Networks and libraries

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Networks and libraries

• Lorcan Dempsey
• Versions of this
• presentation were given
• at
• JISC Conference
• Birmingham
• 15 April 2008
• and
• UKOLN 30th Anniversary
• British Library
• 10 April 2008

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The real Web 2.0
Concentration Scale matters
Diffusion Spread matters
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Then Attention abundant resources scarce
Now Attention scarce resources abundant
Then users built workflow around libraries
Now library must build services around user
workflow
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Discovery happens elsewhere
Gather, create, share
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Diffusion
Network level website - workflow
Concentration
The BIG squeeze
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The replication of tens of thousands of
independent data centers, all using similar
hardware, running similar software, and employing
similar kinds of workers, has imposed severe
penalties on the economy. It has led to the
overbuilding of IT assets in almost every sector
of industry, dampening the productivity gains
that can spring from computer automation.

• Computational capacity Amazon web
  services, Google Apps
• Process/workflow Salesforce.com,
  serials solution,
• Functional platforms ebay, google,
  worldcat.org, ..

The BIG switch
Nick Carr WW Norton 2008
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Specific local Value A presence on the web
concentration and diffusion Library
LogisticsInstitutionalasset management
Four challenges
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Specific local Value A presence on the web
concentration and diffusion Library
LogisticsInstitutionalasset management
Four challenges
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• DestinationGravitational pull
• Syndication
• Data
• Search engines
• Services
• Social networks
• Other institutional services

On the web
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Remove redundancies and create systemwide
efficiencies
Library logistics

• Find it/get it
• Collective collection
• Print
• Digital
• Syndication
• ERM

Shared Services?
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