1. RLG Programs Curating the Collective Collection Ricky Erway RLG Programs OCLC Programs and Research Western Digital Forum 9 August 2007

2. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 2 OVERVIEW  The context in which we find ourselves  User perspective – changed information seeking behaviors  Library perspective – increasing demands + decreasing budgets = need to be more efficient in order to remain relevant  Thoughts about effecting change

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4. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 4 Information consumer environment  Network-level aggregation of supply and demand  Patterns of learning, research, information production and consumption  Personal collections and data reproduction  Customer relation management

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6. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 6 Social networking – explosion

7. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 7 Gather, create and share....  Personal collections  Photos  Books  Research  Jokes  Opinions  News  Music

8. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 8 ELGG Personal Learning Landscape

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12. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 12 Institutional environment – Current impacts  Agile, rich new competitors  Library budget pressure  Service fragmentation  Redundant effort

13. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 13 Institutional environment – Barriers to progress  Process standardization  Resistance to outsourcing  One-dimensional client relations  Resistance toward change

14. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 14 Now: Attention is scarce, resources are abundant Then: The user built workflow around the library’s services Now: The library must build its services around user workflow Then: Resources were scarce, attention was abundant

15. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 15 Something’s gotta give  New initiatives are absorbed into existing budgets  Many duplicative efforts  In selection  In acquisitions  In cataloging  In disclosure and access  In storage  In digital projects  In digital repositories  Expensive legacy systems maintained locally  And our users are often not discovering our information!

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17. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 17 Possibilities  Catalog records for commonly held content  Digitized books in a single index  Remote storage  Vocabularies  User contributed content

18. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 18 More possibilities  Social networking  Advanced functionality  Disclosure and exposure  Other behind-the-scenes operational possibilities  Authentication  service registries  metadata maps  identifier services  institutional profiling services  terminology services

19. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 19 If we free up some resources…. ILS refocused on local operations Redeploy staff New opportunities Offering new user-centric services Support for education and scholarly communication The library as place Information commons Group and individual study spaces Classroom support Computer lab with media production support Writing lab Project space Coffee shop

20. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 20 What will it mean to curate the collective collection?  Shared print storage  Effective lending practices  Coordinated digitization  Collaborative selection  Making our data work harder

21. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 21 Focus on special collections Material that is unique or rare is in a variety of formats will only be acquired once need only be cataloged once supports our local users we are best suited to maintain will be accessed by remote users requires preservation Basis for assessment Scale up digitization to avoid marginalization

22. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 22 The role of metadata in the collective collection Blaming the victim Improved systems that: Make use of existing metadata, without unnecessary modifications Have improved handling of vocabularies Encourage shortcuts Take advantage of Web 2.0 possibilities Increase our reach

23. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 23 Approaches to Metadata Creation Survey says…

24. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 24 The great thing about Standards is…. …that there are so many to choose from

25. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 25 But it’s not even that simple… Various interfaces

26. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 26 Moving in a positive direction

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33. RLG Programs 9 August 2007 Western Digital Forum 33 Contact  Ricky Erway  (650) 691-2228  erwayr@oclc.org erwayr@oclc.org

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