Post on 21-Oct-2014
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Miscellaneous Connections
the digital and institutional environments
Mal BoothUTS Library, October 2009
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922 text)Contains Hazel Bell’s Wheatley Medal winning index.
http://www.telawrence.info/telawrenceinfo/books/works.shtml#sp22
Seven Pillars of WisdomThe ParallelText (1997)
Collection of the Australian War Memorial, presented by the publishers, Jeremy Wilson & Nicole Helari
A messy but connected collection of miscellaneous ideas, thoughts, images and links to places on the web and about some
institutions
Collaborators: @CathStyles @paulhagon @MissSophieMac
@mhuston @lizholcombe all in Google Documents
+ Robyn Van Dyk & Alex Byrne by email
If this doesn't work: blame them!
It just doesn't make sense to chunk it up and put an arbitrary structure around stuff like this, so I won’t.
Maybe that is why things like DAMS, ECM, WCM and EDRMS are so hard to do and so painful as experiences?
I think we are trying to apply too many techniques and methods from the physical world in the digital world.
Trying to put a physical taxonomic protocol on digital material either doesn't work at all or at best, not
very well.
It is too cumbersome, too slow, too costly, too restricted.
There is no "right" way to do it because we cannot agree on the
categories & because of the size of the problem and the time it takes to do things the old way (in unhelpful systems, adding formal metadata).
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?fID=569&rID=16134
The web is too fluid, too dynamic. It is never finished; a work in progress
We are no longer limited by volume, storage, film, distance, membership, pages, chapters,
paragraphs, the concept of the physical object, place, time or even ownership
And yes, we're struggling with that last one too - Copyright wasn't designed for a web platformhttp://frommelbin.blogspot.com/2009/10/cory-doctorow-on-copyright-open-access.html
So what helps now?In addition to given subject headings, Dewey, &
other taxonomies
Tagging, playlists, hyperlinks, shared platforms & data, applications, mashups, ‘digital altruism’
Is it really digital convergence or is it convergence of the best of the physical and
digital worlds?
http://www.librarything.com/home/malboo http://www.last.fm/home http://delicious.com/malbooth
. . . by letting users tag URLs and then aggregating those tags, we're going to be able to build alternate organizational systems, systems that, like the Web itself, do a better job of letting individuals create value for one another, often without realizing it.http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
We're sharing knowledge & collaborating to do it (think Wikipedia)
We're staying connected: social networks and the mobile web, micro-blogging
We're helping & engaging with each other
Examples from the film:http://www.couchsurfing.org/ http://www.mumsnet.com/ http://theps.net/
http://watch.usnowfilm.com/
Have you seen this?
http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/
We're creating and sharing film, images, games, data and text more freely than ever
http://www.flickr.com/photos/malbooth/sets/72157607919370856/
We're sharing software and free applications to help all of the above, e.g. Echofon and Tweetdeck for iPhones
http://www.linux.org.au/
We're having our say and we're reading what others have to say, not just traditional media & publishing
http://www.frommelbin.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.com.au/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=wy#overview-page
We're figuring out new ways to trust each other and to judge authenticity
http://www.ebay.com.au/ http://sydney.craigslist.com.au/
InstitutionsIt is no longer adequate to wait for people to come to us: physically or via our homepages.
Our content MUST be findable open and then we must get out to where the people are!
Content is king, but clever access to content is God, no amount of content is good, if you can't
access it.@paulhagon (NLA)
We're freeing up our data (slowly) and allowing others to do clever things with it
http://data.australia.gov.au/ http://about.nsw.gov.au/
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/war_diaries/cew_bean/
http://utsescholarship.lib.uts.edu.au/
New UTS Library services: data curation, e-publishing, i-repositories (for research), & facilitating better
rights management
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-Australia/UTS-Library/93282252430http://twitter.com/utslibraryhttp://www.youtube.com/user/UTSLibraryhttp://www.lib.uts.edu.au/news/*/*/*/feedhttp://www.lib.uts.edu.au/students/need-help
Librarians must continue to be proactive in their attempts to reach students and other researchers where they begin their search. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/lally/05lally.html
07/04/2023
LIBRARY OF THE FUTUREHOW WE WILL GET THERE
Vodafone Electronics
Tutor, Lisbon
AUTOMATED STORAGE & RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
Specification development (now)
Relegation policies & algorithms (soon)
ASRS tender(s) from early 2010
Excavation & build from 2011
Plan decant & ingest from mid-2012
Procure ASRS – late 2012
Collection decant & tote load from Aug
2013
Operational use of ASRS from Aug 2013?
EXEMPLARS
1. Service delivery
• “Barefoot” librarians
• 24/7 service
• “Triage” or tiered levels
of service
• Client & staff circulation
and interaction
• Use of furniture or space
design that helps or
facilitates improved
service
• Way finding & signage
Qantas Sydney First lounge
Faculty hub concept, US
EXEMPLARS2. Personalised or customised services
• Spaces designed specifically to meet target groups or individuals
• Personalised services
• Consultation services
Codrington Library, All Souls, Oxford
EXEMPLARS3. New physical and virtual spaces & integration of those
• Security initiatives and access regulation
• Evidence of the physical and digital spaces working together
• New teaching & learning spaces, group study spaces, training facilities
• Staff office spaces or other concepts
• Showcasing eScholarship
Top: “reactable”, tangible multi-touch interface.
Bottom: AMP office refurbishment, Sydney
And while all of these sustainable operational initiatives are important and commendable, they are really just the tip of the iceberg. What is really important is the impact
companies have on the world in terms of the actual work they do.
The actions we inspire, enable and facilitate are by far the biggest part of our ecological footprint, that’s the
chunk of the iceberg under the waterline . . .Dave Gravina, Digital Eskimo
EXEMPLARS4. Sustainability
• Green initiatives
• Affect on the environment
• How is staff participation encouraged?
• Creating a fun environment to work in
Surry Hills Library &
Community Centre.
Green City Council building, Melbourne
SYNTHe roof garden,
Los Angeles
EXEMPLARS5. Social interaction, collaboration and networking (“community”)
• Space & furniture design
• Lighting
• Inclusion of other facilities (eg. cafes)
• Evidence of a community being encouraged
Left: Listening Lounge in atrium Murray State U.
Right: Forest Science Centre, UBC.
UQ Engineering learning commons.
EXEMPLARS6. Flexibility & other innovation/experimentation
• Easily reconfigurable or repurposed spaces
• Multi-purpose spaces
• Spaces that differ between night & day
• Behaviour stimulation?
• Creative spatial experiments!
New Macquarie Bank HQ.
Bike parking
& repairs @ Digital
Eskimo
“Box” innovation lab @ the London
School of Economics.
Image credits:http://www-lib.icu.ac.jp/ASRS/index-e.htmhttp://www.archdaily.com/14063/qantas-sydney-first-lounge/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/building_ub/3038276269/ http://fistswithyourtoes.blogs.com/fistswithyourtoes/2007/05/index.html http://www.cox.com.au/projects.aspx?projectId=3944&disciplineId=1208 http://www.siteisight.com/green_project.html http://constructionblog.org/tag/green-building http://www.arnewde.com/architecture-design/architecture-building-of-surry-hills-library-and-community-centre-by-fjmt-architect/ http://cedirsd.uow.edu.au/ils/globe.aspx?type=2http://www.sydneyarchitecture.com/NEW/NEW22.htm http://www.educause.edu/learningspacesch23 http://digitaleskimo.net/blog/2009/09/02/bicycle-parking-and-repair-station-opens
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