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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES
Digital Strategy: European Insights
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
e-mail: [email protected]
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Contents
1. UCL
2. Institutional architectures
3. New themes? Google Generation? E-Books Primary data
4. Conclusions?
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League Tables
World University rankings
1 Harvard University US2= University of Cambridge UK2= University of Oxford UK2= Yale University US5 Imperial College, London UK6 Princeton University US7= California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US7= University of Chicago US9 UCL (University College London) UK10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US
http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_100_universities/
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League Tables
World University rankings
1 Harvard University US2= University of Cambridge UK2= University of Oxford UK2= Yale University US5 Imperial College, London UK6 Princeton University US7= California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US7= University of Chicago US9 UCL (University College London) UK10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US
http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_100_universities/
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Library Strategy2005-10
10 over-arching goals E-Strategy a priority for:
Teaching and Learning Research Student experience Partnership working
See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat_may05.shtml
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User Interface
OptionalSub-
Gateway
Indexing &Metadata
DigitalContent
PaperContent
VLELibrary website
Freely available
A&I Databases
Library catalogues
UCL licensed
A&I databases
UCL owned
eUCLidE-Prints
Reading Lists
ScholarlyGatewayse.g. ArXiv
MetaLib
SFX
UCL owned
Special Colls archiveExam papers
E-Prints
UCL licensed
E-JournalsE-Books
Freely available
E-JournalsE-Books
Other full textDigital Course Readings
Books Journals Reading Lists Exam Papers etc.
Inter-connected e-services @ UCL
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Digital challenges
Present architecture is systems-driven Needs to be user-centric
UCL’s requirements do not fit all modules Federated searching via MetaLib not heavily used
New services Digital curation and digital preservation of institutional content Join-up with campus-wide systems
Student Systems, Finance Systems, Alumni systems Networked versus institutional provision?
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VRE/VLE/ local web
Student/UCL Library systems
Social networking tools Google interface to Internet
Prescribed core readingsand textbooks
Local UCL holdings
Paper and e-
External content subscribed and free
Research collaborations; Primary data; Group
project work; Learning interface
Pay fees; book residences;pay fines; see course andexam marks; see loans
information
Core textbooks (STM); Digital readings (AHSS)
Books/Journals/AV/Digital Collections
and Archives
YouTube, FaceBook, Flickr Global resources - freeE-Journals, E-Books,
mass digitisation
Institutional portal?
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Key Strategic Question
British Museum Reading Room is traditional modelLibrary pulls readers into library space
In a networked and global environment, library is just one content provider In UCL, STM researchers hardly ever set foot into a physical library space
Digital material is pushed to them electronically at their desktop Should the Library push stuff out to where the student is (e.g. Facebook)?
Thanks to Lorcan Dempsey for this metaphor and discussion
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User response:The ‘Google Generation’?
Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future See http://www.bl.uk/news/2008/pressrelease20080116.html Research undertaken by CIBER at UCL
All age groups revealed to share ‘Google Generation’ traits Young people
Rely heavily on search engines View rather than read Do not possess the critical or analytical skills needed to assess the
information they find on the web
This has implications for the development of digital strategies
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E-Books
SuperBook project at UCL Collaboration between UCL Library Services and UCL’s School of Library Archive and Information Studies See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/ciber/superbook/ ‘With e-books available directly from anywhere on or off campus, and
portable readers capable of holding more than 100 books, the traditional academic library will need to examine the way it manages and delivers book collections. It is the users who will drive the e-book story forward; and, unlike earlier formats, no one is watching the users of this new breed of ‘super books’
Final Report available in Summer 2008Thanks to Dr Ian Rowlands, UCL SLAIS, for the following slides from a
Workshop at King’s College Cambridge, 30 August 2007
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1st E-Textbooks: 58.9%
2nd Reference Books: 52.4%
3rd Research monographs: 46%
Initial findings from UCL’s SuperBook project
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Primary data
RLUK (Research Libraries UK – formerly CURL) and RUGIT (Russell Group IT Directors) have issued an Invitation to Tender
£200,000 from HEFCE for a Feasibility Study into the development of a shared digital research data service for UK Higher Education Institutions
Locally, there is uncertainty about the costs involved in managing large data volumes and the availability of a suitably skilled workforce to manage the new challenges posed by data curation
Feasibility Study will address the need not just for storage capacity but for active management of the creation, selection, ingestion, storage, retrieval and preservation of research data - the data lifecycle
Global developments in data curation will inform Feasibility Study
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Primary data
Primary data is vast Data from scientific experiments, statistical data, interviews … [etc] UCL currently auditing what types of primary data exist Role for the Library to oversee the curation?
Issues What is the platform and infrastructure? Libraries will work alongside academics to ensure metadata quality Skills and competencies of librarians will need to adapt
Liaison, subject understanding, archival and IPR awareness
New role for libraries
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Conclusions?
Libraries are changing Reflected in UCL Library Services’ Strategy
Institutional architectures Balance between local and network delivery is changing
Are users equipped for the brave new world? Role for libraries in Information Literacy and Fluency Programmes
Are E-Books the next big wave of e-content? E-Textbooks are very popular
Curation of Primary data a big new role for libraries