digital and physical: co-evolving formats in today’s research libraries

DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL: CO-EVOLVING FORMATS IN

TODAY’S RESEARCH LIBRARIES

Cynthia Sorrell

University of Maryland Libraries

Charleston Conference

November 6, 2014

Francis Marion Hotel – Laurens Room

BIG TEN ?BIG FIFTEEN

COMMITTEE ON INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION

MEMBER UNIVERSITIES AS OF 2012UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA

INDIANA UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

Cooperative Sharing of Research Resources in Various Formats

–Digital Collections

–Print Collections

Committee on Institutional Cooperation CIC

90 Million Books

“Unmediated Consortial” Book Service

Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s

Shared Print RepositoryCIC-SPR

1st Host Site: Indiana University [Auxiliary Library Facility= ALF]

July, 2010 – Launch DateJune, 2014 – Ingested 93,274 VolumesBy 2016 -- ~ 250, 000 Volumes [Capacity]

• Businesses in Academe, Creating More Research Spaces

• New Service Models w/Cutting-edge Delivery of Services

• Working in Collaborative, Consortial Environments

• Providing a Balance of Resources -- Digital & Physical

Libraries are:

“ How do we creatively do what we know we know to match the needs of the libraries’ users?”

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“How do we do what we need to do as a consortium to affect changes in libraries?”

U.S. Secretary of Defense – Donald Rumsfeld (2002)

Statement regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction and Iraq:

“Reports that say something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…the latter category tend to be the difficult ones.”

http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2636

“KNOWN KNOWNS” in 2014

University of Maryland Libraries

Fast Facts – Collections Statistics

4.3 Million Books

17,000 e-Journals

900,000 e-Books

352+ Databases

“KNOWN KNOWNS” in 1998

University of Maryland Libraries

Fast Facts – Collections Statistics

2.4 Million Books

20,425 Periodicals

“KNOWN KNOWN” in 2009

NEW DEAN -- PATRICIA STEELE

• Knowledge of CIC

• Co-Founder of HathiTrust

• User-Centered Focus Philosophy

• Future of Academic Research Collections & Digital Format Use

CIC Press Release – Newest Consortium Member

“ … [The University of Maryland] library system is positioned to … save money, share assets, and increase teaching, learning and research opportunities…”

http://www.cic.net/news-and-publications/news/maryland-and-rutgers-to-join-cic/announcement

Terrapin Learning Commons -- 2010

• Multi-media Workstations

• Lockers that Re-charge Laptops

• MakerSpace Lab

• Individual & Group Study Rooms

• MACs on 100+ Desk Study Spaces

• Equipment-on-Loan

• Copy Center

“Learning Outcomes for Embracing Online Courses, Reducing Expenses, Educating More People”

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“UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS”at the University of Maryland Libraries

• 2011 -- Earthquake:

13,000+ Books Toppled

• 2013 -- Mold Outbreak:

10,000+ Books Damaged

ITHAKA -- Constantine P. CavafyAs you set out for Ithakahope the voyage is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you keep your thoughts raised high,as long as a rare excitementstirs your spirit and your body.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter themunless you bring them along inside your soul,unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.May there be many a summer morning when,with what pleasure, what joy,you come into harbors seen for the first time;may you stop at Phoenician trading stationsto buy fine things,mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,sensual perfume of every kind—as many sensual perfumes as you can;and may you visit many Egyptian citiesto gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

ITHAKA cont. -- Constantine P. Cavafy

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.Arriving there is what you are destined for.But do not hurry the journey at all.Better if it lasts for years,so you are old by the time you reach the island,wealthy with all you have gained on the way,not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.Without her you would not have set out.She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard

(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)

Resources

• http://www.sr.ithaka.org/• http://about.jstor.org/10things• http://www.lib.umich.edu/database/jstor• Lavoie, Brian, Constance Malpas and JD Shipengrover. 2012. Print Management

at “Mega-scale”: A Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-05.pdf.

• Suggested citation: Malpas, Constance. 2011. Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-01.pdf.

• www.portico.org• http://www.lib.umd.edu/about• http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/newton.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_P._Cavafy• http://www.oclc.org/about.en.html

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