The library and the network: scale, engagement, innovation Lorcan Dempsey OCLC Georgetown University, Washington DC 7 March D.

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The library and the network: scale, engagement, innovation Lorcan Dempsey OCLC Georgetown University, Washington DC 7 March D

2 Prelude Georgetown in

Greene, Graham, Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character) Film serials Arabic language--Spoken Arabic Case grammar Order (Grammar) Forester, C. S Saʻdāwī, Nawāl Relational grammar Arab Americans--Ethnic identity Topics where Georgetown has more titles than other libraries

4 Greene, Graham Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott) Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Powell, Anthony Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University Munīf, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Communications and Society Program (Aspen Institute) Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Hughes, John Names where Georgetown has more titles than other libraries

Introduction: The network

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Network favors scale Platform – concentrates data, infrastructure, … Community/network forms around platform Network effects are central Social and analytics are central Gravitational hubs: the rich get richer Strong seo and referencability Management End user Social Analytics

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Infrastructure and scale in libraries: platforms 9

Print world High transaction costs Multiple collections placed close to the user Redundant operations …

11 CatalogingDiscoveryShared Print E-Journals…..

12 Worldcat ? Multiple CatalogingDiscoveryShared Print E-Journals….. A recent example … Network world Lower transaction costs Operations consolidate in platforms Redundant operations … “Webscale discovery”

Infrastructure is moving to cloud … Network effects in consumer services – gravitational hubs … Consolidation leads to data driven services and experiences … (analytics, recommendation, …) 13

“Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.”

The squeezed middle? The network favors scale and …. …. the personal What about the institution?

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What has changed Now: resources are abundant and attention is scarce Then: resources are scarce and attention is abundant 1

What has changed? Then: High transaction costs meant putting materials/services close to the user Now: Reduced transaction costs favor network platforms (Expedia, Amazon, Worldcat) 2

What has changed? Then: The library is the user focus (institution scale) Now: The network is the user focus 3

What has changed Now: Library services are built around the user’s workflow Then: User’s workflow built around library services 4

Value and focus? Unable to identify source of image

Harvard Business Review (1999)

Engagement Innovation Infrastructure Back office capacities that support day-to-day operations “Routinized” workflows Economies of scale important Develop new services and have them accepted Speed/flexibility important Attracting and building relationships with researchers and learners “Service-oriented”, customization Economies of scope important Note: Hagel et al talk about customer relationship management rather than engagement

Locally assembled collections. The place to go.

Focus? Strategy is about choices … Reconnect with parent’s goals … Where is distinctive local impact? Enrich student experience Improve research effectiveness and impact Promote civic engagement Equip citizens with learning skills and tools What should be done collaboratively? What should be done by others?

27 Shift to engagement Innovate – scalable and repeatable Rightscale infrastructure … the library as an effective actor in the research, learning and skills environments of its users … rebalance investment in collections and systems between local, shared and third party to improve impact and efficiency. Collaboration moves from margin to core. … institutions and services need to evolve in sustainable ways.

28 Shift to engagement

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U Minnesota, ARL Institutional profile “In alignment with the University's strategic positioning, the University Libraries have re- conceived goals, shifting from a collection-centric focus to one that is engagement- based.” umcf.umn.edu/awards/2006/images/margo_library_lg.jpg

Examples of engagement Visible expertise: the power of pull Beyond consumption and creation: directly supporting creation Reconfigured space: configure around experiences not collections Decentered web presence: in the flow 31

Visible expertise Then: Invisible and neutral. Now: If the library wishes to be seen as expert, then its expertise must be seen. 32

‘Indexing’ librarians at U Michigan

34 Transformation of the academic library Kurt de Belder

From curation/consumption to creation/curation/consumption Then: Acquire external resources Now: Engage with creation, use and sharing of all information resources. 35

Outside in Bought, licensed Increased consolidation Move from print to licensed Manage down print – shared print Move to user-driven models Aim: to discover The Inside out Library Institutional assets: special collections, research and learning materials, institutional records, community resources, … Reputation management Increasingly important? Publishing Aim: to *have* discovered … to disc lose

accessCeramics merges a traditional academic digital image collection's metadata capabilities with Flickr's openness and flexibility. It seeks to take advantage of Flickr's software tools and social network while also providing a web interface customized to this collection. Collaboration with department around community and learning resource

People should think not so much of the books that have gone into the … Library but rather of the books that have come out of it. Seán O'Faoláin By Ardfern (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commonshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0

Space Then: space is configured around collections Now: space is configured around experiences 40

… unique combination of collections, government information expertise, and data services …. Our new proximity, in a purposefully designed and equipped space, means that we can more effectively collaborate with each other, which in turn really enhances our ability to creatively collaborate with students, faculty, and researchers. The new library features 60-foot long counter to enable the examination of large-format maps; a presentation space that will accommodate instruction; display cases and screens that showcase items from the print and digital collections; a large-format high- resolution scanner that produces digital copies for online work or the creation of full-size print copies; individual and group study spaces with dual-screen computers and laptop accessibility; and comfortable, moveable furniture for flexible study and collaboration. We expect the Clark to become the campus nexus for the various data services that all disciplines increasingly require, … Stephen S. Clark Library

The decentered web presence Then: discovery happened at the library Now: discovery happens elsewhere. Focus on ‘discoverability’ in multiple environments. 42

Creating conversations around collections: Sleevefacing at Bowling Green State Univ

Youtube Decoupled Communication Flickr Twitter Facebook Blogs Google Knowledgebase Resolver Discovery Cloud Sourced Libguides

Digital Archive External Syndication Services Data RSS Metadata Europeana WorldCat Scirus Ethos ArchivesGrid Suncat Summon Jorum Linked Data (Catalog) OAI-PMH (Dspace) Z39.50 Library APIs Proxy Widgets Proxy Toolbar Mobilepp Discovery Catalogue Dspace Blogs

Venues Wikipedia Configure resolver in Scholar, Mendeley, etc Claim library in OCLC Spotlight Google Books (holdings up to date) SEO – best practice for websites and repositories

Engagement Orientation to the user/parent institution Create value in research and learning process The ‘power of pull’ Make expertise visible 47

‘Cloud’ storage Rightscale infrastructure

Examples Negotiation and licensing Library systems infrastructure Digital infrastructure Processing capacity Shared print – Managing down local print – Evolving shared approaches. 49

Do locally what creates most distinctive value. Share what makes sense for efficiency and impact. Buy the rest.

Shared print Then: Value relates to depth and breadth of local collection. Now: Value relates to systemwide curation of and access to print collections. 51

OCLC Research, 2013 North American print book resource: 45.7 million distinct publications million total library holdings North American print book resource: 45.7 million distinct publications million total library holdings

Digital and systems infrastructure Then: Local build or control. Now: Look to scale for efficiency and impact. 53

54 Collaborative sourcing – cooperation moves from the margins

“aggregate and scale towards a common infrastructure”

Colleges and universities have long competed against one another, measuring themselves in comparison to each other and holding tightly to their idiosyncrasies as defining elements of their status. But today, the distribution and reuse of information digitally via the Internet is rapidly changing the game, rewarding those who instead aggregate and scale toward a common infrastructure. It is becoming increasingly clear that neither the challenges that confront colleges and universities nor the solutions to those challenges are unique to each institution. Chuck Henry and Brad Wheeler The game has changed Educause Review, March 2012 “

Institutional > State/Consortium > Region/national > global Collaboratively source or buy from third party Control vs economy A new institutional context: agreed mutual dependence on shared/remote services

58 Innovation

Institutional innovation Enterprise vs bureaucracy New forms of engagement Skills ‘Repeatable and scalable’ 59 What’s a startup.

... a more fundamental level of innovation, institutional innovation – redefining the rationale for institutions and developing new relationship architectures within and across institutions to break existing performance trade-offs and expand the realm of what is possible … John Hagel III and John Seely Brown

A new architecture of relationships: rightscaling

A new architecture of relationships: engagement University Press Office of Research IT Learning and teaching support E-research Writing centre Academic departments ….

The library should not provide an argument for a particular case, but demonstrate that there is always another case to be made. The notion that the library is a place that has no agenda other than allowing people to invent their own agendas is what makes it an indispensable resource for a democracy. It is where we can learn not just to be readers, but to be the authors of our own destiny. Fintan O’Toole Dublin City Public Libraries, Flickr: A reset moment

To conclude… Rightscale infrastructure services: find appropriate level in the network. Shift resource to engagement: evolving information services which improve the student experience and enhance research. Creates new infrastructure and innovation challenges. Internal/external institutional innovation: building new relationships requires enterprise and promotes learning ….

Credits Thanks to Constance Malpas and Thom Hickey for the Georgetown in Worldcat data analysis. Pictures of Brutalist libraries are from Wikimedia Commons (UC San Diego, Toronto, Virginia Commonwealth, George Washington, Georgetown, Glasgow, Oberlin). 65 ©2014 OCLC. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Suggested attribution: “This work uses content from “The Library and the Network: Scale, Engagement, Innovation” © OCLC, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license: