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Breaking out of the box: libraries without wallsTerry [email protected] Digital Institute
Libraries today are suffering from an identity crisis – trapped between the traditional roles of a library and the current expectations of its users.
Users want….
So long as it fits on….
Or works with this…
Or this…
Or this…
Libraries’ evolving roles
• Library as its communities primary information provider
• Research collections housed within the library
User Community
Libraries’ evolving roles
• Library as its communities’ primary information provider
• Library facilitates borrowing from other institutions (ILL)
User Community
Libraries’ evolving roles
• Library as an information facilitator– Points users to ejournals
• Splintering of library services– ILL, Virtual Reference, Ejournals, Digital
Collections, ILS, IR, etc.
User Community
Ejournals
Libraries’ evolving roles
• Library one of many information providers available to their users
User CommunityGoogle
MS Live
Libraries’ evolving roles
• Not new– Libraries have traditionally
evolved with technology
• But…– Libraries are no longer the
central repositories for trusted information
Libraries’ evolving roles
• Evolution isn’t necessarily a bad thing– Underlines libraries’ past
successes– Demonstrates a vibrant
information ecosystem which libraries have traditionally cultivated
• Library is now just a part of this ecosystem
Evolving means learning a new language and new rules without losing some of the core library values.
Library 2.0
RSS – Really Simple Syndication
Library 2.0
Wikis
Library 2.0
New Programming Tools: AJAX, API
Library 2.0
Blogs and Blogging
Library 2.0
Commentary and Comments
Library 2.0
Personalization and My Profiles
Library 2.0
Podcasting and MP3 files
Library 2.0
Streaming Media – Audio and Video
Library 2.0
Reviews and User-Driven Ratings
Library 2.0
Recommender Functionality
Library 2.0
Personalized Alerts
Library 2.0
Web Services
Library 2.0
Instant Messaging and Virtual Reference
Library 2.0
Folksonomies, Tagging and Tag Clouds
Library 2.0
Photos (e.g. Flickr, Picasa)
Library 2.0
Social Networking
Library 2.0
Socially Driven Content
Library 2.0
Open access, Open Source, Open Content
Library 2.0
Social Bookmarking
Library’s place• Digital library
development needs to start with an understanding that:– The library needs to be
more transparent– The library needs to look
outside the library community for usable technologies
– The library is no longer their user communities primary research tool of choice
In 5 years, in my library….
• Simple aggregation of resources will not be enough. Databases and Websites will be replaced by mechanisms that fetch information into our users’ workflows.
In 5 years, in my library…
• ‘Intermediate environments’ will be as important to consumers of library services as traditional end-users.
• What are “intermediate environments”?– Think mashups– Think aggregations– Think workflow
Examples?
What can we do?
1. Work with partners No library is large
enough to solve these problems themselves. Libraries have traditionally been able to talk a good game regarding collaboration, but tend to be short on results.
What can we do?
2. Continue to innovate Libraries need to do
more development. Libraries should spend less time looking at their vendors to solve solutions that should be developed within the libraries’ Open Source Community.
What can we do?
3. Open our current systems to outside users
The library community expects groups like publishers, Google, etc. to provide stand access points or harvested metadata, yet we don’t build this facility into our own systems.
IHP
• Interoperability– Supporting the request
and response for many different protocols:• SRU• Z39.50• etc.
IHP
• Harvestablity– Libraries should be
building systems that allow users to harvest their metadata content.
– Libraries need to be willing to give up some control over their metadata and be willing to see their metadata repurposed in other ways.
IHP
• Pluggability– Libraries should look to
build and use systems that allow for the use of microformats.• COINS• UNAPI
Thank You