The Library Happens Elsewhere

Anders Söderbäck, Stockholm

University Library, 2013-05-30

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The 18th century way of reducing TCO…

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(http://www.libereurope.eu/blog/thinking-the-unthinkable-a-library-without-a-catalogue-reconsidering-the-future-of-discovery-to)

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So, is there a future for academic libraries? Personally I think in the near future we will see the end of the academic library as we know it.

- Lukas Koster

(http://commonplace.net/2013/01/discover-and-deliver-or-else/)

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…and we also do some publishing.

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Cost of acquisitions at swedish research libraries, 2002 - 2009

Digital content

Print content

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Electronic publishing gives great opportunities for a faster and broader spread of the works of researchers and students. […] As a rule, libraries have a more or less pronounced responsibility to coordinate these efforts in cooperation with researchers and students.

- Final report from Swedish Electronic Publishing, 2005

(http://www.kb.se/Dokument/Bibliotek/projekt/svep_slutrapport_allmant.pdf)

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The Final Frontier: the library turning 180 degrees and switching from consumption to production of publications. According to some people university libraries are very suitable and qualified to become scholarly publishers.

- Lukas Koster

(http://commonplace.net/2013/01/discover-and-deliver-or-else/)

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/ Anders Söderbäck, Stockholms universitetsbibliotek

Publishing as it currently exists requires a number of specific skills that have nothing to do with librarian expertise. […] But of course the publishing process can and probably will change.

- Lukas Koster

(http://commonplace.net/2013/01/discover-and-deliver-or-else/)

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The Roads to Stockholm University Press

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Road 1: Digitization at Stockholms University Library

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Key principles

• No new silo for digitized books

• Build on existing systems and workflows

• Add functionality when needed (e.g. a file system based object store)

• Lego bricks, modularity…

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Issues

• Syncing data between repository and catalog

• Identifiers

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Road 2: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis

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Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis

• Since 1956

• December 2011: Open Access Policy

• December 2011: Prioritize electronic publishing

• January 2012: Print on Demand

• May 2012: Purchase books using credit card

• Autumn 2012: Digitization of Acta backlist

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Issues

• Syncing data between repository and catalog

• Identifiers

• Sending files to the printing house

• ISBN:s

• Publishing requires new skills

• Print on Demand for digitized backlist

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Despite the decision to prioritize electronic publishing, print on demand became our main focus for 2012.

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2013: Stockholm University Press

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Key principles

• No organizational silo for publishing

• Build on existing systems and workflows

• Add workflows when needed

• Lego bricks, modularity…

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Current projects

• Stockholm University dissertations

• Turning digitized backlist into electronic text

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Coming projects

• Peer review

• XML based production and storage

• Improved dissemination

• From PDF to EPUB

• …

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Sustaining vs. disruptive innovation

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/ Anders Söderbäck, Stockholms universitetsbibliotek

Libraries need a next generation platform that is generic, scalable, multi tenant and able to meet all user expectations while keeping TCO to a minimum. The new digital environment is mobile. Therefore we need an extensible, modular framwork which will leverage the cloud by outsourcing delivery of enhanced marc records. We think of this as a unified virtual index with RESTful API:s, embedded in a federated structure of linked open data.

(PS. Is AJAX still cool?)

Panic response to disruption

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Hybrid innovation

• Includes both the old and the new technology

• It targets existing customers, rather than nonconsumers

• It tries to do the job of the preexisting technology.

• Does not significantly reduce the level of wealth and/or expertise needed

(http://www.christenseninstitute.org/publications/hybrids/)2013-05-30

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