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Developing specialisedinformation services
within anintegrated library service:
examples in botany and forestry
Roger MillsPlant Sciences Library, OULS
May 2004
Old but not past it
• Botany 1621Botany 1621• Agriculture 1870Agriculture 1870• Forestry 1905Forestry 1905• Imperial Forestry Institute 1924Imperial Forestry Institute 1924• Present ‘Worthington’ building Present ‘Worthington’ building
19501950• Plant Sciences 1985Plant Sciences 1985• OULS 2000OULS 2000
The List Library
Then
Council
General Board of the Faculties
Congregation
Libraries BoardPlant Sciences
Plant SciencesLibrary
HerbariaCentral & Faculty
Libraries
Botanic Garden Other depts
Now
Council
Life & Environmental Sciences Div
Admin Services& UniversityCollections
Other Divisions
Congregation
Plant Sciences Other Depts
Herbaria
OULS(Libraries)
Botanic GardenOUCS
(Computing)Museums
Plant SciencesLibrary
40+ other libraries
Schizophrenia
• 50% of our users are not members of the University
• Known and act as international resource
• But not funded as such• Well, roughly• University users from 20+
departments
Plant Sciences Library
• General Plant Biology• Undergrad degree in Biological Sciences
• Taxonomy• Sherard Collection• Sibthorpian Library
• Forestry• Oxford Forest Information Service• In partnership with CAB International• All languages
• c. 200,000 items, c. 2000 current serials, plus 4000 dead
• c. one third microfilmed
In Partnership
• With CAB International since 1938• Entire forestry collection
abstracted• CABI deposits forestry material• Oxford runs document delivery
service for CABI
Neighbours
• Zoology, Ornithology• MSc in Biology (Integrative Bioscience)
• Geography, Environmental Change Institute
• MScs in:• Biodiversity, Conservation & Management• Nature, Society and Environmental Policy• Environmental Geomorphology • Environmental Change and Management• Water Science, Policy and Management
• University Museum of Natural History• Earth Sciences
Location, Location, Location
Plant Sciences Library• Remains in Department• Alongside Herbaria• Owns books in Herbaria• Rare Books room part of Herbaria suite• Not responsible to Dept• Sibthorpian Prof statutory responsibility for
Sibthorpian Library• 1 mile from Botanic Garden• No proper book transport system
Do we really need a library?
• Move to fully electronic desktop delivery
• As soon as possible• Extra funds or diverted funds?• And the old stuff?• Trees grow slowly• So – we need both• So – we have to fight
Head above the parapet
• Raise visibility• Demonstrate external interest• Report on visits• Forge alliances and sign MoU’s• Get involved in projects• Arrange exhibits, talks, user
education• Spin
Publicise affiliationsBritish Falconer's Club
British Falconer's Club British
Falconer's Club
British Ornithologist's Union
Projects
• BIOME• GFIS• NEFIS• TNW
Digitisation
• Flora Graeca in the 21st Century• External consultant: Prof H.W. Lack
• Oxford Digital Library for Forestry• in association with:
• Commonwealth Forestry Association• CAB International• FAO• OFI
Consultancy
• British Council• World Bank
Collaboration
• The GFIS Task Force on slippery ground
Exhibitions
• Oxford’s Botanical Treasures and the Shirley Sherwood Collection
• Ashmolean Museum Oxford• 2 May – 11 Sept 2005
Services
• Oxford Forest Information Service• Centralised services:
• Digital imaging service• Document Delivery / Inter-library loans
service• Organised centrally – marketed
locally• Subject enquiries – handled on-site
Celebrations
• 100 years of Forestry in Oxford
1905 - 2005
User Education
• Curriculum sessions• Bytes for Biologists
OFIS History
•Think forest information – think IUFRO!
How it all started
• International Association of Forest Research Institutes founded 1893 (renamed International Union of Forest Research Organizations 1929)
• Article 2 of 1929 Statutes: …to work…for the unification of terminology…to provide for the creation of an international forest bibliography…
History – 1903-1908
• 4th meeting 1903 (Vienna): ‘compilation of general forest bibliography’ first on agenda
• By 5th meeting 1906 (Stuttgart):• International Committee on Forest
Bibliography formed• Bibliographical system should be that of
Melvil Dewey• A permanent secretariat of forest
bibliography should be established• Swiss Federal Institute of Forest Research
authorised as secretariat 1908
1908-1922
• Subscriptions taken• Card catalogue and ‘quarterly
magazine’ planned• Past literature from 1750 to be
published in book form• All stopped by First World War • Discussions resumed 1922
1922-1933
• Forest Bibliography: an International Decimal Classification on the basis of Melvil Dewey’s system published in German 1933, translated into French and English 1936 (‘Flury System’)
• Prepared by Dr Philipp Flury (Birmensdorf) (secretary of the Bibliograpical Committee)
• Chaired by Prof RS Troup (Oxford)
1934-1939
• Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford began card index and ‘magazine’ Current Monthly Record of Forestry Literature 1934 under Troup’s direction [metadata and indexing in support of networks]
• Imperial Agricultural Bureaux invited to found Forestry Bureau (IFB) at Oxford with IUFRO’s support 1938 (CFB from 1948)
• Forestry Abstracts first published 1939
1939-1953
• Second World War ended plans for international secretariat. Clearing house role adopted by CFB/Oxford
• Classification developed by CFB under F.C. Ford-Robertson
• Bib. Cttee. revived as Joint FAO/IUFRO Committee on Forest Bibliography 1949 (= IUFRO Section 01)
• Revised new classification and after ‘prolonged and earnest deliberations’ finalised Oxford System of Decimal Classification for Forestry, adopted by IUFRO and FAO 1953 and published by CAB
1953-1995 > 2005
• Joint Committee embarks on publication of multi-lingual terminology
• 1972 IUFRO restructured: Joint Committee becomes S6.03, Information systems and terminology
• 1995 renamed Information services and knowledge organisation with sub-groups
• 01 Libraries and Information Services• 02 Trends in forest terminology• 03 Forest Decimal Classification• 04 Latin American systems network
• Next review: Brisbane 2005
In brief
• Words, numbers, people, stuff
words
• SilvaVoc 1995: Clearinghouse for multilingual forestry terminology http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufro/silvavoc/
• International Bibliography of Dictionaries, Glossaries and Terminological Publications in Forestry and Related Sciences
• Collaborative development of a multilingual forestry thesaurus
• Harmonizing forest-related definitions for use by various stakeholders
numbers
• International work on Dewey for subject gateways
• Revival of ODC/FDC as GFDC• Advantage of numbers: logical
arrangement not dependent on language
people
• GFIS is a network of networks• Deliver information faster• Who’s there to help? Compilation of
international directory• Supporting information services in Europe:
FORELISE
Stuff : finding it
• It’s on the web• But where?• Subject gateways extend
‘bibliographic control’ to web-based resources
• BIOME AgriFor gateway
Stuff : getting it
• So I know it exists, how do I get it?• Non-digital libraries and archives• Electronic journals• Digital Libraries• In future, how will we trace and
communicate knowledge?
Talk to me
• European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries founded 1994
• Now 59 institutions in 22 countries• Associated with CBHL in N America• Joint symposium approved at
International Botanical Congress, Vienna 2005
• Similar group for Forestry - FORELISE
Pictures
John Sibthorp (1758-1796)
• Third Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford
• Journeyed to Greece and Turkey
• With artist Ferdinand Bauer
Flora Graeca
• Sibthorp and Bauer• Plant specimens (living and dried),
notebooks, drawings, water colours (colour key), topographical drawings, fauna
• Most expensive flora ever published• Now being digitised• After being meticulously studied by
Walter Lack
Papaver pilosum Sm.
Specimens
Establishing the Type
• Index Kewensis/IPNI
Digital detail
Scene of the crime
A fishy story
Drawings
Seeing the wood for the trees
• Identification• Testing• Properties
It all hangs together
• If we all hang together• Otherwise we will all hang
together…
All we need is…
And…When I’m 64?