2013North Carolina Serials Conference Rachel L. Frick Director, Digital Library Federation Council on Library and information Resources What WhoWhereWhyHow

My Perspective o Serialist,Vendor, NC-AHEC circuit librarian, TechServices, Digitization, Federal grants officer, o Community Builder Current organization o CLIR – Council on Library and Information Resources The DLF – Digital Library Federation

There is a lot going on… Shared Print Archives Open Access DPLA DPN APTrust DDA, PDA, RDA & RDA BibFRAME Linked Data

Its an exciting time to be a Librarian. Really. “It’s the end of the world as we know it (And I feel fine).”~R.E.M.

…and it’s just Beginning.. “I believe that we are at the threshold. But just at the very threshold—the very beginning. The incunabula period of the digital age.” T. Scott Plutchak Breaking the Barriers of Time and Space J Med Libr Assoc January; 100(1): 10–19. doi: / /

The Network… …changes Everything Multiple Communities Interdisciplinarity Leverage Local Expertise Amplifies Local Excellence Networked, Lee Raine & Barry Wellman Almost EVERY presentation by Lorcan Dempsey since 2005,(a good one is from a LIBER symposium in ppt

Collaboration /Scale Continuum of Collaboration, Gunter Waible

Macro-Solutions Above Campus Services John Wilkin, Paul Courant, Educause Review, August 2010 Service as Infrastructure DataOne, DPN, HathiTrust, shared print archives CLIR annual Report reports/annual_archive.html/10annrep.pdf reports/annual_archive.html/10annrep.pdf

Cloud Library Distributed Shared Print Network o Made possible by HathiTrust o OCLC Cloud Library Report, C. Malpas o Report – Print Management at Mega-Scale ReCAP - WEST - ASERL / University of Florida: US Gov Docs o Maine Shared Print - Organizational Node: Center for Research Libraries o Print Archive Community Forum

DPLA- Hubs Pilot

Data Data Driven Decision Making Research Data – big and small Data Curation Library Collections as Data Linked (Open)Data

Collections as Data

Collection Data Mashup

Open “A piece of data or content is open if Anyone is free to use, reuse and redistribute data and/or content – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/ or share-alike”.

Open for Business Walters museum o Donated 19,000 frelly licensed images to Wikimedia Rijks museum /Studio

Not Business as Usual Its All Local o “Local Collections are the Dark matter of a Linked Data world” ~ Susan Hildreth, Director IMLS, DPLAWest 2012 Bringing your Community to the world Turning Collection Development Inside Out, Dorthea Salo. Broaden you scope Allow for Serendipty

It’s our mission The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities R. David Lankes Atlas of New Librariship /wordpress/

Service Turn “Defining distinctive services with the clarity with which we have defined distinctive collections allows us to acknowledge that the 21st century will be marked by different, but equally valid, definitions of excellence in academic libraries, and that the manner in which individual libraries demonstrate excellence will be distinctive to the service needs, and to the opportunities to address those needs, found on each campus.” Scott Walter. “Distinctive Signifiers of Excellence”: Library Services and the Future of the Academic Library. Coll. & res. libr. January :6-

Library or Librarianship? Its not about the books We need to choose: the building or the communities ? A degree does not define us

Librarians needed David Weinberger – Too Big to Know Bethany Nowviskie – Too Small to Fail Alistair Croll – A Billion Bad Librarians e6f097467a#.UUE9A1t35XA e6f097467a#.UUE9A1t35XA

Be part* of the conversation Conversations build new Knowledge o Engage, Listen, resist the urge to broadcast Talk to someone new Contribute constructively Snark less, listen more

Librarians without Borders Roam where you want to Get out of the Box Don’t be pigeonholed Be a traveller, stay curious Generation Flux o o #genflux

It’s up to you

Who do you follow?

How do you lead?

Makers

Thanks Rachel L. Frick Director, Digital Library Federation