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Building the 'digital' library Routes to managing our institutional digital learning, teaching and research assets together Chris Awre Open Repositories 2014 Helsinki 12 th June 2014

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Building the 'digital' library Routes to managing our institutional digital learning, teaching and research assets together Chris Awre

Open Repositories 2014 Helsinki 12th June 2014

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Baseline

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Libraries Collections of knowledge

Acknowledging that libraries have always been more than just collections

Strong service emphasis Stewardship, incl. preservation Organisational sustainability Reaching out to other collections Ethical traditions

Howard Besser, 2002

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Move to digital How well do our libraries have these

characteristics when managing digital materials? Besser concluded there was some way to go 12 years on, are we progressing?

Initiatives looking ahead Academic Libraries of the Future, 2009-11 ARL scenario planning, 2010

Both agreed that the future will be digital

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Academic Libraries of the Future

Managing collections of knowledge and providing services, stewardship and sustainability are key parts of all three scenarios

Wild West Beehive Walled Garden

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Digital repositories An embedded part, more or less, of

academic library operation now OpenDOAR – 2212 institutional repositories

Emphasis on digital Focus on local collections Drivers? Open access

Research data Open educational resources

Images

Etc.

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Questions Can digital repositories support the

development of the ‘digital’ library? If so, how do we enable this? Are we in a position where we can

develop ‘digital’ libraries on a 1-to-1 par with our physical libraries?

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Library trends

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Print to digital Print Digital Books E-Books Journals E-Journals Reference works Online reference works

/ The Internet Videos/DVDs YouTube, NetFlix, etc. CDs iTunes, Spotify, etc. Slides Flickr, Google Images,

etc. Theses E-Theses, EThOS

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Personal libraries

Books/e-books

Web resources

Music/film Journals/e-journals

Grey literature

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Owning to renting Elsevier

Wiley

Sage

Netflix

Jisc Collections

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Shift to the network level

Resources

Discovery

Library management systems

Subject guides Reading lists

ERM

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How do repositories fit with these trends? A digital repository it focused on

managing digital material (of course) Repository content can be part of a

personal library And a valuable part of this

Focus on ownership, not rental Move to the network level?

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Network benefits

Economic benefit - Scaling up delivery

Technical benefit - Concentrated development

Practical benefit - Delivering more value locally

Digital repository

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Jisc Spotlight on the Digital Focus on digitised collections and their

management/accessibility over time Highlighted need for

Institutional capacity building Benefit of working with network level

services, e.g., aggregators Network level foresight and oversight of

collection management and delivery

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Opportunity

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Building a digital library Repository as home to a variety of local

digital assets Repository as infrastructure, not application What resource is needed to build a ‘digital’

library? Where does this come from? What skills are required? What can be learned from those who have built

digital libraries so far?

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Collaboration at the network level Models currently exist

SDLC hosting of IRs for Scottish Universities White Rose EPrints Services / BMC Open / Digital Commons Hydra community

Focus on repository software service sharing Can other repository services be shared or

developed collaboratively?

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Northern Collaboration A grouping of 27 English University libraries Exploring areas where we can be more

effective working together Moving to the network level doesn’t

mean having to rely on outsourced staff Existing staff can be more than the sum of

their parts by collaborating Sharing Repository Services Working

Group

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Areas to investigate Better understand our current repository

processes Examine feasibility of scaling up whole or

part processes to the network level Define and explore branding advantages

and potential added value services Review IT support and skills required

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Areas to investigate Better understand our current repository

processes Examine feasibility of scaling up whole or

part processes to the network level Define and explore branding advantages

and potential added value services Review IT support and skills required

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Areas to collaborate on now Advocacy / Content marketing &

promotion Discoverability of content

Content licensing Impact measures

Strategy / policy development Training Preservation Storage

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Areas to ponder Maybe

Hardware Already done for

hosted solutions Content re-use

and embedding Media specific

Cataloguing/description

Quality assurance Scaling up

required

Not now Software Search interface Brand/design

All still establishing local service

Statistics IRUS-UK doing

this

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Vision*

*Personal vision

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Digital Academic Library for the North: a shared service Recognise the value and benefits of

taking services to the network level Take action on institutional limits

Scaling up IT resource requirement

Take ownership of the means by which we can jointly develop our digital libraries

Maximise the potential for getting local assets into personal libraries

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DALN model

Digital Academic Library for the

North

Institution A

Institution B

Institution C

Archive A

Museum B

Other …

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To conclude

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Building the ‘digital’ library: how are we doing? Collections of knowledge

Acknowledging that libraries have always been more than just collections

Strong service emphasis Stewardship, incl. preservation Organisational sustainability☐ Reaching out to other collections☐ Ethical traditions

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Things to do Develop more, value-added, services Develop better stewardship capability

For collections For repositories

Make content seamless across repositories Enhance understanding of repository

ethical practice

…and do it together ;-)

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Thank you Chris Awre Head of Information Management University of Hull http://www.hull.ac.uk/lib http://hydra.hull.ac.uk

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Image attributions Paul Stainthorp, “IMAG2719”, 13 Aug 2005,

Online image, Flickr, 10 Sep 2013, http://www.flickr.com/photos/pstainthorp/4192270743/

Mark Stevens, “The Road Ahead”, 14 Oct 2012, Online image, Flickr, 10 Sep 2013, http://www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/9013482834/