UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Digital Strategy: European Insights Dr Paul Ayris Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 1.UCL 2.Institutional architectures 3.New themes?  Google Generation?  E-Books  Primary data 4.Conclusions?

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 1.UCL

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES League Tables World University rankings 1 Harvard University US 2= University of Cambridge UK 2=University of Oxford UK 2=Yale University US 5 Imperial College, London UK 6 Princeton University US 7=California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US 7= University of Chicago US 9 UCL (University College London) UK 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US ngs/top_100_universities/

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES League Tables World University rankings 1 Harvard University US 2= University of Cambridge UK 2=University of Oxford UK 2=Yale University US 5 Imperial College, London UK 6 Princeton University US 7=California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US 7= University of Chicago US 9 UCL (University College London) UK 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US ngs/top_100_universities/

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Library Strategy  10 over-arching goals  E-Strategy a priority for:  Teaching and Learning  Research  Student experience  Partnership working See

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 2.Institutional Architectures

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES User Interface Optional Sub- Gateway Indexing & Metadata Digital Content Paper Content VLELibrary website Freely available A&I Databases Library catalogues UCL licensed A&I databases UCL owned eUCLid E-Prints Reading Lists Scholarly Gateways e.g. ArXiv MetaLib SFX UCL owned Special Colls archive Exam papers E-Prints UCL licensed E-Journals E-Books Freely available E-Journals E-Books Other full text Digital Course Readings Books Journals Reading Lists Exam Papers etc. Inter-connected UCL

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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?

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES VRE/VLE/ local web Student/UCL Library systems Social networking tools Google interface to Internet Prescribed core readings and 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 and exam marks; see loans information Core textbooks (STM); Digital readings (AHSS) Books/Journals/ AV/Digital Collections and Archives YouTube, FaceBook, FlickrGlobal resources - free E-Journals, E-Books, mass digitisation Institutional portal?

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Key Strategic Question  British Museum Reading Room is traditional model  Library 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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 3.New themes?  Google Generation?  E-Books  Primary data

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES User response: The ‘Google Generation’?  Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future  See  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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES E-Books  SuperBook project at UCL  Collaboration between UCL Library Services and  UCL’s School of Library Archive and Information Studies  See  ‘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 2008  Thanks to Dr Ian Rowlands, UCL SLAIS, for the following slides from a Workshop at King’s College Cambridge, 30 August 2007

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 1 st E-Textbooks: 58.9% 2 nd Reference Books: 52.4% 3 rd 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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES Contents 4.Conclusions?

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES 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

UCL LIBRARY SERVICES And finally…  Thanks for listening  Happy to hear comments