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Cultural heritage and the future of librariesBert Looper, Tresoar, The Netherlands

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Taskforce libraries, archives,

museumsBert Looper, Ann Pedersen, Oleg Kreymer

1. Strategic visions in the field of cultural heritage

2. Organizational models

3. The position of OCLC

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Strategic visions

• User driven

• Integrality of information

• Searchability

Cultural heritage as a crowbar for societal innovation

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Innovation in the domain of

cultural heritage

Strategic level

* Valorization/big data

* Societal relevance

* Creative industry

* Empowerment

* E-culture

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Innovation in the domain of

cultural heritage

• Operational level

* Budget cuts

* Efficiency

* Merging

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Cooperation matrix

Meeting

Cooperation

Coordination

Convergence

Merging

Activities Facilities Back

office

Information

systems

Mission

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New tendencies

1. Paradox of information-management

* Libraries: decontextualisation

* Archives: contextualisation

2. Standardization

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The future

Organizational

• National archives and national libraries as knowledge

centres in their own domain

• Academic libraries as worldwide community

• Public libraries and archives as local/regional memory

institutions

Information

• Standardization/open linked data

• Cultural heritage hubs

• Shared mission

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