Elsevier Solutions for the Digital Library

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Elsevier Solutions for the Digital Library

• Geoffrey Adams
• Director, IT Solutions
• Global Sales Organization

Part III Future Developments in Digital
Libraries Japan, May 2003
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Overview

• Background
• Key Factors Presently Affecting The Libraries
• Key Trends in Library Development
• Implications for Solution Providers

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Remember This?
For 500 years Librarians Dealt With this.
Print publication by the brothers Elsevier,
Leyden, The Netherlands, 364 years ago
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Three Hundred Years Later
But in the Last Twenty They Had to Deal With This
Also
And Its Changed Everything!
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The Digital Tsunami

• Digital Technology has Changed Everything
• The Use of the Library
• Role of the Library in the Institution
• Control of Access to Information
• A New Generation Has Radically New Expectations
• We Do Not Have All The Answers Anymore (e.g.
  Digital Preservation)

..and the technology itself continues to change
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Fundamental Technology Changes

• In Just a Very Few Years
• Format
• TIFF PDF SGML XML - ?????
• Distribution
• Online Database CD ROM Internet - ?????
• Solutions
• Local Remote Hybrid - ?????
• Content
• Journal Articles MRWs Born Digital Hybrids -
  ?????
• Devices
• Dumb Terminals PCs PDAs eBooks ?????

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Other Key Factors Presently Affecting Libraries

•           Static or Declining Budgets
•           Declining Enrolment at Library Schools
  
•           Demands For Greater Accountability
•           Emergence of A New Generation of Users

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Key Trends in Library Development

• Focus on User Self-Sufficiency.
• An Ever Increasing Use of Digital Materials.  
• Changing Role Within the Institution
• Re-thinking the Librarys Physical Space
• Development of Institutional Repositories
• Moving Beyond Basic Digital Capabilities
• Searches for Other Sources of Funding.
• Renewed Focus on Preservation and Archives.
• Authentication and Entitlements.

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Implications for Solution Providers

• Architectural Implications
• Search Engine Implications 
• Discovery and Navigation Considerations 
• User Tools  
• Library Management Support 
• ELearning
• Library Budgets

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Library Systems Architecture
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A Final Thought..

• Perhaps the most significant challenge is that
  the universe of materials that a library must
  assess, manage and disseminate is not simply
  shifting to a new set or type of materials, but
  rather building into a much more complex universe
  of new and old, commodity and unique, published
  and unpublished, physical and virtual.
• Five Year Information Format Trends
• OCLC Library Information Center Report,
  March 2003

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Thank you