CDL strategic activity domains

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CHANGING BOUNDARIES
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• PRESENTATION Purpose and Focus
• Identify/Explore Issues (5 10 Year
  Timeframe)
• Organizing Influence (Next 2 Days)
• Focus on Impact of New Technologies
• Stimulate Discussion
• Reorganize our Collective Thinking
• Sustained and Focused Thinking and
  Experimentation

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• PRESENTATION Content
• Personal and Environmental Perspectives
• Assumptions/Beliefs
• Changing Boundaries
• Your Thinking

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• PERSPECTIVE Personal
• 1980s IAIMS, WML, OMIM, GDB
• 1990s - UCSF, Red Sage, California Digital
  Library
• 2000s - Integration of Information Place and
• Information Space

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PERSPECTIVE Personal

Transformation
Innovation
Continuity
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• PERSPECTIVE ENVIRONMENT
• CONTINUING PRESSURES
• Increasing Costs/Business Model
• Information Explosion
• Variety and Scope of User Needs and
  Demands
• REVOLUTION vs EVOLUTION
• Teaching and Learning
• Research and Scholarship
• Publishing
• CONVERGENCE and OPPORTUN ITY
• Critical Mass of Content, Users, and
• Enabling Technologies

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Assumption Our Business Advance
Scholarship, Support Excellence in Teaching,
Foster Learning, and Promote Service to the
public through the comprehensive management of
scholarly content
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Assumption Content Mgmt Functions
Knowledge Management
Consultation, Education, Service
Information Transfer
Collection, Storage, Preservation, Access
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Knowledge Management
Social and Technological System Generation
of new Knowledge through its dissemination
and use
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Assumption Our Autonomy
It is clear that the
current unit of analysis - the (individual)
library - cannot survive in the existing
environment. Leveraging is clearly
called for...at the largest system-level
possible. While associations of campuses,
consortia, and other groupings will alleviate
the problem, the best solution is found
when no system or national boundaries are
limiting factors.
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Assumption Our Autonomy
All successful content
initiatives involve several levels of
collaboration, from local to global
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Assumption Model Transition

OWNERSHIP (Building and Collection
Model)
ACCESS (Service Model)
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Assumption Scientific Communication
The Art and Practice of Scholarship
The Challenge to
Experiment Perhaps the only prediction that can
be made with confidence is that scientific
publishing is in the early part of a turbulent
era unlike anything it has experienced since the
invention of movable type. The turbulence is not
likely to abate soon, for technological
innovation will suggest alternative ways of
doing things. Which innovations will be adopted
or adapted probably depends on how well they fit
established academic ways, and on such factors
as cost, ease of use, retrievability of
information, and durability of storage... On
such matters, there is simply not yet enough
experience.
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Assumption Changing User Behavior

• Information Improvisation
• Seamless movement between recreation and
  work
• Prompt Gratification
• Alternation between linear and radial
  pathways
• Insufficient attention to structural
  differences

SUSTAINED STUDY NEEDED
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Assumption Stability and Change

• Academic Library is a Catalyst
• AGENT OF CHANGE
• Ambiguity characterizes
• environment for setting directions
• and determining strategies

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Assumption Changing Boundaries


Continuous Loss, Blurring, and Movement of
Boundaries Promotes Fluidity and Makes it
Difficult To Assess and Understand the
Situation
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Changing Boundaries

Collection Management
Content Management
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Changing Boundaries

Static
Dynamic
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Changing Boundaries

Content
Access
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Changing Boundaries

Data
Metadata
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Changing Boundaries

Content
Technology
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Changing Boundaries

Content
Service
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Changing Boundaries

Reference
Content Management
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Changing Boundaries

Service
Tool
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Changing Boundaries

Sharing Collections
Shared Collections
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Changing Boundaries

Special Collections
Born Digital Content
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Changing Boundaries

Preservation
Persistent Access
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Changing Boundaries

Academic Content
Institutional Content
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Changing Boundaries

Local Clientele
Distributed Clientele
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Changing Boundaries

Content Creators
Content Providers
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Changing Boundaries

Content Users
Content Providers
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Changing Boundaries

Role of the Scholar
Role of the Librarian
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Changing Boundaries

Scholarship
Librarianship
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Changing Boundaries

Content Creators
Content Users
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Changing Boundaries

Traditional Media
New Media
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Changing Boundaries

Ownership
Service
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Changing Boundaries
Challenges
Political Organizational Business
Information Policies Technological Cultural