Making ourselves relevant in the

digital information age

Murari P. Tapaswi PhD

tapaswimurari@gmail.com

Referesher Course on The Digital revolution and Librarianship: Are we adapting or complacent?

Goa University. 13 Jan-2 Feb 2014

Are we relevant today?

Decreasing number of 'borrowers' and 'readers'

Availability of large number of reference tools on Internet

Shrinking budgets Fast changing technologies

Are we relevant today?

Changing reading habits Limited job opportunities Poorly or moderately paid Not a socially important profession

What Indians read....

http://www.payscale.com/research/IN/Job=Librarian/Salary

Understand the reality

Our monopoly over the provision of trustworthy, authoritative knowledge is no more

Users are more smarter and computer savvy to learn and use new techniques

Development is happening outside the libraries (new softwares, new resources, new technologies)

Understand the reality

Libraries are in a transition period, many are dealing with it incrementally and alone

Our organizations are caught between traditional and iconic values of libraries and the pace of development

Publishers taking over role of libraries

Aggregation of content (books, journals, conf proc., reports, reference materials) example EBSCO

Searching and browsing facility Platforms that provide personalized information:

RSS, alerts, citation tracking, Inclusion of the word “library” in their products

IEEE - IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) Gale Virtual Reference Library Naxos Music Library, etc.

Search, Personalized info facilities from publishers' websites

Publishers taking over role of libraries

Perpetual access to the resources: Portico or LOCKSS

Publishers taking over role of libraries

Google search and retrieval of information (2.7 billion searches a month)

Publishers taking over role of libraries

Google is not enough! - There are new comers Web 2: Social networks, Blogs, Wikipedia Other open content Wikiquotes, Wikiversity,

Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikinews....

To remain relevant...

Adjust to the change Ride the digital revolution Promote collaboration & partnerships Focus on personalized services Use open source softwares for services Prepare for accountability & assessment

Actions: Institutional level

Build the community technology infrastructure Bring information services and educational

computing together Massively redeploy library space for

community collaborations Align resources to a new uniqueness/

stewardship model

Actions: Collective level

More systematic and rigorous approach to standards and best practices

Union catalogues and resource sharing at national as well as international level

Program for print preservation Program of mass digitization of collections

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Libraries as Intermediaries and

Aggregators R&D Organizations Consumers

Neal J.G. Global Warming, Intelligent Design, and the Axis of Evil: The Future Relevance and Impact of the Academic Research Library. Taiga Forum Presentation, Chicago, 27 March 2006.

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Publishers Institutional repositories (dSpace, eprints):

Discipline, Institutional, National, Individual Data management (Cloud) Digital journal (partner) (OJS) Digital book/monograph (partner) (Open

Monograph Press)

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Expanding our canvas: Repositories

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: Article repository

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Expanding our canvas: Dissertations repository

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Expanding our canvas: Photo repository

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Expanding our canvas: Use of cloud for data

storage & retrieval

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Expanding our canvas: Publishing journals with OJS

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: No. of Journals using OJS

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Topic areas Number of Journals

Percentage

Sciences 392 40

Social sciences 298 30

General works (multidisciplinary)

182 19

Humanities 108 11

A survey report that was conducted in March 2009https://openarchive.stanford.edu/susefaculty/willinsky/survey-scholarly-journals-using-open-journal-systems

Expanding our canvas: Population of OJS journals

by continent

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Expanding our canvas: Population of OJS journals

by year of launching

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https://openarchive.stanford.edu/susefaculty/willinsky/survey-scholarly-journals-using-open-journal-systems

Expanding our canvas: Open Book Software

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http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/IDSProject/catalog/book/25

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Publishers Online Conference management (Open

conference systems) for easy site building, online calls for and submission of papers, registration management, etc.

Record lectures and make them available to the students outside organizations (UbiCast – Linux, BlueBook – Windows)

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Expanding our canvas: Open Conference Software

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

http://iamcr-ocs.org/index.php/2014/2014

Expanding our canvas: Lecture recordings

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Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Publishers Website content management Wikipages for individuals Blogs for individuals

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Expanding our canvas: Website content mgmt

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: Personal pages

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Educators Use of reference management tools

(Mendeley) A social bookmarks manager (Delicious) Social tagging (Folksonomy) Forums and mailing lists Syndication (RSS, alerts)

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: Reference management

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Dr. Gopakumar, Librarian, Goa Univ. has acquired this unique accreditation

Expanding our canvas: bookmarking tools

(Delicious)

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Expanding our canvas: Discussion & Lists

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: RSS Feeds

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas

Feeds that the libraries can provide – Personalized service

New arrivals Progress on acquisitions of

recommendations Reminders for overdue

documents Literature of interest

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All possibly over mobile!

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Educators Metadata standards How to use resources on cloud Information searching and retrieval Writing patents

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Expanding our canvas: Metadata guidelines

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Expanding our canvas

Resources on Cloud Umbrella term for three distinct service models, all

delivered via the Internet: Infrastructure as a service (Space for storage -

Hardware) Platform as a service (Hardware and OS ready for use

– User installs specific application and use) Software as a service (Even the application software is

also provided. User may use the available application)

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Expanding our canvas: Info searching and retrieval

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

A or B A not B A and B

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)Searching in specific fieldTerm truncation (wild character)Balancing operators (brackets)

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity

without regard to resources currently controlled - Howard Stevenson, Harvard Business School professor

Entrepreneurial spirit is about risk taking, problem solving, grit, innovation, perseverance, and resolve. http://informationactivist.com/2013/06/17/what-librarians-lack-the-importance-of-the-entrepreneurial-spirit/

Grit: strong, courageous Perseverance: dedication Resolve: firmness

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Entrepreneurs Social entrepreneurship: The process of

pursuing innovative solutions to social problems. More specifically, social entrepreneurs adopt a mission to create and sustain social value. Business entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit and return, but social entrepreneurs also take into account a positive return to society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship

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Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Entrepreneurs

Infrastructure as a tool Establishing hardware (e.g. printers, scanners,

etc.) in library that is not commonly available and providing services at nominal cost

Binding section Meeting room with audio, video projection

facilities

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: Infrastructure as a tool

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Entrepreneurs

Facilities with right software and expertise Conversion of text in Latex for uploading

research papers in open access journals DTP: Making images for manuscripts (GIMP,

Adobe photoshop - Pixel images; Inkscape, Adobe illustrator - vector graphics)

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas Submissions in LaTex

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Entrepreneurs

Hiring contract services Video editing (Lightworks, Blender (windows),

Avidemux, Kdenlive (linux)) Manuscript services: Improving English writing

for research articles

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas

Libraries as Policy Advocates Copyright issues Publishing in open access journals Productivity studies Academic Performance Indicators (API) Scientometric studies: Finding citations from

different sources and clubbing together

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Expanding our canvas: Copyright & IP

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: Open access publishing

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: Open access publishing

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: Scientometric analysis

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

Expanding our canvas: Scientometric analysis

Libraries as Publishers Educators Entrepreneurs Policy Advocates

When we commit to a vision to do something that has never been done before, there is no way to know how to get there. We simply have to build

the bridge as we walk on it - Robert Quinn

Thank you

Murari P. Tapaswi PhD

tapaswimurari@gmail.com