1. Discovery Tools and Music Library 2.0 Integrated Library Systems
October 12, 2007
Paul Soderdahl

2. Prologue: Predicting the Future

3. “It is unlikely that the typical university library staff of 2005 will employ any mechanical devices which are not already in existence.”
Haynes McMullen, 1955

4. “There may be a limit to the amount of speed and efficiency faculty members will accept.”
Haynes McMullen, 1955

5. “It cannot make much difference to him if the librarian is able to assemble and to present him with the materials he needs within a period of two days instead of a period of two weeks.”
Haynes McMullen, 1955

6. Discovery Tools and Music Library 2.0 Integrated Library Systems
October 12, 2007
Paul Soderdahl

7. Discovery Tools and Music Library 2.0 Integrated Library Systems
October 12, 2007
Paul Soderdahl

8. October 12, 2007 Paul Soderdahl
Discovery Tools and Music Library 2.0 Integrated Library Systems Predicting the Present
October 12, 2007
Paul Soderdahl

9. Chapter 1: Lessons from Google

10. Google is not in the information business

11. Core business: Search and advertising
Ben Bunnell, Google

12. 70/20/10 rule
Ben Bunnell, Google

13. “No constraints”
Ben Bunnell, Google

14. Things not to worry about 1. CPU 2. Power 3. Storage 4. Bandwidth 5
Things not to worry about 1. CPU 2. Power 3. Storage 4. Bandwidth 5. Monetization 6. …

15. “If we can innovate, the money will follow.”
Ben Bunnell, Google

16. “They are completely unafraid of scale.”
Mark Sandler, CIC

17. 26 million results are no big deal

18. Google Web Lesson 1: With good relevance ranking, recall trumps precision

19. Google Book Search

20. Google Book Search Lesson 2: Just scan it all and get it over with

21. Google Scholar

22. Google Scholar Lesson 3: Just get all the data and index it once

23. Google Labs

24. Google Labs Lesson 4: We can’t worry about the “tyranny of the perfect

25. Good enough is just that

26. Good enough is just that
Quality
Staff effort

27. Good enough is just that
Quality
Staff effort

28. Chapter 2: Integrated Library System

29. Chapter 2: Library Management System

30. Digital library and digital asset management systems
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials

31. Digital library and digital asset management systems
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve

32. Cataloging Acquisitions OPAC Circ Serials ILL E- Reserve
Digital library and digital asset management systems
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support

33. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System OPAC Circ
Digital library and digital asset management systems
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support

34. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System OPAC Circ
Digital library and digital asset management systems
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support
New systems supporting access to library resources

35. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System Proxy OPAC
Digital library and digital asset management systems
Proxy
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support
New systems supporting access to library resources

36. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System
Digital library and digital asset management systems
E-resource mgmt
Proxy
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support
New systems supporting access to library resources

37. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System
Digital library and digital asset management systems
E-resource mgmt
Proxy
Link resolver
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support
New systems supporting access to library resources

38. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System
Digital library and digital asset management systems
E-resource mgmt
Proxy
Federated search
Link resolver
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support
New systems supporting access to library resources

39. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System
Digital library and digital asset management systems
Institutional repository
E-resource mgmt
Proxy
Images and multimedia
Federated search
Link resolver
Local digital collections
Full text
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support
New systems supporting access to library resources

40. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System
Digital library and digital asset management systems
Library portal
Institutional repository
Web services
E-resource mgmt
Proxy
Images and multimedia
Federated search
Link resolver
Local digital collections
Full text
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support
New systems supporting access to library resources

41. Infrastructure Cataloging Acquisitions Library Mgmt System
Digital library and digital asset management systems
Library portal
Institutional repository
Web services
E-resource mgmt
Proxy
Images and multimedia
Federated search
Link resolver
Local digital collections
Full text
Library Mgmt System
Acquisitions
Circ
Cataloging
OPAC
Serials
ILL
E- Reserve
Infrastructure
System Administration & Networking
Public Workstations
Desktop Support
New systems supporting access to library resources
◄◄◄ Integrations ►►►

42. The integrated library system isn’t so integrated anymore

43. “Disintegrated library system”
Betsy Friesen, U of Minnesota

44. Chapter 3: Smart Search

45. Chapter 3: Smart Search
Beta

46. Ex Libris Primo

47. May 2007 – Sept. 2007

48. Primo Implementation Plan

49. P.I.P.

50. P.Imp.

51. “Pimp my OPAC”

53. Extract Abstract the data

54. Harvest Deposit it to repository

55. Normalize Accommodate disparate data

56. Enrich Add value

57. Process • De-dupe • FRBRize • Build index • Create facets • …
Black Box

58. D2D Discovery to Delivery

59. Epilogue: Getting in the Flow

60. “Get in the flow of what they do, don’t pull them into ours.”
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

61. “Incorporating the network means a shift from database to website to workflow …”
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

62. “… from institutional workflows to personal workflows to network-level workflows.”
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

63. Course management systems
Student portals
“… from institutional workflows to personal workflows to network-level workflows.”
Google
RSS aggregators
Toolbars
MySpace
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

64. “Think about how machines are consuming your content.”
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

65. “The library web site is not the front door anymore
“The library web site is not the front door anymore. Painting it and putting ornaments on it is of limited use.”
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

66. “The library web site is not the front door anymore
“The library web site is not the front door anymore. Painting it and putting ornaments on it is of limited use.”
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

67. Challenge How do we get there?

68. Challenge How do we get here?

69. Separating the front end from the back end

70. Separating asset management from the resource discovery

71. • New tools for the front end • Better tools for the back end • And tools to tie them together

72. It’s almost as if… What we really need is an integrated library system

73. Paul Soderdahl paul-soderdahl@uiowa.edu
Questions?
Paul Soderdahl