What role do libraries have in the future digital world?

A Librarian’s PerspectiveJohn Garraway

Future of the Book Conference25 June 2009

What has a digital world enabled libraries to do?

Go global

The World Library Catalogue

A national showcase for the richness of New Zealand’s

publishing output

National Library of New Zealand: Publications New Zealand: Home

Make NZ digital content easier to find, share, and use

Home Page - DigitalNZ

License access to quality e-resources

Electronic Purchasing In Collaboration Consortium : Consortium Member Libraries

Identity managed access

Digital Library - Auckland City Libraries

What is a library?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library

Opportunities for the publishing industry

Leveraging library initiatives

Global exposure in the World catalogue

Buy nowfrom the Publishing Showcase

Commercial content repositoryfor Digital NZ

Collaborative aggregation service for licensing NZ content worldwide

Open, Closed, Restricted accesscan be managed by libraries

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Donate/Now/en

GLAM - Wikimedia Australia

j.garraway@auckland.ac.nz