New Directions for CDLUsers Council11 May 2007

A year of change…

• Interviews with campus libraries

• Reviewed Mission and Values

• Re-focused on audiences

Old organizational structure

• Project oriented• Matrixed staff• Distributed “ownership”• Technology focused

Content

Services

Technology

And then there were five…

BibliographicServices

CollectionManagement

Digital SpecialCollections

Publishing

Preservation

Programs have…

• Program Director

• Technical Manager– Programmers

• Service/Product Managers– Analysts

• Primary audiences– UC libraries– UC community– General public

• Products/Services, e.g.,– UC-eLinks– Web Archiving– eScholarship

Repository

Services supporting Programs

• Assessment, Design and Production• Business Services• Data Acquisitions• Infrastructure and Applications

Support• Information Services• Project Planning

What unites these programs?

Where is the center?

History of Visions

1. One University, One Library

• Success for Users: Access to the collections of all UC libraries for all UC students, faculty, staff

• Via: – Melvyl– RLFs– Intercampus vans

History of Visions

2. Access Integration

• Success for Users: One stop searching, consistency of user interface for core databases

• Via: – Melvyl-hosted databases– Z39.50 access to external databases

History of Visions

3a. Transforming Scholarly Communication

• Success for Users: awareness of crisis in scholarly communication, commitment to change

• Via: – Licensing strategies– eScholarship

History of Visions

3b. CDL as UC’s digital library • Success for Users: Cost effective access

to range of digital content • Via:

– OAC– Counting California

• Continued Themes:– Access Integration via SearchLight– One University, One Library via Request

(direct borrowing)

History of Visions

4a. Enable campus distinctiveness

• Success for Users: CDL supplies common services so that libraries focus on local strengths

• Via: – Interface customization– Preservation

History of Visions

4b. Content aggregation and reuse

• Success for Users: Content repurposed into different environments

• Via: – Calisphere– American West

History of Visions

4c. Collective collection management

• Success for Users: Redundancy reduced, access maintained

• Via: – Shared Print– Mass digitization?

• Continued Themes:– Access Integration via Metasearch– Scholarly Communication via eScholarship

Editions, repository expansion, licensing strategies

Assumptions for a new vision

• New centers of importance at network level emerge

• Tools for collaboration evolve

• Data increases, esp. via community contributions

Our Metaphors

• Transmission belt• Legos• Railroad tracks• Distillery• Scaffolding• Hub

Our Metaphors

• Shape-shifters

• Yeast

Our Metaphors

• An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

A New Vision

5. Connecting Content and Communities into the Flow of Research and

Learning

• Success for Users: Smooth access to content and services at any point in their process

What is the flow?

• Users

• Network

• Communities

Users: Critical Appraisers • Working in range of

disciplines• Working in a tool space

they define• Defining their own

critical mass of collections

• This is a space where we must embed ourselves

– Robin Chandler

What is the flow for Faculty?– Research->

Teaching -> Publication->

– Services:• Metadata• Rights• Browsing• Chunking• Aggregation• Preservation

What is the flow for Libraries?

– Workflow

– Services:• Submission• Standards/BP• Options for access• Preservation• Share specialist

expertise

What is the flow for Students?

– Lifeflow

– Values:• Remixing• Interactivity• Communities• Self-service

What is the network flow?

• Larger, more high quality aggregations of content

• Work is moving to the network level

What is the community flow?

• Magnets of interest based on– Content– Community

• Collaborative models– Wikis, gaming, tagging, ??– Across institutional boundaries

QWiki – Quantum Physics Wiki

Social Bookmarking Tools: Connotea

…into the flow

• “The digital environment hasn’t merely changed people’s workflow, it has BECOME their workflow.”

• “In fact, in a growing number of cases, a workflow application may be the consumer of library services.”

– Lorcan Dempsey

OCLC is pushing WorldCat into other environments

Download, buy, find in a library

LibX: Providing direct access to your library’s

resources

…into the flow

• “Don’t assume that people care about libraries. People care about the processes that support research and teaching”

• - ACRL Technology Summit, Jan 2007

e-Science and the Life Cycle of Research - Charles Humphrey, 2006

Value teaching/research

numeracy

informed public

Conceptualising

E-mails, lettersliterature reviews

InitialisingGrant applications,meeting minutes

Analysis

InitialResults

Formalising

Presentations,conferences,

seminars

Grant reports,technical reports,

thesis

Journal articles,books, curriculacontent, policy

PopularizingPopular literature,

newspapers,practice

Research life cycle

• Viewing the full research life cycle allows us to identify gaps in services, technologies and partnerships that could improve the ability to capture and document the output of scholarly research and teaching.

• Ann Green, IASSIST Communique, 2006

Content• Books: mass digitization, TEIs• Journals• Images• Web sites• ETDs• Audio• Video• Data sets• ????

What are the magnets: popular and scholarly?

Communities• Appropriate collaborations—deeper

• Lead vs. support and extend

• Impact of speaking with one voice

• Research opportunities

• Leverage/cost share development

Richard A. Lanham, Professor of English, UCLA

• “As traditionally taught, each class exists in a temporal, conceptual and social vacuum…but if an electronic library were employed …

• students could read papers submitted in earlier classes, read scholarly articles on the same topics, read before-and-after examples of revised work, do searches of Shakespearean texts for imagery or rhetorical figuration, and make excerpts of videotaped performances to illustrate their papers – all without going to the campus library.

Lanham (continued)

• …Most importantly, a course like this would have a history and could be accessed by people in other courses; it would constitute a continuing society, its students becoming citizens of a commonwealth”

• Technology, Scholarship, & Humanities Conference: Viewpoints, 1992

"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." -- I

Ching

Vision

Connecting Content and Communities into the Flow of Research and Learning

• Success for Users: Smooth access to content and services at any point in their process

Challenge for Programs

• Identify your services’ position in the flow – what is above and below

• Remove a barrier to the flow in your services

Challenge for Programs

• Target a new type of content

• Disclose to a larger unit of content and/or community

• Analyze and cultivate a key community

Challenge for Programs• Common to all

– Address all formats of digital materials– Ensure low barrier for entry– Enable entry at any point in flow– Develop transformations/value added

services– Provide multiple options for

output/reuse– Make designations of trust levels

apparent

CDL Programs…Silos?

…or tributaries?

Uniquely positioned…

Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary

• "If you go with the flow you'll eventually end up over the waterfall."

-- Adam R. Gwizdala

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