T E C H N O L O G Y T R E N D S

I N A C A D E M I C L I B R A R I E S

A A R O N TAY

L I B R A RY A N A LY T I C S M A N AG E R

S I N G A P O R E M A N AG E M E N T U N I V E R S I T Y

10 YEARS AGO (2007)

• Iphone (2007)

•Web scale discovery (2009)

•Mendeley (2008)

•ResearchGate/Academia.edu (2008)

• “Altmetrics” coined (2010)

•Library automation + Cloud (2010s)

GENERAL DIRECTION OR FASHION?

HIGH LEVEL TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS

RDM

Analytics

AI/Machine learning

DATA IS THE TREND

http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/Colorful-Compact-Cd-Rom-Bytes-Data-Dvd-Disc-Copy-315546

ARTICLES VS DATA

Articles Data sets Activity

Access

Discovery

Management

Storage

Publication

Web scale discovery

Subscriptions

Reference Manager

Preprint servers/

Institution repositories

Use

r C

reato

r

JCR, Times cited etc

Data repositories/data

journals/API/SPARQL

DMP/Data wrangling/visualization

tools/GIS/Electronic lab notebooks,

data repositories

Acknowledgement Citations

Evaluation

Journals

altmetrics

Citations

Libraries need to get better at managing

and using our own data and teaching users

to manage data or face irrelevance.

INTERNAL VS EXTERNAL

Data literacy

Infrastructure for data storage/preservation

Data studios

Dashboards

Self Service analytics

Data warehouse/Lakes

Open Access/Open Data/ Open

Science

DEMAND FOR TEACHING OF TOOLS

DATA STUDIO

http://library.duke.edu/data/ http://lib.calpoly.edu/outloud/tag/cal-poly-data-studio/

http://library.nyu.edu/spaces/data-services-lab//

ANALYTICS – THE NEXT GOLD RUSH?

LIBRARY DASHBOARDS

LIBRARY DASHBOARDS

• http://www.athenaeum21.com/single-post/2016/03/01/University-of-California-Davis-and-

Athenaeum21-Define-an-Open-Research-Library-Assessment-Dashboard-and-Toolkit-to-

Centralize-Visibility-into-Diverse-Library-Data-Sources

VISUAL BASED EXPLORATION PARADIGM + SELF SERVICE ANALYTICS

LIBRARY SPECIFIC

https://www.springshare.com/libinsight/

RISE OF ANALYTICS SERVICES

https://www.redlink.com

http://jusp.jisc.ac.uk/about/

http://remotexs.in/remotexs http://www.1science.com/oafigr.html

FREEMIUM MODEL + SALE OF ANALYTICS

SPACE ANALYTICS

http://measurethefuture.net/ SMU Live Lab analytics

SPACE ANALYTICS – EXTREME?

The map of library with seat occupancy status overlay colour.

LEARNING ANALYTICS

DATA ANALYTICS GETTING EASIER?

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics

Platforms 16 Feb 2017

NLB (SINGAPORE) DATA WAREHOUSE

• https://www.cscollege.gov.sg/Knowledge/Pages/A-Smarter-Library-Using-Data-Analytics-to-Improve-Resource-Management-and-Services-at-NLB-.aspx

http://er.educause.edu/articles/2012/7/discovering-the-impact-

of-library-use-and-student-performance

University of Wollongong Library Cube

AI/MACHINE LEARNING IS COMING

IBM WATSON -MACHINE LEARNING + REFERENCE

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-

business/industry-news/the-law-page/u-of-t-students-

artificially-intelligent-robot-signs-with-dentons-law-

firm/article25898779/

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2016/12/build-chat-bot/

YENO - MACHINE LEARNING + DISCOVERY

https://www.cscollege.gov.sg/Knowledge/Pages/A-Smarter-Library-Using-Data-Analytics-to-Improve-

Resource-Management-and-Services-at-NLB-.aspx

MACHINE LEARNING + COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

“Using the DA to provide an aggregated demand

forecast to the CP component, NLB makes use of

optimisation technology to plan NLB's lending

collections — determining the category mix in each

public library that will maximise the volume of

loans made by users. “

INTELLIGENT AGENT + LIBRARY

Thank you!

musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com

Aarontay@gmail.com

@aarontay