Libraries in the new network environment

Programs and research

Libraries in the new network environment

San Jose16 November 2007

Lorcan DempseyOCLC

Part 1

Part 2

Part 1:Environment

Getting thingsdone

Workflow

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Brand is the new real estate

Discovery happens

elsewhere

Chris Beckett http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html

The rich get richer

Then: the user built their workflow around the library

Now: the library must build its service around the user workflow

Then: resources were scarce and attention was abundant

Now: attention is scarce and resourcesare abundant

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libraryConsumer environmentsManagement environment

LicensedBought

Faculty&studentsDigitized Aggregations

Resource sharing

…

Institutional WorkflowPortals, CMS, IR, …

PersonalWorkflowRSS, toolbars, ..

Network level workflowGoogle, …

Integratedlocal user environment?Library web presenceResource sharing, …

Print Licensed Digital Research&

learningoutputs

…

Catalog MetasearchResolver

Repositories …

Repositories …ILS ERMKnowledgebase

…

Management environment

User environment

Switch: delivery, routing, resolution

PAUSE

Webscale …A library experience which matches the experience of the web?

RecombinantAdaptive

Navigation

Short path from discovery to fulfilment

Traverse from personal to global

Comprehensive

Machine interface:scale with use

Part 2:The catalog: from discovery to disclosure

Local Discovery Environments

Shared Discovery Environments Syndicated Discovery Environments Leveraged Discovery Environments

Remember: focus on catalog

Requiredisclosure

Local Discovery environment Some (not necessarily aligned) motivations

Make data work harder Integrate access to locally managed resources Escape from ILS limitations

NCSU Rochester SOLR Worldcat local Primo Encore …

Making data work harder: simple search followed by rich navigation and participation

Glancability

Some remarks

How does MARC data play with other data Subjects, authors, .. Historic investment in structure?

Duplicate cost? Relationship to Metasearch? Social and scale

Shared discovery environment

Increase impact Create gravitational pull Aggregate demand and supply

Reduce costs

Some comments

Integration of discovery to delivery becoming essential

A move to shared environments seems more likely with increased ability to ‘view’ different levels

Increased gravitational pull: greater use of collections Growing evidence

Integration of materials?

Syndicated discovery experience

Syndicate data or service or links

Syndicating services RSS Portlets APIs, Protocol-based

Projects Sakailibrary …

Not as rapid as one might expect?

Susan Hollar - Inside the Course at Michigan Diane Dallis - Inside the Course at Indiana

Sakaibrary:Michigan

Indiana

Some remarks

Syndication of data now common among data providers

Routing issue for non-unique materials Resolution Worldcat

Libraries exposing licensed content holdings interesting Google Scholar

Service disclosure less common APIs Web services Portlets HTML fragments – ‘search boxes’ Toolbars Widgets, extensions, …

Social?

The Leveraged discovery experience

In some ways the most interesting Use another discovery service to connect back to

your resources Compare to the situation with article databases

and resolvers

Some remarks

Some of these are toy-like now, but indicate a direction

Increased capacity to ‘sense’ structure (microformats) will improve ability.

So …

How to get to webscale User environment Management environment

A new balance between Institutional development Shared activities

How to most release value in research and learning lives of users

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