Place and space: Collections and access in light of changing patterns of research and learning: a schematic view

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Place and space Collections and access in light
of changing patterns of research and learning a
schematic view
Lorcan DempseyA community commons libraries in
the new century142nd ARL Membership Meeting, 15
May 2003University of Kentucky, Lexington
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Place Collection Service
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Overview
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Overview
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Collections grid
stewardship
high
low
low
uniqueness
uniqueness
high
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Some comments on the grid

• Grid is a mnemonic placed over complicated
  field
• Libraries and their environments now
• 5 years time?
• Credits
• Eric Childress (OCLC),
• Nancy McGovern (Cornell)

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The Archival Research Center is a direct
outgrowth of the belief that primary resource
materials should be a major focal point of
instruction and research. . However, traditional
access to these materials is cumbersome and
labor-intensive and most institutions do not
allow copying. Digitizing these materials keeps
them alive and relevant for modern users (ARL
report)
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Knowledge bank OSU in planning
April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of
an OSU knowledge bank
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Below the line

• There is growing appreciation among libraries
  that unique or rare materials
• are valuable research and learning resources
• have been underutilized.
• There is a growing interest in digitizing
  cultural heritage materials
• as it offers opportunities for releasing their
  value in new ways
• as a way of disclosing the memory and identity of
  communities.

• Research and learning behavior is increasingly
  entering the network space
• Library resources need to be available at the
  appropriate stage within the learning or research
  environment
• New forms of engagement and support.
• Research and learning outputs will present major
  management and curatorial issues
• Institutions and faculty are interested in
  disclosing research and learning materials as
  part of the scholarly enterprise (OAI)

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• Institutional maturity an industry and
  cooperative structures
• Structures under pressure

• Institutional immaturity organizational models
  for collective activity, reducing costs, etc, in
  development.

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• Manage commodity materials and services - cost.
• Streamline discovery to delivery for print
  (owned) and digital (licensed) materials
• Portalization and resource sharing
• Management intelligence collection management
  and analysis (print collections)
• Incentive to preserve?

• Institutional digital content management
• Immature (diverse metadata creation practice --
  hierarchical description, multiple standards and
  practices, diverse content management approaches)
• OAI? Shining a light on hidden resources.
• Extend knowledge organization approaches?
• Incentive to preserve?

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The example of metadata
stewardship
high
low
Books Journals
Freely-accessible web resources
MARC, Onix
Dublin Core
low
uniqueness
MARC, METS, EAD, DC, TEI
Special collections
high
Research and learning materials
DC, DDI, IEEE/LOM, FGDC, EAD, TEI, SCORM
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Trends
Scholarly communication
high
low
Books,Journals
Web
low
Specialcollections
Research Learning
high
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Trends
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ARL collections and access
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Some issues

• Different materials call forward different types
  of attention
• Selection
• Organization
• Collection management
• Securing access
• Preservation
• What is a collection?

• Responsibility to the scholarly record
• Licensed
• Below the line
• Print
• Fragmentation of knowledge technologies?
• Knowledge organization topics, places, names,
  educational standards, resource types
• Identifiers
• etc

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Library serviceenvironment
user environments
resource environment
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Hubs
All networks produced privileged places at
theirjunctions and access points.
William J Mitchell. e-topia. 2000.
the web pages to which we prefer to link are
not ordinary nodes. They are hubs. The better
known they are, the more links point to them.
We prefer hubs.
Alberto-Laszlo Barabasi. Linked. 2002.
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Hub

• Create hub?
• Project services into other hubs
• Reconfigureservices fine-grained

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Creative knowledge you can put in your pocket
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Thank you .
DempseyL_at_oclc.org www.oclc.org/research/