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Academic library 2.0
Professor Derek Law University of Strathclyde
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Action Man Available from All Good Bookshops..
Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance
man. He was a master of painting, science,
language and the inspiration for Leonardo Di
Caprios name
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The End of Libraries
The Librarians and Libraries that do not accept
the change will inevitably be victims of the
evolution. For the dinosaurs it will indeed be
the end. James Thompson We are already very
close to the day in which a great science
Library could exist in a space Less than 10 feet
square F W Lancaster

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The Threat to Libraries

• The absence of the Boolean gene
• Community Centres without books
• Amazoogle, iTunes, AbeBooks, eBay and Paypal
• Wikis and Social Information Hubs

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What if. . .
Users have materially changed?
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• They have grown up with bottled water.
• Thanks to MySpace and Facebook, autobiography can
  happen in real time.
• They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and
  Malcolm X from Spike Lee.
• High definition television has always been
  available.
• They grew up with and have outgrown faxing as a
  means of communication.
• "Google" has always been a verb.
• Virtual reality has always been there when the
  real thing failed.
• Ctrl Alt Del is as basic as ABC.
• Computers have always fit in their backpacks.
• Stores have always had scanners at the checkout.
• They have always had a PIN number.
• They don't remember when "cut and paste involved
  scissors.
• Bill Gates has always been worth at least a
  billion dollars.

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A sustainable social network for life.
80 of all college and University students In
North America.
95 of students in clients like U of Toronto,
NCSU, Stanford, etc.
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Reminder 200,000-250,000 A DAY!
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Reminder 15 million daily users, and 30 billion
page views a month
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The power of libraries
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From authority to consensus

• 57 of teenagers create content for the
  Internet
• - 62 of content created by users under
  age 21
• is generated by someone they know
• - 73 of students use the internet more
  than
• the library

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The Failure of Librarians

• Making the technology work too well
• Lack of underpinning philosophy
• Rise of the managerial technocrat
• Failure to engage with e-resources
• Complacency

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Cabinets of curiosities
Scottish Antarctic Expedition
C.A.I.N.
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Classic Technology Adoption
Where Are We?
Source Geoffrey Moore. Crossing the Chasm,
1991.
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The Threat to Librarians

• Deskilling
• The British Library approach of specialised
  skills
• No distinctive professional voice
• - Until terrorism, the Patriot Act, and the
  Terrorism Bill
• 4. libraries are a source of power, this power
  deriving principally from the fact that libraries
  are the storehouses of knowledge and the
  repositories of the records of mankinds
  achievements and discoveries.

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The response of Librarians
New Buildings. Reshaped roles New roles
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Architectural Statement

• the library was a great space filled with
  interesting things to look at and useful spaces,
  but far too subtle for an obvious functional
  space like a public library.

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Airport Terminal

The Book Bunker it has long strips of study
and office space that is organized around a
central hall.
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The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen

A glittering building with resonances of the
North. An inviting, finely-landscaped public
square, drawing the visitor in to a spacious,
light and airy ground-floor plaza, with luminous
views up through the open atrium, and connecting
the lively public spaces of the café, exhibition
and event area with the monumental foundation of
our historical collections below and the
flexible, functional, bookstacks and study areas
of the floors above the whole crowned by a 
roof terrace looking out over the campus and
coastline, connecting the library with the
community it serves.
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Cafeteria and Student Centre

The Saltire Centre is a learning centre.  It
links the teaching blocks on campus, providing
easy access to 1800 places to study including a
600 seat learning café, 500 computers and 150
laptops to borrow and use anywhere. 
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Reshaped roles

• Financial guardian
• Selector and acquirer
• Seamless access
• Educator on differentiation
• Management of datasets
• Intellectual asset manager

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The Long Tail of QUESTIONS
libraries
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New roles

• Primary sources and IPR Manager
• Research data collection
• Information arbitrage
• Training (Laws Second Law)
• Kitemarking as a trusted selector

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Taken from Dempsey, L.The (Digital) Library
Environment Ten Years After http//www.ariadne.a
c.uk/issue46/dempsey/
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Taken from Dempsey, L.The (Digital) Library
Environment Ten Years After http//www.ariadne.a
c.uk/issue46/dempsey/
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CybraryCity2
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Second Life Library eBooks
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What if. . .
You can find 15,000,000 books through the Google
5 and the Open Content Alliance?
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What if. . .
Does your 5 year plan consider this eventuality?
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What if. . .
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An easy seamless DRM Payment system develops
through PayPal / Verisign / eBay / Google
Checkout?
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What if. . .
The entire entertainment world mutates?
Streaming everything everywhere.
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Podcasting
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Video iPod etc.
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What if. . .
Google Scholar, Google College and MS Live
Academic actually work really well?
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Great Expectations

• The future is already here, its just not evenly
  distributed yet.

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Pandora
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Its an Information Ocean,
not a Highway.
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Darlene Fichter, 2006
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Summary

• Users are moving to a just enough mode
• Social networking platforms are growing in
  importance
• Hubs are attracting key developments
• Libraries need to work on the theory of
  e-collections and their aggregation

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Options for libraries

• Building e-Research collections and contributing
• to a virtual research environment
• Importance of kite marking, quality assurance
• and relevance ranking
• 3. Managing institutional IPR
• 4. Co-created services across sectors?
• - Providing infrastructure to bring sellers
  and
• consumers together
• 5. Training

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