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RLG Programs

Curating the Collective Collection

Ricky Erway RLG Programs OCLC Programs and Research

Western Digital Forum 9 August 2007

RLG Programs 9 August 2007

Western Digital Forum

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OVERVIEW

The context in which we find ourselves User perspective – changed information

seeking behaviors Library perspective – increasing demands +

decreasing budgets = need to be more efficient in order to remain relevant

Thoughts about effecting change



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The 200 most successful web sites



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Information consumer environment

Network-level aggregation of supply and demand Patterns of learning, research, information production

and consumption Personal collections and data reproduction Customer relation management



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Social networking – explosion



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Gather, create and share....

Personal collections Photos Books Research Jokes Opinions News Music



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ELGG Personal Learning Landscape



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Institutional environment – Current impacts

Agile, rich new competitors Library budget pressure Service fragmentation Redundant effort



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Institutional environment – Barriers to progress

Process standardization Resistance to outsourcing One-dimensional client relations Resistance toward change



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Now: Attention is scarce, resources are abundant

Then: The user built workflow around the library’s services

Now: The library must build its services around user workflow

Then: Resources were scarce, attention was abundant



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Something’s gotta give

New initiatives are absorbed into existing budgets Many duplicative efforts

In selection In acquisitions In cataloging In disclosure and access In storage In digital projects In digital repositories

Expensive legacy systems maintained locally And our users are often not discovering our

information!



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Possibilities

Catalog records for commonly held content Digitized books in a single index Remote storage Vocabularies User contributed content



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More possibilities

Social networking Advanced functionality Disclosure and exposure Other behind-the-scenes operational possibilities

Authentication service registries metadata maps identifier services institutional profiling services terminology services



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If we free up some resources….

ILS refocused on local operations Redeploy staff New opportunities

Offering new user-centric services Support for education and scholarly communication The library as place

Information commons Group and individual study spaces Classroom support Computer lab with media production support Writing lab Project space Coffee shop



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What will it mean to curate the collective collection?

Shared print storage Effective lending practices Coordinated digitization Collaborative selection Making our data work harder



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Focus on special collections

Material that is unique or rare is in a variety of formats will only be acquired once need only be cataloged once supports our local users we are best suited to maintain will be accessed by remote users requires preservation

Basis for assessment Scale up digitization to avoid marginalization



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The role of metadata in the collective collection

Blaming the victim Improved systems that:

Make use of existing metadata, without unnecessary modifications

Have improved handling of vocabularies Encourage shortcuts Take advantage of Web 2.0 possibilities Increase our reach



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Approaches to Metadata Creation Survey says…



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The great thing about Standards is…. …that there are so many to choose from



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But it’s not even that simple…

Various interfaces



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Moving in a positive direction



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Library 2.0?



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Contact

Ricky Erway (650) 691-2228 [email protected]



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