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Presentation by Gunter Waibel, OCLC Research. Given at the London Museum Librarians and Archivists Group conference "Not Museum Pieces" 10 September 2009.
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Research
Libraries, Archives and Museums:
From cooperation to collaborative transformation
Günter WaibelProgram Officer, OCLC Research
September 10 2009LMLAG - Not Museum Pieces? The Developing Role of Archivists and Librarians in Museums
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“We all understand that for art museums, the collection of works of art is always center ring and will always have top billing. The
art museum library is a sideshow, a sideshow that serves to bring
out the best of the main attraction.”
– Ken Soehner, Chief Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art
(2005)full talk: http://tinyurl.com/5gckfb
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“To survive and to flourish […] it will be necessary for us to become
as efficient and as inventive as possible. […] True collaboration that goes beyond cooperation
towards partnership, may be able to give us the resources and
generate the pressure to force us out of our old circus rings and into
a new and more dazzling performance.”
– Ken Soehner, Chief Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art
(2005)
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Collaboration Continuum
additive transformative...
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Collaboration in the wild:New York Art Consortium
(NYARC)
Collaboration among LAMs under the same roof:
Library, archive, museum workshops
“The Developing Role of Archivists and Librarians in Museums”
Relevance and interconnectedness through collaboration
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Collaboration among LAMs under the same roof:Library, archive,
museum workshops
LibraryArchive
Museum
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Princeton
Smithsonian
Victoria & Albert
U of Edinburgh Yale
The Wo
rkshop
s
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current collaborations
obstacles
a vision
actionable projects
Collaboration Projects Realized
• Original: Development of a comprehensive digitization and access program for unencumbered photographic collections.
• Actual: Development of an unencumbered photographic collection in Flickr Commons and the Smithsonian Photography Initiative.
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slide courtesy of Pamela Smith, Smithsonian Office of the CIO
Collaboration Projects Realized
• Original: Creation of an internal single point of access to all Smithsonian collections information for staff.
• Actual: Creation of an external single point of access to all public Smithsonian digital collections.
slide courtesy of Pamela Smith, Smithsonian Office of the CIO
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“Yale Federation of Collections”“By advocating on behalf of collections, the Federation will help create a sustainable environment for collaborations that enhance access to and use of collections by users across campus and throughout the world.” (Beyond the
Silos of the LAMs)
Mooring
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Collaboration Stones for
Stepping Collaboration
Stones for Stepping
Collaboration Stones forStepping
The Collaboration Catalysts
Vision
Mandate
Incentives Change Agents
Mooring Resources
Flexibility External Catalysts
Trust
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Vision
An inspiring vision provides the context in which obstacles can be overcome
“[If you] come up with a really creative, innovative vision that is at the intersection of these institutions and will help our
mission, and you help me frame it, I’m more than ready to…carry
it forward.”
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Incentive
Incentives ensure that staff have a tangible reason to engage in the hard work of collaboration
“We have spoken long about cross-institutional collaboration. The
reality has been though…that we
are measured against each other
and then you do take naturally a
possessive attitude.”
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Collaboration in the wild:New York Art Consortium
(NYARC)Frick
BrooklynMet
MoMA
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Brooklyn Museum Library
Museum of Modern Art Library
Frick Art Reference Library
Metropolitan Museum, Watson Library
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Brooklyn Museum Library
Museum of Modern Art Library
Frick Art Reference Library
Metropolitan Museum, Watson Library
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NYARC* vis-à-vis WorldCat*not including auction catalogs
0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
350,000
0
11 to
50
101 t
o 20
0
301 t
o 40
0
501 t
o 60
0
701 t
o 80
0
901 t
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2001
to 30
00
4001
to 50
00
WC Libraries Holding Title
Nu
mb
er o
f N
YA
RC
Tit
les 39% of
NYARC titles
unique
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April 2008
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May 2009
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NYARC vis-à-vis other research libraries
vis-à-vis NYPL, Columbia and NYU
Overlap: 34 percent (~1/3)Uniqueness: 66 percent (~2/3)
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“It’s […] a perfect moment to be coming together and figuring out what we can do
together as opposed to individually”
Frick
BrooklynMet
MoMA
NYPLNYU
Columbia
NYARC + Columbia, NYPL, NYU = NYC-7
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Methodology
e voilàRatification
FeedbackCommitments
ContextVision
Final ReportFinal Group CallDraft ReportIndividual CallsSurveyStarter Group
Call
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Topics ID’d & Discussed
Privileged Access Will I let your patrons through my door? Will I lend / deliver to your patrons?
Collection Development Will I let you know what I’m buying? Will I collaborate with you so we don’t duplicate?
Outsourcing cataloging Can I outsource my cataloging to you? Can we together outsource our cataloging to a 3rd party?
Joint Licensing Can I piggy-back on your license? Can we license resources as a consortium?
Shared Public View Can we disclose our resources to the public in a single
discovery environment?
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forthcoming -
October 09
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Collaboration externally: maximize your impact, maximize your reach
Collaborate internally: Depend on others, let others depend on you
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Thank you!
Comments, questions: [email protected]
P.S.: Want more on LAM collaboration?
next Tuesday!