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The
Necessary links among collections, services, and
infrastructure in Cybraries

• Michael A. Keller
• Women in Science Future of Libraries
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• 24 October 2007

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Libraries and Academic Computing A Holistic View
Authorization
Authentication
Data Center
Application
Web
Database
Storage
Network
Administration
Security
Identity Management
Content Management
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Libraries and Academic Information Resources
Collaboration Tools
eScience
Shibboleth
Grid computing
Authorization
Authentication
Sakai Framework and tools
Data Center
Application
Web
Database
Storage
Evolving security infrastructure
Network
Administration
Mass Storage
Security
Identity Management
Opaque identifiers
ePortfolio
Digital Rights Management
Portal Framework for personalized view
Digital Archives
Google Book Search
Content Management
WWW Services
Federated Search
Audio/Visual Content
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Why a Cybrary Competitive Edges

• Save faculty students time extend their reach
  when searching
• Serve information resources services 7x24
  anywhere
• Keep pace with scholarship in the digital age
  engage new disciplines, new methods, new modes of
  publication
• Develop better information resources and
  services, more tightly tuned to individual
  faculty research teaching
• Contribute to interdisciplinarity, new
  developing academic objectives
• Leverage traditional commercial efforts to
  provide a library of the quality demanded by
  scholars
• Reduce capital expenditures on central campus
  library facilities

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Megatrends

• Revolutionizing the Academic Information Space
• Mass custom digitization
• E-publishing born digital materials
• Data as a reusable resource
• Digital Preservation
• New forms of Discovery
• New (digital) methods of Scholarship
• Network support of teaching course management
  systems for local and distant learning
• Reduction of digital divide (proceeding fitfully,
  but a priority)

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3 Components (in gross)

• Content
• Locally developed (courses, products
  by-products of scholarship)
• Digitized by home institution
• Digitized by others using many libraries
  holdings
• Acquired by gift, purchase or lease from others
• Services
• Supporting faculty students directly
• Course management systems, publishing, research
  collaboration
• Reference bibliographic instruction
• Research assistance
• Digitization on demand (free service
  cost-recovery)
• Providing environments tools to analyze, study
  present content
• Building collections (selection distribution)
• Preservation of e-objects for re-use and re-mix
  over decades/centuries
• Infrastructure
• Back of the house operations (acquisition,
  description, searching, browsing)
• Local cybraries (creation, evolution, operation
  maintenance of reliable consistent i.t.
  environment for digital library digital
  archive)
• Local digital archives repositories (ingest,
  preserve, provide access), federated

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The Cybrary
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The Cybrary
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The Stanford Cybrary Current Investment 43M
(21.2M base)
GBS 391k base, 636k ot Spec Coll Media Pres
646k base 15.5M ot in toto
686k annual
6.4M LMB base 1.0M LMB ot 5.5M staff base
1.6M annual 3M one-time in toto
1.4M base (200k new from BG) 511k ot
4.6M base (880k new from BG) 966k ot
2.8M base 2.6M ot in toto
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Scholarship Evolves Quickly in the Digital Age
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The Challenge of Abundance
lt750 hits visible of 1.28M Relevance of results???
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Three Accelerants for the Growth of Data on Campus

• Mandatory Deposit of Articles
• led by the National Institute of Health and the
  National Library of Medicine
• Mandatory Deposit of Data
• clear and strong recommendation by the National
  Science Board
• National Science Foundation beginning to agitate
• Realization that Data is an (Institutional) Asset
• can serve multiple research groups
• can be impossible or costly to replace
• has led to the growth of institutional and
  discipline-specific repositories
• Therefore, libraries needs to build out its
  institutional repositories

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The underpinnings infrastructure
Archive
discovery
retrieve
ingestion
Access
Digital Library Infrastructure (Content
Management Middleware)
Digital Archive / Repository (Preservation
Infrastructure)
Identify
Track
Manage
Report
Ingest
Preserve
Hardware Infrastructure
Storage
Servers
Firewalls
Network
Data Center
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The Challenge of Digital Preservation

• Bit rot
• Obsolescence
• Format
• Technology
• Distribution and dissipation
• Migrations and transitions
• People (2 20 years)
• Software (5 10 years)
• Hardware (3 5 years)

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Space Physical Digital
100,000 books _at_ 10 volumes per linear foot more
than 1.38 miles of shelving - OR - _at_ 150
MB/book 15 TB of disk, or 1 foot of servers (
capacity increases 40 per year!)
400,000 books
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The library as a place

• Learning and study spaces for individual and
  collaborative study
• Content, expertise, technology in common spaces
• Still, and for a (some) time to come, access to
  physical collections, especially emerging
  information and rare materials.
• Virtual places in the Cybrary, including course
  management systems virtual collaboration for
  research, teaching and scholarship publication
• Opportunities bookless libraries,
  experimental/virtual classrooms labs will be
  modeled for new modes of learning, teaching and
  scholarship, as well as reduced capital costs
• Opportunities network-based collaboration
  frameworks more than just classes
• Opportunities employ web 2.0 technologies

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Widening Spectra

• More variation
• Rising tide lifts many, but not all boats
• Both/And conundrum not just traditional, but
  digital as wellnot, NOT either/or