emerging cybraries de lange conference rice university 070305 © michael a. keller 2007
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“The Library of the Mind”
That which an individual scholar, and by implication a team of scholars, controls by memory (or some aide memoire) of source materials relevant to his or her or
their topic of research.There is, of course, some correlation between
the Library of the Mind and the contents of a library or many libraries.
Duckles, Vincent. “The Library of the Mind: Observations on the Relationship between Musical Scholarship and Bibliography,” in Current Thought in Musicology, ed. John W. Grubbs (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976).
Feigenbaum’s Library of the Future
“Imagine the Library as an active intelligent knowledge server…a network of systems in which people and machines collaborate.”
Feigenbaum, Edward, “Age of Intelligent Machines: from file servers to knowledge servers” 1990
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Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS!
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Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS! Searching across silos is necessary
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Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS! Searching across silos is necessary Searching deeply regardless of genre
counts
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Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS! Searching across silos is necessary Searching deeply regardless of genre counts Narrowing a search iteratively is important
To note later
Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS! Searching across silos is necessary Searching deeply regardless of genre
counts Narrowing a search iteratively is important Identifying genres in results is helpful
To note later
Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS! Searching across silos is necessary Searching deeply regardless of genre counts Narrowing a search iteratively is important Identifying genres in results is helpful Broadening a search is good too
To note later Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS! Searching across silos is necessary Searching deeply regardless of genre counts Narrowing a search iteratively is important Identifying genres in results is helpful Broadening a search is good too Transparency of the relevance engine is
important
To note later Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS! Searching across silos is necessary Searching deeply regardless of genre counts Narrowing a search iteratively is important Identifying genres in results is helpful Broadening a search is good too Transparency of the relevance engine is important Providing opportunities for deeper examination of a
source counts
To note later Accuracy and precision count Meta Data counts GUI navigation may help Great engineering ROCKS! Searching across silos is necessary Searching deeply regardless of genre counts Narrowing a search iteratively is important Identifying genres in results is helpful Broadening a search is good too Transparency of the relevance engine is important Providing opportunities for deeper examination of a
source counts Providing various formats for reading is good
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The citation map makes relationships clear
Showing relative frequency of citing helps Hot links beneath the citation blobs saves
time
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The citation map makes relationships clear
Showing relatively frequency of citing helps
Hot links beneath the citations saves time Taxonomic terms allow precise
identification of subjects within an information object
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The citation map makes relationships clear Showing relatively frequency of citing helps Hot links beneath the citations saves time Taxonomic terms allow precise identification
of subjects within an information object Supplying copious data about an information
object speeds research
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The citation map makes relationships clear Showing relatively frequency of citing helps Hot links beneath the citations saves time Taxonomic terms allow precise identification
of subjects within an information object Supplying copious data about an information
object speeds research Taxonomic terms need to be precise
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The citation map makes relationships clear Showing relatively frequency of citing helps Hot links beneath the citations saves time Taxonomic terms allow precise identification of
subjects within an information object Supplying copious data about an information
object speeds research Taxonomic terms need to be precise Searching in a document & providing the
context of the “hits” helps readers
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Subject portals can be helpful if current & deep
Portal information & services must be current, relevant
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Subject portals can be helpful if current & deep
Portal information & services must be current, relevant
Good portals are not inexpensive, but save time & enhance communities of shared interests
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Subject portals can be helpful if current & deep
Portal information & services must be current, relevant
Good portals are not inexpensive, but save time & enhance communities of shared interests
Great portals are closely responsive to their readers’ needs
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Subject portals can be helpful if current & deep Portal information & services must be current,
relevant Good portals are not inexpensive, but save
time & enhance communities of shared interests
Great portals are closely responsive to their readers’ needs
Great portals provide real depth of information and services
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Some good portals are merely guides to research and the literature of a discipline or topic
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Some good portals are merely guides to research and the literature of a discipline or topic
Better portals have reciprocal links from discovery devices (like OPACs)
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Some good portals are merely guides to research and the literature of a discipline or topic
Better portals have reciprocal links from discovery devices (like OPACs)
Alerting & recommendation services save readers time & keep them current
Alerting & recommendation services are best invoked by readers
We need an effective Federated Search Engine
that covers our local OPACs, the Public Web, and the Access Controlled, Deep
Web!OR
We need a fully realized Semantic Web, one
populated with richly documented digital objects.
Universal Librarian/Cybrarian Functions
(regardless of format or genre)• Selection & Acquisition• Providing Intellectual Access• Providing full access, when legal & possible• Guiding, Teaching, Interpreting, Answering• Assisting with Analysis & Presentation• Preserving physical & digital information
objects• Evolving as “the Web of actionable
information expands” & Information services are created
New Roles for Cybrarians• As subject specialists & reference cybrarians
– “diagnose” faculty interests algorithmically & by direct contact– Create subject/topical portals; push information from them to
clients– Become “channel editors” for researchers– Instruct students in information heuristic– Help faculty manage their intellectual property– Select & care for collections of digital objects from the Web, from
publications, from labs, from personal computers
• As intellectual access specialists– Apply taxonomic & semantic indexing engines– Assure (algorithmic) linking of information objects– Create meta-data when needed
Library Facilities
• Becoming “bookless”?• Must provide intellectual support, mediation,
instruction• Must provide comfortable & varied study/research
environments• Must provide for collaborative work, over the net &
in the Library• Must be identified as the home of cybrarians• Must be flexible & interact with functions in “genius
bars”, “research gyms” & “exploratoria” as well as labs, offices & classrooms.