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Place and space: Collections and access in light of changing

patterns of research and learning: a schematic view

Lorcan DempseyA community commons: libraries in the new century

142nd ARL Membership Meeting, 15 May 2003University of Kentucky, Lexington

PlaceCollectionService

PlaceCollectionService

Overview

user environmentsresource environment

lab books

exhibitions

PDAs

learning management systems

campus portal

course materialtext book

new scholarly resources

readinglists

Institutional repository

Digital collections

E-reserveCatalog Licensed

collections

Aggregations

Virtual reference

CatalogingILL

Library serviceenvironmentLibrary serviceLibrary serviceenvironmentenvironment

Overview

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stewardship

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ssBooksJournalsNewspapersGov. docsCD, DVDMapsScores

Special collectionsRare booksLocal/Historical newspapersLocal history materialsArchives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations

Research and learning materials •ePrints/tech reports•Learning objects•Courseware•E-portfolios•Research data

Freely-accessible web resourcesOpen source softwareNewsgroup archives

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Collections grid

Some comments on the grid

• Grid is a mnemonic … placed over complicated field

• Libraries and their environments now

• 5 years time?

• Credits:– Eric Childress (OCLC), – Nancy McGovern (Cornell)

The Archival Research Center is a direct outgrowth of the belief that primary resource materials should be a major focal point of instruction and research. …. However, traditional access to these materials is cumbersome and labor-intensive and most institutions do not allow copying. …Digitizing these materials keeps them alive and relevant for modern users … (ARL report)

Knowledge bank – OSU – in planning

April 26 2002. A proposal for the development of an OSU knowledge bank

Below the line

There is growing appreciation among libraries that unique or rare materials

– are valuable research and learning resources

– have been underutilized.

There is a growing interest in digitizing cultural heritage materials

– as it offers opportunities for releasing their value in new ways

– as a way of disclosing the memory and identity of communities.

Research and learning behavior is increasingly entering the network space– Library resources need to be

available at the appropriate stage within the learning or research environment

– New forms of engagement and support.

– Research and learning outputs will present major management and curatorial issues

– Institutions and faculty are interested in ‘disclosing’ research and learning materials as part of the scholarly enterprise (OAI)

• Institutional immaturity – organizational models for collective activity, reducing costs, etc, in development.

• Institutional maturity – an industry and cooperative structures

• Structures under pressure

• Institutional digital content management• Immature (diverse metadata creation

practice -- hierarchical description, multiple standards and practices, diverse content management approaches)

• OAI? Shining a light on hidden resources.• Extend knowledge organization approaches?• Incentive to preserve?

• Manage commodity materials and services - cost.• Streamline discovery to delivery for print (owned)

and digital (licensed) materials• Portalization and resource sharing• Management intelligence – collection

management and analysis (print collections)• Incentive to preserve?

The example of metadata

BooksJournals

Special collections

Freely-accessible web resources

Research and learning materials

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stewardship

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MARC, Onix

MARC, Onix

MARC, METS, EAD, DC, TEI

MARC, METS, EAD, DC, TEI

Dublin Core

Dublin Core

DC, DDI, IEEE/LOM, FGDC, EAD, TEI, SCORM

DC, DDI, IEEE/LOM, FGDC, EAD, TEI, SCORM

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“Special collections”

Disclosure, Licensing

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stewardship

Trends

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Scholarly communication

Books,Journals

Research &Learning

Web

Specialcollections

Trends

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stewardship

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The google factor

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E-reserves

WebBooks,Journals

Research &Learning

Specialcollections

Some issues

• Different materials call forward different types of attention– Selection– Organization– Collection

management– Securing access– Preservation

• What is a collection?

• Responsibility to the scholarly record– Licensed– Below the line– Print

• Fragmentation of knowledge technologies?– Knowledge organization –

topics, places, names, educational standards, resource types

– Identifiers– etc

user environmentsresource environment

lab books

exhibitions

PDAs

learning management systems

campus portal

course materialtext book

new scholarly resources

readinglists

Institutional repository

Digital collections

E-reserveCatalog Licensed

collections

Aggregations

Virtual reference

CatalogingILL

Library serviceLibrary serviceenvironmentenvironmentLibrary serviceLibrary serviceenvironmentenvironment

lab books

exhibitions

PDAs

learning management systems

campus portal

course materialtext book

new scholarly resources

readinglists

Hub

• Create hub?

• Project services into other hubs

• Reconfigureservices –fine-grained

“Creative knowledge you can put in your pocket”

OCLC Online Computer Library Center

Thank you … ….

DempseyL@oclc.org www.oclc.org/research/