Overview of the University Libraries Council of Deans - May 20, 2008 Joseph J. Branin The Ohio State University Libraries A great university. A great library

Overview of the University Libraries Real estate and print collections Knowledge management in the digital realm Major information policy issues in scholarly and scientific communications

The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary A Few Quick Facts The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary 10th largest collection among U.S. public research institutions (16th in U.S. overall) 304 FTE faculty and staff employees Collections budget near $12 million, with additional $1 million of support annually from OhioLINK 46% of collections budget now spent for e-resources 5.5 million full-text article downloads annually 2nd in U.S. for total interlibrary loan transactions 500,000 circulations of OSU books to OSU users per year

The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary Physical locations The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary The Thompson Library Renovation: a quick summary

Redesign of Library Facilities Undergoing major change Thompson (Main) Library Science and Engineering Library Journalism Theater Research Institute Library Under active review for change Sullivant Hall Library Cartoon Research Library Business Library Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences Library

New Learning Space Design in Libraries New balance between collections and user space Consolidation of collections and service points Robust information technology infrastructure Variety of public spaces: quiet, private, gathering places, much more group study, very flexible meeting and learning Partnerships with CIO, Teaching Centers, Student Services space Attention to social amenities: café, lighting, displays, soft furniture More events and programs: exhibits, displays, lectures, tutoring, seminars

Digital Union

Expanding Document Delivery Services Scanning and electronic delivery of articles from print journals for students and faculty = 24,000 items per year (at start up) Books from Libraries’ collections delivered to nearest library or through campus mail to faculty offices and student dorms = 56,000 items per year Document Delivery Material borrowed from other libraries for pick up or document delivery = 102,000 items per year Interlibrary Loan

Mass digitization of print collections Google/CIC Libraries project to digitize 10 million print titles in the next 6 years Digitizing underway at Michigan and Wisconsin and soon to start at Indiana and Purdue CIC Shared Digital Repository to preserve and share digital copies Can share full text of public domain works; indexing and snippets of in-copyright works. About 20% of titles are in public domain

Thompson Library Renovation: Timeline $109 million, 9-year effort: Library Task Force: 1998-99 Feasibility Studies: 2000-2002 Design Work: 2002 – 2005 One Phase Construction: 2006- 2009 Re-opening: September 2009

Aerial view (SE) of the Project, August 2007

Aerial view (NE) of the Project, January 2008

Proposed eastern facade

New Western Elevation

Colby College Ohio State

2002

The Grand Reference Hall, 2009 (rendering):

Continuing Growth of Publication OCLC: 2004 Information Format Trends

Recent Environmental Scans and User Studies OCLC 2005 Where Electronic Information Searches Begin—by College Students across all Regions Search Engine: 89% Library Website: 2% E-mail: 1% Online database: 2% Topic-specific Web sites: 1% Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future, Univ. College London, 11 January 2008 Google Generation In general terms, this new form of information seeking behaviour can be characterized as being horizontal, bouncing, checking and viewing in nature.

From Collection Management to Knowledge Management One of the first and largest digital repositories to curate digital assets of an institution (8th largest) 7000 items added in this academic year Diverse communities including undergraduate honors theses, faculty research, open access journals, conference proceedings, oral histories, and distinguished lectures

Expertise Management: Key to Knowledge Management Libraries are part of Extended Project team and are early adopters Using expertise to promote consistency in data input and provide standards for data output Providing training and assistance to faculty and staff

Data Curation: the Latest Knowledge Management Challenge Challenge to develop sustainable methods to support digital data curation in science and engineering Create full life-cycle management for digital data sets Application for 2007-2008 NSF DataNet grant ($100 million) New competencies in science librarians

Major Information Policy Issues Ownership of Information Copyright Help Center http://library.osu.edu/sites/copyright/ Access to scholarship and science Author’s Rights Open Access Movement NIH funded research reports MIT Open Courseware Harvard faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Law Self-publishing and peer review arXiv.org for pre-pubs in physics, math, computer science, quant. biology, and statistics Wikipedia, web sites, blogs, virtual reality sites Appropriate use of information Security, privacy, and censorship

Thompson Library viewed from the Oval, 7 December 2007 Thank You!