collective responsibility for stewardship of the scholarly record.
The inside-out collection, where libraries work with other campus partners to support the creation, management and disclosure of institutional materials—research data, special collections, and so on. Here the library supports the creative enterprise of scholarship directly. Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
The Thomas Lecture Series honors the outstanding work that Shirley K. Baker, former Vice Chancellor for Scholarly Resources & Dean of University Libraries, led in the areas of networked information and resource sharing.
The Library in the Life of the User: Two Collection Directionslisld
Our understanding of library collections is changing in a digital, network environment. This presentation focuses on two trends in this context. First, the inside-out library is a trend which sees libraries support the creation, management and discoverability of institutional materials: research data, expertise, preprints, and so on. Second, the facilitated collection is a trend which sees libraries increasingly organize resources around user interests, whether these resources are external, collaborative or locally acquired.
This presentation was given at 'The transformation of academic library collecting: a symposium inspired by Dan C. Hazen'. Harvard Library, 20/21 Oct. 2016
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
Presented at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Week, University of London, 16 June 2017.
Web archiving has become imperative to ensure that our digital heritage does not disappear forever, yet many institutions have not begun this work. In addition, archived websites are not easily discoverable, which severely limits their use. To address this challenge, OCLC Research has established the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group to develop a data dictionary that will be compatible with library and archives standards. Three reports on this project are available in July 2017, focused on metadata best practices guidelines, user needs and behaviors, and evaluation of web archiving tools.
More information: oc.lc/wam
Contact: Jackie Dooley, dooleyj@oclc.org
The identity of the library is closely bound with its collections. In a print world, this made sense, as the central role of the library was to place materials close to the user and arrange them for effective use.
However, in a network environment this is no longer the case. Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President, Membership and Research, and Chief Strategist at the Online Computer Library Center, will discuss the following three trends that are changing the character of library collections:
The facilitated collection, where the library connects users to resources of interest to their research and learning needs, whether or not they are assembled locally.
The collective collection, where libraries begin to think about moving to shared environments to manage their collections and assuming collective responsibility for stewardship of the scholarly record.
The inside-out collection, where libraries work with other campus partners to support the creation, management and disclosure of institutional materials—research data, special collections, and so on. Here the library supports the creative enterprise of scholarship directly. Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
Together, these trends are changing how we think about collections, libraries, and services to their users.
The Thomas Lecture Series honors the outstanding work that Shirley K. Baker, former Vice Chancellor for Scholarly Resources & Dean of University Libraries, led in the areas of networked information and resource sharing.
The Library in the Life of the User: Two Collection Directionslisld
Our understanding of library collections is changing in a digital, network environment. This presentation focuses on two trends in this context. First, the inside-out library is a trend which sees libraries support the creation, management and discoverability of institutional materials: research data, expertise, preprints, and so on. Second, the facilitated collection is a trend which sees libraries increasingly organize resources around user interests, whether these resources are external, collaborative or locally acquired.
This presentation was given at 'The transformation of academic library collecting: a symposium inspired by Dan C. Hazen'. Harvard Library, 20/21 Oct. 2016
Keynote presentation at Montana Library Association meeting, Helena, 7 February. It looks at public and academic library directions in a network environment.
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
Rightscaling, engagement, learning: reconfiguring the library for a network e...lisld
The edge of the world. Theta 2013: the Higher Education Technology Agenda. Hobart, Tasmania, 7-10 April, 2013.
The network continues to reconfigure personal and organizational relationships. Libraries face three important challenges in this environment.
1. Rightscaling infrastructure.
Libraries were predominantly ‘institution-scale’ – they provided services at the level of the institution for their local users. However, their users now look to the network for information services (e.g. Google Scholar, Wikipedia, …). And libraries now look to the network to collaborate or to externalize services (e.g. HathiTrust, cloud-based discovery or systems, shared systems infrastructure, …). In this environment the need for local infrastructure declines (e.g. extensive print collections, redundantly deployed local systems which provide necessary but not distinctive services). The scale advantage manifests itself in both impact and efficiency.
2. The shift to engagement.
Users used to build their workflows around libraries. Now the library needs to build services around user workflows, as those workflows form around network services. Libraries used to acquire and organize ‘published’ materials. Now they are engaged with the full range of creation, management and disclosure of learning and scholarly resources. Library spaces were configured around print collections; now they are configured around experiences, expertise, and specialist facilities. These are all examples of how libraries are reallocating resource and effort to engage more strongly with the learning and research lives of their users, improving the learning experience and making research more productive and research outputs more visible.
3. Institutional innovation
Innovation is important, especially to support greater engagement. But in many ways the most important form of innovation is institutional. Libraries have to develop new and routine ways of collaborating to achieve their goals. At the same time they have to negotiate internal boundaries and forge new structures within institutions. In each case, they are developing new ‘relationship architectures’. Think for example of the institutional innovation required to move to shared systems and collections in the Orbis Cascade Alliance or 2CUL for example. Or think of the innovative approach which makes new relationships within institutions (with Learning and Teaching Support, with the Office of Research, the University Press, emerging e-research infrastructure, IT, etc, for example, or with various educational or social services in a public setting). Evolving such relationships requires an enterprising approach and ensures continual learning.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technicallisld
Libraries are now supporting research and learning behaviors in data rich network environments. This presentation looks at some examples focusing on how an emphasis on individual systems needs to give way to a broader view of process, workflow and behaviors.
It also discusses how this environment creates a demand for collaboration at scale among libraries.
Organizations focus on infrastructure, engagement and innovation. Libraries have emphasised infrastructure (collections, buildings to house those collections, systems, ...). In recent years they have been switching attention into engagement - better integration with their users' workflow, more direct support for research and learning, ...
This is a presentation from the OCLC EMEARC Regional Council meeting, February 2012.
Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
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.
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.
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.
LIBER's Strategy Supporting The Role of Libraries in the Open Science Environ...Jeannette Frey
Research libraries face many challenges but also many opportunities in the Open Science Environmenet. The new LIBER Strategy 2018-2022 will support member libraries in this process.
OA in the Library Collection: The Challenge of Identifying and Managing Open ...NASIG
Librarians, researchers, and the general public have largely embraced the concept of open access (OA). Yet, incorporating OA resources into existing discovery and tracking systems is often a complicated process. Open access material can be delivered through a variety of publishing or archival mechanisms, creating certain challenges, particularly for those managing e-resources. Although an increasing proportion of research output is becoming open access each year, organization and discovery of these resources remains imperfect.
The debate between the relative merits of Green and Gold OA is regularly discussed in academic circles but less attention is devoted towards Hybrid OA and the challenges inherent in this model. Most major publishers offer open access through one or more of these models, but open access metadata standards seem to be lacking among these content providers. The presenters will discuss some of these challenges identified in the literature and through other mechanisms, including data gathered by NISO and an original survey. By identifying these issues, the scholarly communication community can work together to improve discovery for end users.
Chris Bulock
Electronic Resources Librarian, SIUE Lovejoy Library
Chris is an Electronic Resources Librarian and NASIG member from the St. Louis area. His research and work are focused on improving the library user's experience. Chris is the recipient of the 2012 HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship.
Nathan Hosburgh
Discovery & Systems Librarian, Rollins College
Nate Hosburgh is currently the Discovery & Systems Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as part of a revamped Collections & Systems department that includes ILL, collection development, acquisitions, systems, and technical services. Previously, he held positions managing e-resources at Montana State University and managing interlibrary loan & document delivery at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Keynote presentation at Montana Library Association meeting, Helena, 7 February. It looks at public and academic library directions in a network environment.
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
Rightscaling, engagement, learning: reconfiguring the library for a network e...lisld
The edge of the world. Theta 2013: the Higher Education Technology Agenda. Hobart, Tasmania, 7-10 April, 2013.
The network continues to reconfigure personal and organizational relationships. Libraries face three important challenges in this environment.
1. Rightscaling infrastructure.
Libraries were predominantly ‘institution-scale’ – they provided services at the level of the institution for their local users. However, their users now look to the network for information services (e.g. Google Scholar, Wikipedia, …). And libraries now look to the network to collaborate or to externalize services (e.g. HathiTrust, cloud-based discovery or systems, shared systems infrastructure, …). In this environment the need for local infrastructure declines (e.g. extensive print collections, redundantly deployed local systems which provide necessary but not distinctive services). The scale advantage manifests itself in both impact and efficiency.
2. The shift to engagement.
Users used to build their workflows around libraries. Now the library needs to build services around user workflows, as those workflows form around network services. Libraries used to acquire and organize ‘published’ materials. Now they are engaged with the full range of creation, management and disclosure of learning and scholarly resources. Library spaces were configured around print collections; now they are configured around experiences, expertise, and specialist facilities. These are all examples of how libraries are reallocating resource and effort to engage more strongly with the learning and research lives of their users, improving the learning experience and making research more productive and research outputs more visible.
3. Institutional innovation
Innovation is important, especially to support greater engagement. But in many ways the most important form of innovation is institutional. Libraries have to develop new and routine ways of collaborating to achieve their goals. At the same time they have to negotiate internal boundaries and forge new structures within institutions. In each case, they are developing new ‘relationship architectures’. Think for example of the institutional innovation required to move to shared systems and collections in the Orbis Cascade Alliance or 2CUL for example. Or think of the innovative approach which makes new relationships within institutions (with Learning and Teaching Support, with the Office of Research, the University Press, emerging e-research infrastructure, IT, etc, for example, or with various educational or social services in a public setting). Evolving such relationships requires an enterprising approach and ensures continual learning.
Towards collaboration at scale: Libraries, the social and the technicallisld
Libraries are now supporting research and learning behaviors in data rich network environments. This presentation looks at some examples focusing on how an emphasis on individual systems needs to give way to a broader view of process, workflow and behaviors.
It also discusses how this environment creates a demand for collaboration at scale among libraries.
Organizations focus on infrastructure, engagement and innovation. Libraries have emphasised infrastructure (collections, buildings to house those collections, systems, ...). In recent years they have been switching attention into engagement - better integration with their users' workflow, more direct support for research and learning, ...
This is a presentation from the OCLC EMEARC Regional Council meeting, February 2012.
Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
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.
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.
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.
LIBER's Strategy Supporting The Role of Libraries in the Open Science Environ...Jeannette Frey
Research libraries face many challenges but also many opportunities in the Open Science Environmenet. The new LIBER Strategy 2018-2022 will support member libraries in this process.
OA in the Library Collection: The Challenge of Identifying and Managing Open ...NASIG
Librarians, researchers, and the general public have largely embraced the concept of open access (OA). Yet, incorporating OA resources into existing discovery and tracking systems is often a complicated process. Open access material can be delivered through a variety of publishing or archival mechanisms, creating certain challenges, particularly for those managing e-resources. Although an increasing proportion of research output is becoming open access each year, organization and discovery of these resources remains imperfect.
The debate between the relative merits of Green and Gold OA is regularly discussed in academic circles but less attention is devoted towards Hybrid OA and the challenges inherent in this model. Most major publishers offer open access through one or more of these models, but open access metadata standards seem to be lacking among these content providers. The presenters will discuss some of these challenges identified in the literature and through other mechanisms, including data gathered by NISO and an original survey. By identifying these issues, the scholarly communication community can work together to improve discovery for end users.
Chris Bulock
Electronic Resources Librarian, SIUE Lovejoy Library
Chris is an Electronic Resources Librarian and NASIG member from the St. Louis area. His research and work are focused on improving the library user's experience. Chris is the recipient of the 2012 HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship.
Nathan Hosburgh
Discovery & Systems Librarian, Rollins College
Nate Hosburgh is currently the Discovery & Systems Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as part of a revamped Collections & Systems department that includes ILL, collection development, acquisitions, systems, and technical services. Previously, he held positions managing e-resources at Montana State University and managing interlibrary loan & document delivery at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Come Together: Interdepartmental Collaboration to Connect the IR and Library ...NASIG
Presenter: Amanda Makula, University Of San Diego
While institutional repositories (IRs) often include a built-in searching mechanism and/or are indexed by web search engines, what about our patrons who go straight to the library catalog with their information need? Rather than hope that users will stumble upon the IR from the library website or assume that they will start their research with a Google search, librarians can facilitate greater IR discoverability and usage by integrating its content into the library catalog. With strong teamwork, good communication, and a shared vision, this endeavor helps transform the IR and library catalog from separate, siloed platforms into a more cohesive collections package.
At the University of San Diego, librarians and administrators across three departments -- Technical Services, Systems, and Archives / Special Collections / Digital Initiatives --recognized this opportunity and came together to share information and work in concert to explore and enact the benefits of auto-harvesting IR content into the library catalog. Driven by a vision of providing enhanced discoverability and access, as well as promoting the IR as a whole and enriching the catalog, the team members worked cooperatively to identify specific IR collections appropriate for harvest, investigate technical logistics, consult outside vendors (including Innovative and bepress), and experiment with implementation.
The Evolving Collection and Shift to OpenLynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Cathy King. 2020. “The Evolving Collection and Shift to Open.” Presented at the Research Information Exchange, February 14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
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.
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.
Looking at Libraries, collections & technologylisld
**Important note - notes visible in downloaded presentation. **
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.
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.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and serv...lisld
Libraries used to be vertically integrated around their collections. Buildings housed them; expertise was devoted to arranging and interpreting them; and services managed them and made them available. In a network environment place, expertise, collections and services come apart in various ways. They influence one another but have their own trajectory in relation to diversifying user behaviors and expections.
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Rediscoverying discovery: three general exampleslisld
Presented at CNI virtual meeting, an overview of some trends in library discovery. Considers how libraries are considering how to present a more holistic experience online.
Although library collaboration is common and many libraries collaborate through many organizations, it is a relatively unexamined aspect of library work. Many descriptions exist, but little from the point of view of organization and motivation. We will present a framework for thinking about library collaboration and draw out some of the challenges successful collaborations face. We will also consider how collaboration is evolving and how trends may be accelerated. We will emphasize that collaboration is a set of strategic and tactical choices, that it is very influenced by people and politics, and that collective action poses problems.
These dynamics are very much alive in questions around collective collections. We will look at collections as an example of the consolidation vs autonomy dynamic we observe in consortia generally. We also try and provide some guidance about how a collective collections initiative would be shaped – to identify points where decisions and commitments need to be made. We consider retrospective collection coordination (digitization, resource sharing, shared print) which currently tends to be layered over relatively autonomously developed collections, optimized at the institutional level, and prospective collection development (where libraries work together to optimize at the system level through collaborative collection development, licensing and so on). We consider some different dynamics with licensed and purchased materials, as well as institutionally created materials (research outputs, …).
The powers of consortia: scaling capacity, learning, innovation and influencelisld
Libraries and related organizations group together in a variety of ways to get their work done. They consort, for example, to lobby, to negotiate and license, and to build shared infrastructure.
However, there are other aspects of collective activity that are becoming more important. In fact, I suggest that two are increasingly central to successful library activity: these are learning and innovation.
Thinking this way about consortial activity suggests four areas where libraries come together to create scale advantages: capacity, learning, innovation, influence.
Some consortial organizations span several of these, some are more specialised.
This presentation will consider consortia under these headings. It will also briefly discuss how choices about scope, scale and sourcing are important decision points for consortia when considering their mission and investments.
The Irish presence in the global published recordlisld
The global diffusion of published materials is one way in which a country projects its identity. This presentation will present some findings from a new study of Ireland’s presence in the published record, part of OCLC Research’s continuing work exploring cultural patterns and trends through library bibliographic and holdings data. It will touch on materials published in Ireland, by Irish people, and/or about Ireland. Irish materials – and by extension, Irish publishers, Irish authors, and Ireland itself – form a significant presence in the published record; this talk will trace some of their distinctive characteristics and patterns of global diffusion. The data for the study is drawn from WorldCat. The study shows that Gulliver's Travels is the most popular Irish work of literature as measured by library holdings, and that Eoin Colfer is the most popular contemporary Irish author.
Challenges and opportunities for academic librarieslisld
Research and learning behaviors are changing in a network environment. What challenges do Academic libraries face? What opportunities do they have? A presentation given at a symposium on the future of academic libraries at the Open University.
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.
Libraries: technology as artifact and technology in practicelisld
Research and learning workflows are increasingly enacted in data-rich network environments. New behaviors are emerging which are shaped by and in turn shape workflow and data tools and services. This means that library attention is shifting from not only providing support systems and services but to supporting those behaviors more directly as they emerge. This support may take the form of particular system or services, but will also involve consulting and advising about such things as publication venues, reputation management, profiles, research networking.
A keynote presentation given at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities CITM and Library Deans meeting. Loyola University, Maryland.
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.
The library and the network: scale, engagement, innovationlisld
Presented at Georgetown University Library. Discusses ongoing reconfiguration of libraries by networks. A shift from infrastructure to engagement around developing research and learning needs. Also includes some analysis of Georgetown collections in the context of Worldcat.
A presentation about aggregation and discovery issues presented to the ARL Fall Forum. It covers some issues prompted by the Share proposal. Considers metadata aggregation and the general move from 'strings to things' in general Internet services. Touches on linked data, metadata processing, user expectation. Concludes with some general issues to consider.
This is a short presentation given at the Technical Services Big Heads meeting at ALA 2013 in Chicago. It talks about four aspects of our current discovery environment.
It is based on 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog: Scale, Workflow, Attention' in Educause Review, December, 2012. http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/thirteen-ways-looking-libraries-discovery-and-catalog-scale-workflow-attention
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
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3. Collections as a service
Research
support:
creation
Places
Student
success
4. Research libraries achieved status in this
environment by acquiring more than their peers or
by building niche collections of particular depth.
…
Collections no longer lie at the center of research
library operations and goals, even as academic
communities focus ever more inclusively on
knowledge and information.
Hazen. Lost in the cloud. 2011
8. Low
Stewardship
In few
collections
In many
collections
Research & Learning
Materials
Open Web
Resources
‘Published’ materials
Special Collections
Local Digitization
Licensed
Purchased High
Stewardship
OCLC Research, 2014Figure: OCLC Collections Grid.
Outside in
(discovery,
acquisition)
Inside out
(discover-
ability,
stewardship)
9. Journals – part of an evolving research life cycle
1. Publishers looking to research workflow (Elsevier –
Mendeley, Pure)
2. Complex open access environment - National
science/research policy, grant-makers, publishers
3. A part only of the scholarly record – data, etc.
4. Licensed materials are now the larger part of academic
library budgets. Big deal.
Monographs – managed in a different way
1. Managing down print - shared print
2. Shift to demand driven acquisition
3. Growing difference between market-available
and specialised (e.g. area studies)
4. Emergence of ‘e’ (platform)
5. Digital corpora (Hathi Trust, Google, …)
6. Disciplinary differences
10. Special collections, archives – mobilized for research,
reputation, ….
1. Release more value through digitization,
exhibitions, undergraduate research, …
2. Streamlining processing, production, …
3. Network level aggregation for scale and utility –
DPLA, Europeana, DRI, Pacific Rim Digital
Library,
Research and learning material – new researcher, publisher and
library roles
1. Evolving scholarly record: research data,
eprints, ..
2. IR – role and content?
3. Research information management (profiles,
outputs, …)
4. Support for digital scholarship
5. Support for open access publishing
11. Inside out
Inside out: Create, manage and make discoverable
memory, community, evidence.
13. Collective
Collective collections: The systemwide organization of collections
becomes more important. It makes sense to do acquisition, discovery
and/or stewardship at the network level.
14. Two
trends
and a
direction Reconfiguration
of research work
(leading to
inside out
collection)
Reconfiguration
of information
space (leading to
facilitated
collection)
Collective
collections
15. Reconfiguration of
research work by
network/digital
environment.
Reconfiguration of the
information space by
network/digital
environment.
The inside
out
collection
The
facilitated
collection
Two trends
21. Office of
undergraduate
research
Disciplines &
departmentsGraduate school
Vice president for
research
Provost
Institutional
Reporting
CIO
Campus center for
teaching & learning
Medical
center
Tech Transfer Office
LIBRARY
Advancement
& corporate
relations
Data Warehouse
News Bureau
Colleges & depts
Adapted from a pic by Rebecca Bryant, OCLC
Research
Research Data
Management
Digital
scholarship
User
education
& training
RIM/Profiling
system
Institutional
Repository
Creation, management and
disclosure:
Researcher
Research manager
Research support
R-
infra-
structure
22. Her view is that publishers are
here to make the scientific
research process more
effective by helping them keep
up to date, find colleagues, plan
experiments, and then share
their results. After they have
published, the processes
continues with gaining a
reputation, obtaining funds,
finding collaborators, and even
finding a new job. What can we
as publishers do to address
some of scientists’ pain
points?
Annette Thomas,
Then CEO of Macmillan
Publishers
A
publisher’s
new job
description
http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/a-publishers-new-job-description/
25. Anamnesis – the case of 1916
In some respects this collection of RTÉ archive material is
a microcosm of that Irish psyche. … [RTE’s] archive reflects
Irish preoccupations. Its omissions point towards our
blind spots. On the debit side is the fact that, as a
repository of oral history the RTÉ catalogue includes
barely thirty first-hand Irish witnesses of the First World
War. On the merit side is the fact that it includes all of
thirty first-hand witnesses of the Great War in a time of
calculated and culpable amnesia.
Myles Dungan
Special
colls
26. Reconfiguration of
research work by
network/digital
environment.
Support for
creation,
management
and disclosure
of memory/
evidence
The inside
out
collection
Workflow is the new
content
Reputation
manage and disclose the
intellectual outputs and expertise
of the institution.
From discovery to
discoverability
Collective collections:
Rightscaling and collective
action
28. arXiv, SSRN, RePEc, PubMed Central (disciplinary
repositories that have become important discovery
hubs);
Google Scholar, Google Books, Amazon (ubiquitous
discovery and fulfillment hubs);
Mendeley, ResearchGate (services for social discovery
and scholarly reputation management);
Goodreads, LibraryThing (social description/reading
sites);
Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Khan Academy (hubs for
open research, reference, and teaching materials).
FigShare, OpenRefine (data storage and
manipulation tools)
Github (software management)
29.
30. The ‘owned’
collection
The ‘facilitated’
collection
A collections spectrum
Purchased and
physically stored
Meet research and
learning needs in best way
A network logic: a coordinated mix of local,
external and collaborative services are
assembled around user needs
A print logic: the distribution of
print copies to multiple local
destinations
Value relates to locally
assembled collection.
Value relates to ability to efficiently
meet a variety of research and
learning needs.
http://www.xkcd.com/917/
31. The ‘external’ collection:
Pointing researchers at Google Scholar;
Including freely available ebooks in the catalog;
Creating resource guides for web resources.
The ‘owned’
collection
The ‘facilitated’
collection
The ‘borrowed’
collection
A collections spectrum
The ‘shared
print’
collection
The ‘shared
digital’
collection
The evolving
scholarly
record
Purchased and
physically stored
Meet research and
learning needs in best way
The ‘licensed’
collection
The ‘demand-
driven’
collection
Note: Libraries have variable
Investments across the entire
spectrum
34. Reconfiguration of the
information space by
network/digital
environment.
The
specialized
collection
The
facilitated
collection
Specialization of locally
acquired/held collections?
Engagement
Understand and respond to
needs of faculty and students.
A diffuse responsibility for
stewardship of the scholarly
record
Collective collections:
Rightscaling and collective
action
35. Reconfiguration of
research work by
network/digital
environment.
Reconfiguration of the
information space by
network/digital
environment.
Support for
creation,
management
and disclosure
of memory/
evidence
The
specialized
collection
The
facilitated
collection
The inside
out
collection
36. Collective
collections:
Rightscaling and
collaborative
action … The best example of an activity that
can be done most appropriately in a
networked context is curation. Here I
would argue that a library’s collection
is not owned solely by the library, but
by the society or culture that has
collected it and put it in the library in
the first place. We own the collection
as a culture, and we must attend to it
as a culture.
John Wilkin
37. The rise of
the
collective
collection
System-wide organization of
collections—whether the
“system” is a consortium, a
region, a country ….
Discovery/discoverability
Sharing/acquisition
Stewardship
40. Soft power of groups …
Venue for:
* Scaling learning and innovation
* Scaling services
* Scaling collections
41. Shared print collections
Consortial borrowing
Web archiving
Outside-in
Research data
Scholarly Materials
Digital Collections
Inside-out
Group D2D, stewardship,
acquisition
Network discovery?
Group stewardship?
Union catalogue?
42. Inside out: Create, manage and make discoverable
memory, community, evidence.
Facilitated: collecting according
to a network logic:
a coordinated mix of local,
external and collaborative
services are assembled around
user needs
Collective collections: The systemwide organization of collections
becomes more important. It makes sense to do acquisition, discovery
and/or stewardship at the network level.
44. Citations and fuller details are included in slide notes where relevant.
Thanks to my colleagues Brian Lavoie, Constance Malpas and Rebecca
Bryant for assistance as I prepared this presentation.
The presentation follows the outline of:
Dempsey, L., (2016). Library collections in the life of the user:
two directions. LIBER Quarterly. 26(4), pp.338–359.
DOI:http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10170
The first version of this presentation was given at the Hazen Symposium
at Harvard and I am grateful for the invitation which prompted me to look
at this. Customised versions have subsequently been given at Princeton U,
U Illinois, The BTAA Annual Conference at Purdue and at Xavier University
(the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians).
I am grateful for questions and discussion at those events.
@LorcanD
Hazen, D. (January 01, 2011). Lost in the Cloud Research Library Collections and Community in the Digital Age. Library Resources and Technical Services, 55, 4, 195-204.
https://journals.ala.org/lrts/article/view/5302
This is how we framed out the scholarly record in terms of nature and scope of what it might contain.
Start with published outcomes: the reporting of results, conclusions, ideas and so forth from a particular scholarly inquiry.
These outcomes are still the coin of the realm for scholarly activities, so they are privileged here at the center of the picture;
A lot of these outcomes take the form of text-based materials like books and journal articles, but often supplemented by additional materials such as video, graphics, and interactive programs.
Rest of scholarly record divided into two broad areas: process and aftermath
Process: process of scholarly inquiry; process by which outcomes are produced. Identified three categories of materials generated in this phase in which there is interest in including them as part of the scholarly record:
Method materials related to the methodology of scholarly inquiry (e.g., software, computer models, digital lab notebooks, sampling frames, experimental protocols, instrument calibrations)
Evidence raw materials/inputs to scholarly work (e.g., data sets, survey results, new or enhanced primary source documents, links to findings from other scholarly works);
Discussion refining and improving ideas, methods, conclusions (e.g., pre-prints, listserv/blog discussions, conference presentations, annotated commentary, grant proposals).
Anchoring outcomes directly to the methods employed, evidence used, and formative discussions conducted during the process of scholarly inquiry helps contextualize and deepen our understanding of these outcomes, facilitate replicability, and leverage results into new research.
Once the outcomes from a research project have been formally published or otherwise made available, scholarly activities surrounding that piece of work may still continue in the “aftermath” phase.
Activities in the aftermath phase may include Discussion (through similar channels as those in the process phase, but also post-publication formal reviews and commentary);
Revision published work can be revised in various ways (the work may be enhanced with additional findings; errors may be corrected or clarifications made, etc.)
Re-use (the work may be edited or re-packaged into new forms, such as conference presentations, summaries, blog posts, versions for the “popular media”, etc.).
Not saying that everything discussed here will end up in the scholarly record. But picture represents the maximal scope and depth of materials regarding which there is increasing interest in systematic collection and curation.
Note that some of the materials in the outlying components are becoming or might become outcomes in their own right. Data sets are a good example: in some disciplines the publication of an important data set is now considered a first-class scientific outcome.
More on the evolving scholarly record:
Lavoie, Brian, Eric Childress, Ricky Erway, Ixchel Faniel, Constance Malpas, Jennifer Schaffner, and Titia van der Werf. 2014. The Evolving Scholarly Record. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research.
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-scholarly-record-2014.pdf.
A Publisher's New Job Description
November 8, 2012 Donald Hawkins Charleston Conference Blog
http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/11/a-publishers-new-job-description/
More on facilitated collections:
Dempsey, L., (2016). Library collections in the life of the user: two directions. LIBER Quarterly. 26(4). DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10170
Meanings of the library today.
John Price Wilkin.
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/79053
Various group-scale arrangements have emerged to support collective collection management across the spectrum from owned to facilitated collections.
Significantly, there is not a single group-scale arrangement that can solve for all of these problems.
What is the optimum scale for group action? It appears to vary…
For shared print management, we see a variety of group-scale efforts that leverage existing consortial partnerships, as well as built-to-purpose groups.
For research data management, there is a mix of institution-scale infrastructure and a growing range of group-scale options.
Is the scale the same for each? Can we expect a single group to support the whole range of shared stewardship objectives?
OCUL offers a wide range of group-scale operations – a locus for discussions about shared print (U of T Downsview project), local loading of licensed e collections, D2D [RACER, I think it is called], RDM…
Will it end up providing group-scale solutions for everything Ontario libraries need? Probably not. Intrinsic limits on ‘scalar advantage’ of a consortium.