The importance of the right team architecture

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Sylvia van Peteghem

Prague , 3 november 2009

> "Experience from abroad: How to increase the prestige of the university> library" (the importance and prestige of the library from the point of> view of the academics, esp. researchers; how the library at the> university can become the relevant partner in its institution research> process, making its research output more visible, and so on...)

Herbert van de Sompel

LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory

SFX sold to Ex Libris (Aleph)

Structure of the university in the nineties

Ghent University

Belgium, Flanders °1817 32.000 students 6000 researchers 11 faculties 95 km of books

Ghent University

Dare to think! Quality of education, research and services Situated in a stimulating cultural city

University administration STER reorganisation

In the 80-ies : 440 libraries 2300 : 220 Today : in reorganisation

Directorate of research affairs

University Library Research Coordination Office Technology Transfer Office

Libraries

In the 80-ies : 440 libraries 2300 : 220 Today : in reorganisation

2003 : Time for a change

Lars Björnshauge Lund University The Network Goal: to have the best scholarly

communication! Concentrates on central library and faculty

libraries

The final model Bjørnshauge (2004)

Central unit concentrates on

Digital Library Repository Library Steering the network: setting the rules Workplace

Digital library

Open Access Driver and Open Aire Partner Berlin declaration Catalogue, electronic resources Digitisation Google Books partner …

Repository library

French revolution Cultural heritage Google Books

Network

Setting the rules Taking care of digital library Taking care of repository library Helping faculty libraries to grow …

Working place

Make the building visible Open it … The city and media gets involved

robbrecht en daem / barbara van der wee/ daedalus/ ….

www.boekentoren.be

Let’s go back to structures

Did we have the ideal structure ?

Library working with researchers

Library tasks: logistics, scanning, restoration, metadata …

Researchers: quality and deadlines … Best combination !!!

But … you need

A skilled and loyal and enthusiastic team And … dare to change the structure (but not

too often …) if things do not work …

Lin Gesellschaft