Information Management in a Knowledge Society

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Information Management in a Knowledge Society

• Thomas Hickey
• OCLC

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OCLC

• Founded 1967
• Nonprofit membership organization
• gt 50,000 libraries
• 84 countries
• 1,000 employees
• Cataloging
• Interlibrary Loan
• Preservation
• Dewey Decimal Classification
• netLibrary
• FirstSearch

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Challenges to Libraries

• Progression of digitization
• Data
• Metadata
• Reference
• Journals
• Books
• Better communication

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Better Communication

• Easier to ask questions
• Searching
• Cell phones
• Ubiquitous computing

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Better Communication The Web

• Easy to access
• Easy to participate
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Libraries
• Easier ways of obtaining and sharing information

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Progression of digitization

• Data
• Metadata
• Reference
• Journals
• Books

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Digitization of Metadata

• Made OCLC possible
• Made sharing possible
• Better metadata
• Faster metadata
• Cheaper metadata
• Reduced redundancy
• Made A I services possible
• Search for articles
• Alert services
• Increased use of literature
• Remote access to holdings of libraries

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Digitization of Reference Works

• Made encyclopedias cheap
• Dictionaries a service
• Remote usage of library materials

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Digitization of Journals

• Access at your desk
• Usage of physical collections negligible
• Still not seamless access

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Digitization of Music

• Went digital for fidelity, cost
• Rights management a problem
• Portability unforeseen

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Digitization of Books

• Google Print, Million Books Project
• Millions of volumes
• Instant access
• Physical collection use?
• Not quite the same as serials, encyclopedias,
  metadata
• What about mindshare?

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Combination Digitization Communication

• Reinforce each other
• Access promotes use
• Use promotes better access

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Trend Towards Centralization

• Metadata creation
• Searching
• Management
• Group catalogs
• Circulation, interlibrary loan
• Not just metadata
• Electronic subscriptions
• Local -gt consortia -gt national

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Where do Libraries Fit?

• Technology support

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Social Aspects?
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Preservation

• Institutional repositories
• Local digitization
• Local support
• Publishing
• MIT DSpace
• Cornell DPubS
• 24x7 support

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