The future, the research library and the architect Lorcan Dempsey OCLC Presentation at the School of Architecture, OSU 28 Oct 2009
Overview
A hive like dome L McNeice Private and social Catalog and collection
vertical integration expertise systems and services collections space
float apart in network environment and enter different relationship expertise systems and services collections space
collections
Collections grid highlow high Stewardship Uniqueness Low-Low Freely-accessible web resources Open source software Newsgroup archives Low-High Books & Journals Newspapers Gov Documents CD & DVD Maps Scores High-Low Research & Learning Materials Institutional records ePrints/tech reports Learning objects Courseware E-portfolios Research data Prospectus Insitutional website High-High Special Collections Rare books Local/Historical Newspapers Local History Materials Archives & Manuscripts Theses & dissertations
License Digitise Space? Special Outside in: bought, licensed Inside out: reputation, institutional assets, record Institutional output: future ‘special’
expertise & people
People are entry points Consulting Expertises data, metadata, copyright, disclosure, publishing, databasing, …
systems & services “In the flow” people won’t build workflow around the (physical) library. discovery happens elsewhere
… what are the appropriate intersection points between library staff and systems, and the research and learning behaviors of students and faculty, and how do those need to change …
U Michigan
Published materials: discourse Primary materials: evidence Interpreted materials: exhibition Library Archive Museum
space
Valuable Opportunity costs Social lives and learning Micro-coordination and ad hoc rendezvous Integration of real and real Added value activity
U Sheffield “Non linear spaces are more interesting”, Lewis and Levy
U Sheffield Business units: same location on every level. Print/copy/scan/card value load/book issue/acoustic enclosure. Lewis and Levy
U Kansas libraries, GIS and Data lab
U Sheffield Extensive use of plasma screens for signage. Lewis and Levy.
U Bath catalogue QR Code
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