Collection directions

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Collection directions

• ACCUL meeting, OCLC, March 27 2003
• Lorcan Dempsey, VP Research, OCLC
• http//www.oclc.org/research/

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Environment

• Changing patterns of behavior research,
  learning, cultural engagement
• Creating value
• Funding envelope?
• The scholarly and cultural record in a digital
  environment?

• Look at
• Special collections
• Research and learning
• Wide open web
• All the other stuff
• Books, journals, AI !!

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Reclaiming the special
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The Archival Research Center is a direct
outgrowth of the belief that primary resource
materials should be a major focal point of
instruction and research. . However, traditional
access to these materials is cumbersome and
labor-intensive and most institutions do not
allow copying. Digitizing these materials keeps
them alive and relevent for modern users (ARL
report)
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The return of the special

• There is growing appreciation among libraries
  that unique or rare materials
• are valuable research and learning resources
• have been underutilized.
• There is a growing interest in digitizing
  cultural heritage materials
• as it offers opportunities for releasing their
  value in new ways
• as a way of disclosing the memory and identity of
  communities.

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The engagement with research and learning
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Creative knowledge you can put in your pocket
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Knowledge bank OSU in planning
April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of
an OSU knowledge bank
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Research and learning

• Research and learning behavior is increasingly
  entering the network space
• Library resources need to be available at the
  appropriate stage within the learning or research
  environment
• New forms of engagement and support.
• Research and learning outputs will present major
  management and curatorial issues
• Institutions and faculty are interested in
  disclosing research and learning materials as
  part of the scholarly enterprise (OAI)

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Books, journals,

• Rich business apparatus. Commodity?
• Ease of access D2D
• Discovery ltgt locate ltgt request ltgt Delivery
• New directory services? Portal utilities.
• Reduce costs
• Increased interest in management information for
  collection development, collection management,
• Increased interest in outsourcing?
• Vanilla Collections?
• Emphasize service

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Licensed materials
Like many libraries, the UW Libraries has
struggled with how to effectively and efficiently
manage its growing licensed resources such as
e-journals, AI databases, and full-text
services. We were using a mix of locally
developed and maintained files and databases (in
file cabinets, on our intranet, etc.) to manage
our electronic resources. In a highly distributed
workflow and service provision environment, the
UW Libraries sought a way to integrate this
information with our local system and streamline
our processes.
Univ. Washington response. ARL survey.
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Licensed resources

• Commodity?
• Streamline discovery to delivery process
• Rights and linking
• Streamline management of licenses
• Portalization?
• Visibility and integration
• Value

provider perspective
user perspective
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Bought resources

• Provider
• Reduce cataloging cost
• Enhance records
• Streamline discovery to delivery process
• Resource sharing arrangements purchase
• Get better management information for resource
  sharing, collection management, collection
  development,

• User
• Richer access to wider resource

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Wide open web

• Ongoing interest in mediating access to
  high-quality Internet resources linked to other
  resources and interests of users
• Multiple local and shared initiatives

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Collections grid
stewardship
high
low
low
uniqueness
uniqueness
high
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Collections grid

• Manage commodity materials and services.
• Streamline discovery to delivery for print
  (bought) and digital (licensed) materials
• Management intelligence collection management
  and analysis
• Portal utilities (rights, directories)

• Digital content management/preservation
• Diverse metadata creation practice (hierarchical
  description, multiple standards and practices)
• Harvest of metadata?
• Extend knowledge organization approaches?