Institutional Repositories, July 2007 Impact of IR’s on the role of librarians Dr D Peters DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa

2 Discussion Evolution of the digital library New library roles in a digital age Diffusion in the academic environment

3 Discussion Are we prepared to meet global challenges to the LIS profession? What are the major technology issues? Rights management issues? What are our new roles? How do we achieve those roles?

4 Global challenges Impact of technology Intellectual property rights management Training and qualification Information literacy Performance measurement Community involvement Resources

5 Challenges of Technology Have search engines replaced librarians? Amassing content of future digital libraries Persistent Identifiers: Handles & DOI’s Quality of metadata Shibboleth infrastructure Semantic Web Digital preservation Googlisation

6 Challenges of Rights Management Copyright restrictions Service to academic community Ownership of content Licensed usage in revenue generation Information as an economic commodity Library as a commercial enterprise Ethic of free access to information Publishing role of professional organisations

7 Training and qualification Value of LIS qualification – EQ? Frustrated by product of library schools In-service training imperative What kind of training required? Bridging gap in capacity development User demands and expectations Older librarians Lack of computer literacy in current management Bring credibility, not a skills set Charismatically challenged profession

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9 Challenges of Information Literacy Enhance literacy, culture and the enjoyment of reading How to attract new users How to bring new technologies to users Economic implications for developing countries Dealing with a-literacy and illiteracy Oprah’s Book Club Adapt the product to meet user needs Gaming technologies changing literature

10 Challenges of Performance Measurement Civil service mentality Measure impact, not just outputs Find niche market services ILL- model revision

11 Challenges of Community Involvement Indigenous knowledge systems Essence of library as civic space Agents for democracy in civil society Intellectual freedom / censorship Services that are needed and appreciated become a civic asset Central role in quality schooling and lifelong learning Library values identified by the public

12 Resources Funding base in community politics Literate in the language of the economy Patron support Marketing is a process, not an event Library relationships with the media Partnerships and advocacy Getting the message across to politicians Change collections development from 80% duplication to niche products Did not come to OA by our analytical ability

13 Stop doing what we have been doing, and do what we have to do! New orientation

14 Digital library shift Value of collections >>> value of skills Information description and access >>> contextualisation and analysis Support agency > >> collaborator Facility-based > >> sector -wide

15 Emerging trends to watch… Growth of distributed ownership  Shared/ Licensed / Trusted repositories Open paradigms and models  Open source / Open science / Open content Changing time horizon for preservation  Media obsolescence Change in IP rights  Digital archiving / Commercial value Globalisation  Web archiving / Information imperialism / Collaboration

16 New support infrastructure for scholarly communication Beyond storage, organisation and access Meet use expectations of reusable content Build interactive communities

17 New library services for IR Link facets of e-Research  Online publishing  Digital curation  e-Science Integrate IR into university information systems  Management Information systems  Research management systems Push content  University PR  Research centres  Mash-ups  Social technologies

18 Enable the user Technical assistance to create intellectual works in digital forms Link learning objects with OLS Copy citations to bibliographies, CV’s, research profile Import researcher’s papers into portal or research centre website Virtual communities for multi-university research teams through IR-based wicki’s and blogs. Capture live events and conference-based intellectual output Publish OA journals

19 Institutionalising the IR Transfer intellectual output from other units / projects Automated document transfer  ETD – IR  Research management systems  Development / Funding office reports  Public relations publications Digital curation  Media & format migration  Access management Personaliation services Templates for profles, vitae and bibliographies Citation analysis

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22 Digital UKZN The Digital Commons is a conceptual framework for the managed digital information environment that integrates research resources with pedagogically effective, innovative and transformative uses of education technology for teaching and learning in higher education, to advance the objectives of open scholarly communication and access.

23 Federated Service Model Technical infrastructure Data curation Digital preservation Scholarly publishing Learning materials Domain expertise in each repository Ground up development Unsustainable silos

24 Commons Broader issues of institutional archiving policies and practice Interoperate with data creation, analysis and dissemination workflows Point at which the research occurs as well as the outputs of scholarly publication Embedded within the working practices of the domains they serve Relationships between different types of digital object within different domains Define common services required by repositories in different domains

25 New job descriptions E-Learning Librarian  responsible for technology-enhanced instruction through the development of learning objects, streaming audio-video, Web-based modules and e-learning within course management systems Educational Services Librarian  lead the libraries and the university in creating an enterprise-level research education program, focused on infusing information fluency and research skills throughout the curriculum. Digital Repository Librarian  responsible for developing and securing content, communicating with and providing support to repository contributors and users, drafting repository policies and procedures, working with Library Information Technology and vendor(s) to ensure system functionality, and establishing workflow and other procedures according to best practices and established standards.

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