From Gutenberg to GoogleFrom Gutenberg to GoogleThe case of the Bodleian Library, The case of the Bodleian Library,

OxfordOxford

Presentation to the Union League of Presentation to the Union League of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia

Reg Carr, Bodley’s LibrarianReg Carr, Bodley’s Librarian

18 October 200518 October 2005

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PortrPortrait of ait of ‘Bloo‘Bloody dy Mary’Mary’

PortrPortraits aits of of CalviCalvin and n and BezaBeza

Geneva Geneva BibleBible

Oxford Oxford in the in the 1560s1560s

PortraPortrait of it of Sir Sir FranciFrancis s WalsiWalsinghanghamm

Bodley’s Bodley’s autobioautobiographygraphy

Duke Humfrey’s Library Duke Humfrey’s Library emptyempty

Duke Humfrey’s Library Duke Humfrey’s Library restoredrestored

Portrait of Portrait of Thomas Thomas JamesJames

Bodleian Bodleian Library lLibrary logoogo

Pictures of the BodleianPictures of the Bodleian

““The book is dead!”The book is dead!”

“Move over Gutenberg!”“Move over Gutenberg!”

Johann GutenbergJohann GutenbergRIPRIP

“ “The book is dead!” The book is dead!”

The printed book The printed book RIP RIP

Or is it?Or is it?

The principle of ‘co-The principle of ‘co-existence’ of existence’ of

communications media communications media typestypes

(The notion of ‘overlap’)(The notion of ‘overlap’)

Wyclifite Wyclifite manuscripmanuscript Biblet Bible

GutenberGutenberg Bibleg Bible

‘‘Co-existence’ still at workCo-existence’ still at work

• ‘‘Fitness for purpose’…Fitness for purpose’…

• E-mails, text messages E-mails, text messages and and lettersletters

• Cell phones, laptops Cell phones, laptops and and pens and pens and pencilspencils

• Keyboard skills Keyboard skills and and handwritinghandwriting

• Overlapping communications mediaOverlapping communications media

Picture of Picture of mss mss collectionscollections

Writing on paperWriting on paper

Beethoven manuscriptBeethoven manuscript

E-booksE-books

Workstation with printerWorkstation with printer

Google PrintGoogle Print

Four great librariesFour great libraries

Bodleian catalogue hallBodleian catalogue hall

Book Book sales/sales/produproduction ction graphgraphss

Visitors in Bodleian quadVisitors in Bodleian quad

Map of libraries in Map of libraries in OxfordOxford

Bodleian Bodleian item being item being digitiseddigitised

Library’s Web pageLibrary’s Web page

Web page of Subject ListWeb page of Subject List

““The hybrid library”The hybrid library”

““The dominant user view of a library is of a The dominant user view of a library is of a physical space. But libraries are services physical space. But libraries are services which provide organised access to the which provide organised access to the intellectual record, wherever it resides, intellectual record, wherever it resides, whether in physical places or in scattered whether in physical places or in scattered digital information spaces. The ‘hybrid’ digital information spaces. The ‘hybrid’ library of the future will be a managed library of the future will be a managed combination of physical and virtual combination of physical and virtual collections and information resources” collections and information resources”

CD version of the CD version of the Bodleian’s Pre-1920 Bodleian’s Pre-1920 CatalogueCatalogue

OLIS home pageOLIS home page

OLIS record/search resultOLIS record/search result

Manuscript finding aid in Manuscript finding aid in EAD formatEAD format

Digitised image of a Digitised image of a printed Caxton printed Caxton advertisementadvertisement

EEBO search pEEBO search pageage

EEBO item displayEEBO item display

Google Print imageGoogle Print image

From Gutenberg to From Gutenberg to Google Google

The application of The application of computers in librariescomputers in libraries

From ‘mechanisation’From ‘mechanisation’toto

‘automation’‘automation’toto

‘information, knowledge and ‘information, knowledge and

digital asset management’digital asset management’

The ‘discontinuities’ of The ‘discontinuities’ of communications in the age of the communications in the age of the

Internet: Internet: big changes under waybig changes under way

• Broader than just librariesBroader than just libraries

• The nature of publishingThe nature of publishing

• The cycle of authoring, The cycle of authoring, publication publication

and readingand reading

• Economic issuesEconomic issues

• Legal issuesLegal issues

• Social issuesSocial issues

““Whither (wither?) Whither (wither?) Gutenberg?”Gutenberg?”

andand

“Whither (wither?) “Whither (wither?) libraries?”libraries?”

The digital information The digital information revolution:revolution:

a phenomenal expansiona phenomenal expansion

• The InternetThe Internet

• The World Wide WebThe World Wide Web

• Feynman’s digital Feynman’s digital nanocube?nanocube?

Electronic networks and Electronic networks and information resourcesinformation resources

The History of Political The History of Political Discourse web pageDiscourse web page

Ask a LibrarianAsk a Librarian

ILEJ project home pageILEJ project home page

Page from the Gentleman’s Page from the Gentleman’s Magazine from the 1740sMagazine from the 1740s

Home page of the Digital Home page of the Digital ShikshapatriShikshapatri

Blow-up of the Digital Blow-up of the Digital ShikshapatriShikshapatri

Images of Magna Carta and Images of Magna Carta and the Anglo-Saxon Chroniclethe Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Digitised version of John Digitised version of John Speed’s OxfordSpeed’s Oxford

Map of 18th-century Map of 18th-century BostonBoston

Digitised manuscript Digitised manuscript Mendelssohn scoreMendelssohn score

Mendelssohn notebookMendelssohn notebook

Broadside Ballads home Broadside Ballads home pagepage

Nelly Bly Nelly Bly broadsidebroadside

Toyota City transport Toyota City transport browserbrowser

Image of New York City Image of New York City elevated railwayelevated railway

Bodleian Shop home Bodleian Shop home pagepage

Portrait of Portrait of Thomas Thomas BodleyBodley

Portrait of Gutenberg and Portrait of Gutenberg and Gutenberg BibleGutenberg Bible