1. Necessary links
among collections, services, and infrastructure
in Cybraries
The
Michael A. Keller
Women in Science : Future of Libraries
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
24 October 2007

2. Libraries and Academic Computing: A Holistic View
Identity Management and Authentication: who are you?
Authorization: what are you allowed to do?
Collaboration
Research
Guest Wireless
Guest SUNetID
Shibboleth
Application
Network
Highly stable, highly scalable, fault-tolerant computing environments - load balanced, fail over, virtualized, grow at will
Teaching & Learning
Authentication
Authorization
Workgroups
Signet
Granular levels of access
Data Center
Application
Web
Storage
Database
Network
Administration
Personal IT Tools
Security
Identity Management
Content Management

3. Libraries and Academic Information Resources
Identity Management and Authentication: who are you?
Authorization: what are you allowed to do?
Collaboration
Research
Collaboration Tools
Guest Wireless
Guest SUNetID
Shibboleth
eScience
Shibboleth
Application
Network
Grid computing
Highly stable, highly scalable, fault-tolerant computing environments - load balanced, fail over, virtualized, grow at will
Teaching & Learning
Authentication
Authorization
Sakai: Framework and tools
Workgroups
Signet
Granular levels of access
Data Center
Application
Web
Storage
Database
Network
Evolving security infrastructure
Mass Storage
Administration
Personal IT Tools
Security
Identity Management
ePortfolio
Opaque identifiers
Digital Rights Management
Portal Framework for personalized view
Digital Archives
Google Book Search
WWW Services
Content Management
Federated Search
Audio/Visual Content

4. Why a Cybrary: Competitive Edges
Save faculty & students time & extend their reach when searching
Serve information resources & services 7x24 anywhere
Keep pace with scholarship in the digital age: engage new disciplines, new methods, new modes of publication
Develop better information resources and services, more tightly tuned to individual faculty research & teaching
Contribute to interdisciplinarity, new & developing academic objectives
Leverage traditional & commercial efforts to provide a library of the quality demanded by scholars
Reduce capital expenditures on central campus library facilities
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5. Megatrends Mass & custom digitization
Revolutionizing the Academic Information Space:
Mass & custom digitization
E-publishing & born digital materials
Data as a reusable resource
Digital Preservation
New forms of Discovery
New (digital) methods of Scholarship
Network support of teaching: course management systems for local and distant learning
Reduction of digital divide (proceeding fitfully, but a priority)
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6. 3 Components (in gross) Content Services Infrastructure
Locally developed (courses, products & by-products of scholarship)
Digitized by home institution
Digitized by others using many libraries’ holdings
Acquired by gift, purchase or lease from others
Services
Supporting faculty & students directly
Course management systems, publishing, research collaboration
Reference & bibliographic instruction
Research assistance
Digitization on demand (free service & cost-recovery)
Providing environments & tools to analyze, study & present content
Building collections (selection & distribution)
Preservation of e-objects for re-use and re-mix over decades/centuries
Infrastructure
Back of the house operations (acquisition, description, searching, browsing)
Local cybraries (creation, evolution, operation & maintenance of reliable & consistent i.t. environment for digital library & digital archive)
Local digital archives & repositories (ingest, preserve, provide access), federated
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7. The Cybrary
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8. The Cybrary
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9. The Stanford Cybrary Current Investment: $43M ($21.2M base)
GBS $391k base, $636k ot
Spec Coll & Media Pres
$646k base + $15.5M ot in toto
$686k annual
$6.4M LMB base
$1.0M LMB ot
$5.5M staff base
$1.6M annual
$3M one-time
in toto
$4.6M base ($880k new from BG)
$966k ot
$1.4M base ($200k new from BG)
$511k ot
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$2.8M base
$2.6M ot in toto

10. Scholarship Evolves Quickly in the Digital Age
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11. The Challenge of Abundance
<750 hits visible of 1.28M
Relevance of results???
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12. Three Accelerants for the Growth of Data on Campus
Mandatory Deposit of Articles
led by the National Institute of Health and the National Library of Medicine
Mandatory Deposit of Data
clear and strong recommendation by the National Science Board
National Science Foundation beginning to agitate
Realization that Data is an (Institutional) Asset
can serve multiple research groups
can be impossible or costly to replace
has led to the growth of institutional and discipline-specific repositories
Therefore, libraries needs to build out its institutional repositories
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13. The underpinnings: infrastructure
Archive
discovery
retrieve
ingestion
Content and Service Interface
Access
Digital Library Infrastructure (Content Management
& Middleware)
Digital Archive / Repository
(Preservation Infrastructure)
Identify
Track
Manage
Report
Ingest
Preserve
Hardware Infrastructure
Storage
Servers
Firewalls
Network
Data
Center
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14. The Challenge of Digital Preservation
Bit rot
Obsolescence
Format
Technology
Distribution and dissipation
Migrations and transitions
People (2 – 20 years)
Software (5 – 10 years)
Hardware (3 – 5 years)
Benign neglect doesn’t work for digital objects. Preservation requires active, managed care.
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15. Space: Physical & Digital
100,000 books
@ 10 volumes per linear foot
= more than 1.38 miles of shelving
- OR -
@ 150 MB/book = 15 TB of disk, or 1 foot of servers (& capacity increases 40% per year!)
400,000 books
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16. The library as a place
Learning and study spaces for individual and collaborative study
Content, expertise, technology in common spaces
Still, and for a (some) time to come, access to physical collections, especially emerging information and rare materials.
Virtual places in the Cybrary, including course management systems; virtual collaboration for research, teaching and scholarship; publication
Opportunities: bookless libraries, experimental/virtual classrooms & labs… will be modeled for new modes of learning, teaching and scholarship, as well as reduced capital costs
Opportunities: network-based collaboration frameworks; more than just classes;
Opportunities: employ web 2.0 technologies
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17. Rising tide lifts many, but not all boats
Widening Spectra
More variation
Rising tide lifts many, but not all boats
Both/And conundrum – not just traditional, but digital as well…not, NOT either/or
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