1. Changing landscapes: 13 ways of looking at libraries Lorcan Dempsey Digital coop meeting, May 8 4

2. CBS school, Ennis

3. Its about research and learning

5. Collections, services, experiences

6. Services Experience Environment Collections

7. Environments Digital library Exhibition Learning management system Course Text book Essay …

8. Services Aggregation Searching Alerting Linking Citation Rights management … Annotation Packaging Analysis Classification …

9. And … Interoperability as recombinant potential –OAI –OAIS –SCORM –METS –… Recombinant potential is value The ‘portal’ problem

10. Libraries – and the network space

11. Libraries

12. Shared cataloging – 70sA shared network space

13. Resource sharing – 80s

14. A shared network space Article discovery and delivery – 90s

15. A shared network space Collaborative reference, Digital content management, Digitisation, Scholarly communication

16. Progressive entry into a network space Community organisation –Being digital suggests reorganisation and specialization to best leverage individual and collective strengths –Move away from vertical organisation around collection to horizontal organisation around process … –Immature organizational framework –Inefficiencies Internal organisation –Early stages of ‘digital content management’ –Routinized? –Grant money?

17. The cultural record

18. Libraries as institutions Memory institutions –Community –Scholarship –Cultural materials –Imagination Steward of what we give to the future Values and practices Social institutions Business/ organisational Service Technical

19. Although there is continuity of purpose and value within cultural institutions, these exist alongside a fundamental examination of roles and practices. The costs of developing necessary roles and sustainable practices will be high, as will the social and organisational costs of change and institution building. However the costs of not doing so will be higher, as the cultural and intellectual legacy to future generations is entrusted to a house of cards built on a million web sites.

20. Archives, libraries and museums are memory institutions: they organise the [] cultural and intellectual record. Their collections contain the memory of peoples, communities, institutions and individuals; the scientific and cultural heritage; and the products throughout time of our imagination, craft and learning. They join us to our ancestors and are our legacy to future generations. They are used by the child, the scholar, and the citizen, by the business person, the tourist and the learner. These in turn are creating the heritage of the future. Memory institutions contribute directly and indirectly to prosperity through support for learning, commerce, tourism, and personal fulfilment. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/dempsey/