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Collect/connectThe future of library collections and collection management
Libraries Australia
Adelaide, 27 October 2011
Caroline Brazier, Director of Scholarship and Collections
Looking towards 2020
Changing demand for services
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UK Demand OS Demand All Demand
Document Supply 1973 – 2011
Reading Room demand 2005 – 2011
Items Consulted per Year
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Looking towards 2020
Changing models of publishing
UK journals: print to digital migration
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2020: What leading thinkers told us
STM research will continue to be well funded at the expense of research in A&H
Increasingly, consumers will have the opportunity to pay what they want for e-books. Willingness to pay will indicate value
Lifelong learning will become more important because of the need to learn new skills to remain employable
Technology removes burdens from information specialists – there will be a smaller, distributed network of specialists who guide people to resources
Academic publishing will go through the same cultural change that the newspaper industry is going through now
Computers enable you to do things faster and therefore the rate of change increases
The university will be light on its feet and run like a venture-capital firm, with more disruptive people in it
By 2020, the word ‘digital’ will have no meaning because everything will be digital
Digital natives will assume everything is on the web
Stories will be conveyed through interactive computer games rather than books
Legal redress (re. illegal file sharing) is impossible when technology is so far advanced of any control
If a service can be charged for, then the public sector should not be involved
It will be possible for people spread across the world to work simultaneously on the same piece of digital text
2020: And what it might mean for libraries?
‘BL should have a far larger team focused on web developments. At the Guardian, 150 out of 450 staff worked directly on web developments during the transition from a print to a web-based product.’
‘With public libraries closing, a digital BL could become the knowledge point for the citizen after school’
‘Libraries need to act soon and comprehensively or Google or someone else will do it’
‘BL should replicate the Glastonbury festival feeling and, at the same time, provide the great scholastic silence’
‘Libraries should not continue to buy so much material but should develop national strategies to ensure adequate coverage’
‘Libraries should be loved by a few people rather than liked by a lot’
‘The BL could copy the BBC and charge overseas customers for access to licensed material’
‘Libraries will need to continue to demonstrate value’
‘The BL needs to decide if it’s aiming at the mass market or the niche market’
‘All major research libraries will be interoperable’
‘People will use libraries as interactive
research spaces’
2020: Collecting is no longer enough
Create
Manipulate
Discover, Access
Collect, Catalogue, Preserve, Store
Capitalise
Passivesupport
Activesupport
What does this mean for library collections and collection management?
Create knowledge
through research
Enable search,
navigation and
discovery
Develop and
improve the research process
Store and preserve research
information
Aggregate research
information
Publish and disseminate
research outputs
Libraries and the research information cycle
Create knowledge
through research
Enable search,
navigation and
discovery
Develop and
improve the research process
Store and preserve research
information
Aggregate research
information
Publish and disseminate
research outputs
Can we transform traditional roles?
Create knowledge
through research
Enable search,
navigation and
discovery
Develop and
improve the research process
Store and preserve research
information
Aggregate research
information
Publish and disseminate
research outputs
Can we find new roles?
Transform traditional roles:
1. Aggregate research information
Shifting priorities to meet economic reality
Content Development 10 year overview
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Financial years
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Purchased Acquisitions Maintaining purchasing power
Collecting new content
2. Store and preserve research information
Transform traditional roles:
Green Library3,838,874
Red Library5,857,315Blue Library
5,579,486
2,226,01358%
3,379,25158%
3,110,62056%
1,266,21922%/23%
401,01610%/7%
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Will you deduplicate?
Source: OCLC Worldcat
Guarantee digital access for future generations
3. Enable search, navigation and discovery
Transform traditional roles:
From text to TXT
4. Develop and improve the research process
Find new roles:
New skill sets to support digital research
5. Create knowledge through research
Find new roles:
Publicly funded
Closed Open
Commercially funded
Transform traditional roles:
6. Publish and disseminate
85 The Guardian81 Facebook80 Google69 Harvard 68 Tate Gallery 67 Library of Congress, Stanford, BBC 63 British Museum61 British Library56 JISC, Cambridge50 Europeana48 Bodleian, Hathi Trust40 Gale Cengage
In 2020, the British Library will be a leading hub in the global information network, advancing knowledge through our collections, expertise and partnerships
Advancing the world’s knowledge
In 2020, the British Library will be a leading hub in the global information network, advancing knowledge through our collections, expertise and partnerships
Advancing the world’s knowledge
Advancing the world’s knowledge
● Collections and collection management remain at the heart of what we do
BUT…● Learn to manage both
collaboration and competition
● Transform collection skills to give us new relevance
● Be open to new partnerships, within and beyond the library community
Thank you for listening