The Digital Library Biography:The Next Chapter is Being Written Now!
Suzanne E. ThorinUniversity Dean of Libraries and
Associate Vice President for Digital Library DevelopmentIndiana UniversityJanuary 11, 2005
Looking back…
Looking back…
Looking back…
Fast forward…
Fast forward…
Fast forward…
Off-site Storage Facilities
Cornell University
Indiana University
Yale University
Reduced Need for Some Print Materials CIC (Committee on Institutional
Cooperation or Big Ten) libraries print journal pilot Obtaining only one jointly-owned print
copy of all Wiley and Springer Kluwer journals beginning in 2005 and using electronic version for most purposes
Indiana University Libraries and the Indiana State Library are planning for combined print government document collections
Reduced Need for Some Print Materials—cont’d California Digital Library (http://www.cdlib.org/)
The University of California campuses are exploring shared print collections. To assess the feasibility of such a policy, the libraries on each campus began a pilot project in 2003 that includes Elsevier and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications. The Elsevier collection includes only journals, but the ACM collection includes journals, monographs, and non-print formats.
Courseware
ANGEL—Penn State
Sakai Project
https://cms.psu.edu/frameIndex.htm
http://www.sakaiproject.org/
ANGEL
Sakai Project
The Sakai Project is a $6.8M community source software development project founded by the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project is producing open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software.
Sakai Partners andSEPP Members Sakai Project Founders
Indiana University JA-SIG MIT OKI Stanford University University of Michigan
ARL SEPP Members: Arizona State University Brown University Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth Georgetown University Harvard University Johns Hopkins University New York University Northwestern University
Ohio State University Princeton University State University of New York University of Arizona University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Barbara University of Colorado at Boulder University of Delaware University of Hawaii University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign University of Oklahoma University of Texas, Austin University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin, Madison Yale University
Supporting the ClassSupporting the Class
Supporting the LabSupporting the Lab
Millennial or NextGen Students
NextGen Expectations
OpenOpen
24/724/7Open
Open
24/724/7
Emerging Library Servicesfor Faculty Indiana University—Research Commons
Mission: “We envision a physical environment where faculty and graduate students can consult with Libraries’ and IT staff about substantive aspects of their research, both print and digital. They would gain knowledge about new and traditional research tools and digital content as well as learn how to use, create, manipulate, and preserve research data. Services would be available through walk-in consultation and via the Web and telephone. These services will support the University’s mission in scholarly and artistic creativity, and would serve the University’s diverse array of scholars, artists, and clinicians.”
Emerging Library Servicesfor Faculty Indiana University—Research Commons
Services: General Information Service Reference and Research Collections Digital Media Production, Delivery, Archiving, and
Online Delivery of Text and Information Research Compliance, Intellectual Property, and
Technology Transfer Data Analysis and Advanced Computation Collaboration and Visualization Software Support and Distribution and Support for
Scholarly Writing
Renovated Library Spaces for Faculty and Grad Students
Indiana University Research Commons
Emerging Library Servicesfor Faculty University of Michigan—Duderstadt Center
http://www.ummu.umich.edu/duderstadt/Welcome.htm
Emerging Library Servicesfor Faculty Duderstadt Center– Opened in1996, the
Center is a special place to provide faculty and students with the tools and collaborative space for creating the future. The Center houses the Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library, the College of Engineering Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), the Digital Media Commons, and the Millennium Project. The Mujo Cafe provides a space for refreshment and social interaction.
Online Research and Publishing
The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive with thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County Pennsylvania. The Valley Project tells forgotten stories of life during the era of the Civil War.
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
Online Research and Publishing
Eserver.org provides an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities. Now based at Iowa State University, it offers 45 collections on such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues.
Online Research and Publishing
arXiv.org e-Print archive
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
Online Research and Publishing
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is proposing to make research articles available to the public free of charge on PubMed Central (PMC) within six months after publication in a scientific journal.
http://www.nih.gov/
The Young Digital Library
Origins Mission Leadership and Ownership Organizational Location
Funding Characteristics
Innovation Quest for “Killer Apps” Competition
The Maturing Digital Library
Characteristics Interest in Modular Systems Architecture Desire for Common Standards Focus on the User
Technical and Organizational Integration Marketing and Promotion
The Adult Digital Library
Digital Libraries as Infrastructure Move Toward Permanent Funding Continued Experimentation Deep Interdependency
Off-Campus On-Campus
Competition Within the University Archiving University Information Instructional Technologies
Transforming Impacts
“The transforming impacts of information technology cannot be confined to the library but imply a fundamental reorganization of the host institution.… To recognize the new conception of the library is to recognize and accept the inevitability of a new conception of the university.”
The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resourcesfor the 21st Century by Patricia Battin and Brian L. Hawkins
Next Challenges
“…the next challenges will surely include the ability of the research library to imbed itself ever more deeply in the scholarly environment and in the transformational change that will occur from the pervasive use of information technology.”
The Digital Library: A Biography by Daniel Greenstein and Suzanne Thorin
Draft Revision of Digital Library Federation Criteria for Membership
Has significant research and development capacity that is devoted to digital library development
Is able to contribute to DLF initiatives through staff time, expertise, and creative leadership;
Shows evidence of substantial digital accomplishments, ongoing institutional support, and of digital library initiatives that are advanced well beyond start up or project-based phases; and
Is an acknowledged regional, national, or international leader in some part of the digital library arena.
Indiana University’sDigital Library Model The Indiana university Digital Library Program
(DLP) is dedicated to the production, maintenance, distribution, and preservation of a wide range of high quality networked resources for scholars and students at Indiana University and elsewhere.
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/
DLP Organization
The Indiana University Digital Library Program was established in 1997, a collaborative venture among: IU Libraries University Information Technology Services (UITS) IU Faculty
Funded by: IU Libraries UITS Grants
University Funding
Infrastructure – hardware, software, staff Production Services: Library Electronic Text
Resource Service (LETRS), Digital Media and Image Center (DMIC)
Instructional services: Variations Digital Music Library, Digital Images Delivered Online (DIDO)
Consultation with organizational units and individuals Collaborative ventures to support the development of
digital libraries – Digital Library Federation, TEI Consortium
Some projects Short-term and smaller, local projects Pilot projects and prototypes for large projects Collaborative projects with partners within the university or
with other institutions – Wright, Sheet Music Harvester
Grant History
Large-scale research projects and digitization funded by: National Science Foundation ($3 million) Institute for Museum and Library Services ($1.74
million) U.S. Department of Education ($240,000) National Endowment for the Humanities
($270,000) Mellon Foundation ($1.28 million)
Size
13 full-time equivalent (FTE) permanent staff 3 librarians 9 information technology professionals 1 support staff (imaging specialist)
10 grant-funded programmers/project managers Student staff, including graduate assistants and
interns from the School of Library and Information Science and Computer Science
Activities
Developing and maintaining digital library infrastructure – hardware, software, staff expertise
Creation of digital resources for instruction (Variations and DIDO)
Creation of digital resources for research (archival collections, indexes)
Consultation with individuals and departments with ideas about potential digital projects
Increasing involvement with statewide digital library planning and development
Recent Program Highlights
IMLS grant of $939,618 awarded to create a digital library education specialization at Indiana University Bloomington in conjunction with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
IMLS grant of $343,437 awarded to create an online sheet music collection in partnership with the Indiana State Library
IMLS grant of $139,902 awarded to digitize IU School of Music performance tapes
The Next Chapter: Integration
Teaching and Learning DIDO and Variations
Digital Images Delivered Online(DIDO)
Monet, Claude. Poplars on the Bank of the Epte River Rivera, Diego. Night of the Poor
Variations
Teaching and Learning
Growth of digital library infrastructure Bibliographers contributions Faculty course development Next steps for Sakai Librarians working with Students TLTC
Research
Digital Library Programs work with faculty EVIA—A joint effort of Indiana University and the University
of Michigan to establish a digital archive of ethnomusicological video for use by scholars and instructors
Isaac Newton Manuscripts—A project working with a History and Philosophy of Science faculty member to edit and digitize the manuscripts of Isaac Newton
Practical Ethics Case Archive—A collaborative effort with the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions to create a digital case archive that would contain entries on discrete cases in practical ethics
Inscription project—A completed project in partnership with a Religious Studies faculty member to digitize inscriptions on monuments and buildings from biblical Israel
Writing the Next Chapter
The digital library must developed at the same time that the library transforms itself internally
Research and development is crucial in any large academic library
Librarians need to integrate and synchronize our work with faculty and students
Writing the Next Chapter
As research libraries develop new digital collections and access tools, new physical spaces where scholars, information professionals, and technologists can work together on digital challenges, and new ways to assist scholars in their work, the next challenges will include the ability of the research library to embed itself ever more deeply in the scholarly environment and in the transformational change that will occur in the academy at some point from the pervasive use of information technology.