Caval Collaborative Solutions

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Electronic Reserves..collaborative model

• CAVAL developments

• Collaborative Solutions

• VARLAC• VADL

– e-serials

– e-books

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Why collaborative ?

• Not huge overlap in reserve collections

• Declining library staff capacity

• Access management issues across Internet

• Rise and rise of On-line teaching

• Better deals together

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Why not let the marketplace drive?

• Initiatives to deliver directly to student desk-tops !!

• Universities packaging up online learning management systems

• Perhaps service partnerships with vendors

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Delivery Mechanisms

LIDDAS

• Unmediated Document delivery

• Discovery/ Location/ Delivery/Access and Payment

• Any source/ any form

Z’MBOL

• Fielded free-text indexing and retrieval engine

• Z39.50 front end

• open solution text and meta-data

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Z’MBOL

• Networked Information Server• DADS Digital Article Database

Service– 13 million bib records

• Blackwell’s Book Services– enabled each database to be

searchable with one search

• Arts and Humanities Data Service – Distributed UK data service

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Linking of multiple Databases

• Commercially published Articles

• Hot links to subscribed e-serials,e-books

• Self-publishing of academic works

• Seamless integration of print and electronic

• variety of other datasets

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Purposes and Benefits

• E-reserves– Institutional

– Consortium

• Different data– all Z39.50

enabled and searchable

• Support Learning programs on and off line

• Unmediated

• Local or Collaborative

• Open standards• Technical

convergence• Cross-

institutional role

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Opportunities

• Better service to existing students

• Value added for University strategies

• Lifelong delivery of information

• Value and loyalty for Alumni

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The Future

“Finding the balance between collective, centralised action and local effort. In a world of shared resources on the network, it is possible to centralise more of the management, organisation and description, and preservation of content, and economic considerations encourage such centralisation. Yet there are also legitimate needs for local control and for responsiveness to local institutional needs.”

Clifford Lynch February, 2000