DH @ UGENT (LIBRARIES)

Saskia ScheltjensFaculty of Arts & Philosophy, Ghent Universitywww.twitter.com/saschelwww.slideshare.net/saschel

Faculty of Arts & Philosophy / Doctoral Schools

Digital Humanities Seminar – Day 2

11/10/2012

Librarian?

‘I connect things’

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Or as Vika Zafrin put it this wonderful online publication:

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http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/pieces/whats-librarian

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Selection & implementation of free / open source library software

http://www.chip-project.org/

CHIP (Cultural Heritage Information Presentation) project funded by the Dutch Science Foundation NWO-CATCH (Continuous Access to Cultural Heritage) program

Digital Humanities x Libraries makes sense to me :

• Managing Research Data

• Distributed (‘embedded’) services & support

• Digitisation and Curation

• Digital Preservation

• Discovery and Dissemination

JISC report (2012)http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/News/UK-Scholarly-Reading/

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Miriam Posner’s blog & bibliography ‘Digital Humanities and the Library’

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http://miriamposner.com/blog/?page_id=1033#library

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Faculty of Arts & Philosophy UGent

Grand Library Reorganisation

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UNIVERSITY WIDE

Report Bjørnshauge ‘The Network’ (2004)

Greater (cost) efficiency

Integration of digital collections

Network of libraries (+350!)

Co-ordinated distributed model

Distribution of tasks central library vs faculty libraries

Action plan & timing

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Mission University Library

• Digital Library• Network co-ordination• Heritage collection / Repository

• Working environment

Mission Faculty Library

Support current research and education in the facultywith relevant collections and innovative services

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FACULTY LEVEL Arts & Philosophy

BEFORE 2008

• 49 departmental libraries• 222 locations

• 670.000 volumes• registration rate of only 52%• different opening hours/rules/procedures/policies• demotivated staff

BAD BAD BAD BAD visitation reports ....

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FACULTY LEVEL Arts & Philosophy

2009 – 2014 : REORGANISATION

• INFRASTRUCTURE renovation • Professionalising and activation (new) STAFF

• Centralising and rationalising COLLECTIONS and FUNDING• Developing new WORKFLOWS• Improve existing SERVICES & develop new ones that are relevant to

research & education

RESULT

• 8.070 sq m new library space• 853 working & learning places• 420.000 volumes in open stacks (80%), 250.000 volumes in closed stacks• registration rate: 100%• new library team• budget infrastructure: 9.810.000 €

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1418/02/2011 Collectiebeleid Wetenschappelijke Bibliotheken

Phase 01 Literature, Near East and library administrationca. 2.400 m² ca. 3.560 lm open stack book collection

>> in use: 17 february 2012

Phase 02 Art, Philosophy & Historyca. 2.370 m²ca. 3.965 lm open stack book collection

>> move: september 2013>>in use: october 2013

Phase 03 Linguistics, Languages & Cultures, Archeologyca. 3.300 m²ca. 4.470 lm open stack book collection

>> move: august-september 2014>> in use : september 2014

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New Faculty Library Arts & Philosophy UGent

UGent - DGFB

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Situation 2008 - Arts & Philosophy Faculty UGent

Pieter Pauwels – 3DColors = 20 departments with an incorporated library

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Situation 2014 - Arts & Philosophy Faculty UGent

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Opening Faculty Library Arts & Philosophy UGent Phase 1 : 17 february 2012

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Classic Library

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Classic 20th century Library

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But the REAL challenge

is this

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UGent Ledeganck Bibliotheek Botanisch Instituut, 1883

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19th century

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UGent Blandijn Bibliotheek Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, 2008

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20th century

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InQBate, University Library of Sussex, 2008

http://www.designinglibraries.org.uk

21st century

A 21st library as a networkeddevelopment

platform

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HOW?

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Possible future developments

of 21st century academic libraries

• OPEN (digital) collections

• Print collections to CLOSED stacks

• Networked services and collections

• Broader usergroups

• New business models

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but to begin within Arts & Philosophy UGent

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http://www.slideshare.net/saschel/presentatie-ss-barcampantwerpen20100911def

http://www.slideshare.net/saschel/presentatie-

neutrale-seminarieruimtes-datasalon5-20100618

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UGent - DGFB

Library Lab UGent

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• 2 highly equiped spaces IN the faculty library • for faculty staff and students• to work with digital collections, tools and services • find expert help (technical & project management)• digital training and instructions• so as to collaborate on innovative projects• in current research and education

TIMING : start 2nd phase Faculty Library in October 2013

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Library Lab UGent

this is far from new

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etc ...

At the moment

Talking / meeting / planning …..

about co-operation with like minded people

within (and outside) the faculty to set this up

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But since august 2012

there is already …

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Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH)

A research proposal was jointly submitted in June 2012

by the four Flemish universities

to the Flemish Hercules Foundation

in order to get funding to participate in the

European DARIAH project (ESFRI project)

as DARIAH-Vlaanderen

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If this project gets funded

we start BIG

If not

we will start small

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But co-operation, either way, is crucial

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… with people in the faculty

but also with the

University Library

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University Library

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Approx. 3 million volumes in a landmark building by Henry Van de Velde • Large renovation project (2012-2017)

• New underground depot

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• Innovative digital library development since the mid 80’s

• Herbert Van de Sompel, Patrick Hochstenbach, …(OAI-PMH, OpenURL -> SFX, …)

• Open Access -> Open Aire Project

• Open Data

• Open Software

their code is on github !

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https://github.ugent.be/Universiteitsbibliotheek

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https://biblio.ugent.be/input/home?func=developer

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http://search.ugent.be/meercat/x/api_nl.html?language=en

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University Library

COLLECTIONS

• Superb heritage collections

• Google Books Partner

• Europeana Partner

• Advocacy & Outreach !

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http://adore.ugent.be/

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http://lib.ugent.be/en/project-google.shtml

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https://biblio.ugent.be/pages/een-schat-aan-informatie---vrij-toegankelijke-bronnen-uit-de-ubib.html

My hope is

that in UGent in the future there will be

more formalised places

in co-operation with libraries

where we can forge co-operations

around research and educational projects

with an open vision and an eye for sustainability

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Questions?

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Contact

Saskia ScheltjensUniversiteit Gent Faculteit Letteren & WijsbegeerteB - 9000 Gent

T + 32 (0)9 331 33 75saskiascheltjens (skype id)@saschel (twitter id)

http://www.flw.ugent.be/bibliotheek

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