1. Lorcan Dempsey Lir Seminar 2008 14 April 2008 Liberty Hall, Dublin
The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and services.
Lorcan Dempsey
Lir Seminar 2008
14 April 2008
Liberty Hall, Dublin

6. Picture: Robin Alston

7. Space Expertise Collections Systems and services
Then: vertically integrated around collection
Now: moving apart in network environment
New skills ….

8. Place
High touch service

9. Place Place Space Space infused with value
How has the value changed over time?
Engagement with collections, expertise and services?
Space
Opportunity costs
Valuable real estate
Growing pressure in many environments
New spaces

10. Place Infrastructure -> “customer relations” Higher value activity
Access to scarce resources – people, equipment, specialist advice, exhibition, …
Individual, group, social

11. These student comments suggest that good study space is responsive to the academic and social dimensions of study in ways that allow students to control them both.
Scott Bennett

12. Gleason Library
U Rochester
Photos: S. Gibbons

14. engage with the learning process Partnership Repurpose and recalibrate
Place
engage with the learning process Partnership Repurpose and recalibrate

15. Collections
New directions

16. Collections grid STEWARDSHIP Books Freely-accessible web resources
high
low
Books
Journals
Newspapers
Gov. docs
CD, DVD
Maps
Scores
Freely-accessible web resources
Websites
Open source software
Newsgroup archives
low
UNIQUENESS
Research, learning and administrative
materials,
ePrints/tech reports
Learning objects
Courseware
E-portfolios
Research data
Institutional records
Reports, newsletters, etc
high
Special collections
Rare books
Local/Historical newspapers
Local history materials
Archives & Manuscripts,
Theses & dissertations

17. Trends Mass digitization and off-site storage Licensed: rented
‘Special collections’ onto the web
Thematic collections of web resources
Research, learning and administrative materials ‘published’ on the web
The new special collections.

19. Thematic research collections

20. Published materials: discourse
Primary materials: evidence
Interpreted materials: exhibition
Library
Archive
Museum

23. Collections
negotiation engagement with researchers and learners as creators archival practice: institutional assets interpretation and exhibition

24. The person is an entry point
Expertise
The person is an entry point

28. Source: Susan Gibbons, U Rochester

29. Expertise
Improve university research and learning capacities: publishing interpreting available resources in terms of specific research and learning needs specialist consultancy: GIS, metadata, IPR, … Marketing and assessment: understand needs and develop services to meet those needs

30. Services and systems
In the flow

31. library Consumer environments Management environment Network level
Institutional
Workflow
Portals,
CMS, IR, …
Personal
RSS,
toolbars, ..
Network level
workflow
Google, …
Integrated
local user
environment?
Library web
presence
Resource
sharing, …
library
Consumer environments …
Management environment
Bought
Licensed
Faculty&
students
Digitized
Aggregations
Resource sharing

32. Discovery happens elsewhere
Resources are abundant; attention scarce
Build services around workflow
The big squeeze

34. Now: Federated access to multi-institutional holdings with support for personal collection-building and sharing
“Special collections beginning to move into digital environment – new usefulness”
Ex. NINES project
The NINES project consolidates special collections materials from different institutions and enables researchers to build and share personal collections from the aggregated materials; personally-assigned keywords become part of a shared vocabulary.

41. Systems and services
Support for faculty and student gather/create/share Placing the library in the flow digital asset management more sophisticated sourcing decisions

42. Leadership
value translation: showing the value of the library in the context of the values of the home institution

43. Thank you