Courage of our

ConnectionsRachel L. Frick

Director, Digital Library Federation

Council on Library and Information Resources

March 20, 2013

• My Perspectiveo Serialist,Vendor, NC-AHEC circuit

librarian, TechServices, Digitization, Federal grants

officer,

o Community Builder

• Current organizationo CLIR – Council on Library and Information Resources

• The DLF – Digital Library Federation

• Community Organizer, Idea Broker, Talent Scout

o @CLIRDLF www.diglib.org

Preamble

Lots going on

• Shared Print Archives

• Open Access

• DPLA

• DPN

• APTrust

• DDA, PDA,

• RDA & RDA

• BibFRAME

• Linked Data (RDF)

• MOOC’s

• DH

• BIG SCIENCE

• Alt-Metrics

Its an exciting time to be a Librarian. Really.

“It’s the end of the world as we know it(And I feel fine).”~R.E.M.

Its just the beginning

• ―I believe that we are at the threshold. But just at the very threshold—the very beginning. The incunabula period of the digital age.‖

T. Scott Plutchak

Breaking the Barriers of Time and Space

J Med Libr Assoc. 2012 January; 100(1): 10–19.

doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.100.1.004

The Network…

…changes Everything

• Multiple Communities • Interdisciplinarity

• Leverage Local Expertise

• Amplifies Local Excellence

• Networked, Lee Raine & Barry Wellman

• Almost EVERY presentation by Lorcan Dempsey since 2005,(a good one is from a LIBER symposium in 2008 -http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/presentations/dempsey/lir.ppt

Data• Data Driven Decision Making

• Research Data – big and small

• Data Curation

• Linked (Open)Data

• Library Collections as Data

Collections as Data

http://chrniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Collection Data Mashup

http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers

Not Business as Usual• Its All Local

o ―Local Collections are the Dark matter of a Linked Data world‖ ~ Susan

Hildreth, Director IMLS, DPLAWest 2012

• Bringing your Community to the world

Turning Collection Development Inside

Out, Dorthea Salo. http://vimeo.com/20019850

• Broaden you scope

• It’s the relationships/services, not the stuff.

Service Turn―Defining distinctive services with the clarity with which

we have defined distinctive collections allows us to

acknowledge that the 21st century will be marked by

different, but equally valid, definitions of excellence in

academic libraries, and that the manner in which

individual libraries demonstrate excellence will be

distinctive to the service needs, and to the

opportunities to address those needs, found on each

campus.‖Scott Walter. ―Distinctive Signifiers of Excellence‖: Library Services and

the Future of the Academic Library. Coll. & res. libr. January 2011 72:6-

Get off your eHorse

Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Research Data

Management JHU Presentations circa 2008-

9http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQ7TkL11UM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/2948560477/

Please don’t hire an

E-research Librarian*…(or a data librarian,

e-science librarian, etc.)

Data & Local Content is everyone’s Job.

Libraries or Librarianship?

• Its not about the

books(info containers)

• We need to choose:

the building or the

communities ?

• A degree does not

define us

It’s our mission

• The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society

through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in

their CommunitiesR. David Lankes

Atlas of New Librariship

http://www.newlibrarianship.org/wordpress/

A Commons

• We are a community,

• Permeable borders

• Room at the table for everyone

• logical places for a broad range of services and resources

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178452567/

The snark• Bad behavior on the

Commons

• Detrimental to open

community development

• Symptom of fear and anxiety

Just stop ithttp://lifehacker.com/5921655/the-snarky-voice-in-your-head-is-killing-your-productivity-heres-how-to-stop-it@kftiz – Twitter Public Shaminghttp://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/if-you-cant-say-anything-nice

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic-stage/3210816529/

Vulnerability

• ―the courage to show up and allow ourselves to be

seen‖ – Dr. Brene Brown

• Open to bug reportso Feedback is a function of respect

• Admitting a vulnerability, builds strength &

trust, culture of shared struggle/ experience

Its time to be Brave

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3588573761/in/photostream/

Librarians needed

• David Weinberger – Too Big to Knowhttp://www.toobigtoknow.com/

• Bethany Nowviskie – Too Small to Failhttp://nowviskie.org/2012/too-small-to-fail/

• Alistair Croll –

A Billion Bad Librarianshttp://erl2013.sched.org/event/

Not the usual suspects

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uw_digital_images/4951162657/

Hacker Epistemology

• Adopt a problem

solving mindset

• The truth is what

works

• ―solve for

interesting‖….

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/3084876560/in/photo

stream/

Creatives & Makers

#GenFlux: FastCompany

• mind-set that embraces instability, that tolerates — and even enjoys — recalibrating careers, business models and assumptions.

• psychographic not a demographic

• leaders listen loudly, engage kindly, and add value enthusiastically.

• Results-only work environment (ROWE) = where employees are evaluated on performance, not presence

• http://www.fastcompany.com/1802732/generation-flux-meet-pioneers-new-and-chaotic-frontier-business

It’s up to you

Show up

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6940570851/

Who do you follow?

How do you lead?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/viggum/3214219190/

ThanksRachel L. FrickDirector, Digital Library Federationwww.Diglib.org / @CLIRDLF

@rlfrick

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doug88888/4554016442/