The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services'

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The network reconfigures the library people and
places, collections and services.

• Lorcan Dempsey
• The University of Iowa,
• February 21, 2008

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Picture Robin Alston
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a hive-like dome
Louis MacNeice
Private and social
Collection and catalogue
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Space
Expertise
Collections
Systems and services

• Then vertically integrated around collection
• Now moving apart in network environment
• New skills .

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High touch service

• Place

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Place

• Place
• Space infused with value
• How has the value changed over time?
• Engagement with collections, expertise and
  services?

• Space
• Opportunity costs
• Valuable real estate
• Growing pressure in many environments
• New spaces

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Place

• Infrastructure -gt customer relations
• Higher value activity
• Access to scarce resources people, equipment,
  specialist advice, exhibition,
• Individual, group, social

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These student comments suggest that good study
space is responsive to the academic and social
dimensions of study in ways that allow students
to control them both.
Scott Bennett
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Gleason Library U Rochester Photos S. Gibbons
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engage with the learning processPartnership

• Place

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New directions

• Collections

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Collections grid
STEWARDSHIP
high
low

• Books
• Journals
• Newspapers
• Gov. docs
• CD, DVD
• Maps
• Scores

• Freely-accessible web resources
• Websites
• Open source software
• Newsgroup archives

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UNIQUENESS

• Research, learning and administrative
• materials,
• ePrints/tech reports
• Learning objects
• Courseware
• E-portfolios
• Research data
• Institutional records
• Reports, newsletters, etc

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• Special collections
• Rare books
• Local/Historical newspapers
• Local history materials
• Archives Manuscripts,
• Theses dissertations

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Trends

• Mass digitization and off-site storage
• Licensed rented
• Special collections onto the web
• Thematic collections of web resources
• Research, learning and administrative materials
  published on the web
• The new special collections.

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Thematic research collections
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Beyond books

• It is only when we translate the old style-based
  thinking and language of historians into new
  modes of representation that we can begin to
  grasp the complex relationships between
  architectural production and the creation of
  cultural identities.
• Stephen Murray, Columbia University

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Then E. Viollet Le Duc Dictionnaire raisonné de
l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe
siècle (1874) (1st American Ed. 1875)
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Now Interactive, multi-dimensional navigation
of a networked resource
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• Published materials discourse
• Primary materials evidence
• Interpreted materials exhibition

• Library
• Archive
• Museum

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negotiation engagement with researchers and
learners as creatorsarchival practice
institutional assetsinterpretation and
exhibition

• Collections

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The person is an entry point

• Expertise

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Source Susan Gibbons, U Rochester
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Improve university research and learning
capacitiespublishinginterpreting available
resources in terms of specific research and
learning needsspecialist consultancy GIS,
metadata, IPR, Marketing and assessment
understand needs and develop services to meet
those needs

• Expertise

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In the flow

• Services and systems

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Integrated local user environment? Library web
presence Resource sharing,
library
Consumer environments
Management environment
Bought
Licensed
Faculty students
Digitized
Aggregations Resource sharing
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Discovery happens elsewhere
Resources are abundant attention scarce
Build services around workflow
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Now Federated access to multi-institutional
holdings with support for personal
collection-building and sharing
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Support for faculty and student
gather/create/sharePlacing the library in the
flowdigital asset managementmore
sophisticated sourcing decisions

• Systems and services

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value translation showing the value of the
library in the context of the values of the home
institutionSecure resources Create conditions
for success

• Leadership

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